I've just spent a couple of days with a welder and angle grinder lengthening the drawbar on by windsurfing trailer. It wasn't essential. It won't contribute to more TOW or better quality TOW. It was simple a task that gave me more convenience when I do finally go windsurfing again. The trailer is now more stable, has a jockey wheel, allows the tailgate on the car to be opened without detaching the trailer, and now features a lockable coupling hitch.
Got me thinking....Does anybody else get this sort of disease during those long winters months of cold weather and poor wind? The disease of tinkering, undertaking non essential, trivial tasks just to be close to your beloved windsurfing gear, smelling the dried salt, hearing the occasional crackly of monofilm, catching a fleeting glance of those seductive fins.....I've caught myself doing this before - fine tuning adjustable outhauls that already worked, smoothing off some rough spots on an already smooth fin, lovingly replacing O rings in board vents just in case.....
PLEASE TELL ME I AM NOT THE ONLY WINSURFER SUFFERING THIS MIDWINTER AFFLICTION....AAAARRRGGGHHHHH
nope, it's not just you.
normally i don't attend to the gear as i sail all year round but this year hasn't been good so i have started tinkering also.
usually over winter i find myself sketching up boards working on graphics and dreaming.... 
I suffer from this no wind depression blues as well.. Today i was going to rig all me sails to see if i can rig them a little better.. Then i had all thease ideas of building a really awesome windsurf rack in me garage, but in the end i chickend out and did nothing.. i hate winter
.. spring, summer please come back
Hey ECKS, i am think about building a trailer as well for windsurfing. i want my one to be real light. i have a idea of useing a small boat trailer made out of alluminum do you think that work ok??
I was thinking about going surfing, just need to find a old surf board to surf on
think i might ring a few buddys up to see if they want to go surfing.. Wish i had a kona mini tanker.. can some rich guy on seabreeze please buy me one?
I think mine has been planning my holiday for this winter and forward planning for a holiday for next winter & getting away from this AUS winter! YES winter reeeeeally does suck! But Thailand in 4 weeks YAY 
I make beach/windsurfing themed artwork. Keeps that connection with the water and the sport I love.
See my thread www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=67438
and
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=59255
Have started grinding the rust out of the bodywork on the van - should keep me busy for the next 3-4 months
I used to be like that, but I took up guitar again.
That nad lots of cycling, skatebaording etc, and I'm happy
Guitars are all good i like to play abit of accoustic blues when i have the no wind blues, i often get me trusty guitar out and have a jam..
In the winter, I tinker with the missus.
Trying to get enough credit points to get my fill in the summer.
Windxtasy i think you should really market your art work you could make alot of money out of it. It looks great
I bought an old dump of a house near Sydney for a reasonable price. Its great redeeming factors are its on a fairly big block of land, it close to a train station and has great water views. Spent the last two windless months with my dad and plenty of cash renovating, building a nice flat underneath. So now we can rent it out for more than the mortgage repayments.
The way people are moving to Sydney there is a massive demand for rentals.
