Wailea, Maui
Early Morning
The Following Day
With one foot on each side of the mast, Ed grabbed the windsurfing board’s up-haul. While standing straight up, he slowly pulled up the nearly horizontal sail with the strength of his legs. Any water remaining in the sail spilled back into the Pacific Ocean. Once fully upright, the sudden pull of the trade winds made the board glide forward until it was planing along the coast of Wailea beach.
The bright grin on Ed’s face revealed his immense joy. He loved windsurfing and was a master windsurfer. Water sports were in his blood. He’d been surfing, paddle boarding, boogie boarding, and doing other water sports since he was a young child. In his teenage years, he surfed off the coast of Point Loma in Southern California. Now that he liv
