When Kai Lenny starts looking middle aged
Yes I'm bored and laid up in bed with the Flu for 8 days in a row
When every windsurfer around you is getting into Foiling, and you're longing to find a Longboard with a Daggerboard in the Buy and Sell pages
In the work place you're still on a high from the stoke of your weekend endeavours on Wednesday morning when all the dead beat ****ers half you age are still moaning about their dead boring ****ing weekend.
When after a big day on the water you reach for the Voltaren before the beer
When you prep for a big day by dosing up with Celebrex
when people are talking about making you an immortal.
And when there are only 9 of you in your GPSTC age bracket
When all your sailing buds are 20-40 years younger than you and the good sailors are 40-50 years younger.
When after a big day on the water you reach for the Voltaren before the beer
You take the Voltaren before you sail
... after 30 years they take you out from the side of the house and put you on the hard rubbish collection.
I know a guy who started windsurfing in 1976, was the alternate for Argentina's Olympic windsurf team 10 years later, who still windsurfs 100 days a year on a 99 liter Fanatic Falcon.
when up hauling a board you expect to get whacked between the legs by the mast foot releasing for no reason other than the fact that its just a wooden wedge.
I know a guy who started windsurfing in 1976, was the alternate for Argentina's Olympic windsurf team 10 years later, who still windsurfs 100 days a year on a 99 liter Fanatic Falcon.
And here's me, lucky if I can get season, wind, tide, weekend, and now even parking, to all line up.
When you start a Seabreeze thread titled "Getting back into it after 10 years off!", ask about what has changed, and everyone replies pretty much nothing, except the colours, which are retro colours from 30 years ago.
When magnesium and beer become your best friend after sailing ...and your language is not fit for young kids to hear when getting up to take a leak
For us on the large side.
When you look down you haven't been able to see your harness hook for some years.
When you come in from a big session on the water, grab a beer and kick back and still believe the Wallabies can win back the Bledisloe Cup.