Beach Telegraph

Time of the Month

The MauiSails Monthly News letter. 

More shots from the epic-looking South American Wavesailing Championships event in Peru.

More news from earlier below and remember the PWA Pegasus Airlines World Cup starts today in Turkey.

Worldwide Whirlwind

A Cyclone windsurfing adventure from Sean. Yikes.

WINDNews magazine [Italian language] is out now.

Some Polish MauiSails riders enjoyed Western Australia - includes a short Margaret River wavesailing clip.

Continent Seven have a link to a clip of wavesailing in Tarifa (Andalucia, Spain) and Carro (France).

Weird.

'Kous' takes you wavesailing near Athens, Greece.

Some more recent Maui windsurfing shots from Makani's Maui Windsurfing Blog.

Victor Fernandez 'getting high' at home.

Planche mag have a video link to footage of the new XO brand sails in action.

Finally, if you didn't see the video or vote on the Goyta/Air Taka Poll to the right, please check it out and register your opinion! Thanks.

That's all for now folks. Gotta dash and see about some real work...

Hot or Not?

Some thoughts on Twin Fins from Ola Helenius.

Congratulations to Stephane Etiene's winning team involving Boujmaa Guillol and Robin Goffinet for winning the Fuerteventura Wave Classic, and to Thomas Traversa for taking the vote on 'Best Rider of the Contest'.

 Photos, videos and write-ups all at the event website.

New Zealand Freestylers get an event to showcase their skills at.

A guide to Front Loops for Dummies.

More success for MauiSails racing.

Grey & gloomy Maui footage. But hey - it's still Hawaii!

Some new talent on the Ezzy Sails team. Looks like some nice sessions been going down on Sardinia...

Following a successful and popular feature at Boards magazine it's time to take the test and see if you're a 'Claimer or a Flamer?'

A guide to another potential Cabo Verde Goldmine. (German Language.)

Watch out for a new mini-poll later...

Need to Know

Keeping you up-to-speed and on-the-pace...

Irish Pro Oisin Van Gelderen sent this scenic shot of a 5 deg Celsius session on Wednesday in Brandon Bay, Ireland, during an 8.6 meter swell and 30 knots of wind. Thanks Oisin. Brrr.

The Maui crew get a break from the old routine. (I bet those shots are flipped from port tack...)

News and pics from the Fuerte Wave Classic.

A Total Wind reader has also posted some nice shots from the contest in their forum too. Here and here.

PWA Slalom Champion Antoine Albeau's re-launched his website.

News, pics and audio [French language] interviews from the AFF event in Almanarre, France.

You can follow more live throughout the day also at Windsurf Journal.

A [German language] interview of filmmaker and PWA Freestyler Andre Paskowski.

The new RRD 11 SUP.

Mad Maarten suggests some no-wind reading material.

A video of a hot Danish lady showing off in Bonaire.

More old-skool windsurfing action video.

Have a nice day.

Genius

There's been plenty of talk about Quad fins and thrusters recently, but take a peak at this 2010 prototype from Starboard.

Also, Check out this new move from Gollito that will feature in Andre Paskowki's upcoming 'Samba' film. Looks like a kind of  Kono-Peverso Reverso to me.

This is pure genius. Journalism at it's Pullitzer prize-winning best in my opinion. You think I'm being sarastic don't you? I'm not. I wish I'd thought of it. Well done and keep it up.

I'm also not sure I totally agree with 'my' answer in 'my interview'. And, for some reason I can't stop keep making anagrams of this Blog author's name, Per Tilmekty.

Here's a slightly longer interview of MauiSails' Designer Barry Spanier for our Italian readers.

I tried Google translate but it didn't come out so well. This is a shame as it would be nice to read a longer, more detailed profile of this one of our sports most prominent, influential and longtime figures.

Do you want to see these quick, done-by-email Q&A articles for free on websites, or would you prefer to get a more in depth focus and prforessionally written piece for a few bucks in print?

Yes, I know you want the quality article for free online, or even in print, but no journalists are getting properly paid for these are they, and almost no websites are raising enough funds through online ads to pay for dedicated staff writers either? What do you think?