JACK HUNT
I learnt to windsurf on the little lagoons out from the Osbourne View pub in Hill Head. I remember the first time I planed on my passed down Bic Astro Rock and I was hooked from pretty much that point on. Throughout my life I’ve always tried to keep my vocation fluid enough to allow time off to go sailing. Being a self-employed Aircraft Technician has let me do that. I’ve managed some periods of high intensity work followed by weeks or months off to go sailing somewhere, just for the shear hell of it. I did my apprenticeship and worked on and off for over a decade on the south coast fixing the Royal Navy and the Army’s Lynx helicopters. It wasn’t unusual for me to disappear for lengthy lunch breaks returning with inconspicuously wet hair whenever the Wittering’s was firing. My type of work is dying down in the south of England for the moment. Over the years I’ve been spending an increasing amount of time in New Zealand. Mostly getting washed up on their reefs and testing boards with my sponsor James at Carbon Art. I’m now in the process of moving there with my girlfriend. So who knows what the future will bring. I know one thing for certain, there is definitely going to be more swimming and snapped masts! ”
