Windsurfing
I was wondering how many fellow RV’rs and rv.net enthusiasts also have the windsurfing bug? I would be interested in hearing about, and seeing (pics) of, places you have been and how you outfit your ...
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We're fulltimers and windsurf when we can. We carry all our equipment in a storage bay, so we're limited to two boards, two masts, two booms, and three sails, except we got a free 4.2 recently, and violated policy in the interest of thrift.
We're wildly under-equipped by some standards, but it all fits inside, which is just fabulous:
We vastly prefer to be able to park the moho where we sail because we won't have to worry about forgetting anything (note pink tag in above photo that says MASTS), and our toad isn't exactly a gear hauler:
That photo is from Cape Hatteras, where you don't drive fast to the launch--otherwise the sails have to go inside so they don't get blown off the roof, which doesn't leave much room for the passenger.
Access to windsurfable water-side sites can be problematic in a 40-foot motorhome, but something that big means we always have our equipment with us. Always a compromise.
But it allowed us, for example, to windsurf in the disgusting Salton Sea in southern California, near The Slabs. Nobody in their right mind would make an effort to sail there, but we were going by and there were RV sites on the water, and we had our equipment, right?
Here's the view from the water's edge:
If you want to read more about it, we documented the folly on our website.
On a better note, we stayed at a very nice spot at San Luis Reservoir in central California. This campground has no hookups, and we were the only people there in mid-September 2004:
That was a pleasurable experience--the write-up is here.
We have also sailed from our RV in Corpus Christi, but the weather there is so miserable it's livable for only a few months out of the year because there's no electricity for air conditioning and using a generator will make you VERY unpopular VERY quickly. Pretty much everybody there has solar, which makes it a nice place, except it's so muggy and ugly. And it's salt water and even saltier air, which ruins everything it touches. But the sailing is good.
I appreciate the tip on Lake Hattie in Wyoming--that looks like just our kind of place. We know some people in Steamboat who go camping/windsurfing in Wyoming, but I never found out where it is they go--I wonder if that's it.
But you know, I say all this about a big motorhome holding all the equipment, and I know a couple who fulltime in a VAN. Seriously--a van, and not even a Sprinter. The windsurfing stuff (they have a lot more than we do) rides on top. They have a place to store the equipment in Colorado, and they drop it off in the summer while they go mountainbiking, and then go windsurfing again in the winter in Baja and sometimes Corpus. That's the way to do it, if you can manage not to kill each other; they seemed pretty happy.
We're wildly under-equipped by some standards, but it all fits inside, which is just fabulous:
We vastly prefer to be able to park the moho where we sail because we won't have to worry about forgetting anything (note pink tag in above photo that says MASTS), and our toad isn't exactly a gear hauler:
That photo is from Cape Hatteras, where you don't drive fast to the launch--otherwise the sails have to go inside so they don't get blown off the roof, which doesn't leave much room for the passenger.
Access to windsurfable water-side sites can be problematic in a 40-foot motorhome, but something that big means we always have our equipment with us. Always a compromise.
But it allowed us, for example, to windsurf in the disgusting Salton Sea in southern California, near The Slabs. Nobody in their right mind would make an effort to sail there, but we were going by and there were RV sites on the water, and we had our equipment, right?
Here's the view from the water's edge:
If you want to read more about it, we documented the folly on our website.
On a better note, we stayed at a very nice spot at San Luis Reservoir in central California. This campground has no hookups, and we were the only people there in mid-September 2004:
That was a pleasurable experience--the write-up is here.
We have also sailed from our RV in Corpus Christi, but the weather there is so miserable it's livable for only a few months out of the year because there's no electricity for air conditioning and using a generator will make you VERY unpopular VERY quickly. Pretty much everybody there has solar, which makes it a nice place, except it's so muggy and ugly. And it's salt water and even saltier air, which ruins everything it touches. But the sailing is good.
I appreciate the tip on Lake Hattie in Wyoming--that looks like just our kind of place. We know some people in Steamboat who go camping/windsurfing in Wyoming, but I never found out where it is they go--I wonder if that's it.
But you know, I say all this about a big motorhome holding all the equipment, and I know a couple who fulltime in a VAN. Seriously--a van, and not even a Sprinter. The windsurfing stuff (they have a lot more than we do) rides on top. They have a place to store the equipment in Colorado, and they drop it off in the summer while they go mountainbiking, and then go windsurfing again in the winter in Baja and sometimes Corpus. That's the way to do it, if you can manage not to kill each other; they seemed pretty happy.
