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Editor’s Note: Issue 8.5

By John Chao

If you’re a guy like me, there is something about femininity that stirs a deep rooted response. While most of us equate this to be sexual in nature, there is far more at play than the mechanism of procreation.

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Cancel Cancer Enough Already

I’ll use the money to buy toilet paper. Bill Cimikoski’s article is driving me crazy! Vol. 8(3/4) takes the words right out of my mouth. When I got this issue I didn’t think it was American Windsurfer.

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Life Beyond Cancer

By Kristen Olson

Every year I went in for a routine well-woman exam, and every year I was sent the little postcard saying my results were normal. The phone call was bad news.

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Changing Wind

By Elizabeth Horton

The closest I have come to catching some air was stubbing my toe on his 85-liter Screamer in the middle of our Boston apartment and hopping up and down.

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Woman to Windsurf Across Pacific Ocean

By Laurie Nadel

Rapheala le Gouvello, the forty year old Frenchwoman who made history in April 2000 by windsurfing solo across the Atlantic Ocean, is planning to windsurf solo across the Pacific next year.

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Surf Sitters

By John Chao

Anouk Raaphorst came to Aruba for a vacation and never left. To make a living, she started making souvenirs out of pottery and shells and sold them at the pool side of hotels. There the tall blond from Holland attracted attention...

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Jacques: Man with Ladies

By Glenn Fuller

To the local windsurfer, Jacques is the “cheers” of Maui, A place where everyone knows your name. Instead of “hello Norm” it’s Robby or Josh or Bjorn. A place where the mortal windsurfer can see, and be seen with the biggest names in the sport.

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Profile: Dr. Christine Brooks

‘There must be something more to life than this,’” recalls Christine Brooks, 52, the new Executive Director of the U.S. Windsurfing Association.

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CIVIC wind DUTY

By John Chao

“If one believes, however, that things happen for reason, well, that reason for me has been windsurfing. Who would have thought that it would be Boston where I discovered this sport!”

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What Women Want

By Martin Trees

I’m not claiming to be Mel Gibson, but I too know what women want and it didn’t take a 60-million dollar movie to find out. I simply asked.

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What Women Really Want

By Melissa Graebner

LARRY RUSSO is a legend among San Francisco windsurfers. His maroon Saab is well-known at Crissy Field as the gathering place for a unique school of windsurfing where the lessons are free and the students are exclusively female.

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Shredder Super Model

By Laurie Nadel

When the Weather Channel meteorologists are advising everyone on Long Island to stay inside, Pfeifer is whipping her long, blonde mane into a ponytail, shimmying into her wetsuit, and heading for the windsurfing beach at Napeague.

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Jennifer Gately Henderson

By John Chao

On Maui, the world's best windsurfers claim their moves and dictate standards which all other wave warriors will follow. Among this elite group of Top Gun sailors one woman has earned their respect and is crowned their reigning Queen.

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Seeking Streaking Bettys @ Kanaha

By John Chao

It was a simple and glorious assignment. Fly to Maui and go to the world famous Kanaha beach for a day and meet as many female windsurfers as possible. It was a perfectly logical thing to do for an issue totally devoted to women.

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The Pozo Twins

By Martin Trees

As teens they simply wanted to have fun at the beach. In 1995 they tried windsurfing for the first time. Within 18 months these inspiring women were competing with the pros and proving that women could hold their own with the men.

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Dancing with the Wind

By John Chao

A SURVIVOR OF LIFE. Laurie Nadel has faced the quirky winds of fate throughout her adult life. She has lived to tell about it. Her new book is a heroic woman’s journey through darkness and despair and the salvation she experienced when she discovered “Flow” through windsurfing.

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Sisterhood in the Pacific NorthWest

By Erica Gerald

For the gals around here, it doesn’t take long from the first shaky windsurfing session on Green Lake in Washington where they’re introduced to the sport to start contemplating the endless possibilities of maneuvers to be accomplished.