Interview with Starboard CEO Svein Rasmussen and Margareta Engström Part 1
December 27th, 2008 by evan 
My short trip to Thailand to check out the biggest windsurfing company, Starboard, was quite an experience. I was able to interview Starboard’s founder and 4-time windsurfing world champion, Svein Rasmussen. Svein talked about Starboard beginnings and how it has become what it is now. It’s pretty amazing how his “40-year-cycle” theory on board design has led him to make a crossover between windsurfing and stand paddle surfing. Svein is sitting next to Margareta Engstrom who runs marketing for Starboard and is also a professional windsurfer and avid SUP paddler.
Watch this clip to see more of this interview.
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Great interview. I’m a huge Starboard fan — they’re the only SUP boards I own (at the moment, haha) — so it’s nice to hear what the man at the top has to say. Don’t forget part two! And … did you have a look at that new surface that’s on the boards? If so, what’d you think of it?
Linter – Thanks. Part 2 is coming. I haven’t seen the new surface that he’s talking about yet. I’ve tried their previous deck pad and thought it was pretty ingenious how they had a different surface texture for the standing area and the tail kick pad was built into the pad.