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Jim Drake (1929 – 2012) was an American aeronautical engineer who is widely credited with the invention of the sport of Windsurfing. He patented his windsurfing concept in 1968. Drake conceptualized, designed and hand built the first board and articulating sail rig prototype in his garage.
Jun 20, 2012 · Jim Drake, the co-inventor of the Windsurfer and father of modern windsurfing, has passed away at the age of 83. The North American aeronautics engineer improved the early design by Peter Chilvers and Newman Darby.
Jul 4, 2012 · Jim Drake, an aeronautical engineer who helped design the X-15 rocket plane and the Tomahawk Cruise Missile and in his spare time created the Windsurfer, a surfboard with a sail that became...
DRAKE IN THE SIXTIES and today, making history, every windsurfing day at Cabrillo beach. (bellow) Jim Drake’s hist oric 8mm footage of the first windsurfing outing at Marina Del Rey on May 3, 1967. Many things went through my brain over many years.
Jul 1, 2012 · July 1, 2012 11:24 AM PT. Aeronautical engineer Jim Drake had already solved the “puzzle” of pairing a surfboard with a sail when a young man who stopped to admire “the Baja Board” in the late...
Jul 2, 2012 · July 2, 2012 12 AM PT. Aeronautical engineer Jim Drake had already solved the “puzzle” of pairing a surfboard with a sail when a young man who stopped to admire “the Baja Board” in the late...
Jim Drake (1929-2012) On May 15, 1967, in Marina del Rey, California, Jim Drake took the first step on the first windsurfer that he designed and built in his Santa Monica garage (shaped by Gary Seaman).
