Canada for a week - Georgian Bay Windsurfing Memories

Well I'm back in Canada for a week of work functions and also to close up the cottage on Georgian Bay.

Funny that just after I get back here, there is a new post on the Original Windsurfer Blog. The post was about how Ted Schweitzer visited Toronto and then drove up the same highways I just drove, to deliver a windsurfer to his dad Hoyle who has a cottage on Georgian Bay.(Yes that Hoyle Schweitzer AKA the man who brought windsurfing to the masses).

I learned how to windsurf on Georgian Bay on an original teak boomed windsurfer around 1981. Here is 8mm family film footage of those early days, just after I got my own YPSI Wayler from JD at Windsurfing Toronto on Yonge Street.

1985 Vintage 8mm Windsurfing Footage from Canadian Guy on Vimeo.

Oh, this weekend there was almost enough wind to sail, but not enough time after shutting down the plumbing for the winter.  Back to Provence on Wednesday.