All Over The Map

Fun with stained glass and windsurfing

My Canadian friend makes beautiful stained glass windsurfing art.  He's also very creative with his video camera.  Check out his latest windsurfing stained glass video art on YouTube.

Garmin GPS Foretrex 201 - GPS for windsurfers

I ran into a few people this week while on my 6th annual trip to Avon, NC, on Cape Hatteras, wearing the Garmin Foretrex 201. I'm really tempted to buy one of these cool gadgets (under $200) to track distance and wind speed while windsurfing among many other features. It would be really fun to find out how fast I'm sailing, especially when I'm going scarey fast :)

Boston Area Windsurfing Shops

Thank you to Gerry Sollner of the AMC Windsurfing Boston Club for supplying this handy list of windsurfing shops located within 90 minutes of Boston (except for the ferry ride to Martha's Vineyard).

CanAm at Wilderness House
1048 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA
617-277-5858
www.CanAmSailcraft.com

Sailworld
271 Main St.
Buzzards Bay, MA 02532
888-496-4696
www.sailworld.com

Inland Sea Windsurf Co.
West Dennis, MA
888-INLANDC
www.inlandsea.com

Wind's Up
199 Beach Road
Vineyard Haven, MA
508-693-4252
www.windsupmv.com
fun@windsupmv.com

New Hampshire Windsurf
10 Rocks Rd.
Seabrook, NH
800-628-3206
info@nhwindsurf.com
www.nhwindsurf.com

Island Sports
86 Aquidneck Ave
Middletown, RI 02842
401-846-4421
info@islandsports.com
www.islandsports.com

Northwind Sports
267 Thames St.
Bristol, RI
401-254-4295
northwindsports.com
www.northwindsports.com

Put a windsurfer in your tank

Here's a laugh for all of my windsurfing friends.

WC Frisch, a German company, makes a toilet bowl freshener that looks like a windsurfer. The video no longer exists on their site nor on YouTube, but I found images of it here:

http://www.ciao.de/product_images_view.php?ProduktId=2190006&CurrentImage=2190006

I wish they sold these in the U.S.

Favorite places to windsurf

My favorite places to windsurf are:

Fogland Beach in Tiverton, Rhode Island
Avon, North Carolilna (Outer Banx Cape Hatteras)
Jibe City, Bonaire

Next windsurfing destination: Garda Lake, Italy

More on these great windsurfing spots soon!