Forever windsurfing

“The UK is not ideal for windsurfing, but I was determined to somehow get involved.”

Does Pete Smith have the best job in New Zealand? As owner-operator of the Auckland Windsurf School in Pt Chevalier, Auckland, he’s doing what he loves, what he has always wanted to do, five days a week. And yes, he goes windsurfing on his days off.

Pete was raised 30 miles from the sea in Essex. His early encounters with the sport of windsurfing were as a young boy fishing at a local pond and combing through magazines for pictures of windsurfing.

“The UK is not ideal for windsurfing, but I was determined to somehow get involved,” he recalls. “It was pretty massive in the 1980s. I was hooked on the exotic photos we saw from overseas, but my first