Congratulations, Bruce Peterson, for a remarkable 30 years of designing and running Sailworks! It is a well earned “end of an era”, and it is an honor to have been but a small part of that journey. From the beginning of a windsurfing addiction when I thought a 5.0m sail meant 40 knots (see video) […]
Imagine that every single time you get to the beach you quickly rig your sail and perfectly tune for the conditions. You never fumble with your extension length, never need to stop to move your mast base, never have to adjust your boom height, never wish you had more downhaul tension and never fiddle with […]
A five discipline event! Well, if you count my free clinic and Friday wave session. Hatteras OBX Wind once again delivered the goods. A packed start line for the long distance race with 170 racers, competitive slalom heats for the US National Slalom Title, and an insane freestyle level to crown the US Freestyle National […]
It’s crazy to think back on this season and realize how little I travelled compared to when I was doing the PWA World Tour. I managed to squeeze in a trip to somewhere warm early this year before the pandemic broke out to create a magazine project, which I’m sure you will be reading about […]
Although all the windsurf contests I was planning to attend this summer have been postponed and cancelled, it definitely hasn’t put a damper on the amount of windsurfing I’ve been doing. The early spring closures and lockdowns forced me to explore new launch spots in the Gorge, and the limited services at campgrounds on the […]
Three days of completely overpowered slalom sailing! What a blast! I arrived at Kanaha Beach Park on Maui one day early for the 2019 Slalom US Nationals, and immediately saw there was something wrong. As I walked around and browsed the different equipment set-ups everything looked awfully small compared to mine. It was going to […]
I love heading to the Oregon Coast. It’s windy, wavy, beautiful, rugged and wild. In the spring I did a few weekend trips to Newport, conveniently camping at South Beach State Park, which is right at the windsurf spot. Newport is a convenient wave spot for Gorge windsurfers because it’s only 3.5 hours drive from […]
OBX-Wind – North Americas biggest, and fastest growing windsurfing competition once again delivered the goods! With 300 people registered for long distance racing, Slalom racing, freestyle, and clinics, it was a busy week. I flew in from Hood River, Oregon, to Raleigh, North Carolina with my girlfriend Kelsey. We rented a car and drove 4 […]
As some of you may know already I’m not headed to Bonaire for the PWA event, and I will no longer be attending PWA events. I’m including a press release below regarding this, but basically I’ve moved to Hood River, Oregon, taken up an opportunity to work more closely with my sponsor Sailworks, and decided […]
Since the PWA World Tour stop in Fuerteventura I’ve been back in Hood River, Oregon. The summer season there delivers some of the best windsurfing in the world, and in the couple months between PWA competitions in Fuerteventura, Spain, and Sylt, Germany, the Gorge didn’t disappoint. Besides some epic days on the water freestyling, I […]