The following is a press release sent out by NeilPryde earlier this month…

Neil Pryde Ltd announced today that as of February 28th Bjorn Dunkerbeck, winner of 13 WindsurfingWorld Championship titles under the Neil Pryde brand, will no longer represent the company as a Pro Team rider. Founder and Managing Director Mr Neil Pryde had the following comments to make: “The relationship between Bjorn Dunkerbeck and the Neil Pryde brand has been long and successful and I would like to personally thank Bjorn for the great contribution he has made to the success of our brand over many years of participation in the Windsurfing sport. As it is, times change and we all need to move on and while we were unable to reach a mutually acceptable contractual agreement with Bjorn for the coming years, this does not lessen our appreciation for the contribution Bjorn has made to our company and to the sport.” From all of us at Neil Pryde we wish Bjorn every success in the future.

The Professional Windurfing Association (PWA) website has a recent interview with the reigning formula world champ, Antoine Albeau.

Check out the interview at the PWA website.

Ovidio of Sailboards Miami reports that there have been some considerable improvements to the Virginia Key park area:

I had a meeting at Virginia Key today and was greatly surprise by what I saw. The city and the new park politicos are putting some money into the park. There is a new lifeguard stand which should be in place in a few weeks, a jungle gym of some kind will be in place shortly for kids and a Volleyball court is already there. The park is expanding its hours to allow people in the park earlier and stay later( windsurfers?). They are aware that windsurfers don’t like to leave specially when is windy. I attached a photo for anyone who have n ot been at VK in the last few weeks so they could see some of the positive changes taking place.
Vandalism is still a problem.

Thanks Ovid for the news….