I've been in Maui for a month now. There's been some pretty big days at Hookipa with the channel closing out. I've seen Jaws breaking, pretty cool to see it in the flesh. Defiantly want to come back and try and sail it in the next few years, so long as I have a jet ski!
The person out hear who has impressed me the most hast to be Katie McAnena. Paddling off the rocks to sail Jaws was pretty ballsy. Leaving the guy's and myself feeling slightly emasculated.
Hookipa a trick place.
It's taken me quite a while to get used to Hookipa. Very busy, if you make a mistake you miss your wave and or your kit ends up on the rock on bigger days. Luckily I have only had to kick off the rocks!
I was getting to the point where I was wondering what the hell I was doing here until the break though. I tried out a custom quatro, which i fell in love with instantly. It improved my sailing so much I had to buy it. The guys at quatro were super cool and very helpful, even after I pretty much stole the board off them for 4 days. Now just waiting for the wind to kick back in this week and get on it.
The person out hear who has impressed me the most hast to be Katie McAnena. Paddling off the rocks to sail Jaws was pretty ballsy. Leaving the guy's and myself feeling slightly emasculated.
Hookipa a trick place.
It's taken me quite a while to get used to Hookipa. Very busy, if you make a mistake you miss your wave and or your kit ends up on the rock on bigger days. Luckily I have only had to kick off the rocks!
I was getting to the point where I was wondering what the hell I was doing here until the break though. I tried out a custom quatro, which i fell in love with instantly. It improved my sailing so much I had to buy it. The guys at quatro were super cool and very helpful, even after I pretty much stole the board off them for 4 days. Now just waiting for the wind to kick back in this week and get on it.
'Borrowing' a custom quatro at Hookipa
Loved it so much I had to buy it. Sprayed and ready to go.
Katie Going for it
Katie going balls out putting a lot of guys to shame.
Sadly ending up on the rocks., the price you have to pay.
Hi Mike - I love your blog!
ReplyDeleteI'm a national newspaper journalist in England who is part of a group putting together a new 'extreme' outdoor sports and travel website. The site is also an environmental and social and enterprising in design.
As I'm putting together articles and sourcing videos and photos at the moment, I was wondering whether there was any chance of you submitting some copy for us on windsurfing? I can obviously credit you and send you a link to the site when it's up?
Maybe you would like to submit things on a regular basis further down the line?
We believe we will have a lot of people visiting the site when it is ready and have people contributing from all over the world so our reach should be quite large.
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