A Year (Windsurfing) en Provence

I'm a Canadian Guy who started this windsurfing blog during our sabbatical year in France. I have since added decade of fun windsurfing posts from our other adventures including freestyle, wavesailing, the International Windsurfing Tour and now wind foiling.

Thursday, June 5, 2025

7 knots isn’t enough

At 5pm the wind meter suddenly said 9 knots so I thought I’d try a quick evening foil. Even with the 7m slick and 2140 AMP pump foil I could...

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Wingfoil around the island the other way!

4 years ago when I started wingfoiling the idea of tacking upwind while on the foil seemed impossible. Today I was making all of my toeside ...

Monday, May 26, 2025

Plumbing the depths

It was a busy day at the Launch Pad. I took the plumbers out to start on the lower level bathroom and shortly after the barge arrived with m...

Sunday, May 25, 2025

New dock. Then zen foiling

I finally connected the dock ramp I built last fall to the new dock. Yeah, that took a while. The new dock (I built the ramp part)! Once it...

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

The new pump foil is a workout!

I was excited to try out the new Duotone SLS AMP 2140 pump foil. I finally got it to the island and had an afternoon free between constructi...

Monday, May 19, 2025

Recertification at TWC and selling the Kona

I had to do my windsurf instructor recertification on the May long weekend and a complete blog post about that is on the Launchpad blog . Th...

Friday, May 9, 2025

Setting the foundation - wingfoil session

It was a great week at the Launch Pad island helping get the materials all out there for the foundation of a new cottage and Launch Pad wind...

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