Maui Monthly no.50. June 2009

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In the double elimination Steven showed again his absolute domination by winning against Scheffers and Paskowski to reach the big final. Then he proved to be the number one by beating Ackghazyan twice to take the title of King Of The Bay. Steven took his 4th victory of EFPT in a row.

Before he won events in: Greece - Milos Beach Corona Lefkada Open Crete - Palekastro Freestyle 2009 Sardinia - Toshiba Freestyle Grand Prix Week later after EFPT event in Alacati Steven was on Lanzarote for freestyle PWA Costa Teguise World Cup. He scored there very well and it was his first entry in PWA worldcup freestyle. On Lanzarote he ended 6th overall and he impressed the international scene. In more wave conditions (with Steven isn’t used to) he performed very well.

Congratulations to Steven.

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UPPSsss I did it again

In Alacati/Turkey during King of the Bay Steven Van Broeckhoven (F2/ MauiSails) won the first single elimination and the following double against Andre Paskowski. In the second single elimination Steven was beaten in the semi final by Andre Paskowski. Ackghazyan won the single elimination against Paskowski and Steven took 3th place by passing Niklas Strahlen from Sweden.

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and again and again and ...

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I like the finished product of the Maui Monthlies. Bogo puts together a great layout and all the stories, feelings, and vibes from the MauiSails Power team make for great reading. In writing my own Maui Monthly I strive to pass on my tales with freshness and vivacity, which is why I am a bit worried about being repetitious in my writings. I’ll give it a go anyways.

I’m writing this in my car at Pozo as I just arrived from the following trip that has kicked my butt........ Cabo Verde to Munich (errands and overnight Munich) early next day Munich to Gran Canaria (drop off gear), leave same night Gran Canaria to Madrid, Madrid to London City, subway to Heathrow, Heathrow to Boston, (three days in Boston with Claudia and Noah, relaxing and enjoying). Boston back to Heathrow (one day in London, meetings), Heathrow to Madrid, Madrid to Gran Canaria, arrive to hotel at 4 a.m., wake up sail waves and sail slalom, have lunch.... and now to where I am in my car with the a/c on getting psyched up for the evening session.

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the Pro Month Josh Angulo

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But before the one week whirlwind, let’s go to the beginning of June where my family and I got to hang out in a beautiful home in Cotignac, France (which is close to Almanarre and Marseille). So I still got to sail. I got to do the Costa Brava event and in challenging conditions I finished with a 12th. I made a last minute decision after Costa Brava to go home to Cabo Verde for a week. A week that has been one of the best in the last months. Jean Bouldoires came and we took new and old slalom prototypes and tested a lot. At the same time i was able to hang out with family and friends at the windsurf center, cooked big lunches with everybody coming by just hanging out. Had some quality time with the family, got to check up on the business and goings-on in CV and refresh before jumping on the aformentioned whirlwind that finished in GC for the start of July and what should be an epic month of racing, waveriding, and brutal competition. The arrival here signals a crux in the tour where rankings and placings start getting established before the latter part of the year. Although rankings are not the most important thing to me, I, as do all my competitors and peers, want to go out and get strong results in the bag, so hopefully the jumping around in the month of June will set the tone to bunker down in July and get’er done.

Aloha Josh Angulo CV-1

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the worst illness in my life

Let’s start everything again after the worst illness I had in my life. Now I’m feeling 100% well again and I will be ready for the Canaries. In Costa Brava we had only few days with wind and the first round I wasnt able to compete but at least I had some good heats in the second elimination with my 9,2.I have to say one more time, this sail is really good in light wind slalom conditions. I used only this sail during the PWA in Costa Brava. I’m going this week to Gran Canaria to start the testing with the small sizes. I’m sure they will be very good too. I’m looking foward to arrive there and go sailing in that crazy conditions

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Now I’m competing in the local FW event here in my city. Almost all top Brazilian sailors are here including : Fabio Melo, Victor Melo, Paulo dos Reis and many more. We did four races and I won 3. Fabio Melo also with MauiSails this year won the other one and Victor Melo with MauiSails too finished in 3rd place. I’m happy to see the podium of the local races only with MauiSails. In the top 5 of this event 4 guys were using MauiSails !!!!

Aloha, Gabriel Browne BRA-50.

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3rd in PWA Costa Brava

Marta Hlavaty leading the race in Costa Brava. Courtesy of John Carter/PWA

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June was a big contrast to the last month, not having to travel a lot and not much wind everywhere I went. At the PWA in Costa Brava we could train perfectly the day before the race, but the wind hardly materialized during the event; we were lucky to have one round and just the start of another one.

My registered light wind equipment was perfectly in tune though. All the gear working perfectly together. All qualification heats went really well until the final, and I moved up to 7th overall before the Canaries leg of the tour.

Having a lot of free time I planned my next trip straight to the Canaries from Barcelona to windsurf at Pozo before the event and to save on costs and excess baggage charges as well. There has been some wind here on GC, just not what we were expecting this time of the year, but together with Ross and Robby we have still been sailing whenever possible. My 5,0 has been feeling really good; it’s very lively, reactive and forgiving and it seems to allow you to make quick progress in your sailing. It also has a big range and I never been overpowered by the sail yet. But the 4,2 Legend is ready to see some action!

Josh came by for a day to leave his gear on the way to England. It was fun and entertaining to hang out with him relaxing and showing him the rough life here at the Gloria Palace Hotel - especially by the pool side - before we send him of on his connecting flight.

Judging by the forecast Josh probably did a smart manouvre, because we have been waiting for the trades to return until yesterday. Usually the first week of July goes off here, really looking forward to some extreme jumping conditions soon.....!

Aloha Peter Volwater H-24

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not much wind or travel in June

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It looks like June has been pretty short month for me. I remember being on Aruba together with Gollito and Kiri for two days visiting Sarah Quita, and sailing with the Aruba Kids. We had a great day sailing being on my Loco 4.8 fully powered up. The windsurf spot was the best spot and also been known to many who did World Cup back in the late 90’s. Now that they are building many hotels it’s started to be really gusty, but still it is a great place for windsurfers to enjoy. The wind is stronger in Aruba compared to Bonaire and Curacao, maybe about five to ten knots more.

After spending two days in Aruba I came back to Bonaire and the wind was still good. I sailed mostly on my 5.2 and 4.8. along with Tonky, Kiri, and Bjorn. Freestyling is what we did the most, pushing each other to the max. I also did some slalom runs with the Bonaire team before left the Island. This year we have the IFCA Worlds on Bonaire and the Bonaire team seems ready to dominate. The guys on Bonaire have great speed and they are jibing really good.

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One week before I had to fly to Lanzarote we had no wind. On Bonaire it was boring and pretty hot, so I did some ATV riding and just spent some time cruising around the island swimming, fishing, and having some funny times with my friends. Just two days before I flew from Bonaire, the wind started to blow like crazy perfect 20-30 knots, but I already packed my bags so wasn’t going to take anything out. I went to the beach and borrowed some slalom gear just to windsurf before i left for Lanzarote.

Together with Kiri we flew on the 25th to Europe and we got four days before the event to train and get used to the conditions. But we never sailed before the event due to zero wind until the event started when we had some 5.2 conditions. I will get back to you on my freestyle experience in the next issue.

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Taty Frans going wild on Lanzarote during PWA Costa Teguise World Cup

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return of the trade winds The trade winds finally returned to Maui this past month. We even got an additional treat with some late season North swell. Every one was very eager to get on the water in these fun conditions after a slow start to the spring. I guess it takes an occasional lull in the wind to get you charged up and excited when it finally returns. I felt like I couldn’t stop sailing on many days, only the sun dropping below the horizon finally convinced me to come back to shore.

With our wave lines in production, it was time to move on to the free-ride sails. One of our goals was to tune up the TITAN sail line to achieve maximum performance for a seven batten sail while maintaining it’s more forgiving feel. We’ve been going through all the sizes, testing each one on the water and getting ideas for improving performance. We have been adjusting seam shaping and luff curves to give the sails a much more even twist and efficient profile. So far, the results have been quite noticeable and we expect to make even more progress over the next couple of months. The TITAN is the sail for any one that wants speed and performance as close to a race sail as possible but in a softer, more forgiving package.

The beginning of summer is also the time that we start thinking about new ideas for the race sails. We already have some undercover prototypes in the works and it will be good to start testing. Every year we seem to learn something new during race sail development and to me that is what makes it exciting.

Aloha, Artur Szpunar

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a lot is going on around

June means we are halfway there, summer (winter for some) solstice is a time to look around and find all the good stuff to enjoy.

Planting (or harvest) is done and we are waiting collectively for a few months of good times enjoying it all.

Here in Maui we have gotten over our wind drought and now have a really good day-to-day look at everything that is cooking for the fall season. Pursuit, Aloha, and Titan are getting thoroughly tuned and are receiving a dose of Art’s graphic magic. He has managed to make production efficient panels look very curvy and special, bringing lots of color and motion to the designs. Inside, the part you don’t see visually, is also getting the continued tuning that has been making all the sails get better and better. Sailing last evening on a 7.0 Pursuit in the fading light reminded me how far we have come to make sailing more fun. Light sails, light in the hands, and steady easy power made it all that more enjoyable.

This month has been encouraging on the Commercial Sail ideas I have been promoting. Still no response from the Obama Administration (sent out March 23), or from John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, or Dan Akaka.

However, people I haven’t heard from in ages are contacting me and asking what they can do. Naval Architect Tom Wylie, designer/builder of the Derek M. Baylis www.sealifeconservation.org/baylis.html a 65’ ketch rigged with sails that look like ours, has plans for a 240’ research vessel for Oregon State University.

Dan Weiss, one of our regular forum contributors has expressed interest and connections. I am hopeful that word of mouth and the web will get more folks interested in this goal.

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With the new laws near to passing that will require a 17% reduction in CO2 (read that as fuel burning) emissions by 2020 or risk onerous taxes, it surely will be recognized that a sailing vessel hauling cargo will burn NOTHING for periods while the sailing is good, and could possibly reduce fuel burning by as much as 30% if properly initiated. We have very few years to sort this out and now is as good a time as any to push for proactive solutions. If you check out www.commercial-sail-associates.com you will see that this was a decent proposal (made it to the Senate floor as S2992 that year) in 1980, and is even more sensible in today’s economic and environmental situation.

Next month I may have an announcement about another project that is near completion... a good yarn about life on board the Seminole during the voyage from San Francisco to New Zealand and back to Hawaii to start MauiSails. It’s called Dear Mom / The Bare Chronicles. It’s based on four years of letters i wrote to my mother during that time. She saved all the letters and gave them to me in January, and in re-reading them my memories were boosted and it became easy to fill in the spaces in between. It’s a very personal and much deeper look into my life and mindset before getting involved in windsurfing, and will be interesting to anyone who enoys reading about alternative lifestyles or unusual experiences.

Here comes the Fourth of July!

Aloha Barry Spanier

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racing all the time

A busy month slalom racing and triathlon racing/training. We had two Kanaha slalom series already in June and I had decent success both week, although in different divisions both times. The first week I surprised myself and won the pro division in front of Peiter Bijl and Peter Slate, but got beaten by Alex in the age group. Then the second week I cleaned the platter in the age group and couldn’t get it together in the pro division. I’m happy with the way I raced, the sails were feeling great and everyone else using the TR5’s were really stoked. Racing is always the best place to learn about the sails and build ideas for the next generation of race sails. The boys are still doing well in Europe with Costa Brava being held during the month of June.

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I did two triathlons this month, the first being Honolulu Triathlon, which I achieved my personal record in 2 hours 23 minutes for an Olympic distance triathlon. Then later in the month after being sick for two weeks I completed my first half Ironman triathlon in 6 hours 13 minutes. Last week I took the jet over to Frankfurt where I’ll compete in my first full Ironman triathlon.

Aloha, Phil McGain

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