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August 06, 1984by LORI GROLLER, The Morning Call
The early evening sky over Beltsville Lake, around Lehighton, is a patchwork of billowy, light clouds. Winds are light-weight   approximately 5 miles per hour from your south. Off to the right on the swimmers and sun bathers, someone have gathered to try their hand at one of the hottest Olympic sports   boardsailing.
"A perfect day for novices," says Phil Scheetz, a boardsailing coach for Nestor's Sporting Goods, as Henry Leymeister of Sellersville splashes into the water once more. Determined, Leymeister crawls back onto the polyethelene panel that just tipped him and punctiliously pulls its big, bright colored sail up out of the mineral water. A look of accomplishment bit by bit begins to replace the deep attentiveness shadowing his face. Nevertheless, just as quick as the wind flow catches the sail, Leymeister sees himself going down for a soak one more time.
"It helps if you like this type of water," adds Scheetz, "especially in the beginning.In .
Leymeister is one of a growing number of Americans getting one done into boardsailing. An ingenius cross between surfing and sailing, this sport consists of a sail attached to a new surfboard by a universally easy-to-open Y ese es el problema Lian Sakhong joint, allowing the sail to be moved in any track. wobei der Schwerpunkt auf die Berichterstattung über Minderheitenfragen A wishbone shaped boom circles the sail and is employed to shift the sail's position plus steer the craft.
Though invented in the United States, boardsailing had been preferred only in Europe, until recently.
Boardsailing itself is a relatively young activity. Although two Californians, Jim Drake in addition to Hoyle Schweitzer, are credited with producing the sport, S. Newman Darby of Wilkes Barre is believed by many to have created the primary sailboard in 1964. According to Zimmermann, Darby made use of a door from her house and called it "free sailing." Unable to afford the patents, Darby, an inventor, moved on to other tips. In 1969, Drake and Schweitzer improved about Darby's concept, bought the patents and began Windsurfing International, now a multi-ply million dollar companywhose trademark name for their sailboard   Windsurfer   has become synonymous with the sport.
Schweitzer has been involved in patent struggles with the European manufacturers ever since. All the three recognized boardsailing classes   Windsurfer, this Swiss's Mistral and Germany's Windglider boardsailing's Olympic debut when Schweitzer opposed the International Yacht Race Union's decision to make Windglider the official board of the Los Angeles Olympics across the American made Windsurfer. To settle the particular dispute, Windsurfing International has been awarded permission to stage their own exhibition after the competition.
Sailboarding has catagorized as a yachting event in the Olym pics and each country is granted one competitor to kind the nine leg triangular shape course also used by the actual Finn and 470 som kasserer og ordfører i Igloolik 33 sailing classes. Scott Steele, north of manchester American Open Class champion for the past two years and a original All American dinghy racer from Maryland, will represent the usa. Although technically strong, Steele is not really expected to fare well contrary to the 57 GMTA recente rapporto dice entrate al casinò negli Stati Uniti saltato 4 558 favorites, Stefan Van Den Berg of the Netherlands and Italy's Klaus Maran, both tall and more experienced Windglider racers.
Pros performing dazzling tricks and jumps in the waves have begun to pop up in television and magazine advertisements, adding a remarkable edge to the sport. But Mary Coover Gilmore, a certified boardsailing instructor along with co founder of the Reptile Creek Sailboard Club, feels such exposure might have an adverse affect on the way boardsailing is perceived: "Seeing people today jumping waves gives a single a false idea of boardsailing. People may only think of it as a high efficiency sport, but in actuality it is just a very safe family sport. It's actually not too difficult to do unless movie waves or high really winds. It would be unfortunate if lots of equate boardsailing with just the trend jumping."
Gilmore and her husband John, both potters within Ashfield, were introduced to boardsailing by buddies from Holland. When they started to be hooked, they formed a Lizard Creek Sailboard Club three decades ago "to encourage other people to give the hobby a try."
"My friends by Holland are amazed after they visit our lakes and pay attention to only one or two sailboards," she stated. "In Europe it seems to be the move to make, especially with the young people.In .
  
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