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October sure was a good month I am happy on how this whole month started. It’s been a long road and hard training and it all paid off when I finished 2nd in the last PWA Freestyle event in Sylt. With my 2nd place I have also secured my Overall podium finish for the year as Vice World Champion. Even though it was not my plan for this year (because I was really looking to be the World Champion :) in the end being second is also something to celebrate.

I’m Happy with this result and I am really looking forward to next year. I look back on what went wrong and now I’ll look forward to keep windsurfing and push myself even more.

During my days in Sylt we also had the crew filming the last parts of the ’Children of the Wind’ documentary, so it was kinda cool to have them here because then they have all the shots they needed to finalize the story. I guess having me finishing 2nd and Kiri 3rd and Tonky 5th will be a great part for the story. THIS DOCUMENTARY IS AT THIS MOMENT IN EDITING PROCESS AND FROM WHAT I KNOW AT THIS MOMENT IT WILL BE DONE BY DECEMBER.

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Me and the whole Bonaire team flew home on the 4th. Arriving back on Bonaire was just great, finally back in the warm weather. LOVE SYLT but I LOVE BONAIRE MORE. I arrived 2 days late to be able to compete in the International Bonaire regatta, so this time I just looked at the races and enjoyed my time at the beach. The people on Bonaire were all happy to have three Bonaire guys in the top five of the world and it is such a great feeling to have people love us for what we do :).

I arrived on Bonaire the 6th then I quickly had to book my ticket to fly to Thailand on the 19th to meet with the Starboard R&D team so that I can start to work on the NEW FREESTYLE BOARDS. Twelve days on Bonaire I spent with my Daughter and also had three good days sailing with my Loco 4.8 together with my brother, Tonky. It’s been awhile since we sailed together so I really enjoyed this day.

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Days fly by quick. Only the other day I was competing in Sylt, then I was back on Bonaire, then I am sitting on the plane to Thailand... what the hell???. It’s been a long flight for me and with a 12 hour stay in Amsterdam before my next flight to BKK... well you be the judge. But it’s been three years since I was in Thailand and it was a great feeling to see this nice airport again and just good to be back to see all the Starboard R&D team and to be able to work on the boards is just AWESOME :).

I had a great and hard Thai massage... I just needed that. hihihi. The food here is not what I have really been used to eat back on Bonaire but I am surviving.. I just need to get used to eating Thai food.

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At the moment it’s like 4pm I have just arrived in Vietnam together with Sven Akkerboom and Sascha the Starboard marketing manager for testing the Freestyle boards. The wind is good and I will go to sleep now because tomorrow is testing and sailing time.

BTW: the flight time from BKK to Vietnam is 1:30 minutes and a 4 hour car drive to the Moon Beach Hotel. Nice hotel.. I feel like a king.. hihihihihi.. :) Well catch ya’ ll on the next one, I’ll be in Thailand for one month or so, and on the next one I will still be able to tell you a bit more from my last two weeks stay.

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After the event in Germany I left straight for Maui and found wind every day, more or less, for trying the new prototype race sails between 5.5 to 9.2. I was there to give the team my input. After sailing all season on TR-6 it wouldn’t be possible not to know how the sails have been working and what likes to be improved.

With both Barry and Art hands on as

designers, they did an awesome job with the new sails and great progress was made with changed luff curves, reducing luff and boom lengths, wider sleeve, clew cut out and more seam shaping. All in all the sails become much more efficient and seem to be working better on the standard masts again, which I think was the most important issue.

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Throughout my stay I usually visited the loft in the morning before heading down the coast.

Normally I would spend the days testing down in Kanaha, but sometimes I could not pass by Hookipa without jumping in the water or head out for a nice Wave sailing session. There is nothing like windsurfing in Maui wearing only board shorts and not a day goes by without feeling just lucky to be here.

One of the top days was when the North swell hit Hookipa and in super light wind being out there on 5.7 Ghost and 93 liter Quad, with only 3 other guys out. It was just enough to putt around on this ultra light gear and catch over-masthigh waves, as for the other days, it usually is kind of a zoo out there

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and its pretty competitive sailing. But definitely a lot of fun at the most well known beach in the world. On the other side of the island at S-turns we also scored some fun days when the North Shore was getting pounded, as it usually breaks good there in big swell and North wind. Some surf sessions at Honolua bay and little Makaha and some SUP at Thousand Peaks.

Other fun days were in Kihei, especially the day I was sailing with Dan Ellis in the bay between Haleakala and West maui mountains, with breath taking views and adrenaline rushing while going at up to 40 knots through the choppy waters.

And of course the conditions were going off the day after Halloween!

It was a learning experience, and I started looking forward to next season in preparation for PWA 2011 with competitions like Vietnam, Korea, Croatia, Costa Brava, Fuerteventura, Turkey, Sylt and any other venues where we may have to go to compete for the world title.

Hope you having a great sail!

Aloha, Peter Volwater H-24

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max speed of 46.5 knots today on TR-6 5.1 Had to cut this session short to catch the plane but happy I could sail for an hour and break my PR!! seemed like it was just getting better and better, so I expect the other guys to post some nice results too. Benny had 2 runs of 44+ already when I left, awesome conditions at Kuitje today.

Off to Cape Verde in 30 mins Yeaha!!

Session date Spot Board Sail Fin GPS type

Thursday, November 11, 2010 Den Helder - Het Kuitje, Netherlands Fanatic Falcon mini speed, 2008 Maui Sails TR-6 5.1, 2010 C3 Venom 21 Navi GT-31

Average speed Max. GPS (display) Max. 2 sec. (software) 100 m run 250 m run 500 m run Nautical mile 1 hour Alpha racing Distance Duration Wind direction

43.85 knots ( 45.04 44.7 43.66 43.22 42.64 ) 0 knots 46.58 knots 46 knots 44.9 knots 43.53 knots 31.6 knots 14.08 knots 14.73 knots 39 km 01:04:00 S ( 270)

Source : http://www.gps-speedsurfing.com Photo : Bogo

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Aloha Recreational Freeride

Aloha sails for 2011 continues as a super light five batten with high value and superb function. Over the years it has evolved into a tested and highly developed, simple RAF. Adding a third color to the scheme makes the design jump out at you, and in keeping with all the MauiSails, there is more XPly™ to emphasize the other colors and provide more durability. The Low Tension Settings make rigging and tuning easy and simple, perfect for beginner to intermediates, but with performance to handle anything.

Sail sizes : 4.5, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 7.0, 7.5

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11 Freeride sails Aloha, Pursuit and TitanGS The 2011 MauiSails Freeride Collection brings three familiar performance ranges to a new level of color and excitement - Aloha recreational freeride, Pursuit pure no cam freeride and TitanGS totally new 2-3 cam wide sleeve freerace sails. Find out a little bit more about each model.

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Pursuit Freeride no cam sail

The 2011 Pursuit, has a simple RAF slalom outline and maintains the level of fastest in its class. Perfectly even shape distribution produces a smooth transition from the fullness of the lower sections to the flatter upper sections. The relatively low total luff curve values are responsible for the simple tuning and easy rigging that is the mark of a good RAF sail, making it super for fun slalom and easy to sail. The wide range enables you to handle a broad variety of conditions, and the light weight always makes it easier to spend more time sailing. Tube/rod battens are there for excellent draft stability, high end control and balance at speed. The correct combination of shaping and tension produces an efficient power generator with twist progression perfectly suited to open ended blasting and carving jibes.

Sail sizes : 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 7.0, 7.5, 8.0, 8.5

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TitanGS Freeride/freerace cam sail

The 2011 Titan-GS is totally new and ready to rig with cams off. It’s the perfect sail for fast free riding and Formula Experience racing with the sleeve width necessary to put extra pressure on the cams to stabilize draft. The use of flexible sleeve material makes the rotation soft and easy for Formula Experience racers who will find the new slightly flatter profile aloft matches perfectly with the deeper sections around the boom for acceleration and top speed control. Increased use of XPly™ materials creates a striking, edgy look and four tube/rod battens guarantee shape stability and light weight. An integrated lightweight loop-on clew pulley is the low friction solution for full race capability with the use of adjustable outhaul.

The 2011 Titan-GS is the ideal sail for easy Freerace sailing, with manageable power and competition speed.

Sail sizes : 6.0, 6.5, 7.0, 7.5, 8.0, 8.5, 9.0, 9.5, 10.0, 11.0

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Travelin’ Month For the last two falls I’ve spent my time down in Jericoacoara teaching for the Vela/Club Ventos center there. However, after last spring over on Maui, I couldn’t resist the idea of instead trying to spend a full winter over there. So, with the Hood River winter approaching, I booked my flight west and got over to the island midOctober!

The month started out wrapping up the Tabou fall-annual wavecamp in San Carlos (www.solosports.net). San Carlos delivered as usual with great conditions for the whole time we were there. 1,500 miles and a day and a half later I found myself back in Hood River, rapidly repacking to move out a day later. Arriving to Maui,, Ingrid and I were welcomed with warm weather, warm water, wind, and waves! We had some sick days early in our trip over with consistent waves. I spent most of my time on my 5.0 and 4.7 Legend. After sailing high-wind gorge all summer typically on my 4.2, it was fun to get back on the ‘bigger’ sails, I forgot just how much I love my 4.7! Ingrid picked up a 4.5 legend over here (now her ‘big’ sail), and has been blown away with how light it feels, just like her 3.7 she says! We had a couple good days at Hookipa, but the best for me was a session over on the Westside just last week. A huge swell came and closed out the North Shore, and Peter Volwater, who is also on the island training for upcoming Cabo Verde, called me up and we headed over to Kahana on the westside. Everyone else must have been either towing or just watching the massive waves roll in on the north-shore, I don’t know, but on this day no one was out. Peter and I had it all to ourselves, logo-mast high, perfect down-the-line. Peter was killing it on his 5.7 Ghost and 93 Fanatic Quad, I saw him stomp a perfect wave 360 right as I pulled up to the beach! I rigged my 5.0 frantically and headed to the water, and for 2-hours we had the place all to ourselves!

The next day we rolled back over and it was a zoo, tons of people out and the swell had diminished drastically… ;) Looking forward to more wind&waves!

Cya on the water, Casey Hauser US-634

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TR-7 DEVELOPMENT It’s been another very busy month at the loft as we continue to work through the TR-7 designs. The new low aspect outline and shaping changes have been proving effective throughout the size range and the samples have been turning out nicely. We’re starting to zero in on our optimum configuration and getting close to final on a number of sizes. The next month will be filled with recuts and fine tuning as we polish the designs into a final product.

It’s been great to have Peter on Maui, getting involved in the testing together with Phil. Each size is getting a thorough work out and our GPS testing has been showing significant speed improvement over previous years. I’ve been getting out on the slalom gear a bit too and am quite stoked with the great balance and light handling that is characteristic of the new race sails. All the power is still there but it’s now easier to control and more efficient and this translates into more speed and range.

Race sail development is always an intense, but exciting time with longer hours as we draw nearer to the December deadline. Fortunately, fall on Maui also conjures up some distraction in the form of killer wave sailing after work. The only catch is that when you work designing sails it’s hard to just go for a wave session without constantly scrutinizing your rig in the process, thinking about what to improve for 2012. What a rough life.

Aloha, Artur Szpunar

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Getting ready to Race!

October is always the mad month of moving race sail design to the finish. Deadlines for production and registration loom and the ideas must solidify and gel into real performance improvements. This year the TR-7 will be taking a big leap towards what we already see as better everything. Art has been busy adjusting outlines and adapting luff curves and shaping to a move towards lower aspect/short boom, thereby allowing the use of shorter masts and fitting more sails onto existing booms.

This should address many of the suggestions we get from agents and forum members about developments they feel would benefit them.

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Peter Volwater has been here almost the whole month and is getting quite good GPS results in moderate conditions. He has a goal to be the fastest on the open water and is giving us excellent feedback on the speed and handling of the slalom sails. Several sessions have produced speeds up to several knots faster than the benchmark TR-6’s he raced on last year, and these were consistent with what Phil has been also finding with his GPS testing. As always our main focus is how to keep pushing the range (low and high) to get more speed and acceleration while still expanding the carry-through in lulls, without giving up the nice feel that we know everyone loves. This isn’t as easy as we would like, but always sets the basis for the desired result.

In a session during the last week of the month Peter had a peak speed of 40.8, and average of 38+ with 6.3 in gusty 20-35 conditions. He was laughing about that because his log showed he sailed 175km over the day. A good bit of exercise when you are going 38 or more all the time. Translating that into winning results isn’t any easier, but good speed potential never hurts.

Cornelia got a few hours more on the rebuilt rig and still needs a spot of tuning.

Even big rigs needs careful measuring of tension and an understanding of how that affects the mast action. So we sail her soft and keep the loads down while figuring out what to loosen or tighten to keep the mast in column. I did some work aloft, and then we took Haywoods and the Kurt Denk family out for a good day in the sun. Young son Oliver got to drive for some fun and we introduced another bright mind to sailing on boats.

Here’s looking forward to a great November too..

Aloha, Barry Spanier

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October is time to focus

Race sail development has been the priority this month. We have had perfect conditions here on Maui to test all the sizes, Peter is here to help and give his feedback. Working on the TR-7 is always rewarding because we always seems to be going forward and there’s so many variables in the design process. Barry and Art do a great job taking the feedback, massaging the designs and blending theory with practice.

Still the most important thing is getting time on the sails on the water, this is where it all happens. Testing each size against each other, testing the new proto’s against last years production sails, testing our sails against other brands.

You’ve got to do it all and cover all your bases. Maui enables that sort of attention because of the conditions we have all year round.

Off to look for some light wind today for more on the water testing.

Aloha, Phil McGain

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