I am the proud owner of a very old Wayler one Design that I purchased for a 100 dollars . I have had great fun sailing it with a modern rig and stand up paddling it . I really didn't know much of the history of this board and had fun looking it up .

The board was licensed by Hoyle Schwitzer and built in Holland in the early 1980's . It was 12ft 6" long 68cm (26 3/4 inches) wide and 253 liters in volume and weighed 55lbs and made out of poly foam construction . It was a very popular board at the time and raced in large one design classes . Here is a picture from an old windsurfing book of a Wayler one design reggata .



Here is a list of the "best seller" list which shows the wayler as the top board in 1983
Wind Power’s 23 Year, Best Sellers List:

1983 – 1985 Wayler polyethelen longboard w/6.0 non batten dacron sail 12 ft 250 liters 52 lbs
1986 – 1989 Mistral Superlight Fiberglas longboard w/6.3 batten mylar sail 12 ft 250 liters 35 lbs
1990 – 1995 Mistral One-Design Fiberglas performance longboard w/7.4 cambered monofilm sail
The Olympic Board for96, 00, 04
footstraps masttrack 12 ft 235 liters 33 lbs
1997 – 2001 Mistral EquipeII Carbon performance longboard, fstraps, masttrack
12ft 258liters 28lbs
2002 – 2006 Mistral Prodigy Fiberglas performance Hybrid board w/8.5 camber monofilm sail

Here is a side view of the Wayler , rocker in the nose ,flattish square tail

Here is an upside down view of the wayler with the daggerboard in ( it is a slot type daggerboard that can be pulled out but does pivot from straight up and down to a swept back position ) .. the original owner of this board was a avid racer and cut his rear fin down to a nubbin ... and said that that made the board faster .. all I can say is that with a modern 7.3 rig on board , the board glides supper smooth in 3mph winds . on the big daggerboard and nubbin fin , a la the Starboard Serenity

The nose has a lot of volume and the board is a semidisplacement hull with round rails , and a roundish shape . . here is detail of the nose .. I have the weird sensation of riding standing up on a sailboat .. ( never had experience sailing Div2 windsurf boards )

The mast step is a proprietary one that was exclusive to wayler , I think , I used on old f2 comet extension on the mast step .. works fine to sail my modern rigs and has two positons one forward and one aft . . Great to glide in light winds, sails fantastic up wind in moderate winds, easy to tack but very difficult for me to gybe correctly , maybe I am just very rusty on longboard gybes !

Best 100 bucks I ever spent .!!

Here are a variety of other comments I found on the web about the Wayler one design

"Kevin credits his younger brother, Andy, for getting him into windsurfing. In the fall of 1982, Kevin, a sailor and avid water-skier, saw Andy windsurfing on a Wayler on Lake Winnebago in white cap conditions. He instantly saw the excitement of waterskiing and his love of sailing in the new sport. Kevin asked to use Andy's board and that was the beginning of his love affair with windsurfing. By 1989 he held the Mistral World Championship in his class."
(By the way the Kevin in the internet comment above , is Kevin Gratton 2006 US Windsurfer of the year
http://www.windsurfingmag.com/article.jsp?ID=44496

His Brother Andy is still racing the Wayler on occasion
here is a piece from the 2008 Menominee Regatta held in 10-20 mph winds and big waves this August in the Midwest /USA

"Andy Gratton broke his equipe on Saturday and on Sunday he opted to sail the Wayler with a 5.9 meter Wayler sail. While the Wayler couldn’t keep up with the longboards, it also has no foot straps and took a lot of skill to pilot." )

Other comments from around the web:
"The Wayler is still a reliable and stable board no doubt - I used to have 4 different ones and raced them in one-design, but you're right, the nasty mast base was a real pain and would only fit Wayler. It had an hour-glass U-joint with a prong that went into the female base-joint (one of two slots you see in your board.) - and it twists to lock down. They would pop out at times if you did a rail-ride."

"Worst board - No challenge: Wayler (bought 1982, sold 1989). However, in it's time, it was considered to be one of the more user-friendly boards around. In comparison to modern boards - utterly appalling.

Worst sail: Wayler 5.9m pinhead. Complete with emblazoned slogan "Happiness is a hand-held sail" . fitted on a 460cm length of scaffold, and had a 2.7m long boom - only very loosely attached at either end"

Besides sailing it we are paddling it , here is my wife stand up paddling the thing