Windsurfing, likewise called boardsailing, the sport that consolidates parts of cruising and surfing on a one-individual specialty called a sailboard.

The soonest models of a sailboard go back to the last part of the 1950s. Californians Jim Drake (a mariner) and Hoyle Schweitzer (a surfer) got the main patent for a sailboard in 1968. They considered their plan a Windsurfer, and Schweitzer started mass-creating sailboards in the mid-1970s. The game immediately spread all through North America, and by the last part of the 1970s, it had gotten broadly well known in Europe. Its prominence before long generated a flourishing sailboard-fabricating industry in Europe, one that has come to rule the windsurfing market. The main big showdown of windsurfing was held in 1973. There are as of now a few serious windsurfing circuits that hold regattas, slalom races, and wave sailing rivalries (an emotionally made decision about style occasion).

Olympic windsurfing highlights mariners dashing over a customary triangle course and was first challenged in 1984, as a show sport, with independent rivalries for people presented in 1992. There were slight hardware changes in progressive Olympiads: sailboards of the Windglider configuration were utilized at the 1984 Games, Division II sheets in 1988, Lechner sheets in 1992, and Mistral sheets from 1996.

A sailboard is made out of a board and an apparatus. The early Windsurfer sheets were estimated 3.5 meters (12 feet) in length and gauged 27 kg (60 pounds). Current sheets range from 2.5 to 4 meters (8 to 12.5 feet) long and weigh somewhere in the range of 7 and 18 kg (15–40 pounds). Long sheets (multiple meters [10 feet] long) have a little fall, additionally called a centerboard or a daggerboard, and a skeg (back base blade) however no rudder. Short sheets (under 3 meters in length) have a skeg yet no centerboard. The apparatus comprises the sail, twofold blast, pole, and pole base. Sails may differ in size (3.5 to 10 square meters [38 to 108 square feet]) and capacity (race, slalom, and wave). The pole associates with the board through the pole base, which has a general joint that permits the pole to be moved toward any path. The boat is guided by changing the sail’s position comparative with the breeze and to the centerboard. This is refined by changing one’s hang immediately blast to rake the sail forward or toward the back, windward or leeward.

Windsurfing fits a wide assortment of water types and conditions. The game is drilled with equivalent eagerness on the Great Lakes and estuaries and harbors along the shores of Europe and North America, just as on numerous bigger waterways. At the beginning of windsurfing, sailboards were able to do just humble velocities and were utilized near shore. Notwithstanding, the game has advanced to the point that accomplished mariners utilizing specific sailboards have arrived at rates of over 40 bunches and have cruised across the Atlantic Ocean.

A manual for the game, Windsurfing, Step by Step to Success, was distributed by Rob Reichenfeld in 1993.