Minimalist Rig

I'm in Jacksonville Florida for about ten days. I brought my Kona with a minimal rig: two masts, two booms, a 5.3, a cammed 7.0 and an 8.5. Vincent Barre is threatening to take me out ocean sailing, something I haven't done yet. It scares me, but sometimes you get your best experiences from doing things that frighten you. I'm very comfortable in the waves with a boogie board or just body-surfing, but a windsurfer is a completely different animal.

The Kona One is supposed to be a fairly good ocean board, kind of keeping with the board's “jack-of-all-trades-master-of none” philosophy. I'll have a good story, I hope, out of all this. Even if my butt just gets kicked, that'll be a good story too.

Vincent Barre was one of the stars of my “Windy Rivers” article. He also lives quite close to my mother in Jacksonville. I'm sure, as an experienced windsurfer, he'll have lots of things to teach me.

I'll finish this post with a video of a young man named Daniel Ruskin doing freestyle on a Kona Board off Merrit Island, Florida. I hope some day to be this good.