Original source: Andy's World of Old School Windsurfing
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Most water-sport accidents turn fatal when people abandon their equipment. These techniques illustrate why staying with your board is the single most important survival habit.
Windsurfers Stranded Far From Shore Have Four Distinct Self-Rescue Options
When wind dies or conditions turn against a windsurfer, four techniques can get a rider home without outside help. In near-calm conditions, lying flat and paddling with the rig resting on the board — the butterfly method — provides the fastest return. A half-raised sail works for short crosswind distances, while simply standing behind the mast and letting it flag forward is the quickest way to drift downwind. As a last resort, dismantling the entire rig and securing it along the deck allows paddling back in stronger conditions.
The consistent priority in any scenario, the video stresses, is staying with the board. In an emergency, the board floats far better than its rider — a principle that applies well beyond windsurfing to any water sport.
"The cardinal rule is to stay with your board, which in an emergency floats a lot better than you."
Instructional Video Series Aims to Demystify Off-Piste Skiing for Intermediate Skiers
A two-part instructional series presented by ski trainers Mark Jones and Peter Hart sets out to challenge the assumption that off-piste skiing is too dangerous or technically demanding for competent recreational skiers. Shot partly in the Canadian Rockies around Lake Louise, the videos cover powder technique, jump assessment, avalanche transceiver use, and backcountry navigation with a local guide — progressing from groomed-slope exercises to vertical couloirs and breakable crust.
With avalanche risk a growing concern as backcountry skiing surges in popularity, the series' emphasis on snow-stability assessment and group mountain craft addresses a gap between what ski resorts teach and what unpatrolled terrain actually demands.
Three Right-of-Way Rules Govern Who Yields on Crowded Windsurfing Waters
Windsurfers sharing busy water must follow a hierarchy of three rules. A board on starboard tack — right hand forward — has priority over one on port tack. When both riders are on the same tack, the upwind board must yield, because the downwind sailor is partially blind and can lose steering when caught in a rival's wind shadow. When one board overtakes another on the same tack, the faster, overtaking rider must keep clear regardless of which side they pass.
Though legally windsurfers have right of way over most motorised vessels, the video's practical advice cuts through the legal hierarchy: the safest rule is simply to give way to everyone, especially powered craft.
"The best advice of all is to steer clear of everybody, especially power-driven craft — although legally, you'll be pleased to hear, they have to keep out the way of you."
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