Forecast
Editor’s Note: 6.1
By John Chao
Now that we are back on terra firma, it’s easy to sit back and glorify a conquest on the high seas. The trials and tribulations of the trip have all been elevated into nostalgic moments of thrills, spills and chills
Contributors
Make a WindMaker Cry
The big secret Kim Ball has been hiding from us was the fact that he has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Nebraska, but never entered the journalism field.
Air Mail
Another Legend for Beauty and Tears
Really like the article about John Kerry. Seems he and I have travelled several similar paths, though I was an infantry officer in Vietnam, he was a damn sailor. (Thank God, I didn’t get into his politics, however).
Makin’ Waves
Sowing Seeds with BIG Waves
HOW BIG of a wave do you need to have in order to make it to the November cover of National Geographic Magazine? The answer is a pretty Big Wave.
Featured Articles
Trans-Atlantic Windsurf Race
By Ken Winner
You’re used to taking reality in bite-sized, well-cooked chunks, preferably, with a béarnaise sauce on the side. Now, you’re facing a groaning great board of bloody venison—and somehow you have to choke it down.
WindMills
1999 Equipment Preview with Ken Winner
By Ken Winner
Forehead-slap-entertaining though these new products may be, the real action for 1999—the changes that look like they’ll shape windsurfing for years to come—have to do with the same old themes: board and sail design and construction.
Featured Articles
Cry Uncle at the US Nationals
By Kim Ball
“There was a lot of butt-kicking going on . . . , but it was Mother Nature who was wearing the boot.”
Featured Articles
WindGliding the Grenadines
By Alex Johnson and John John Chao
So! The four kids, Alex 13, John 11, Robby 9 and Katie 8, fly down to the Grenadines with their parents in tow. . . after all, they are minors and the parents. . . well, they just had to be there.
Portfolio
Balau: Sail-shaped Isles
By Douglas Faulkner
The Earth’s 46 million centuries of existence may never be dramatized in any meaningful way for its history has been enacted on too vast a stage for the human audience.
Featured Articles
The TransAtlantic Windemption
By Eddy Patricelli
Take four US amateur windsurfers. Put them on a boat headed for England. Provide them with tons of gear they've never seen before, and a coach capable of racing circles around them. Add 25 foot seas, and place them in a race against some of the world's best windsurfers. What do you have?
Featured Articles
Planes, Trains, Buses, Reindeer & WingSurfers
By John Chao
On top of it all, no one told me that Santa had left for Aruba on vacation. Course I should have known. This was April and Lapland was just starting to thaw out and the long days were beginning to bud out into the long nights.