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July 6, 1980 Tel. 985-2131

Expected to surpass skiing

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By DEB van der GRACHT

VANCOUVER (UPC) -
It's the marriage of surfing
and sailing - and more.

Windsurfing is Canada’s
latest sports craze and af-
ficianados swear there will
be more multi-colored sails
darting across the country’s
waters than pairs of skis in
mountainside lockers within
the next decade.

“It hasn't even started
yet,” says Bernard Labrosse,
president of the fledgling
B.C. Windsurfing
Association. “It's still in the
fetal stage.”

“It’s just beginning to
boom now,” agrees his
Ontario counterpart John
Boothroyd. “There are a lot
of different boards coming
onto the market - everyone
wants to get in now because
they know the product will
sell.”

“Predictions are there will
be more people windsurfing
than skiing in the next few
years.”

What's so exciting about

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standing on a_ 12-foot
polyethylene board, hanging
on to a_ wishbone-shaped
boom on a 14-foot mast and
pitting your weight and a
three-cornered sail against
the wind?

“It's sort of like skiing,”
says Paul Winterton, the 30-
year-old Vancouver en-
trepreneur and former jade
sculptor who dropped his
chisel in 1973 to bring
windsurfing to B.C, “It's the
feeling of the board and you
skimming across the water,
it’s the wind, the waves, the
speed - it’s just a great
sport.”

Besides, he adds, wind-
surfing is easy to learn - “it’s
a family sport that everyone,
no matter what age, can do”
- and relatively inexpensive.
The initial outlay of about
$1,200 for a rig and a wet suit
may seem steep, but “after
that the wind and the water
free”.

Some 6,000 Canadians
have already been sold on
the report and Winterton

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