Speaker and Supper - Ben Oakley: stories of windsurfing's 50-year journey in pictures

Published 13:38 on 26 May 2023

Ben Oakley will share his stories of windsurfing's 50-year journey in pictures on Thursday 15 June at 1900.

Please join us for the evening as Ben takes us on a visual journey covering 50 years of windsurfing. He has been a member of ESC all his life, having grown up next door to the car park! He was an accomplished junior sailor at the Club and then took up windsurfing. He is currently a Professor of Sports Performance at the Open University and is a former RYA Olympic windsurfing coach. He now races boats of various sizes. This winter Ben worked on a project with a leading German windsurfing photographer for a book to mark windsurfing's 50th anniversary. He will take us on a visual evolutionary journey from when the sport was first marketed in Europe in 1973. These pictures vividly explain human anecdotes with some connections to Chichester Harbour. The stories will take us to various countries and bring us right up to the here and now.

After the talk, Ollie and his team will be serving a delicious two-course supper of smoked haddock, mozzarella & spring onion fish cake on a warm Niçoise style salad followed by strawberry shortcake.

Supper and talk £15.95 per person (£2.00 to only attend the talk). Bookings now open.