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Category Archives: windsurfing
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
I found this on Playak, a kayak site I visit frequently looking for technique and equipment information: This important and educational article was written by Mario Vittone and should be shared globally. The Incident – The new captain jumped from … Continue reading
Ultimate Rail Tape: Railsaver Pro
Carles Carrera is a fanatic SUP fan and a motorcycle engineer/designer. He also likes to take care of his toys. When he knocked a chip out of one of his new boards he immediately started looking at options, and didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Longboard Sailing, Stand Up Paddle Surfing, Surfing, Water Sports, windsurfing
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Diane’s New Long Lens
A couple of weeks ago Diane got a new long lens for the Nikon–a 180 to 500MM. I just downloaded the pictures to my computer–some of them are pretty neat. She put the long lens on our big tripod and … Continue reading
Posted in General Posts, windsurfing
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Cold, Grey and Grumpy
Back in Portland. Had a great time surfing the last week, even caught one good day of longboard sailing. The last two days I needed to get the place in order and put my toys away. Naturally the wind came … Continue reading
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A little more Ding King (Updated with photos)
I dropped by the Ding King today on my way to Kanaha to windsurf (it was pretty good today, light and gusty inshore but howling once you got past the reef). Gave Mark my lovely Jimmy Lewis 11’7″ board to … Continue reading
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Ding King: The perfect location for a surf movie
Reposted to get this page into the RSS feed. I’m obviously doing this backwards, I should do pages as posts first and then paste them into pages. We’ll see if I remember that next time. I promised long ago that … Continue reading
Posted in Around Maui, Surfing, Water Sports, windsurfing
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Why Windsurfing On Longboards Will Be the Next Big Thing
I’m going to write three articles that I am wildly unqualified to write. Well, maybe not completely. An article on how to do stand up paddle surfing, an article on how to windsurf a longboard, and this one. I’m unqualified … Continue reading
Posted in Surfing, Water Sports, windsurfing
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Wild and Wooly Longboard Sailing
Whoo-wee, what a day. Got to Kanaha about 11:00 am and rigged up the 6.3 superfreak sail and grabbed the big Ding King standup paddleboard with the mast track. The wind was light inside, with whitecaps on the reef. Nobody … Continue reading
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Hawaiian Wave Measure
Several people asked me why Hawaiians measure waves in a manner that makes them SMALLER than elsewhere. I didn’t have a clue, so I did some research. People often say that Hawaiian measure is from the back of the wave, … Continue reading
Posted in Around Maui, Surfing, Water Sports, windsurfing
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