In 2010 after years of searching for the perfect windsurf equipment, we came to the conclusion that was time to build our own and TILLO INTERNATIONAL was born!
First couple of years the focus was building custom boards and fins, later we add foils and never look back as the development and the passion never stop.
Today we produce a huge range of products from boards, sails, foils, masts, booms and must of all windsurf components.
Our goal is primary to produce functional gear that is optimized for real world conditions. Our design concept is maximum power with minimum sizes. meaning we work hard to make our equipment with the best possible range of conditions especially for light wind and flat-water conditions.
We have also dedicated ourselves to develop equipment for small kids and youth as well as developing multiple YOUTH WINDSURFING PROGRAMS across the country.
All our products are design and developed in Miami, USA and tested all over the world.
We built gear for you.
Alex Morales
Founder / Designer
info@tillo-international.com
Here a bit of my background :
Alex Morales journeyed from Cuba to America… by windsurfer. This is the story of his brave journey across the ocean and to becoming a respected board shaper. Images and words by Timothy Venn.
Like many of Miami’s population, Alex Morales’s life started in the Communist dictatorship of Cuba – but his journey since has been unlike any other. Fascinated by his first sight of a windsurfer as an eight year-old boy, he knew he was bitten by the windsurfing bug that was sweeping the world. However, with no windsurfing opportunities for kids, he had to make do with sailing dinghies and begging the local windsurfers for a try on their boards.
This is when young Alex showed the first signs of his improvisational, ‘get-it-done’ attitude when he started to build his own kid’s windsurfer. “I started building Styrofoam boards and bamboo masts and booms. It was jury-rigged gear like a typical third-world kid – but it was the only gear I could get for my size.” Finally, a few years later, he was able graduate to real boards, and his dedication and persistence paid off when he won the 1987 Youth Event and was selected to be in the Cuban Olympic windsurfing team in 1989….click HERE for more ….. and the story continues…