When did windsurfing first get to Australia, what's the story ?
Grant Long (1979) is the first recorded name we find anywhere...
Would have to be at most 75-76, I suppose ? Was it in Sydney?
Just curious, but if we don't get the facts soon, the story will be lost forever...
Just found on the I-net: in 1983, in a patent case for intellectual property reports, IPR 449 Aussie courts attributed windsurfing to some aussie mongrel named Richard Eastaugh, aged a mere 13 at the time. This had happened in the 40's on the Swan River in Perty. Wow, don't remember that at the time.
I'm pretty sure that patent case and similar ones throughout the world were part of the patent challenge put up against the Hoyle/Schweizter windsurfer patent. The challenges were pretty well a crock of crap as clearly windsurfing didn't start back in 1944 on the Swan River but in the late 60s with Hoyle's design. However the idea of whether a windsurfer should have been patented in the first place is questionable too.
kite beach, melbourne there were guys who wore shorts over there wetties even back then when windsurfing started
the first man to windsurf aust was a 2 headed dude from tassie with his 2 headed chick 
hey stop knocking Tasmania - it's a great place with some great people .....and some not so great - and some atrocious politics and environmental issues!
I heard where the 2 heads thing originated..... back in the old days when the first passenger boats ferried people between the mainland and tas.... the victorians were happy with just the one pillow..... but the tasmanians seemed to always want two pillows - so there originated the joke about having 2 heads....
tassie is a awesome place for windsurfing i love the place dont get me wrong son
