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Aldeia do Mato

The Recreational and Leisure Nautical Park attracts tourists from within the country, owing to biodiversity (that includes various species of wild pine, eucalyptus, strawberry tree, heather, olive trees), water sports (swimming, sailing, kayaking, canoeing, windsurfing), and recent developments that have attracted new tourists, including hiking trails, motocrossing, repelling and other trips orientated towards the more adventurous;

Argelès-sur-Mer

The Tramontane and Marin winds makes windsurfing and surfing more challenging than in some resorts and all manner of water sports are available here.

Back, Lewis

It is a little touristed part of the Hebrides despite having some of the best beaches in Lewis, but remain popular with surfers, windsurfers and kite surfers.

Brandon, County Kerry

The Maharees, a sandy peninsula between Brandon Bay and Tralee Bay is where most windsurfing activity is based.

Châtel, Haute-Savoie

Other attractions over the summer months include numerous activities such as windsurfing and sailing (on nearby Lake Geneva), white-water rafting, kayaking, paragliding, walking or simply relaxing in the sun.

Columbia River Gorge

Atmospheric pressure differentials east and west of the Cascades create a wind tunnel effect in the deep cut of the gorge, generating 35 mph (56 km/h) winds that make it a popular windsurfing and kitesurfing location.

Community Boating, Inc

CBI offers members instruction for sailing and windsurfing, and allows members to use CBI-owned sailboats on the Charles River.

Fenwick Island State Park

The bay side of the park is open to fishing, recreational crabbing, clamming, sailing and windsurfing and kayaking.

Finian Maynard

When he was 7, he tried windsurfing for the first time and at the age of 15, he came 13th at the US Open at Corpus Christi, Texas.

Johannes Ahun

Two years later, Ahun was admitted to the national senior sailing team, and had been participating in numerous windsurfing competitions, including his official international debut at the 2006 RS:X World Championships in Nago–Torbole, Italy.

Lee Lai Shan

Lee Lai-Shan, popularly known as "San San", was born in Cheung Chau and started windsurfing aged 12.

Parnaíba

Portinho Lagoon is one of the most beautiful landscapes of Piauí and the advantage that the blue waters can turn green depending on the light of the sun, the dunes, surrounding a whiff of fresh water, ideal for practicing water sports on banana boat, jet skiing and windsurfing

Sailboarding at the 2013 Island Games

Sailboarding, also known as Windsurfing for the 2013 Island Games, will take place at the Spanish Point Boat Club in Pembroke Parish.

Speed sailing

Antoine Albeau who holds the windsurfing speed record (on a 500 metre course) with a speed of 52.05 knots from 2012, Luderizt Namibia.


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