Bonaire 2013 Report

We did have a great but short visit to Bonaire.  With only 7 days in our visit, the rest of my family decided to skip the ABK Camp this year, so I had Andy and the ABK crew all to myself. Well me and the 20 other campers.  I managed to land my 3rd Vulcan and generally kept my level of sailing to where it had been in past years.

A real highlight of the camp was actually meeting fellow blogger Peter from the Windsurfing loop.  When we were introducing ourselves he mentioned that he'd just read my pre-Bonaire blog post and at one point I noted an interesting post I'd seen somewhere and of course it was from his blog.  Small world.  I also enjoyed re-connecting with some other friends from previous ABK weeks. The group dinner at the Hang out beach bar was fun as usual. Now I'm definitely one of the repeat offenders like Greg.

I really enjoyed seeing my son Phillip out there ripping it up.  Attached are some of his runs from the GPS.  It is interesting how much faster he goes in one direction than the other. My daughter Katie also had a great day sailing around with her cousin Vanessa.  Sorobon continues to be a very convenient place to stay next door but it was great to have a car for other adventures and to pick up take-out from Baba-Jans? BBQ.

Here are some photo highlights.

Dad cam

Father and son

Stand up straight!

Wave adventure

ABK BBQ at The Hangout Bar

Vanessa and Katie

Go Katie!

My GPS Trail

Vanessa and Len "kissing"

Sailboat adventure

Geoffrey prefers to stay dry

Horseback riding adventure

Lennert

Speed check

Thumbs up!

Vanessa chasing Phillip

Countdown to Bonaire

It is the time of year when a windsurfer starts thinking about getting on the water again.  In preparation for our next trip to Bonaire, I got motivated to look at my blog from the last year.

What a dry spell.  I only had 3 really good freestyle sessions since being in Bonaire last March.  The Hiho was 6 solid days of sailing, I had a great day with the kids too, but other than that 2012 was kind of lame.  Luckily I do have some nice video of that great day on August 5th to remember.  (This blog is really just my way of remembering my own sessions!)

Here is the best vulcan attempt of the summer:



Carl Vulcan attempt 260 or so Aug 5 2012 from Canadian Guy on Vimeo.

I also have a friend who put a bunch of the video of that afternoon together.



Windsurfing session on Georgian Bay - Nice jibes and duck jibe, plus vulcan fails from Canadian Guy on Vimeo.