Travel & Experiences
She skims over the water with the grace, strength and agility of someone half--or even a third--her age.
July 11, 1993
Archives
Jeff Roof draws the plastic sail into his chest as a gust sends his sailboard skidding across lower Castaic Lake.
June 10, 1988
Science & Medicine
Turn an old Columbia Gorge lumber mill into a resort? Some say no way.
May 11, 2004
Lanee Butler was angry, tired and wet, but she couldn’t leave the water.
Aug. 23, 1994
Leaving the North Queensland port of Shute Harbor, we cleared Mandalay Point aboard the brigantine Golden Plover for a week of sailing and camping among Australia’s Whitsunday Islands.
May 17, 1987
When I want to gauge the wind, I study the treetops or hold up a moistened index fingertip in the air.
April 13, 1998
California
A typical day for Chang Liampetchakul, 33-year-old windsurfer and owner of a Ventura Thai restaurant: Get up, check the weather report, go to the restaurant, check the weather report, eat a bowl of mee krob , check the weather report, hear the magic words winds of 25 miles per hour , cancel all appointments, abandon customers, get in the water at warp speed.
Nov. 29, 1992
Kathy Bender, who didn’t know her bow from her stern before taking a windsurfing class, balanced shakily on the windsurfer, her feet kneading it as if she was standing on hot coals.
Aug. 17, 1989
A Cuban man last week windsurfed his way from the Caribbean island nation to Florida, media reports said, becoming the first Cuban windsurfer to make the 100-mile crossing in two decades.
Feb. 26, 2014