I was busy testing boards and sails in South Africa for SURF magazine. This 5 week test is the most comprehensive test done in windsurfing. This is already my 15th year as a tester. Time is flying by.
Rigging in Platboom, Cape of good hope
We have been coming here in South Africa for the last 12 years already. Our base is Langebaan where we do all the flat water testing. For waves we have 3 options; Swartriet, 30km from here , Cape point, 200 km from here and Elands bay, 100km from here and famous from the Endless summer movie. If you are prepared to drive you can windsurf a lot but in the last 3 weeks we have already driven 2800 km to find the waves and the wind. 
Baboons at the Cape of Good Hope
However we were successful because we had 16 days out of 20 of water time. If we would have stayed in one place you would have 5 days max. This year South Africa is up side down. Most of the time we have had wind from the right and cold and rainy conditions which almost never happens and if only for a day.
Rainy and muddy conditions
For me wind from the right is actually better since I am used to that from Maui, for most of the other testers it was a little adjusting.
This year we test 75 liter wave boards, 85 liter free-wave boards 110 liter slalom boards, 4.7 wave sails, 5.3 power wave sails, 6.0 free move sails, and 8.0 slalom sails.
Only in wave boards we have 18 boards, single fin, twin, triple and quads.
Platboom, always amazingly good
Witsands, this year mostly wind from the right. At our last sessions, I saw a big shark there.
Stephan, test leader and Photographer
Next time I hope to have some action photos. Today we leave for Elands Bay.
Aloha from South Africa
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