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Burkhard (Boogie) Vierth
March 2001
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Disciplines:Burkhard "Boogie" Vierth
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Kiel, Germany
Kiel, Germany
Plimmerton
Carbonologist
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Plimmerton
Plimmerton
Island Bay Speed Bar (Auckland)
Klitmoller (Denmark)
First through finish. Learning how to wavesail.
Pud's chickendish
Soundgarden, Tool
Toyota Hiace
Starboard raceboards, North
and Gaastra racesails
Any outdoor activity. Flying
model planes with Woo.
Course, Speed
The questions:
My first time: (windsurfing !?!?!)
Spring 92. On a Klepper 282, Gaastra 5.2 Racesail. Horrible equipment.Best windsurfing experience:
'98, Meola Reef in Auckland. Everything was just perfect. My first fully powered up race session. It felt great !Worst windsurfing experience:
Back in Kiel, Germany at Easter. Water temperature was 4 C. Broke the mast, took me an hour to get back to beach, just about dying.What fascinates you the most about windsurfing?
All the various aspects of windsurfing. The "Bandwidth" of the sport. There is Freeride, Racing, Wavesailing, Kitesurfing... it never gets boring. In other sports you just do the one single thing all the time. Windsurfing is different. The conditons vary all the time, there is so much potential and everyone can enjoy different aspects of the sport, whichever they like post.How do you see the sport of windsurfing developing in the future ?
Formula Windsurfing is definitely the way to go. Popularity of this new concept will increase further. It is a concept which helps simplify things and getting new sailors into the world of racing. It seems to work, FW is already very popular worldwide. The way racing is held on worldcups these days.. I do not see too much future for that, I believe that section of the worldcup will die, or basically it has already died, with virtually no racing events on the tour calender for 2001. Its too speciallised, requiring too much equipment, pretty much the same with IMCO sailing, only IMCO is generally not what the masses of the windsurfing community are doing. Windsurfing is a very cool sport and it will therefore continue to grow again, despite being quite an expensive and time consuming sport. What makes a difference these days is the wide style boards which make it so much easier to learn, that is a real benefit for the sport !What would you like to see happening in the Wellington Windsurfing scene, or what would be a really cool thing to happen ?
Hmmm... difficult one... I live at the beach and I am happy....maybe a wee bit less discrimination between different disciplines of windsurfing. More get togethers regardless of some being into racing other being into wavesailing or what kind of equipment one has etc.Something to say to all other windsurfers out there ?
You don't know how lucky you are !!How it all came together:
Growing up in the cold north of Germany in Kiel, which has a bit of a reputation of being the "City of sails" of Germany, it was pretty obvious that youg "Boogie" would get into sailing at some stage of his life. Since he was 11 years of age, Boogie has been sailing regattas on dinghys and skiffs. He was quite good at it too, as by the age of 20, he was one of the top contenders in the 505 dinghy class. Together with his mate, they got first in the 2 persons 505 dinghy class German Champs. Around the same time, they also were 12th at the '89 Worldchamps in the same class, which was held in the UK. After that, he continued to compete in world championships and also got into the full on 15 ft. yacht match racing scene, sailing together with some pretty well know sailors out there. Besides his competing career, he also worked at a local sailboat workshop, where he used to work partially and later on full time. His experience finally allowed him at some stage to build his own 505 14 ft. sailing boat. He also managed to get a business computing apprenticeship done, but working with high tech materials such as Carbon and building things have always been his real thing. Late '97, Boogie and his girlfriend moved to New Zealand where Boogie worked for Roger Twedell up in Auckland in the service area, where he repaired boards, sails, booms and where he started to get an interest in building his own fins. '97 was also his first year, which he fully commited to windsurfing rather than the sailing which he had done for more than a decade. Last year, they moved back to Germany briefly, but after 6 months there was no holding back, they were hooked on NZ !! Boogie now spends his time developing and testing his fins, which he produces under the name of C3. So far, he only does Racing fins, which he sells nationally aswell as internationally, in fact some of his racing fins have produced some really good results back in Europe. We're still waiting for Boogie to also start wavesailing, after all, he lives at the beachfront in Plimmerton !
Boogie racing at Plimmerton
Boogie racing in Plimmerton. 9.8 m2 in 20 + knots !
Boogie nearing 40 knots at lake FerryBoogie's sail number is NZ 148 and is
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