This morning I was woken up on Maui’s North Shore with sirens blaring at 6AM.  I checked the news and it said there was a Tsunami on the way, generated by a massive earthquake in Chile measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale.  Thankfully, the Tidal Waves were rather small, and nothing serious came of it [...]

Here is a video from Cape Sebastian on the Oregon Coast. The Cape is located on the Southern Oregon Coast right next to Pistol River. Jake and I had a great trip trying out a bunch of new spots along the Coast. This was the only day that we sailed the Cape, and it was [...]

Here’s a video from last July on the Oregon Coast.  It is the second of three Summer videos created by Snakebite Productions of our trip.  The first was the Pistol River video, and can be found on the video page at http://www.oesaustralia.com/videos/.   The third should be out soon.

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After time spent testing on Maui, we had a chance to ride the Quad Fin 75 in a good sized swell.  Our big wave expectations were confirmed.  The board rips with superior holding power in large choppy waves, without being penalized from excess fin drag.  “We wanted to make sure that this design would not be over-finned.”  [...]

I returned to Maui in August, and have been blessed with top notch conditions throughout the period.  I have been sailing almost every day.  There has been a steady supply of small windswell waves to play with, and more recently a large out of season North swell arrived.  The North swell provided some really epic [...]

As Promised, here is another good video from Oregon. This one takes place in Arlington, OR, located in the Eastern portion of the Gorge. It was an extremely windy day with some of the best Gorge sailors hitting the water. Also check out the pics from another spot just downstream at a [...]

I am wrapping up a month long windsurfing vacation to Oregon. It has been very good overall, with some great days in the Gorge, and also up and down the coastline. Oregon has so many sailing spots, that you can pretty much pick and choose what kind of conditions you are after. For someone who [...]

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For the last two months, Maui has had some of the worst weather for windsurfing.  I won’t dwell on that because the wind is back.  With a little down time, I have been sifting through some of my pictures.  I found some shots (not the best quality) of a Kona Wind day earlier this year.  [...]

Hello everyone.  I wanted to share with you some pics of my most recent Baja trip.  I went to Punta San Carlos in Sept. of ‘08 and scored truly epic conditions.  I used ‘09 Ezzy sails 4.2 and 4.7 and my ‘09 OES WavePro 67L board.  It was an amazing trip and I came back [...]