On a cruise across the Sea of Marmara pretty photos are usually what you want to take home with you. And they’re even more worth seeing if you weren’t actually on the ship itself but were pulled along by an express ferry on a wakeboard – just like Dutchman Duncan Zuur.
The Super Air Nautique is seven meters long, weighs 1450 kilos and travels at 70 km/h. It’s the wakeboard boat that Duncan Zuur, third in the World Championship 2003, usually uses. For his latest training session he tried out a somewhat more robust rival model. The Turkish ferry Orhan Gazi-1 measures 88 meters in length, weighs 6000 tons, and pulled the Dutchman across the Sea of Marmara between Istanbul and Bandirma.
The amazed passengers of the ship were entertained by Zuur with his elaborate program of breakneck tricks performed in the wake of the monster traveling 35 knots (64 km/h). Namely because the stern wave of the over-weight speedboat allowed more ambitious maneuvers than are usually possible – after all, the four motors were churning out 3000 liters of water per second. And when a trick went wrong Duncan was helped back to the towrope by the escort vehicle, a jet ski.
It was last autumn that the 34-year-old got a taste for wakeboard excursions of another dimension. Back then, pulled by a cable winch, he made waves in water tanks, canals and outdoor swimming pools in Vienna, Austria. Taking part in Red Bull Wake Guide, Duncan Zuur wowed audiences in a swimming pool on the rooftop of the Wienerberg Twin Tower, at Karlsplatz and in Stadtpark, among other venues.
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