I have some old sailboards one is a windsurfer comp the other is a mistral sst comp hybrid. Anyone know when these were made or where i can get some info on them?

Post up some photos if you can.

The Windsurfer Comp was produced only for one year: 1983. It was in preparation for the use of the board as a demo event in the 1984 Olympics, hence the name I suppose (more on that on the next reply, please read on after this note).

At the time, Windsurfer the company was in a shifting mode: away from the old one-piece mould from the 70's, towards newer (actually late) innovations such as mast-track and retractible daggerboard (1984 onwards). Too little, too late, as we now know.

So again 1983 was the one year in-between. From memory, and your pictures don't show it, the mast piece well was made of a separate bit of black hard plastic that was screwed into the white one-piece mould. For the first time, the daggerboard well was also a new piece of black hard plastic that fitted into the board from underneath side screwed. The daggerboard was standard pre-1983 model, so were the mast and boom.

The Comp sails were still in the old triangle format ("fat heads" with AA9999 numbers would appear only after the 1983 Worlds') could be bought, in North America at least, in Mylar for the first time. They had beautiful bright pastel colour often.

Starting in 1984, the Comp was followed by models with retractible daggerboards and sliding mast tracks, though there remained one model in 1984 with a fixed mast piece. "Fat heads" also appeared in 1984. Windsurfer was too late, the sport was changed forever by then.

Here's a continuation on the Comp, since it has historical value.

In the early 80s, it was decided through various international politics that Windglider was going to be the racing board at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. What a joke that was, but that's another story.

As a concession of sorts, it was also decided that demo events would include what was at the time 'traditional' Windsurfer-brand competition, bar triangle racing. That is: freestyle, long distance and slalom. Perhaps in order to catch up with the changing market and other brands, mostly Mistral new designs, or in order to get closer to one-design-ness, Windsurfer came up with the intermediate design of the Comp in 1983. As a matter of fact, many such models had the Olympics logo at the front (that would peel after 14 minutes sometimes).

As a freestylist at the time, the hard plastic mast piece was one hell of an improvment. For the first time, you could glue that bit in, and do ever crazier railrides and violent Everoles. Was fun! But you had to keep a gap of less than a quarter-inch, not to glue it all the way in.

2 reasons: firstly to remove it, you just banged it in. No way to remove it is epoxyed in all the way. Second, the mast piece was too far in for some of the railrides if not let out. Made some moves more difficult.

The Comp had one weakness too: the mast piece was held by 2 puny little screws, which could come loose and eventually fall. I broke 2-3 of those in my days with good old freestyle violence.

In the end, the 1984 Olympics were held off San Diego on the 1984 model, which had retractible daggerboard which required quite an adaptation for freestyle. Freestyle was an absolute success and crowd pleaser at the time, but only racing survived the ensuing Olympics, with all its controversy of being boring, too far out, not crowd-oriented, and so on.

The Comp is part of 1984 Windsurfer's swan song as far as I'm concerned. The company dwindled from there and died off in the late 80s in the end.

The Mistral Competition SST, great board.
It looks like the one that came out in 1986/87 and was the lighter performance version of the board with more volume than the standard Competition of the time. From memory it was about 380 long and alot of volume -roughly between 250-280 ltrs. In sub-planing conditions it was one of the fastest around.

Found this pic on a classifieds site.

Thanks guys
The windsurfer has an olympic logo on the front and the mast base is held on with 2 screws that go into a piece of wood that is in a black piece of plastic. The screws are gone there is a rope on it that goes through holes on each side with knots on the bottom. It does not set flat on the board thought mabey it is missing a plate or spacer.
The mistrol looks to be compleate not sure how to rig it. I got these boards yesterday for free I have wanted to try windsurfing for ever thought the price was right.

On the last pic, this is not a Windsurfer part, neither mase base not U-joint. Got the right part?

Send pic of the mast base on the board, maybe? Should be a black well. Or a 2" x 1" black piece with a screw-in.

In any event, we'll get it to work...

Any idea what these boards are made out of and how to repair them?

It's not broken, you just don't have the original parts, and the new ones don't fix.

I suspect he lost Windsurfer U-joint, and you're stuck with what's on the picture. FYI, on these boards there is a T-piece that plugs deep into the black well. Do you have it?

This is not Windsurfer joint nor mast, what is the rig you're gonna use? If it's this one, then you must live with that fix, i.e. see if/how you can screw the white part into the 2 little holes and is that solid...

Thats all i got the holes line up but it did not come with any screws. Also the mast is a one piece fiberglass pole and is bigger around than the mast base.