"Over the last 20 years of global sports, one brand has been winning more constructors titles than any other.
Blending product innovation and extraordinary team work, this brand and its crew have persevered stormy weather, taken its beating and made it back up again from underdog to the top of the game, time after time.
No globally known equipment brand in motorsport, skiing, cycling, tennis, MotoGP, or sailing has achieved 88% title dominance over a 20-year span.
Audi – Le Mans / WEC (Cars) 13 wins in 18 years → ~72% is closest among major global motorsport.
Sports is no longer only about winning, but also to deliver purpose, so the same brand has been awarded both the World Sailing sustainability award and the IOC supported Sports positive award.
It is probably the most environmentally engaged brand in sports equipment manufacturing and the only brand with a full suite of environmental programs.
The Professional Windsurfers Association, the pinnacle of Windsurfing, introduced their Constructors ranking 18 years ago. It included the main windsurfing disciplines and both genders, motivating brands to invest accordingly.
One brand focused on supporting the PWA’s vision and invest into riders and product development like no other.
They brought on board young riders and saw them become legendary icons over the years, forever PWA champion Sarah-Quita Offringa, racing master Matteo Iachino, Freestyle kingpin Lennart Neubauer and the World’s most successful athlete Bjørn Dunkerbeck. Next gen riders Bobbi-Lynn De Jong, Junior Wave World Champion Ryu Noguchi and styleman Jahdan Tyger are fast on their way up.
Rising foil stars Lina Eržen and Fabian Wolf, fabulous Oda Johanne Stokstad Brødholt and Federico Morisio are all important in the Constructors title puzzle.
The brand is the total outlier in sports, a family business, located at a small lake, with a full scale laboratory where prototype boards can be made in two days, ready to revolutionise the watersports industry yesterday.
A former Windsurfing World Champion from Martinique is their main designer, their Marketing Manager used to go to school in a wetsuit, a Greek graphic artist who inspires all and their British Brand Manager has set eyes on Ironman 2026. The founder/ CEO windsurfed through winter in Norway without a proper wetsuit, or a harness, utilising mini-icebergs as rounding marks when training for the World Championships, PWA wins and the Olympics.
The brand is the definition of creativity, not wanting to conform to trends, but delivering Impossible Performance beyond any other in the world of sports.
Thanks to the PWA for creating a platform for our sport to shine, a constructors ranking for the industry to compete and for team Starboard to showcase 16 wins over 18 years.”
Innovator and CEO
Svein Rasmussen
Photo Credit: PWA
