My First Windfoil Race!
By Danicka Sailer My name is Danicka Sailer, I live in Hawaii and I’m 14 years old. Two years ago, when I started windsurfing at the Hawaii Kai Boat Club, I knew I had...
Windsurfing on Snow: a Brief History!
By Will Tuthill, Photos by Enda Pärisma and WISSA archives What? Windsurfing on snow? Perhaps one out of a hundred windsurfers have ever even heard of this, yet there it is: people use their...
2019 US Windsurfing Nationals to be held in Hatteras, Worthington and Maui!
For the first time in many years, the US Windsurfing National Championships will not be a single event at a single venue for all disciplines, but three separate events at three different venues picked...
Thirty years and still searching for that lost salt shaker at the Margarita Run!
Every year in late October, the crew from Fleet 18 (over in Foster City, California) gets together for the Margarita Run. You must have heard of it: it’s one of the country’s most unusual...
Clearwater delivers for the 2018 Kona Worlds!
The 2018 Kona Worlds took place in beautiful Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA on Oct 26-31, 2018. The Clearwater Community Sailing Center took center stage and delivered an event for the memory books! Clearwater is a...
Down to the Wire in San Francisco!
It’s Friday evening, August 31st, and it’s the final race in the 2018 Friday Night Slalom Series at the St Francis Yacht Club. The local Crissy Field crew has been at it all summer,...
Doing the Transpac on a Board!
Not THAT Transpac, of course. But a 10-mile reach from Koko Head to Waikiki on O’ahu that’s arguably just as fun and reserved to youngsters on dinghies and – for the first time –...
Big breeze at a Junior Event? No Problem!
Words and Pics by Erik Hammarlund It’s become a yearly tradition in early August for the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club to host a Junior Olympic Windsurfing Festival, in the middle of the summer season...
Guaranteed Fun at the East Coast Windsurfing Festival!
By Nina SchweikardtPhotos: ECWF It is that time of the year when Peter (Richterich) and I are getting ready to organize our yearly windsurfing event here on Cape Cod! The 6th edition of the...
Maui slalom secrets: time your starts and dodge turtles!
by Tammy Bockius It started out windy – and then it just blew harder! ‘Cranking breezy’ is what it’s called. We were at Kanaha this past Saturday for the conclusion of the 2018 Maui...