Hi all,
Okay, is it Jibe or Gybe? Water start or waterstart, beach start or beachstart
Need help deciding.
Cool
And...... what is the equivalent of a 'Kite Buddy'.
If your 1 year old daughter accidently hits the keyboard and you end up in the kiteboard forum everybody seems to be looking for Kite Buddy.
Does Kite Buddy know how to get to the end of the rainbow ?
English people had been sailing for years and spelt it "gybe"
Some of the English people took a boat to America and settled it.
I am sure at that point it was still spelt "gybe"
But the seppos decided to spell it differently
Hopeless.
Perhaps the discovery and settlement of America was all actually just a splinter faction of yachtsmen who thought it should be spelt jibe, and look at the mess they created.
Maybe they were trying to get to Cowes, but when they passed Portland Bill somebody said 'Jibe', nobody knew what it meant and they ended up in America ? Since then all Americans have said 'jibe'.
Why would sailors have gybe but also jib ?
Surely if you pronounance gybe as jib with and ee sound at the end it should be spelt jib with an e ??
Maybe kiters need kite buddies to act as cabin boys and scrub the poop decks ??
Woah, sounds pretty controversial. I'll def put this in the blog! As for the spelling, I still don't know what to decide, so far Gybe seems to be the take.
Water start beach start issue anyone? I think the one word seems a bit better like if you blurt it out your mouth, beachstart seems better than a robotic beach start?
lol, pretty technical but oh well
Gybe-jibe is a pom-yank thing. Both are accepted. However gybe has an extra, derogatory connotation...
"Gybe" has a unique meaning and is proper English. "Jibe" has at least three and is American in its nautical sense.
While we're on the subject - It's "VULCAN" not "volcan" or "volcano" 
And its "PLANING GYBE" not "power gybe" which is an archaic long board term for a rig steered gybe according to an apocryphal source 
As for the "Flaka", Pedrick invented it adapting the "Taka" and called it a "Swayze".
"Flaka" may be a better name because it acknowledges its routes in a semi eponymous manner and also because it almost rhymes with "tack" and it is a tack wise rotation. However Patrick Swayze croaked a few months ago. Wouldn't it be a nice memorial gesture to revert to its original name? Could it happen? Will it happen? Or would you rather forget?
shrelping is similar to shredding but in jp's first vid the japanese interveiwer stated (you were "grating" out there!)
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I just thought of another one, the Haas tack - another eponymous term for a planing push tack. It was invented by a Moroccan names Haas Jahrmarkt. Americans often refer to it as a "Hoss" tack presumably because "Haas" is indistinguishable from "Hoss" when said with a broad American accent. he he
Another one - French call booms "le wishbone" or is that "la wishbone"?
Are booms feminine or masculine? There's something of the giant orifice about them and they are frequently f****d so that implies "la wishbone" non?
I have nightmares about booms with teeth so that clinches it.
Whilst on Windsurfing speak,
here's a term I hear used frequently in windsurfing circles, that really annoys me 'cos it sounds wanky and imported from another country.......
KIT
"I need to get some new kit" or "does any body know where you can hire kit when travelling to ....."
Sounds so wanky.
In Oz, we used to just call it "stuff".
....."I need to get some new windsurfing stuff, mines outdated" or "SHQ and RPS are worth dropping in to, they carry heaps of stuff"
Even "equipment" is fine, but "kit" is something you buy in a little packet to repair something.
- I reckon it came to us from the Poms, via Boards magazine.
(anyway, it bugs me)
Oh, and don't get me started on "running".
...."I run a 32cm swept fin with my 6.5", or "I've been running my NP Alpha on a RDM"
. ..... It's "use" and "using"
Rant over!
the only windsurfing terms i know of...
wash the car + mow the lawn + spend adequate time with family = a few hours on the water.
