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Windsurfing photos from the late 1980's, Isle of Wight, UK

A look back at the local windsurfing scene on the Isle of Wight from the late 1980’s. Rummaging through old negatives and contact sheets from my ‘windsurfing years’ which have been up in the loft for the last 35 plus years!....I thought maybe it was time to take another look at them. I was working as a black & white photographic printer at a small darkroom in London and would come back home to the Isle of Wight most weekends and enjoy the windsurfing scene more often than not, picking up my camera and capturing the action either from the beach or from in the water. The majority of these images were taken at Yaverland, Sandown Bay where the prevailing south westerly winds offered good cross shore conditions a lot of the time. The other location for some of these photos was Compton Bay or Brook Chine (West Wight) when the wind swung to a more north westerly direction. The gear I had at the time was a Canon 35mm film camera (remember, these were pre-digital photography days!) with a 500mm mirror lens for shots from the shore. This lens had a fixed aperture of f8 so required good light or fast/grainy film to get acceptable results - certainly not a 'professional' lens but as much as I could afford, always mounted on a tripod. For shots from in the water I used a 'Ewa-Marine' waterproof system - basically a tough plastic bag with a clamping bar along the top and an in-built glove with which to make some adjustments to the camera settings - a 'poor mans' waterproof housing I suppose.... clumsy, but it worked. I'd load the 36 exposure roll of film into the camera, place in the waterproof housing and paddle out (bodyboard and fins) to where the action was, and be fairly selective when to press the shutter! Because as soon as those 36 exposures were taken you'd then have to paddle back in to change film roll. All good fun! music: "Electric Avenue" by Eddie Grant (Copyright-protected content found. The owner allows the content to be used on YouTube) edited using: DaVinci Resolve