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The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | Sunday, May 26, 2013
Sports
Barrett Walker learned how to windsurf in the 1980s while on a vacation in Hawaii. “Windsurfing is a sport that stays interesting, because you can always find new places to sail and ways to improve,” he says.
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Windsurfer Barrett Walker became interested in the sport in the early 1980s at about the same time equipment became commercially available. In 1986, he and his family included a day of windsurfing instruction during a vacation in Hawaii. The simplicity of the early equipment and the ideal conditions in Hawaii allowed them to learn to sail that same day. “It’s pretty easy to learn how to turn a windsurfer at low speed, but learning to turn around, or jibe, at high speed is challenging,” he said. “Windsurfing is a sport that stays interesting, because you can always find new places to sail and ways to improve.” Over the years, his family has shared windsurfing vacations that have included trips to the Pacific island of Guam, San Francisco and the Outer Banks. He recalls windsurfing “under the Golden Gate Bridge with the wind carrying fog in from the Pacific Ocean and the city spread out before me in brilliant sunshine.” His travels for work have also afforded
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