Hey
I am from Switzerland - have been here in St. Kilda / Melbourne with my husband and 12 month old son since 3 months and can't wait to get on the water.
I have seen there are surfing mums and just wonder if there are also windsurfing or kitesurfing mums close to St. Kilda as well?? Don't have a babysitter and wonder if there are some mums who also would like to go windsurfing so we could watch our kids doing turns.
Wind conditions are often great during the week which is kind of mean because I have to wait until my husband is back from work.
Good luck with that.
Btw, as soon as the baby is big enough to attend school, I hope you will find a job and let your husband windsurf full-time...
Way to make us newbies welcome!
(What a boys club this is)
Why don't you get yourself a real financial strategy so you can quit your job and spend time fully satisfying your woman.
Good luck with that.
Don't listen to Wet Willy (not representative of the windsurfing community), a stirrer at nature (fun when you get used to it but and aren't female)
Goodluck finding a nanny crew
More chicks in ws = better
As for the quit job bit, most here would rather go windsurfing with any free-windy-time (that's not a bad thing right?), as non-windy times = the missus loving times!
Welcome to the community smooch, nice angsty first post! You'll do well here yet!
Hey Guys
I guess most of you like to have the mums / girlfriends / wifes waiting on the beach for you having all sandwiches ready and probably already knitting on your next sweater while you enjoy every second on the water.
Watching windsurfers from the beach with leo (my son) is basically like having chocalate in front of my nose and not be able to eat it. So I really hope there are some women close by who also want to come windsurfing. Attaching Leo to my harness wouldn't be my option
Take...away...those...red...thumbs!!!!!
Look, you got me all wrong. It should've read as follows:
[some witty witty witty brilliant brilliant brilliant clever clever clever comments] followed by an insightful yet infinitely tactful remark on how unfair it is that a certain gender seems to think it is the supposed to be other gender's job to go out into that crazy world out there and bring back money.
"Wind conditions are often great during the week which is kind of mean because I have to wait until my husband is back from work." ...that was what set me off. Sorry, Roxy, if I overreacted.
Thanks Dism, from what I've read so far, I figure a girl has to have pretty thick skin if she wants to fit in around here. (Or be a ditsy tryhard 21yo)
But from what you said:
"most here would rather go windsurfing with any free-windy-time (that's not a bad thing right?), as non-windy times = the missus loving times!"
Good or bad? Well it does highlight where your priorities are - based on what the wind is doing, not what your missus is doing.
My view, yes, it is a bad thing - cannot help your relationship long term.
OK baby, audition's over...NEXT!!!!
Please come back in 6 months with a new routine.
I love Aussie women. I mean, I love the fact that they're in Australia and I'm not. 
I won't be dragged any further into this. Your posts refute themselves, no need for outside help.
Owwwhh Willy, I liked the other big message you wrote much better - it showed so much about your real personality.
Why did you delete it? Ah, wanna be viewed as nice guy, I get it.
Good night.
Haha, smooch, do you want to windsurf, or just berate men?
If you want to windsurf, ignore Wet Willy and talk kids and nannies for windsurfing (like Roxy777 wants to, see seems to actually want to ws, not to play battle of the sexes on the net).
Wet Willy - get in your cage! Or at least pipe down a little for a sec (we love ya crazy calls but maybe not in the 'winsurfing mums' thread!)
Maybe a little sexual tension between smooch and wet willy?, haha, put those names together!
Smooch - are you in St. Kilda? Help your fellow sailor and female out, share the water and kids!
Trying to get gf involved with ws, she likes going fast and in warm climes but methinks the female stereotype of being anti-sporty (but being fashionable and too soft to do some things) stops alot of chicks windsurfing (n.b: I do not agree with or anything with the stereotype, just observe social patterns).
To all the windsurfing females, all the power to you (who doesn't want to see more chicks sailing (in both ways)).
Here is some film of the family at Lagoon Beach in Tasmania. My partner Gillian is the one sailing the Mistral.
I hope you find some people to sail with in Melbourne, Roxy if you make it to Tassi drop in for a sail.
AL
Fair enough, but if i'm exerting my XY mentality, i'm sure your avatar and screenname are exerting the XX mentality.
Why exert so much female mentality on a forum that is predominantly male? Is that not provocation for 'sexually related funnies'?
Maybe dull down the sex and amp up the ws! But then again, can't say the majority of the forum would dislike it!
Not having a crack, but it goes both ways. I'm sure we can welcome you, with or without the sexed up profile (but the latter will incite Wet Willy to his comments)
Maybe both parties need to detune the mentality, and get on with the windsurfing.
For some of (not me but Roxy), this means needing the kid minding service.
Anyone helping Roxy out?
What a load of crap you lot turn a simple question into read the topic of the thread FFS
I ain't entirely convinced that 'Smooch' is not some bored kiter troll out to stir up the WS crew 
It wouldn't be the first time.
And I agree with 'Bondalucci'...it's a tad hypocritical bagging out the guys in here as sexist with a blatantly provocative avatar and alias.
Come clean Smooch, are you a tea bagger in disguise or just a bored hypocrite?
Some of the comments have been pretty sexist. Then again, I can understand why WW arced up; the original post gave the impression that one half of the partnership got to work all day and then care for Junior after work, while the other half got to care for Junior all day and then go windsurfing in the afternoon.
Actually, speaking as someone who was in a 50/50 care situation with a baby from 9 months on, not all windsurfers who have child-care duties are female!
To any women in Sydney in a similar situation; if you came to Rodd Point on Saturdays and gave us enough notice, we could probably find someone to care for the kids - as long as you don't mind if they are male or female.
Hey there
I guess my post didn't sound very nice. Of course my husband gets to go on the water as well. But he often comes home only after 7pm. That is already too late. Somehow the windy days are mostly during the week - Murphys Law I guess.
I am still hoping there are other women with young kids around who are keen on feeling the wind in their hair and flying over the water....otherwise its kind of a wind waste .
Thank you dism for your support. And I tried also the shops, but I guess mums just don't really have time to hang around there.
hey
as it seems ws here is quite mens territory you might help me out with something else. what about the foots? when is it good to sail there and how big do the waves get??
which are the best wave spots close to melbourne?? and when do they work?? thanks in advance
