Sailing with Freestyle Champion in Bonaire

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Sailing with Freestyle Champion in Bonaire

While in Bonaire last week I asked a beautiful freestyler, Maxime van Gent, if she would sail with me for a GoPro photo. I sailed, she jumped, and I offered to sent the picture to her. It turned out she was on her last day of practice before heading to the Canary Islands for a competition. Here's a short video posted from the start of the meet, followed by my GoPro photo with the camera mounted on my boom.

EFPT Lanzarote 2016 NB 22 Maxime Van Gent

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Cool photo!

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Barrett

Did she teach you any of those fancy moves? Smile

Seriously, that is one cool pic.

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I wish. Despite watching up close while sailing, Maxime's amazing moves happened so smoothly and fast that I have no idea what she did. She made it look easy, but said it took endless practice. I took one "freestyle" lesson and learned there's a lot of control needed before even starting. The lesson was actually "freemove" on a big board. Without practice, I seem to have already forgotten what I briefly learned.

Bonaire is the place for freestyle - warm, shallow water, sand bottom, same wind direction. Maybe I'll try some basics if we have light wind days at the OBX this October.

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Pic of the year candidate.

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Uh, Barrett, I didn't see you in that video......

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Great shot Barrett! Look at that clear water and some of that nice scenery of Bonaire! Twist my arm, let's go back!

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