Punkrock - Longboarding is not a crime. This trip is soooo cool

This is an epic idea. Would love to see more long distance explorations & travelling, especially in different countries

Fantastic project, love the long distance, and the courage to make it happen ! Good to see the ESP-GPS in action !

Mega Aktion, finde es sehr beeindruckend was du da auf die Beine gestellt hast. Danke das ich bei der Tour durch das Video dabei sein durfte

pretty cool. I had a kit like that...was great fun

Nicely done I enjoyed it The spirit of windsurfing

Awesome video Niels! Besides slalom sailing I also still enjoy my raceboard now and then. Raceboarding is a discipline on its own and its great you are showcasing this. It definitely isn't the coolest discipline but so versatile and enjoyable!

Great to see I’m not alone doing the same thing, actually on the same board 👍 We are a bunch of friends sailing around Gotland in Sweden. 4-5 hr sailing a day is well more than enough 😂 Enjoy the rest of your journey 🤙🤙

Yes, great stuff!! Longboarding is really cool, next summer I'm gonna do some long distance stuff too. This got me inspired to do it, thank you!

Taking my Mistral IMCO One Design board back out on the water tomorrow (winds forecast to be 15-25 mph.) Been 25 years since I’ve windsurfed. At 67 years old now it may be a pretty good challenge. Sure hope the old muscle memory kicks in and I spend more time skimming across the lake than swimming in it.

Started in ‘84, out all day, no harness- just a leather belt(learned NOT to fall in😊)those were the days!. Then small boards came along.after 30+ years of ‘fast is cool’ I’ve come to realise that safe big distances are more satisfying. Keep on keeping on👍

amazing job nils that was siiiiick 🤙🤙

Wow Nils, that's a proper adventure, way cooler than speed sailing. Have a lot of fun.

Nice video, I saw nico prien do something like this in Germany a year ago. I think that if you want to do this again you have to use foil. Foil can make everything more ez and you have more fun

Good luck and have loads of fun!! :)

Uuuh Im looking forward to the series!!

Epic trip! Great fun to watch!

Starker Trip, ich glaub ich lasse meinen altes Mistral schlachtschiff auch mal wieder zu wasser. Das war immer so entschleunigend. Very Inspiring 👌🤙have fun

Great! So cool to see you doing this. I'm looking forward to seeing the next episode. In Holland it is really becoming a cult and we have several longboard events. More are planned for next year. Maybe I'll see you there someday. Or we all come to Greece.😊

Great fun to see your trip! Enjoy this new adventure

Great video!!

Nils! What a great adventure. Longboarding is so cool, and especially the long distance. For future Odysseys I can recommend the Windsurfer LT. Easy planing, stable and so much run! Keep on doing the good work. Hang losse & good winds!

Hi nils… loved to see the vlog of your journey… looking forward to see the next ones

Love this type of movies, music is also on spot, not surprising for the carrier of this surname! Thanks Nils!

See how small/narrow objects block the light from the hexagonal Sun Simulator at 18.10😮 The real Sun is never visible now. Next challenge, the Israel coast in a fluorescent wet suit

Cool to see the race board being the tool of choice. This summer my son and I revived our Fanatic Ultracat race board from the late 80s/early 90s. It's still a lot of fun to ride!

Grand tour deluxe! I like the idea of thinking outside the box and try something new, even it is with oldschool stuff. Enjoy your energy gel, keep hydrated and looking forward to meet your family on the boat. And the dog, don‘t forget the DOG!

I enjoyed your trip 😊

your a nutter......but i'm sure you know that by now....well done, brave and great skill

Your content is absolutely amazing Nils! pls more about greece. maybe explore some spots there? greetz from germany :)

Nils, super cool. I have often considered windsurfing to a local island (Isle Royale in Lake Superior) for camping. So I'm curious to follow your future adventures

Very nice concept. Beautiful scenery. Have you considered using a foil? you should be able to cover a lot more distance and still go upwind pretty well. A while back I saw a youtube video of a guy who did the first go around Guadeloupe island on a wind foil, it was really impressive. Also, seem to recall one guy did 180km from Nice to Marseille again on foil.

Nice video, good commentary, very fun. Lovely waters west Greece and quite safe. In Athens there use to be a long distance race starting from Varkiza to Lagonisi and back. The original race was 40km with lots of safety. Sadly the organisers stop holding it in 2017

Nice trip Nils. Shame you lost some motivation though. Hopefully this trip will get the motivation back. I didn't windsurf for over 25 years and started again last year. I missed it, really.

Epic journey man! Btw you look like a teletubbie with your helmet and camara! Hahahha

Such a cool project! Wanna do a circle on my local lake as well with my longboard 🤙🤙

Hi Nils, schöne Idee in tollen Bildern umgesetzt. Wenn ich das so sehe, denke ich, schade, dass Tourensurfen so in Vergessenheit geraten ist. Wenn ich dann daran denke, welche Vorbereitungen und Sicherheitsvorkehrungen alle notwendig sind, wie das Begleitboot, dann mag das ein Grund sein. Allerdings, so mein Eindruck bisher, wiegen die erlebten Eindrücke und die noch zu erwartenden Abenteuer die Strapazen auf. Respekt also, dass du das Raceboard ausgebuddelt und den Rucksack gepackt hast und 1000 Dank, dass du uns mitnimmst auf die Reise. Pass auf dich auf

What I was wondering - as I also saw a guy surfing from England to France on a formula board - why do you take such a big board that isn‘t plaining that well? Wouldn‘t it be more effective to take a smaller board (f.e. 130l which is still a lot) which plains better, so you‘ll reach your destination quicker, but it also is able to go non-plaining? Because going fast on the formula board looks very exhausting😂 Anyways, great video!

Raceboardd still rock!! Maybe you could find a dedicated 9.5 raceboardsail with adjustable down- and outhaul (unfortunately not by Point7)

Ah, instead of going to Paros and Naxos you can also go to Paxos.😂

Love it Nils. I'm curious as to dates. Are you doing this now in Oct. 2023? Or was this last summer? I ask, as I've been windsurfing off of Corfu for many years and a wind from the south on a sunny day is very rare in the summer. And even approaching September and the early fall the southerlies come usually with stormy weather. Also, I noticed when you were in Kavos--the beach you ended up on in Corfu, there was no one there whereas in summer it would have been packed. So I'm guessing this was shot recently? Good luck!

Great video, what a fun adventure! What harness lines do you use?

awesome video!!! leved it how do you make the map stuff in the video?

Hey could you give the references for the handmade GPS speedometer ? It looks like a super cool gadget. Super project btw !

Hello, nice video ! If you could add a time stamp also when you show the distance on screen, it will give an idea of the time spent between the video cuts. Some details about the GPS tracker would be nice. Is it a e-ink display ? And about the board and rig and why this choice, but I guess you already knew you would have question about the gear ;-). See you next leg.

That's a beautiful journey. Did you consider doing this in the Aegean instead or are you heading towards there as well?

very nice trip ! i have a question : no boat behind you ? you're alone ?

Cool. What is the apparatus that you wear on your arm that is giving you your speed ? (an android phone App ?).

Cool. But why not using the foil, the best for tours

Ist this a Screamer or an Explosion?

Why were you holding the uphaul at one point rather than the boom, or even the mast? I thought that was really bad technique - I assume you had a good reason...

Equipe?

A 7.9m sail in 40 kts wind counts as being slightly undersized?? WTF NILS???

Did i miss it or are you without a camelback? btw Jono Dunnett is the daddy of long distance windsurfing an has a Guiness Book of records entry to prove it.