50 years of Windsurfing | DW English

  • 7 years ago
The sport of windsurfing took sail 50 years ago. Jim Drake of the USA was the first to mount a sail on a surfboard. Soon after, Calle Schmidt took his windsurf board to the island of Sylt, and made the new sport trendy.
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