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Club Paradise: Saturday, October 2
Sam Moses, American Windsurfer Senior Editor
Getting Our Feet Wet
Welcome to American Windsurfer Magazine's On-Line 2000 Board and Sail Test, brought to you virtually and almost live, from the Hawaiian island of Maui. For the next five weeks, we'll be posting regular reports on this site. We can't promise that they'll come each and every day, but they just might, if we can tear ourselves away from the water and bear down on the laptops.
We're calling these communications "Postcards from the Water's Edge. "My name is Sam Moses; I'm senior editor of the magazine, and I'll be your correspondent here on the site. As I write this, on Saturday evening, I'm looking out the sliding glass door through curtains blowing in the tradewinds. I can see the waves gently breaking over the reef about 300 yards out, and every now and then a windsurfer's sail skims between the palm trees that frame the view of the water. About an hour ago, I was out there myself. If you logged onto the site earlier today and found silence, we apologize. But you know how it is with (a) writers and deadlines, and (b) especially when they're also windsurfers, and it's blowing.
I talked to a guy this morning from Toronto, who has been here three weeks-exactly 21 days. He said he's sailed 20 of those days. He's decided to stay another week or two. The staff has been here for three days, planning the format and procedures for the test, rigging equipment, and getting ready for the guest testers, who began arriving this afternoon--and went straight for the water. Solid 5.0 today. Water so warm that wetsuits aren't needed; people are sailing in swimsuits and Lycra. I'll wait until tomorrow's posting to introduce the staff, because I'd like to use the time and space to present a bit about what's so remarkable and even unique about Maui. At least what's impressed me about the place in the 48 hours I've been here, plus the other four or five times I've been.
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