Bitsy wins the long distance race in the SUP Festival here in the north of Fuerteventura.
Nicole Boronat is the winner of the sprint distance.
Mens winner in sprint and long distance was french vice-world champion Eric Terrien

Longboard Women
1. Sonja Hönscheid
2. Janni Hönscheid
3. Meike Reijerman

Open women
1. Sonja Hönscheid
2. Janni Hönscheid
3.Charlene Thoms
Watch the videos on http://www.surf-devil.com or have a look at the event website
http://www.surf-dwv.com/qgc09

We just received a bunch of new Claytons for very competitive prices. Example: white shortboard under 6.10 INCL.BOARDBAG AND PAD for 335,-Euros (without colour design). We have about the complete boardrange from malibus, minimals, modern and retro fishes to shortboards.
Sorry, because of the expensive transport costs out of Canarias we do not deliver, pick up at our shop only.

or further info go to www.supworldcup.de
Over the weekend 10th to 12th July the first worldcup in Standup Paddelling took place in the Hafencity of Hamburg. 27.000 Spectators watch some exciting races.
The winner of the mens class comes from Hawaii: Ekolu Kalama. Second got French Eric Terrien, who trains in the north of Fuerteventura.

Jannis just won the girls under 21 years contest Circuito Canarias in the gnarly shorebreak of Cotillo. Big Close out Sets had to be duckdived, sometimes the samller waves had at least a little shoulder to work on.

Jürgens Book Presentation on the island of Sylt during the 25th aniversary of the Windsurfing Worldcup.
http://www.sylter-fernsehen.de/video-gruesse.html
http://www.sylter-fernsehen.de/index.html

Jürgen up on stage with Robby Naish and Björn Dunkerbeck introducing his new book " Mein Arbeitgeber ist der Wind" (Sorry, in german language only). See also 2 articles in German Sternonline:
http://www.stern.de/sport-motor/sportwelt/:25.-Sylter-Surfweltcup-/641535.html?q=World%20cup%20sylt
http://www.stern.de/sport-motor/sportwelt/:Windsurfen-/639906.html?q=mein%20arbeitgeber%20ist%20der%20wind

Because Sonni won this years open women and the women longboard, she got now 10 German national titles. The contest was held in Hossegor, France in October.
Sonnis little sister Janni got 3 in the girls longboard divesion. Then on the way to the ISA world surfing games in Portugal Sonni took part in a road trip around northern Spain. The Team Gemany placed 17th, the best result in their history. See also:
http://www.surf-dwv.com/roadtrip08/?cat=9

Nach mehreren Jahren habe ich es nun endlich geschafft.
Mein Buch mit dem Titel: "Mein Arbeitgeber ist der Wind"
ist fertig und wird am Samstag, den 27.ten, auf dem Worldcup
auf Sylt vorgestellt.
Man kann es versandkostenfrei (Deutschland) beziehen über:

Terra Oceanis Verlag
Barkauer Str. 121
24145 Kiel
Deutschland
DE259933807

0431-996 99 77
0431-996 99 86
info@terraoceanisverlag.de
www.terraoceanisverlag,de
Tim Jacobsen

Last year Clayton shaped me a board for J-Bay and it was the best board I ever surfed. - Adriano de Souza (Brazil)
What the pros use surfing Jeffreys Bay. A new delivery arrived this week with the complete range from radical Shortboards, hybrid fishes, retro fishes up tp longboards.
The boards are built with special blanks whiter than white which have the same density throughout, that why they are very strong and light with less dents in the deck. Prices are 335,- Euros for white shortboards, 355,- for airbrushed shortboards including a nice boardbag and a quality tailpad!!!

From now on we got always about 25 Clayton Surfboard from South Africa in stock. Clayton is well known among the pros and Kelly Slater, Adriano de Souza and
others are using them. They are very well made and super quality. We sell them
for shortboards up to 6. 11 for 330,- Euros
white and 350,- Euros with airbrush. Prices
always including boardbag and tailpad!!!
Contact us for prices of fishes, evolutions,
minimals or longboards.

For windsurfers this summer started incredible. A few weeks ago we already got 2 weeks of clean Glass Beach conditions.
Now we got wind and waves since 3 days, surf is building up to 12 feet. Yesterday and the day before we already got masthigh sets
and big airials. Foto by Janni: Jürgen

Sonni agaiin won this years women divison´
The German champion was held in Skt.
Giron,South-west France. just a week before Sonni was on a foto trip for Germans
Surfers Magazin in Island. Very nice landscape, but freezing cold. Look for the report in next Surfers Mag.

The Mtv crew was on Fuerteventura filming
for one of their new series. A chance for us to meet very nice people and it was a pleasure for to have them here. They were filming in the shop, Jürgen shaping. But the theme was, that a young surfer named Finn
got teached by Sonni learning a new surfing move. If he could learn it within 3 days?
Watch Mtv Hot Spo(r)ts End of June.

In the June issue of Freemag is a article about the Hönscheid sisters Janni, Bitsy and
Sonni. You can actually download the magazin (http://www.free-magazin.de)or
get it a copy in your surfshop.

Please have a look on our boardsonline section!

30 Years of Surf Shop Sylt

Thomas and Mike Herz and Northshore owner Jürgen Hönscheid
founded the shop in 1977 on the island of Sylt, Germany. It was one of the first surf shops in Germany. Shapers from Hawaii, Australia, England, France were working
in the factory, shaping some of the first custom made windsurfers and surfboards.
The surf shop sylt crew organized big windsurfing events, up to
the world cup in 1983. 1986 Thomas and Jürgen moved to the Canary Islands,
sold the business on Sylt. Today, Margit und Sven are running the shop
and celebrate the 30th anniversary of Surf Shop Sylt. Congratulations!!!

Lajares goes Hollywood
Watch out for the Show -Der perfekte Urlaub- featured on VOX TV.
Shown here is the Filmcrew and candidates with Sonni and Jürgen.
They were filming in the workshop and shop asking about the technics
of boardbuilding and how surfboards work.

just before our holidays in denmark we got
a few days nice Glass Beach and the chance to try out the new board. With its new bottom shape and thinner rails in the back it performed just great.

Janni just painted her dreamboy on the
bottom of her 6.2, so this guy can have a look at the fishes while she is ripping.
She just came back from Sylt, again she could win
the girls devison of the anual Buhne 16
Longboard Festival, second got Josy Knuth.
At the womens Bitsy got a second place, the Mens won Tom Knuth in perfect style , second Angelo Schmidt.

For the first time Sonni is trying this year
contests on the Epsa tour. First the Kana Beach in Biarritz and now the Pantin Classic in Gallicia, Northern Spain. She now is 15th on the rankings. All contest favored rights, which was a bit a disadvantage for her
going backside, but she is more than happy
for this first try.
Unfortunately she can not take part on the last contest of this tour, because she goes at the same time to Huntington Beach, California for the ISA World Contest.

Sonni wins the 6th time the German Championships from the 27th May to
3rd of June 2006 in St. Girons, Southern France.
Starting in 3 categories like women open, women longboard and the prestigious open, normally dominated by the boys.
It was a tough work for her getting throught a lot of heats each day. The forecasts
called for flat conditions on thursday so the well organized contest organized by the
german federation DWV had to speed up. On wednesday, the last day Sonni participated in 3 finals, which up to date in the history of the contest was only accomplished by the german Champion Nikolaus von Rupp.
The conditions of the contest: the first days fairly acceptable with often no wind
in the mornings and up to 3 foot typical beachbreak waves, the last days more and more declining. Sonnis 6th title in the womens open proved, that she can only be beaten
so far under one circumstance, that she is not participating like it was the case last
year. Her longboardtitle on a borrowed board from longboard-vicechampion Dieter Geralds shows her ability to adapt and her 4th place in the open competing with the mens her level in surfing.
womens open
1. Sonja Hoenscheid
2. Claire Meillat
3. Eva Kreyer
4.Tabea Rothbart

womens longboard
1.Sonja Hoenscheid
2.Eva Kreyer
3.Meike Reijermann
4.Carla Twelkemeier

open
1.Nicolaus von Rupp
2.Georg Siebel
3.Alexander Zirke
4.Sonja Hoenscheid

For more info and results go to :
http://www.surf-dwv.de/

The German Windsurfing Yearbook is a
very interresting new book every windsurfer should have a look at. Jürgen wrote about history of windsurfing, besides very nice pictures, interview with Björn Dunckerbeck and test of all the current boards and sails.
Online the book is sold out, but its still available at shops and newspaperstands.

Since a few days the tradewinds started and offered us some nice conditions for sailing at Glass Beach. Waves were about head high
and the wind sort off gusty. With summer we also changed our shop hours.
In the morning 10.00 to 13.00, in the evenings 18.00 to 20.00 Sundays closed.
Foto Charly Lang Rider Jürgen with his new 4.5kg twinser

foto: Thomas Frey ,datrip.com
Sonni in Hierro left
1 Marina Taylor
2 Sonni Hoenscheid
3 Iballa Ruano
4 Paloma Cuello
The competition was held in Las Palmas,
Gran Canaria on the beach of La Cicer in
marginal conditions

This weekend our surfclub mar azul organized a contest at the beach
in Hierro.A lot of work was put into the beach area we containers, tends
a cheringuito with sandwiches and cool drinks, music, computerscoring ...........
The first day was picturelike perfekt with sunny weather and some good,
building surf in the right of bubbles. The first rounds were helt with no
major surprises. Sunday morning it was way different and the surf got too big with strong sideshore winds. We had to be flexible and moved the contest to Bristol.
Which proved to be the right move with excellent conditions.Specially the Longboarders were scoring great rides on the huge outside peak.
Where the mens got some nice tubes on the inside. In the girls finals
Windsurfing World Cup Star Iballa got serious in dropping in on Sonni,
destroying her best wave of the heat. If she needs this kind of tactics for
winning a local contest and feels happy?
Otherwise the Mar Azul Surfclub contest was agaiin a big success with great
surfing –see you next time.

Click on title to see results

On the island of Sylt Bitsy and Jo´s little and sweet girl Joana was born in the end of July.
The parents are very proud .

Tim and his brother Tom,both sons of surf legend Gaston from Sylt,are only a few of the new generation of Surfers in Germany.Many are childs of lifeguards like
the daughters of Tom Knuth,the son of Niggi Brüggen and so on

Like 2 years ago we went agaiin to denmark
with our camper.We started on Sylt,and drove all the way up to Klitmöller in the North of denmark.Its a very beautiful landscape up there and we really love the nothsea climate.All the time in klitmöller we had wave almost every day.Not very big,but really fun and sometimes even with offshores.On Jannis birthday we had a peak for ourselves,clean 2 foot waves with our longboards.Sometimes it got windy and Jürgen had good times windsurfing.

Sonni has got her own website now.
Have a look at
http://www.sonnihoenscheid.com/

Sailspecialist Albert (36) is living in Canarias since 19 years.He has 24 Years of windsurfing in his pocket and was working in the team of Gun Sails,learning the business of sailmaking.But nothing can replace his experience with sail- and kiterepairs
from the heavy shorebreak of Cotillo,which every day takes his toll.Albert was also sailing on year to Cabo Verde and had the first sailloft there.
If You want excellent work on a reasonable price,go to Mandrillo.Tel:699 246 206

Since a week we got really nice conditions
on glass beach and a Spot more south for both windsurfing and surfing.Since a was not very crowded it was super fun.

Foto:Rhedo by Ute Hönscheid.
Yesterday Acid Drop was working well and
there were alomost 20 Surfers out,mostly with boards around 7.4Guns.I didnt surf that place for a long time,so I had to get used to that size and the bigger boards agaiin.Sonni,fresh back from Hawaii,snapped her board on the third wave.She had a nice time on Oahu with our friends Sigrid and Hubert. The waves were
4 to 12 feet during her stay a she was surfing almost every day.On the last day she was invited to the the Naish house,where she met some of our old friends like Carol,Rick and Kay,Donna and Scott.
This summer I will work on a blank system which I have in mind long time.I built already a few prototypes and they last and last without any problems. Its basicly and sandwich construction with white high density foam,its like a clos tolerance blank and a normal shaper and glasser can finish it up with traditional material like glass and Polyester resin.The price will be between
a sandwich and a regular board.
Finally there is a artikel in German LTU Magazin with pictures of Sonni and me
Keep surfing
Jürgen

Jens Krause send us a mail showing him on the titel of german magazin Die Insel

German Freemagazin is out with a Fuerteventura Special featuring a story
about Jürgen,a interview with Sonni.
Other then that there are a lot more stories,
tips and interviews with windsurfers,surfers
and kiters.Go to the homepage :
http://www.freemagazin.de/ and
order Your gratis copy of the Magazin.If You don,t find it in Your local Surfshop.

Chinook has been designing and manufacturing innovative parts for windsurfing for over 17 years. The Chinook one-piece fin/mast box and the clamp-on boom head are just a few of the original designs that have advanced windsurfing to where it is today. Chinook takes pride in
USA design and manufacturing. This enables them to offer the best designed, best built products available.
We took Chinook for our shop because we were sick of all the breakage of other brands we had before.Specially skinny Mastbases broke just rigging the sail and leaving it for a few hours with tension.
And those part are so important. If they give up in a bad situation it can mean the breakage board,Rigg and it even coukld put your live in danger.

On chrismas day we got our present in form of a nice 6 foot swell with offshore winds.
The day after wind changed to onshore .
The best day so far this winter turned up at 31 December.8to 12 feet with big standup
tubes.No pictures of that day,because no photographer was around or they were on different spots with smaller waves.Since
then every day was swell combined with sideoffshorewind,sometimes a bit too strong.
And its freezing cold out in the water,full suits 3/2 or better 4/3 are a good idea.
Sonni at her favorite spots:Hierro left
Photo Carl Lang

The steady weather patterns with sout east winds delivered some good windsurfing mainly in Majanicho,At the 7th January there were some over masthigh sets closing out the entire bay .The wind was a bit too offshore so we decided to sail in front ouf our house at Rocky Point.
Jürgen testing the new Simmer Crossver 5.3 and the retrofish 230 .Fotos Carl Lang

Waves are an endless source of fascination for everyone,from scientists to surfers.
Who,in watching,is not mesmerized by the ongoing cycles of surge and rush,flow and ebb,storm or calm.
This book celebrates the ocean wave phenomenon throught several modes of interpretation.Most prominent is a spectacular gallery.The fotographs are iluminated by important text that includes
a description of the lifecycle of waves,anecdotes from sailors,surfers.........
The book of waves will be,for years to come,the definitive artistic and factual treatment of a phenomenon that fascinates
us all.

to all our friends and cllents
-northshoreteam-
Felix,the shop cat

We finally reach the magic number of 100 boards in stock.To satisfy all the needs of our clients we feature our own brand,Al Merrick.For the Epoxy Fans our Vacuum Sandwichboards plus Surftech.

We just got in a few Retro Fish Boards with all the details of the old style like tinted resin,pinlines ,polish etc.Combined with a more modern shapeconcept .

The Orginal UGG Boots arrived !In the surf szene well known for years and now top fashion .Super Starter price:Short model:
159,-Euro Long:179,-

During this Years Longboardfestival Janni
was able to win the Junior Class.The festival is morea meeting with parties and so on,so everybody had a good time.

yesterday we received 2 new t-shirt designs:
Surfboard/Northshore by designed by Wim
Yes thats right.Jürgen designs and builds Boards under his JH Label since 1977-time passes by too quick.
The other one is a windsurf design by Vicente and Jürgen,based on a photo Gilbert
took.

in this years German surfing competition
Sonni won again in the womens class and is now the fith time german champion.
She also took part in the open class normally dominating by the men,where she finished 7th.The waves were very small and only 2 days had some fair surf.She was using a epoxy sandwich 5.8 Fish with round nose shaped by Jürgen

Sonni is lifeguarding on the beach of Kampen,Buhne 16 on the island of Sylt .In Beginning of august Bitsy then will take over the job,

Júrgen is testing a new 5.10
Fishboard in Sandwichconstruction.

very soon we will have our boards online section.We show you a selection of our Windsurf/Surf and kiteboard incl.Foto,Description etc,

Oliver send us a nice picture on one
of his new boards

In one ofe the canarian online magazines we found a foto of one of our clients,Artemi. Doing a nice aerial in Las Palmas,Gran Canaria.

The first Winterswell arrived and delivered nice waves at all the northshore.Habourwall ( "muelle") had long perfect lefthanders with a ocasionally
right.The wind didn´t come up so it stayed glassy.
Shown here is Antonio with a 6.0 northshore Fishboard with
evo nose.He said the board works really well even in bigger size waves .Its superfast and
helped him just make the sections.

We have just been in Klitmöller Denemark with our camper.Sonni took part on the
SOULWAVE and the northsea
send some ok waves for the competicion.The last day it was glassy and there were some
1 to 2 foot waves on a little sandy point.The water wasn´t too cold ,the smoked fish was
tasty and we had a great time
with good quality waves.
Shown here Sonni with her trophy.

From the End of August to about the 21st of September we are in Holidays ,but Marie Claire will run the shop every day except Sundays for a few hours. She will post the opening hours on the door,which can vary from day to day.

Our new surfclub marazul did the first contest in Bristol(shooting gallery) .It was well organized and the surf was
pretty nasty specially with low tide and sideshoreconditions.
Sonni won the womens devison,The next contest is planed in Burro (Glass Beach)
on the 2/3 of August.So far we had
a lot of northeast swells this summer,so we hope the best for
the contest.

Charl (Karl Lang),famous
photographer, organized a
photoproduction for German SHAPE Magazin this spring on Fuerteventura.
It turned out really well .Basicly the girls are showing the technique of surfing and also some fitness/streching exercises for the August magazine.In the September
Edition Bitsy will show some lifeguarding.

Sonni does in the Moment
the Roxy tour in Belgien/Holland.
Bitsy will join them in Sylt on the 22th of August.

This winter a lot of the local surfers had a closer look on the
big wave spots of fuerteventura.
Northshore surfboards shaper Danny delivered some classic Gun designs up to 9.3.Shown here are Rhedo,Miguel and Steffen.Not pictured are Ben,Bob,Graeme,Stu and others.Most of the big wave action is done on a place called "acid drop" with a dangerous rock in the line up.

Danny,Shaper of theNorth Shore Polyester Surfboards (Jürgen does the sandwich-boards),shows here,that he is not only a excellent shaper,but a very good Surfer as well.