With the shortest day of the year only just behind us, windsurfing season in San Francisco seems like a long way off. The launch of the new Aerotech website was a reminder to the contrary. The site announces several new sails for 2011 and features a bunch of photos I shot of Bay Area sailors David Wells and Jean Rathle.
One of my windsurfing photos of Whit Poor got published in the Wipeout section of the Fall issue of Wend Magazine. Here’s a screenshot of the layout.
Today was a great day on Maui although that is probably a statement that is often repeated. In an effort to squeeze in some more photo time before heading home, I went to Hookipa for the afternoon. The swell and wind were both up from Tuesday and more sailors were on the water to take advantage.
The star of the day was US1113 – Bernd Roediger whose youthful energy caught him at least twice as many waves as everyone else. Click through on any of the photos below to see the whole gallery.
After a summer of cold San Francisco fog, it was time to escape to somewhere warmer, Maui. The conditions at Hookipa were far from epic, but were a nice change from the cold of Crissy Field. I sat up on the cliff and watched as the sailors waited outside for the right combo of wind and waves before making their ride in. Click on any of the pics below to see the full gallery.
This afternoon, I popped over to the Berkeley Yacht Club to catch their club race that for the first time included the windsurfing fleet. Here’s Mike Percey heading out for the start of the race. Check out the recap on Waterhound.
The newest issue of Windsport magazine has just hit mailboxes and newsstands across the country and it’s got two of my photos inside. Both photos are of Naish teamrider, Wyatt Miller. We shot the photos back on May 23rd.
Even after a week of solid racing, a group of formula windsurfers took to the water today for some training. Steve Sylvester and Xavier Ferlet sailed from Berkeley to Crissy Field to meet up with Steve Bodner, Soheil Zahedi, and Aurelien le Matayer. Here are a few overhead shots of their session. Click on the photos below to go to the full gallery.
After reviewing the thousands of photos I shot over all five days of the event, I’ve selected more than 500 images worthy of posting to the US Windsurfing Nationals photo gallery. It takes more time in front of the computer that it originally did to shoot all the photos. The photos are all categorized by sailors’ names, sail numbers, sail manufacturer, day, event type (formula, slalom, long distance, freestyle, juniors). Look under the photos for the list of keywords. Clicking on any of the keywords will filter the images that are displayed.
I have tons more photos so if you don’t see what you are looking for, please email me and I will go back and look through my archive.
Long distance and slalom racing were the order of the day today. I hiked up to the Golden Gate Bridge to get an overhead view of the race. Phil McGain (KA7) was fastest on the trip down to Treasure Island and back and finished in first place.
The second day of racing brought more foggy weather, but wind enough to get in three races.
