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3rd Place and Prodigy Future Fuzzy
By Scott | September 25, 2009
Congradulations to myself #H on getting third place in the Hybrid class of the 2009 MOWIND point series of races. The award I heard is a nice MOWIND fleece top. See the complete MOWIND series results list on the Mowind.org site.
If you haven’t heard by now the new licensee of Mistral windsurfing boards is Anders Bringdal. For 2010 everything is new and reportedly the boards will be produced in a factory in Vietnam that has PVC sandwich technology. That means the 2010 Mistral boards will be stronger and lighter than most other brands. Currently the new Mistral team has their hands full launching a new company. Anders formerly headed his own AB+ brand of boards and reportedly will be dropping that venture. You can find information about the new Mistral at http://windsurfing.mistral.com/ . Also here is a very nice interview with Anders about his new endeavor.
In the picture above Prodigies litter the beachfront at the 2009 September Higgins Lake regatta. In mid-August soon after the new 2010 Mistral Web site got put up I received a few emails from people wondering what the future of the Prodigy was. Neither the Prodigy, Equipe, new Ventura or IMCO were mentioned on the site. The Equipe name I’ve heard was sold to Fanatic though I don’t know that’s a fact. The future of our beloved Mistral Prodigy model is still up in the air it seems. We can only hope that a new improved version is in the works. I haven’t heard there won’t be a new 2010 or 2011 Prodigy and I haven’t heard there will be one either. Anders mentioned in his BoardSeeker magazine interview they would be looking at the longboard and hybrid situation after Christmas. I hope to get an email address for Anders, us Prodigy owners need to put our votes in for keeping the Prodigy alive. I still have new a couple new Prodigy in stock so don’t be concerned you can’t still get one! If you have been thinking about getting one .. act fast .. they could be hard to come by in the near future.
Topics: Hybrid Racing | 1 Comment »
September 29th, 2009 at 9:51 AM
Congratulations amokaman
I’m afraid things are not going well for mistral, too many changes the last years and there is no clear direction..
Good luck for Anders anyway. And lets hope the Prodigy will remain in the mistral line up.
Cheers and goodwinds overthere