ALEX DUGAN aka Raptor

Have you ever met one of those annoying people who's 'a natural'? Most of us slog away for years learning to windsurf, when he was young Alex tried it and found that seemingly without effort he was just very good at it. So good in fact that at one stage of his development he was sponsored by the Newtownards Sailing Club. As you can see, he started on some pretty dodgy gear!

Within weeks of being on the water he was learning to carve gybe and these days he's not happy unless he's doing some airborne move with a name related to Star-Trek. He's done well in competitions too and it will be interesting to see just how far on he can go.

Alex is known to windsurfers as 'Raptor', the origins of the name are deeply immersed in the depth of time, not to mention the depth of the cider in Andy's glass.

Despite working for a living, Alex is seen sailing a lot - so we suppose that even he does have to practice. And in learning the moves he does, naturally he crashes a lot as you can see, but he just laughs at his mistakes and a little while later you see him perfecting the move.

Ali Todd aka Tourettes

NICKNAME:  Tourettes  -he washes his mouth out with salt water a lot, but he doesn't get any better.

WINDSURFING LEVEL:  Good intermediate.

GREATEST MOMENT:  Not swearing all week at El Medano and then leaving his harness in a bar (never to be found again) and making up for it on the last day...

WORST MOMENT:  Being caught in a freak storm and nearly hit by lightening - 20 metres from the club jetty. Or was it being sown up by Shipman after getting a nail through his foot?

SLANDEROUS INFORMATION:  There's much we would like to put here, but our lawyer (Ali Todd) advises strongly against it!