Another Windsports Shop bites the dust....

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Quetzalcoatl
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Another Windsports Shop bites the dust....

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Southport Rigging, (in Kenosha, WI) is closing down it's windsurf part of the store. Owner, Ralph Ruffalo has run
this AMAZING Windshop for 35 years and he now says it's "Time for him to spend more time" on the water himself!
You can google up his store and find out about deals. I guess this means his kiteboard gear is going out too? He'll still
be running his store for two years (he also sells bicycles, snowboards, Kiteboarding equipment, windsurf equipment and
stand up paddle boards and surf boards and SMALL Sailboats! But his windsurfing section, he plans to sell off over the next four to six months.
A big SALUTE to Ralf! (one of the mentors for windsurfing for the entire USA).

SO: guys and gals, don't wait around, get your windsurf gear now! Stock it, Hoard it, because there are fewer places to
get it and there's a lot of sailing yet to do in the 21st century!

Windsurf Man out.
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