CGWA is hiring
Do you share the Stoke? If high wind gets your motor running, the Columbia Gorge Windsurfing Association in Hood River/Oregon, would like to hear from you. They are looking for an energetic, passionate, full-time year-round advocate of windsurfing. Salary is $30,000. The new Executive Director will manage a member-based nonprofit, provide the friendly face of our sport throughout the Gorge, and represent the interests of the windsurfing community to the Gorge community.
Boujmaa Guilloul in the Gorge
Boujmaa Guilloul from Morocco is one of todays most stylish, radical and innovating wave sailors. After his participation on the American Windsurfing Tour at Pistol River/Oregon, Boujmaa headed to the Columbia River Gorge where he sailed on a river for the first time in his life. In the following interview he tells us about his first ever Gorge adventure.
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Rhône article on windmag.com
Our friends from Rhône River, the team "la BAR" (brigade antipétole du Rhône), got an article in the French windsurfing magazine windmag.com:
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source: windmag.com
Guillaume Durand :: Photographer
Guillaume Durand from Lyon in France is a professional photographer and Rhône River windsurfer. In an interview he tells us about his passion for photography and windsurfing.
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Ripper of the month :: Philip Soltysiak
This month we proudly introduce Philip Soltysiak from Toronto/CANADA as river ripper of the month . Philip is a world-class freestyle windsurfer, he is currently ranked #6 on the PWA freestyle world tour. After finishing the event at Lake Neusiedel/Austria in 6th place, Philip stayed in Vienna where we had the chance to meet up with him at Danube River.
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Ripper of the month :: Katie Crafts
This month we introduce Katie Crafts as river ripper of the month. She lives in Hood River / USA, is an addicted & well know Gorge Ripper and director of the Columbia Gorge Windsurfing Association (CGWA).
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Ripper of the month :: Julien Mas
This time we introduce Julien Mas as river ripper of the month. He is one of France's shooting stars in freestyle windsurfing, ranked 26th in the EFPT (European Freestyle Pro Tour) 2010. Julien is a dedicated and talented freestyle windsurfer who comes from Grenoble in the Rhône-Alps and who calls Rhône River and Lake Monteynard his local playgrounds. In an interview he talks about his passion for windsurfing and his participation in the EFPT.
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