windsurf van/board storage question

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

The bread and butter boards in my RV are in fitted, padded racks that need no bags. The boards that rotate according to forecasts, seasons, whim, favor, lunar phase, etc. are bagged because they are not in padded nests. Bags in the shade don't generate heat, so the factor of concern is ding and abrasion protection.

Your van IS white, I hope, and all the windows are reflectively tinted, I presume. Anything else will generate extra heat, as we've discussed before. My RV interior stays at outside ambient shade temps because of the above and because there's always a breeze through it (if there's not, I move or go home anyway).

whitevan01 · Joined: 29 Jun 2007 Posts: 607

as I thought I had stated, this thread is 6 years old. Don't know how/why it got resurrected. Seems like a spammer and then people (me included) started posting to it again. thanks for the advice, but I no longer need it.

spennie · Joined: 13 Oct 1995 Posts: 975 Location: Thousand Oaks, CA

Another year or two before a new one? These will be out in June.....

outcast · Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 2724

To bag, or Not to Bag......
I guess we will never know

fox · Joined: 09 Sep 1997 Posts: 133 Location: Pine Point, Maine

This thing looks as cavernous as my Town & Country, I lust...

Must be kiters pictured Rolling Eyes

PeconicPuffin · Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 1830

The definitive windsurfing van set up is mine. Mine mine mine.

http://www.peconicpuffin.com/the_peconic_puffin/2006/11/the_van.html (click on all the links in the piece to see it all.)

It works very well. Every piece of windsurfing equipment is directly accessible (ie I don't have to move any gear to get to it) with the exception of my two smallest sails, which are stowed behind my 77 FSW (the board I'll be on if I'm rigging either of them.) Absolutely brilliant IMHO. And cheap (except for the hours of putting it together.) Rebuilt it every winter for the first four seasons to get it dialed in. Haven't touched it in 6 years.

DanWeiss · Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Posts: 2296 Location: Connecticut, USA

Damn! Those Euro-vans cash-in on windsurfing's longtime cultural investment. Well, that plus narrow roads and a reasonably small continent! A few years dated following model release schedules.

Linky: http://nationalwatersportsfestival.com/category/nwf-vans/

WaterKook · Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 4:55 am Post subject:

Yo Puffin
That bottle opener really ties that whole van together!!!! Laughing

PeconicPuffin · Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 1830