A View from the Committee Boat in Annapolis!
This is the time of year when we’re starting to have windsurfing events coast to coast every week, and while most of the attention goes to the action on the water, it’s important to...
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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...
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...
Kona windsurfing takes Clearwater by storm!
By Jerome Samson The city of Clearwater loves windsurfing — and windsurfing loves it back! This weekend (Oct 28–29, 2017), the city with the sugary white sand hosted the Kona Gulf Coast Championships at the Clearwater...
Sibling Rivalry on the Island!
The 2017 Junior Olympic Windsurfing Festival took place last week (Aug 3-4) at Vineyard Haven Yacht Club, on the beautiful island of Martha’s Vineyard, and once again the event empowered junior windsurfers with a...
My road trip to the Kona Worlds!
By Elena Marotti Elena and Joe Marotti windsurf year-round in Galveston Bay (near Houston, TX) as members of the Seabrook Sailing Club. They race on Wednesday nights to spend time with friends and tune up...
Beth and Andy’s Kona Diary!
A Conversation with Beth Winkler and Andy BrandtEdited by Jerome Samson / US Windsurfing The 2016 Kona Worlds just wrapped up in epic conditions in Islamorada, Florida! With more than a hundred competitors from all...
Oleander Point In Full Bloom!
By Jerome Samson For many years in the 1980’s and 1990’s, Corpus Christi’s Oleander Point was the site of the US Open, the brainchild of local windsurfing pioneer Charles Allen and a highlight on...