Maui 3/23 thru 4/4 4.3 - 5.8

[Sarah Ranes]

Linda and I had a wonderful trip to Maui, and sailed 9 out of 12 days. A little lighter wind this year, by maui standards, but the biggest I sailed was a 5.8 and 94 ltr board. Wow I sure felt rusty the first couple of days, then finally got in the groove of things. This was a celebration trip of Linda's recovery from cancer, and a big hurah for me, before I face knee replaccment surgery, next week. Rented gear from the Kanaha Kai, that turned out to be really handy, having it so close by kanaha. We had a bad fire, one day just upwind of kanaha, and it was so smokey, that when we went out on the water, we could not see the shore, and it was a bit hard to breath, and cut our day short. Our rental car stunk the rest of the week. One afternoon, I went way out in dark waters and had a whale breech about 100 yrds ahead of me....it definately woke me up, and was very cool to see. kanaha is such a beautiful and pleasant place to windsurf, it has that resort kind of feel especiall with the showers and grassy park. Once on the water, the swell gets so big sometimes that you feel like you are going over the top of a house. Kindof exciting for most of us Utah sailors. Can't wait to go back.

[rob smith]

Sounds perfect. Can relate to all of the experience of the north shore with the large swell way out to the nice rigging area. Good to both of you with your recovery and preparation.

Rob

[duanekarren]

Great to see a post from you two. Wondered what was going on cuz haven't seen you out doing any carp runs here. Glad to hear Linda has recovered and good luck to you with the knee replacement.

[John Freed]

Way to go Linda! You da woman!!! Good luck Sara!!!! Great way to celebrate!!! Hope to see you guys soon...

[Ralph Morrison]

Thanks for the post Sarah. I love it there too. I would really like to get close to a whale someday. I'm sorry to hear about your knee but that's great news for Linda!