Windsurfing on TV!

The BBC’s ‘THE ONE SHOW’ recently ran a feature on how Hayling Island and Peter Chilvers have a claim to fame for being the birth place and inventor of windsurfing 50 years ago!

It’s virtually unheard of that six million people get to see windsurfing on national TV. It’s just as rare to get the chance to sail a replica of the very first windsurfing board ever made! Tushingham rider Simon Bornhoft and two of his young coaching prodigies, Ed & Harry De Blaby, were privileged to be part of an historic windsurfing moment - captured by the BBC.

The feature showed the original windsurfer being sailed at Fleet Creek where windsurfing was invented plus interviews with Chilvers and some windy sunny action from Hayling seafront.

An interesting and enjoyable piece of television holding the attention of windsurfers and non-windsurfers. Well done to everyone involved for portraying our sport in a very positive light on national TV. It makes a change to holiday presenters falling off deliberately because the director thinks it looks amusing...