Maui Monthly Our Experience Your Reward
no. 09. December 2005
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Maui Monthly | Our Experience Your Reward no. 09. December 2005
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Dorota. FW Vice World Champion. This has been a great month for me. First of all Christmas time in Poland is the best in the World with centuries’ old Catholic religious tradition, cold winter weather, ice and snow. Pierogi and barszcz, cabbage, karp and all kinds of fish, all traditional Christmas Eve dishes were served and enjoyed till late hours of the Holy Night. This is something worth to wait for all year. This time it was even better, I just got back from downunder Australia and I managed to bring silver home from Worlds. My whole family, my friends, sports fans, journalists, literally everyone I talked to this Christmas shared my joy of this result. It was big surprise to many to have me at the podium in Melbourne, my close ones were actually relieved, because they knew how much it meant to me. It must be true that the power of mind is enormous and there is nothing like “impossible” when we give most out of our potential.
This is the end of 2005 and it is hard not to say few words about how it went. I participated in television beauty commercial, which was good learning experience and unbelievable promotion of MauiSails. I also participated in motivation and team building session for one of Polish biggest banks and I gave speech at Warsaw’s women’s managers’ business conference. I started MBA course at the prestigious Warsaw’s University of Technology and will continue it throughout the next year. My boyfriend flew me with helicopter from my home in Sulejowek to Gdansk in the seaside, where my training camp was held; it normally takes around 5 hours by car, but this time it was less then two hours and filled with magnificent views. I want to take this opportunity to wish you all the very best for 2006, may sunshine and joy fulfil your days. Dorota Staszewska, POL-1.
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Maui Monthly | Our Experience Your Reward no. 09. December 2005
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Dennis. FW Worlds report.
were really bad, but overall I guess that is racing and you have to learn how to deal with it.
After a brilliant month on Maui training and testing the winds finally started to back off. Just in time to get on the big sails and be ready for the Worlds. We got the new TR-2 pre production models and they looked and felt great.
After the Worlds I headed over to Western Australia and down to Margaret River for some wave sailing. After that I’m going to head up to North of Perth for some slalom racing and then back to Maui around the end of January.
The Worlds was an ok event for me, although I had some up’s and downs in the results I still ended up in 14th position which is by far by best result ever in a World Championship.
Happy new year to all and thanks to MauiSails for all your support this year.
I mostly used the 12m and 11m sizes in the 7 races. I think the regatta was really strange because we spent the first two races standing around and trying to get planning most of the time. Some of the other races the courses and starting lines 2
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Sarah on Costa Rica. HEY Everybody! First of all HAPPY NEW YEAR! and wish all of you a great year with wind and that you achieve what you want. This month was great I haven’t windsurfed that much but it was fun I went on vacation to Costa Rica and its a really beautiful there! I went surfing and windsurfing and saw a lot of nature, like waterfalls and plants. I went windsurfing there and they have a nice spot called Lake Arenal. It’s a realy good spot but unfortunatly there wasn’t much wind when my brother and I went but they told us that normal days are like 30 knots. They don’t know a lot
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about freestyle so my brother and I were doing grubbies and spocks and they were so amazed by that! After that I went to Miami and now I’m back and so happy on my little island! Every year for new years on Aruba a couple of stores and supermarkets give fire work shows. An hour after I came home there was one by my house about 6000 people there watching this is so great and beautiful to see! And tonight the 31st of December we’re gonna have fireworks of our own to finish this old year and start the new one! Soooo see you next year! Sarah-Quita.
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Maui Monthly | Our Experience Your Reward no. 09. December 2005
Christams for Taty. This month I started building my house. My father is helping me, since he’s a building contractor. During the first week we spent half day measuring, digging and fastening iron. The rest of the day I went windsurfing in sorobon or in playa. There has been good wind on the island. Mostly 5.0 to 5.6 conditions. My house is 300m2 with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a study room and an open living room, dining room and kitchen. There is also a porch all around the house. My plans are to finish the house in 2 or 3 years, taking it slow. On December 13th Per Anderson from starboard came to Bonaire with 6 prototypes flare for me to test. We had only two days to test the boards, because the deadline was December 20th and Per came only for two days. So I woke up at 7 o’clock in the morning, pick him up at 7:30 and go to the beach and stayed till 9:30 in the evening. Can you imagine sailing in the dark with only the moonlight? It’s pretty nice though. On the first day there was not enough wind, but on the second day it was really blowing. Kiri helped me with testing the boards. Per and I came out with some really good ideas for the 2007 boards while Kiri enjoyed the flare 90.
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On December 18th there was a ’end of the year race’. We had to go twice around Klein Bonaire. On that day I was using my TR1 9.5 and my formula 160. The wind was really gusty from 15 to 25 knots. I won this race. The price for first place was: a Christmas ham and two bottles of Coke. It was a fun event and I enjoyed it. A funny story on the race day was about my dog. When I was rigging my sails he was playing around and when I went out windsurfing he jumped in the water and started swimming towards me. I was screaming
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at him: "Go to the beach Buddy!", but he kept swimming towards me. He swam very far from the coast until my girlfriend called him to come to her. She told me that Buddy kept looking at me and wined. He’s a good dog, but he’s also very dangerous. He barks at everybody that comes near me. Christmas’ eve I went to dinner on a ship with my girlfriend and her family. Her family owns the ship. All the employees and the family sat on a very long table. Before having dinner, a priest held a mass. Then we enjoyed the delicious food. I was happy to be part of this. On Christmas the wind was very good (5.0 conditions, flat water!), so I went windsurfing the whole day. It felt so good to be on the water sailing together with Choko and Kiri. I guess when the wind is strong, it feels like it fills your stomach, so can you imagine how desperate we are for windsurfing? :) Well, this is the end. I hope y’all had a great year. I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Taty Frans NB-9
Work&Travel for Barry in Dec. Barry had a hot month of work and travel that ended with getting home on Christmas Eve to a great dinner with the neighbors. No presents necessary when the relief of falling into your own bed again is at hand. Starting December 2, I went to meet Phil (who was already in China for a week), in Sri Lanka, for work on the final production details of the TR-2. Phil went straight back to Maui for a final round of testing on the production samples, and I went on to Perth, West Australia, to meet up with our new agent there, Matt Langer. It was straight from the airport to the beach by the Swan River where there was a gang hanging out. Applecross is a beautiful spot with lots of grass and an easy launch. Matt had a good collection of sails for the crew to try out, the requisite cooler of suds, and there
was plenty of wind. On Sunday, we went down to Safety Bay for the annual marathon and had a great time with a fleet of about forty going the distance. Matt got off the beach behind the whole fleet, and I think he surprised himself by finishing fourth. He sailed through the whole group on his new Carbon Art board and TR-1 5.9. Then I flew onward to Melbourne in time to see all of the Formula Worlds. It was a tough event for our sailors, simply because they were so outnumbered by the dominant brands. But Mr. Sugehara of Japan, Dave Holt from New Zealand, Peter Volwater and Dennis Littel from Holland, and Dorota and Kevin all had their shining moments of good speed. Other things seemed to conspire against their success, but all of them were happy to speak of good speed and pointing, and I watched while they made their way through the fleet sometimes, after getting a bad start or having incidents with the floating plastic bags and such. www.mauisails.com | 0
Maui Monthly | Our Experience Your Reward no. 09. December 2005
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The most fun of it was staying in the Australian Student Hostel in Elsternwick. I had a great room, a good kitchen to work in, and the host, Don, who was about my age, got along famously well and took excellent care of us all. I headed back through Perth where there were shop visits, catching up with old friends, and a great barbeque at the home of Mark Defriest. We talked late into the night about all sorts of things, and it felt as though Australia was going to become a MauiSails kind of place again. Several of the guys remembered buying sails at the original loft back in the early eighties on Maui. And they all remembered Fred Haywood at Woodman’s Point, setting the Class-A world speed record. Forty or so hours, including a night in the transit lounge of Changi Airport in Singapore, and I was home again. The Hula Girl survived a nasty Kona wind while I was gone, so looks like New Year’s Day could be a good one, with whaley boys and lots of sunshine and wind. How can you go wrong if you start the new year with sailing? I hope the same for all of you and yours and best wishes for 2006. Aloha, Barry .
Hookipa in the Fall.
with whitecaps and the tops of the swells being blown off as they break on the outer reefs. The air is misty with salt spray as you look down towards town, “ah it’s going to be an awesome sailing day”, I think to myself. You get a glance of the swell as you drive down the hill at Hookipa where all the surfers hang out, today there is a lot less of them and you cruise relatively easily past the locals boys at the North end of Hookipa. The parking lot is getting full, but most of the sailors are sitting around talking and not really looking too urgent, which is another sign of a big swell.
The talk around town is for the swell to pick up, this is usually a good sign that it’s going to get really good at Hookipa and hopefully still with consistent Trade winds. I wake up as any day on Maui to emails and oatmeal, but today is different and everyone can feel it. I wander out to my van and make sure I have enough sails and boards for the day’s sailing. As usual it’s packed with race gear, but today I have an extra wave board and a few more wave masts, just in case. I touch base with the crew and it become obvious that Hookipa is going to be happening today. I head down the beach around 11.30am. As I drive up the hill after I pass Maliko gulch and look over the top you see the swell breaking outside of the cliff’s and all the way down the coast. Your heart starts to pump faster and already you start to envision yourself picking off the perfect wave and riding up and down like a roller coaster. As you drive further down the Hana Highway towards the Hookipa turn off, I glance back up wind to see how consistent and strong the trade winds are blowing. Of course the wind looks perfect, already covering the ocean
I already know what board and sail I’m going to rig, so I get out of my van and head straight back to the two doors and pick out my rig for the day. I finish rigging and without hesitation head straight out into the water. The channel is already closing out so some are tactics need to be applied so my day is not cut short by going on the rocks too early. Gibing a few times in the small cove just left of the beach, I see my chance to head across to the channel and out to break zone. I head out to sea to pick off the biggest swell I can find. It seems like minutes until I finally gibe and head back into shore. Maui is so beautiful and especially on a day like today, when both mountains are clear, the swell is rolling in big from the West and the trades wind are enough to push you onto the waves and out again. I enter the point of no return on the my first wave of the day, the wave starts to throw hard upwind of me. I stall out and slow down slightly to postion myself for the first turn of the day. As I pick up speed and look back up at the lip to the point I want to do my next turn at, I realize this is the moment we have all be waiting for when we come to Maui. Up and down 3 or 4 times on a mast high wave, each time getting closer to the lip, but still staying in total control. I kick out in the channel and take a deep breath and glance up wind to see a few more sailors now heading out and picking off some waves. “Man, that is one of the best feelings in the World, Hookipa in the fall”. Aloha, Phil. www.mauisails.com | 0