Windsurfing in Maui with Shawna Cropas
I started windsurfing about two months ago. Well technically, I started again. As a kid, I bought what must have been one of the OG windsurfers discounted mightily at a boat show, and tried my best on the St John river near Fredericton, New Brunswick. I had no idea what I was doing. The conditions were terrible. But I had a few moments of fun, and at least, the board was useful dragged behind my father's sailboat for practicing balance. In grad school, I again had the chance to windsurf. My MSc (and ABD PhD) was at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario, but my supervisor, Dr Terry Shepard, was a world leader in software engineering process for real-time command and control systems at the Royal Military College, just across the bay on Lake Ontario. One of the perks of having connections at RMC was that they had a boathouse, with windsurfers, so in the summers I would rollerblade across the bridge and get out on the lake. Again, I had no idea what I was doing, but this time conditio...