Featured Articles
WingMaker
By John ChaoHe has always been an enigma. Not many people in the industry can say they really know Bill Hansen. The reason might be that Bill Hansen doesn’t really care what people think about Bill Hansen.
Gone to Maui
By Brett NicholsIt is October. Windsurfers have all left Hood River, to follow summer into warmer parts. Days are short and cold, and I am a weekend-warrior windsurfer, working my corporate-suck desk job in Seattle.
Oahu: The All Around Playground
By Sonja EvensenIN THE GRAND old 80’s, O’ahu was the bustling Mecca of windsurfing. Anyone who had the desire to make windsurfing the center of his or her universe would end up on O’ahu.
Forecast
Editor’s Note: Issue 9.2
By John Chao
We finally did it! We established a West Coast office in the Columbia River Gorge. In fact, our new office is so close to the action that it is only a stone’s throw from the famous Fish Hatchery. I must admit, as the publisher, I’ve resisted the idea of moving to the Gorge for the past 10 years.
Air Mail
Friendly, Feminine, Focus, Free Hat
From “butt UGLY” (see Airmail 9.1) to “beautiful to look at"...is it half full or half empty? Why can’t we just get along? I don’t think we ever claimed the issue to be a ‘woman’s guide...
Makin’ Waves
Woman to Woman
By Gina Lalli with Laurie Nadel
Windsurfing is in my genes. Even though I was born and raised in New York City, I used to love looking at pictures and movies of windsurfers and sailboats, dreaming of the day when I would get my chance.
Makin’ Waves
Show Me The Money
By Will Harper
Newman Darby may have invented windsurfing, Bill Hansen the chop-top sail, but who, it occurs to us to ask, invented the windsurf swap meet?
WindTracks
Oahu: The All Around Playground
By Sonja Evensen
IN THE GRAND old 80’s, O’ahu was the bustling Mecca of windsurfing. Anyone who had the desire to make windsurfing the center of his or her universe would end up on O’ahu.
WindTracks
Gone to Maui
By Brett Nichols
It is October. Windsurfers have all left Hood River, to follow summer into warmer parts. Days are short and cold, and I am a weekend-warrior windsurfer, working my corporate-suck desk job in Seattle.
Portfolio
Hatchers
By John Chao
These days pros and poor alike launch on the rocks at the Spring Creek Fish Hatchery, which has become one of the most famous sailing sites in the world.
Interviews
WingMaker
By John Chao
He has always been an enigma. Not many people in the industry can say they really know Bill Hansen. The reason might be that Bill Hansen doesn’t really care what people think about Bill Hansen.