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PORTUGAL | THE SIMPLE BEAUTY OF SAGRES
One sail, one windSUP and the simple beauty of Sagres – Franz Orsi gives us a guide to this beautiful corner of the southern Algarve in Portugal (…)
DÉFI DIARIES | DÉFI GRUISSAN 2019
‘Défi Wind de Gruissan’, is the original ‘Défi Wind’ event and doing a ‘Défi’ has become a must do on windsurfing bucket lists. Seasoned ‘Défi’ dude John (…)
KIMMERIDGE | A SWELL SOU’EASTER
Southeast winds and south coast swell prove the perfect ingredients to fire up Dorset’s finest wave, Kimmeridge, for some rare port tack down the line action. On (…)
FLYING ON THE EDGE | PWA FOIL RACING
High wind foiling with big sails is not for the faint hearted. The 2019 Catalunya Costa Brava PWA World Cup saw some of the wildest professional wind (…)
WATER ACADEMY | KIDS RULE
Whatever sport you look at, there is no doubt youths are the future. They will ensure the survival and the development of a discipline, especially in windsurfing. (…)
BURNING MAN | THE BLACK ROCK YACHT CLUB
Summer is here and festival season is well underway, and if you like your festivals eccentric, few come weirder than ‘Burning Man’ in northwest Nevada. So what (…)
RED BULL STORM CHASE | THE MAGHEROARTY MISSION
The Red Bull Storm Chase is the most extreme windsurfing contest in the world and its 2019 edition certainly cemented its reputation. We rewind back to March 2019 (…)
MIRIAM RASMUSSEN | OTHER VOICES
Norwegian racer Miriam Rasmussen was a late starter to windsurfing, but that hasn’t held her back. From competing around the world to setting national speed records, Miriam (…)
EXPLORING ISRAEL’S WINDSURFING
Boasting 275 km of coastline with access to the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, Israel enjoys solid wind statistics all year round and offers everything from flat (…)
FRANCESCO CAPPUZZO
Italian windsurfer Francesco Cappuzzo has a few strings to his boom. He competes on both the PWA freestyle and wave tours, no surprises there, plenty of sailors (…)
NORWAY | NORTHERN LURE
A land of rugged beauty with stunning seascapes and mountains, the beauty of Norway’s Lofoten Islands drew freestylers Adam Sims and Oda Johanne Brødholt north to explore its (…)
NITON | WIGHT CHRISTMAS
Niton on the Isle of Wight offered a feast of cross-shore wavesailing to gorge on just before Christmas. John Carter reports.. (Originally published in the March edition (…)
KAI LENNY | INTERVIEW
It’s not that Kai Lenny needs no introduction, it’s where do you start. Universally accepted as the greatest all-round surf sport athlete on the planet right now, (…)
PROJECT BRITTANY | ÎLE AUX VACHES
‘The Windsurf Project’ team turned their focus on Brittany this winter and its famed big wave spot of ‘Île aux Vaches’. Chasing a sweet forecast with a (…)
TAHITI JAWS | PLAYING WITH FIRE
Tahiti based French windsurfer, Charles ‘Charliboy’ Vandemeulebroucke, always had an ambition to sail Pe’ahi / Jaws. This winter he got his chance, but it wasn’t all plain (…)