UNDER SAIL
I was 19 when I got hooked on sailing. It was summertime on the North Shore and my friend, Erik Knutson, had a tiny little sailboat. My brother and I jumped in one day and we sailed from Ehukai down to Waimea. And it was just so much fun.
The next week, another friend of ours was selling a similar little sailing boat – a Laser 2 – so I bought it from him and started learning on that. The Lasers are so small and lightweight, you can just push them up the beach when you’re done.
From the start, there was something about the challenge of getting from ‘here’ to ‘there’, that was really engaging – it was one of those things that just clicked for me, with my own little boat, sailing around in the North Shore summertime tradewinds. You can fully surf the wind chop out the back.
What makes sailing so interesting is the ability to go upwind, downwind, pretty much anywhere for the most part. There’s always something to adjust or refine. You can
