I'm windsurfing 3000km round Greece on a 35 Year old Board | Long Distance Odysee Ep. 1

[@surfsportroyal]

Punkrock - Longboarding is not a crime. This trip is soooo cool

[@Str8representing]

This is an epic idea. Would love to see more long distance explorations & travelling, especially in different countries

[@WindsurfingNils]

thanks for the feedback! :)

[@davidtaylor9583]

Nicely done I enjoyed it The spirit of windsurfing

[@WindsurfingNils]

thanks david!

[@mikepleydell6471]

Started in ‘84, out all day, no harness- just a leather belt(learned NOT to fall in😊)those were the days!. Then small boards came along.after 30+ years of ‘fast is cool’ I’ve come to realise that safe big distances are more satisfying. Keep on keeping on👍

[@RP6conrad]

Fantastic project, love the long distance, and the courage to make it happen ! Good to see the ESP-GPS in action !

[@WindsurfingNils]

it works great for this stuff with seeing the speed so big on the screen

[@peterolsson852]

Great to see I’m not alone doing the same thing, actually on the same board 👍 We are a bunch of friends sailing around Gotland in Sweden. 4-5 hr sailing a day is well more than enough 😂 Enjoy the rest of your journey 🤙🤙

[@CloudCastsAlanSmith]

Stockholm here, lots of long-distance runs on the lakes on an old Fanatic Cat and Starboard touring WindSup.

[@Vini.OliveTree]

Wow Nils, that's a proper adventure, way cooler than speed sailing. Have a lot of fun.

[@WindsurfingNils]

both are pretty cool i think ;)

[@gussinklo]

Nils! What a great adventure. Longboarding is so cool, and especially the long distance. For future Odysseys I can recommend the Windsurfer LT. Easy planing, stable and so much run! Keep on doing the good work. Hang losse & good winds!

[@jeroenvanrootselaar3968]

Awesome video Niels! Besides slalom sailing I also still enjoy my raceboard now and then. Raceboarding is a discipline on its own and its great you are showcasing this. It definitely isn't the coolest discipline but so versatile and enjoyable!

[@joakimyliruusi]

Yes, great stuff!! Longboarding is really cool, next summer I'm gonna do some long distance stuff too. This got me inspired to do it, thank you!

[@WindsurfingNils]

glad to inspire you, make it happen :)

[@ronald-huve]

Great! So cool to see you doing this. I'm looking forward to seeing the next episode. In Holland it is really becoming a cult and we have several longboard events. More are planned for next year. Maybe I'll see you there someday. Or we all come to Greece.😊

[@ronald-huve]

…. I would like to add... Longboard Windsurfing indeed gives you more freedom on the water and planing with the feeling that you want to conquer the endless water in front of you with the graceful elegance of the soul of windsurfing 🤭

[@WindsurfingNils]

i think in a race format i would be pretty bad on the raceboard haha ;)

[@WindsurfingNils]

agree, i totally have that!

[@miconomo]

Love this type of movies, music is also on spot, not surprising for the carrier of this surname! Thanks Nils!

[@WindsurfingNils]

i think the great thing about it is the windrange...

[@adir_bauchek]

Nice video, I saw nico prien do something like this in Germany a year ago. I think that if you want to do this again you have to use foil. Foil can make everything more ez and you have more fun

[@wilcootte7408]

Great fun to see your trip! Enjoy this new adventure

[@WindsurfingNils]

Thanks, I will!

[@odinm.9619]

Mega Aktion, finde es sehr beeindruckend was du da auf die Beine gestellt hast. Danke das ich bei der Tour durch das Video dabei sein durfte

[@MarioKuempel]

Uuuh Im looking forward to the series!!

[@jmbodwld8172]

Hi nils… loved to see the vlog of your journey… looking forward to see the next ones

[@WindsurfingNils]

thanks for your feedback, i really enjoy this series :)

[@sharewavestv]

Grand tour deluxe! I like the idea of thinking outside the box and try something new, even it is with oldschool stuff. Enjoy your energy gel, keep hydrated and looking forward to meet your family on the boat. And the dog, don‘t forget the DOG!

[@WindsurfingNils]

Yes! the dog is the most important ;)

[@vientoneige]

Cool to see the race board being the tool of choice. This summer my son and I revived our Fanatic Ultracat race board from the late 80s/early 90s. It's still a lot of fun to ride!

[@WindsurfingNils]

cool to hear you're still using it!

[@jantheman334]

Starker Trip, ich glaub ich lasse meinen altes Mistral schlachtschiff auch mal wieder zu wasser. Das war immer so entschleunigend. Very Inspiring 👌🤙have fun

[@pavloslii]

Good luck and have loads of fun!! :)

[@kasm10]

pretty cool. I had a kit like that...was great fun

[@henrycartwright7124]

Epic trip! Great fun to watch!

[@WindsurfingNils]

Hey, thank you! discovered your videos also a couple weeks back and was super cool to see you do the crossing!

[@sandervang1208]

Nice trip Nils. Shame you lost some motivation though. Hopefully this trip will get the motivation back. I didn't windsurf for over 25 years and started again last year. I missed it, really.

[@WindsurfingNils]

i think it's normal that you need a little break sometimes, always stoked to have a proper speedsession, just the frustration of having shitty ones 50% of the time is kind of getting to me...

[@sandervang1208]

I understand. Keep in mind the other 50%. I saw most of your video's of the last couple of years and envy you. Nice spots with perfect conditions do the tric for me. Sadly I don't have tje possibilites to travel a lot since I have kids. It'll get back to you soon, no doubt@@WindsurfingNils

[@johnaloukos8067]

amazing job nils that was siiiiick 🤙🤙

[@richarddevaottien7724]

See how small/narrow objects block the light from the hexagonal Sun Simulator at 18.10😮 The real Sun is never visible now. Next challenge, the Israel coast in a fluorescent wet suit

[@ThierryCiot]

Very nice concept. Beautiful scenery. Have you considered using a foil? you should be able to cover a lot more distance and still go upwind pretty well. A while back I saw a youtube video of a guy who did the first go around Guadeloupe island on a wind foil, it was really impressive. Also, seem to recall one guy did 180km from Nice to Marseille again on foil.

[@WindsurfingNils]

yes, using a foil would be epic, but the wind is just to light here to consistently plane on the foil...

[@balazsrepasi8035]

Amazing, so nice u do this

[@nigelw.9043]

Great video!!

[@WindsurfingNils]

thank you!

[@phil95kiff12]

I enjoyed your trip 😊

[@WindsurfingNils]

glad you did!

[@TopMaphis]

Such a cool project! Wanna do a circle on my local lake as well with my longboard 🤙🤙

[@WindsurfingNils]

try it, it's fun in a different way :)

[@TopMaphis]

@@WindsurfingNils Just sorted a 9.6 sail yesterday and the Alpha 160 was also a september buy, so unfortunately the project has to wait until 2024 now. But I'll train alot for next season and go really hard. Keep up the 'average Joe' surfing content, I'm really motivated by it - cause it's much closer to my skill level. 😅

[@Qwertinoo]

Nice video, good commentary, very fun. Lovely waters west Greece and quite safe. In Athens there use to be a long distance race starting from Varkiza to Lagonisi and back. The original race was 40km with lots of safety. Sadly the organisers stop holding it in 2017

[@WindsurfingNils]

Yes, the first legs felt pretty safe, the further i get to the peleponnes the more scary it gets...

[@Qwertinoo]

Hehe can’t imagine crossing Ionian Sea to Aegean Sea the waves must be very interesting

[@bigi-hm4nj]

Hi Nils, schöne Idee in tollen Bildern umgesetzt. Wenn ich das so sehe, denke ich, schade, dass Tourensurfen so in Vergessenheit geraten ist. Wenn ich dann daran denke, welche Vorbereitungen und Sicherheitsvorkehrungen alle notwendig sind, wie das Begleitboot, dann mag das ein Grund sein. Allerdings, so mein Eindruck bisher, wiegen die erlebten Eindrücke und die noch zu erwartenden Abenteuer die Strapazen auf. Respekt also, dass du das Raceboard ausgebuddelt und den Rucksack gepackt hast und 1000 Dank, dass du uns mitnimmst auf die Reise. Pass auf dich auf

[@WindsurfingNils]

Hi, Danke für deinen Kommentar, es macht echt sehr viel Spaß mal etwas ganz neues am windsurfen zu entdecken in dieser Form!

[@mbyrnes3346]

Nils, super cool. I have often considered windsurfing to a local island (Isle Royale in Lake Superior) for camping. So I'm curious to follow your future adventures

[@WindsurfingNils]

do it, would love to do some episodes also with camping at the beach, let's see :)

[@jannisstolz2197]

Your content is absolutely amazing Nils! pls more about greece. maybe explore some spots there? greetz from germany :)

[@WindsurfingNils]

i have some things planned about spots i want to visit!

[@bertushagedoorn4942]

Raceboardd still rock!! Maybe you could find a dedicated 9.5 raceboardsail with adjustable down- and outhaul (unfortunately not by Point7)

[@WindsurfingNils]

would be good in the superlight conditions here...

[@pierre-hadrienlevieil1150]

Hey could you give the references for the handmade GPS speedometer ? It looks like a super cool gadget. Super project btw !

[@WindsurfingNils]

it's a handmade GPS from Jan Heynen who send me one for testing, works really well :)

[@RobertSchmon]

Love it Nils. I'm curious as to dates. Are you doing this now in Oct. 2023? Or was this last summer? I ask, as I've been windsurfing off of Corfu for many years and a wind from the south on a sunny day is very rare in the summer. And even approaching September and the early fall the southerlies come usually with stormy weather. Also, I noticed when you were in Kavos--the beach you ended up on in Corfu, there was no one there whereas in summer it would have been packed. So I'm guessing this was shot recently? Good luck!

[@WindsurfingNils]

yes, the series started now in October, will put the dates in the next episodes, this one was from the 19th...

[@linuso6404]

What I was wondering - as I also saw a guy surfing from England to France on a formula board - why do you take such a big board that isn‘t plaining that well? Wouldn‘t it be more effective to take a smaller board (f.e. 130l which is still a lot) which plains better, so you‘ll reach your destination quicker, but it also is able to go non-plaining? Because going fast on the formula board looks very exhausting😂 Anyways, great video!

[@WindsurfingNils]

Hey, the idea of the raceboard is that it goes okay in every wind, of course a proper planing board will be going better in 12kts+ but often on these long distance adventures you have very different winds throughout one leg, so when it's below 12 knots the planing board will just stop dead, while the longboard still does solid speeds making it much more viable for these kinds of adventures, that being said, i am not opposed to trying the foilboard if i see one leg that looks to be very solid with the wind!

[@Trucspeciaal]

Epic journey man! Btw you look like a teletubbie with your helmet and camara! Hahahha

[@WindsurfingNils]

i know haha

[@MrReivilo38]

very nice trip ! i have a question : no boat behind you ? you're alone ?

[@WindsurfingNils]

my dad is in the vicinity with the sailing boat, so if something happens he can always come to the recue :)

[@windsurfnorway9228]

Great video, what a fun adventure! What harness lines do you use?

[@WindsurfingNils]

point 7 F1 harness lines, they are perfect as super easy to adjust on the go!

[@Team33Team33]

Cool. What is the apparatus that you wear on your arm that is giving you your speed ? (an android phone App ?).

[@WindsurfingNils]

a handmade GPS device from jan Heynen.

[@Team33Team33]

@@WindsurfingNils Hmm. Thanks. I do something very similar with a GPS made for a bicycle in a plastic bag like yrs. Only in km/h (no knots unfortunately) but gives distance, time & avg speed/max speed very well. Only cost about USD 20 !

[@peter-cal]

awesome video!!! leved it how do you make the map stuff in the video?

[@WindsurfingNils]

google earth

[@roothik]

That's a beautiful journey. Did you consider doing this in the Aegean instead or are you heading towards there as well?

[@WindsurfingNils]

have not decided how i am going to contiinue from the peleponnes...

[@alainalain7102]

Hello, nice video ! If you could add a time stamp also when you show the distance on screen, it will give an idea of the time spent between the video cuts. Some details about the GPS tracker would be nice. Is it a e-ink display ? And about the board and rig and why this choice, but I guess you already knew you would have question about the gear ;-). See you next leg.

[@WindsurfingNils]

yes, i will adress all these question in the coming episodes, just didn't want to overload this one with everything in the first already ;) putting a timestamp is a good idea for the next one!

[@JD-wf9rc]

Cool. But why not using the foil, the best for tours

[@WindsurfingNils]

not enough wind...

[@stevebyers9672]

your a nutter......but i'm sure you know that by now....well done, brave and great skill

[@73smoo]

Ah, instead of going to Paros and Naxos you can also go to Paxos.😂

[@markchip1]

Why were you holding the uphaul at one point rather than the boom, or even the mast? I thought that was really bad technique - I assume you had a good reason...

[@WindsurfingNils]

I was trying to figure out how to get the best angle upwind, like that i could go pretty good, but tbh i am still trying to figure out how the raceboard works on the go :)

[@markchip1]

@@WindsurfingNils I knew you would have a good reason!

[@WindsurfGenerationX]

Ist this a Screamer or an Explosion?

[@ronald-huve]

This is en Mistral Equipe (1,5)

[@WindsurfingNils]

mistral euiqpe I XR

[@cjeslicabaas3729]

Equipe?

[@WindsurfingNils]

yes, equipe 1

[@ronald-huve]

@@WindsurfingNils Hello Nils. So cool that you're doing this. It is an upcoming Trent to discover the longboards again and take a break from the hectic slalom surfing. I have to make a small correction. Here you sail an Equipe 1.5 shape. The Equipe 1 had a “Winger pintail”, the Equipe 2 has a rounder tail and more volume in the back. I have a number of course films on my channel with a Mistral Equipe 2

[@firstnamelastname2669]

Did i miss it or are you without a camelback? btw Jono Dunnett is the daddy of long distance windsurfing an has a Guiness Book of records entry to prove it.

[@WindsurfingNils]

i know, read some stuff from him to prepare ;) no i just have some waterbottles with me

[@markchip1]

A 7.9m sail in 40 kts wind counts as being slightly undersized?? WTF NILS???

[@WindsurfingNils]

nein in 40 knoten natürlich nicht, aber für den tag war es undersized bei 10-15 knoten ;)

[@markchip1]

@@WindsurfingNils - An English translation would have been easier, Nils!!