With ballistic winds and well-spaced steep ramps in Essaouira, it’s not hard to figure why Boujmaa has become such an insane starboard-tack jumper. When he was just 13, with his dreadlocks and contorted manoeuvres attracting attention, a chance email to Svein Rasmussen at Starboard gained him a place on the infamous Starboard ‘Dream Team’ – and he hasn’t looked back since. Boujmaa is now, without doubt, one of the most stylish, radical and innovative windsurfers on the planet and always pushes the sport to extremes, even after his gnarly triple-loop wipe-out in Maui a few years ago that almost cost him his life. As for Kauli, he’s here filming for a Brazilian TV show called ‘Waterman’, with his fiancé Maria on camera duties as they travel the world on the search for perfect windsurfing, surfing and SUPing conditions. Three times a PWA wavesailing World Champion, Kauli kind of quit the onshore-biased world tour so he could focus on the search for perfect conditions as well as fulfil his dream to buy a boat and explore the Brazilian coastline. Back in Moulay after the session, Fettah had already prepared us a fish Tajine, the perfect way to round off my first day in Morocco. On the drinks frontier, I had to settle for water, as alcohol is generally not on sale in most premises. It’s possible to buy a beer, in certain hotels and some back street shops and Morocco even has two of its own brews, but on the whole most of the population, including Boujmaa, don’t drink alcohol, especially during Ramadan.