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CCWA Stories from Members

This page contains some of our members' favorite windsurfing experiences. Share your story! Write it down and send a copy to: CCWA webmaster. Or, send in some of your favorite stories from past CCWA newsletters. Include date of newsletter, if possible.

CCWA Members' Blogs and Online Wind Logs
Hans Anderson
(and several other sailors)
http://windlog.hansanderson.com/
Florence Tissot http://thickerthanwind.livejournal.com
Mike Murphy http://www.glidesociety.com/gulfbreeze

Chip Ducrest with rescued sea turtle• Turtle Rescue in the Intracoastal Waterway
   by Chip Ducrest - February 2011
   CCWA Commodore rescues sea turtle stunned by cold weather

• Windsport Magazine Gear Reviews (pdf)
   by Mike Murphy - November 2010
   Magazine editors choose Bird Island for gear testing grounds

• Local Windsurfing Guru Legend (pdf)
   by Mike Murphy - November 2010
   Article on Olivier Jallais

• CCWA Canal Crawl 2010 (pdf)
   by Mike Murphy - October 2010
   CCWA members circumnavigate island canals in costumes

• Local Pro Windsurfer Enes Yilmazer (TUR 2) (pdf)
   by Mike Murphy - October 2010
   Article on CCWA Vice-Commodore who is making it big

• Corpus Christi Windsurfing Association History - Part 1 (pdf)
   by Mike Murphy - September 2010
   History of CCWA since 1982

• Corpus Christi Windsurfing Association History - Part 2 (pdf)
   by Mike Murphy - September 2010
   History of CCWA since 1990

• Windsurfing and Worldwinds Folklore (pdf)
   by Mike Murphy - September 2010
   History of Bird Island Basin Windsurfing & WorldwindsOlivier Jallais

• Bird Island Basin Speed Windsurfing (pdf)
   by Mike Murphy - August 2010
   History of speed windsurfing at Bird Island Basin

• Worldwinds Pro Kids Windsurfing Camp (pdf)
   by Mike Murphy - June 2010
   Article about kid's windsurfing camp held at Bird Island Basin

• South Texas Hurricane ABC's
   by Mike Murphy - October 2005
   Historical summary of major South Texas hurricane strikes

• Better Than Average Year in 10 Months
   by Mike Murphy - September 2005
   Determining the basis for a typical windsurfing year

• GPS Windsurfing For a Year
   by Mike Murphy - October 2005
   GPS basis for an average windsurfing year

• First Time Out After Baby
   by Carrie Robertson - June 2005
   Getting back into windsurfing after giving birth

• Interspecies Encounter on a Stock Windsurfer
   by Carrie Robertson - November 2004
   Encountering bottlenose dolphin while windsurfing on CC Bay

Corpus Christi Windsurfing Association
PO Box 81453 · Corpus Christi · TX · 78468
www.corpuschristiwindsurfing.com