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Surfboards and submarines: the secret escape of East Germans to Copenhagen
- sandworm101 11y ago"...surfing boats with handmade sails." ?? I've read about this many times before. They were using windsurfers and were part of a local windsurfing club. Germans say "Windsurfbrett", literally wind-surf-board. I don't know where the author got the boats language. It's more than semantics. Boats are something you sit 'in' rather than 'on' a board and that makes a big difference in cold water. Story + interviews (in german) + pics showing gear. http://cdn2.surfertoday.com/windsurfing/11355-the-greatest-windsurfing-escape-deckert-and-kluender-flee-east-germany http://cdn2.surfertoday.com/windsurfing/11355-the-greatest-w... Fyi. The big stealth advantage of a windsurfer is that, with the sail flat on the water, the entire craft is only a couple inches high. In any waves you cannot see them until you are right on top. Hard for search and rescue, but excellent if you want to hide until the cops move away. They have been used for smuggling.
- aembleton 11y agoSwimming out of East Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7CWajaOx4E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7CWajaOx4E