In 2010, after years of searching for the perfect windsurfing equipment, we decided it was time to create our own, and thus TILLO INTERNATIONAL was born!
Initially, our focus was on building custom boards and fins. As our passion and innovation grew, we expanded to include foils and have never looked back.
Today, we produce a wide range of products including boards, sails, foils, masts, booms, and various windsurfing components.
Our primary goal is to produce functional gear optimized for real-world conditions. Our design philosophy centers on achieving maximum power with minimal sizes, ensuring our equipment performs exceptionally well, especially in light wind and flat-water conditions.
We are also dedicated to developing equipment for small kids and youth and have established multiple youth windsurfing programs across the country.
All our products are designed and developed in Miami, USA, and tested worldwide.
We build 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…
