The Sunbird team...

Sunbird windsurfing...

professional and friendly staff. What we all have in common is the love and the passion for windsurfing. We are motivated to give this passion to our guests.

 

Elmar Vogel

is the founder of Sunbird and has been running the center for the past 30 years. He is a professional VDWS windsurfing and sailing instructor and has done some extreme windsurfing tours in the past. You can read his book "Inseln im Wind"  about his

800 km-distance windsurfing tour from Dubrovnik to Mali Losinj .

Ivan Brcic

... born in Mali Losinj, is a windsurfing instructor and an important member of our team. So far, he has been working with us for several years. During the lonely winter months he is enjoying the winter storms on the water.

Manuel during the 2010 wavetest at Cape of Good Hope/South Africa Manuel during the 2010 wavetest at Cape of Good Hope/South Africa

 

Manuel Vogel

...spent almost half of his childhood at the Sunbird centre. He works as a professional VDWS windsurfing instructor and for Europe's biggest windsurfing magazine "surf".

 

Manuel Vogel looking down at his test-partner Bart de Zwaart during the 2009 waveboard test in South Africa.

Pic: Stephan Gölnitz, surf-Magazin