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bob gilbert
4/26/2020 03:24:34 pm
I liked what you wrote here, warm and kind.
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Verzura jean-françois
4/28/2024 10:13:42 am
Aloha nui loa Bob da Corsica 🙏🏻
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4/28/2024 11:07:28 am
Pamela Lewis, as Brad's sister I certainly appreciate what you said about him. I find it perplexing that this local boy
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4/26/2020 06:07:24 pm
Thanks Jonathan, these were special people who deserve to be remembered.
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Debbie Floreani
4/26/2020 08:46:42 pm
Thank you for sharing. I have many fond memories with Susan and Angus windsurfing Diamond Head and Backyards. All of them gone way too soon. I did not even know that Warren was no longer with us?! So sad to hear! Thanks again for sharing. It was very nicely written. Aloha!
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4/27/2020 02:26:35 am
Angus learnt his windsurfing in the UK and would drive down to stay with me on Hayling Island on the South Coast of England. This went on for several years, with both of us sailing together, the windier and rougher the better. We were close friends and after his first trip to Hawaii he paid me a visit and told me of his adventures and suggested I check out Australia - I did and lived there for 26 years. Now I am back on Hayling Island and he remains an important part of someone who passed through my life. Such a great loss.
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Laura Andrews
11/17/2020 04:26:33 am
Dear Steve, did Angus ever mention he was adopted? My mother told me about my half brother's existence too late..
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Michael Wade
11/30/2020 09:16:59 am
Dear Laura and Steve, Forgive my latching onto your conversation but I came across this book while looking for windsurfing stories of old. As a very average boardsailor in 1980 I spoke to Angus one evening over the phone, whilst he was in Hawaii and I was in the UK. I had never met Angus but after about an hour of animated conversation he talked me into quitting my job in the City and relocating to a room share in Kailua and really learn how to sail a board! I did both ... what a change for me. Also in the same house was Rene Baumann, watching these two guys on the water was breath taking. Last saw Angus in Cornwall in the late 80s. I still have the last board he made for me hanging in my garage. What a sad loss, he helped me such alot. I have many happy memories and stories from those great days. Sorry for droning on but I had to share my thoughts with you. Kind regards, Michael 12/2/2020 02:02:16 pm
Thank you Jonathan for sharing the memory of your friends.
Judy Cridland
4/19/2021 06:17:17 am
Hi Laura
Nikki Ralston
5/6/2022 05:17:06 pm
Hi Laura,
Geoff Nicholls
4/27/2020 02:47:24 am
Thank you Jonathan, this was very special for me.
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4/27/2020 02:54:40 am
Jonathan that was a beautiful story about our friends that have passed . Like you I am blessed to have known most of them and sailed with them . We had the glory days that’s for sure . The memories we share I shall cherish for ever more . Maui has never been the same for me since those glory
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Tommy Scott
8/25/2023 10:14:11 am
Madwick !!! I have thought about you and your safety so many times since this terrible tragedy occurred. hope you are well. and I too cherish the memories of the VERY old days in Newport BLUES. My very best my friend and God's blessings. Tom Scott, Charlotte, NC
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Álbert (Moro)
4/28/2020 08:19:43 pm
Thanks for sharing this brief tragic stories of people related to our sport. I found it interesting.
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5/1/2020 02:04:09 am
Thank you for sharing. I was born and live in the Amazon. An American friend used to bring windsurf magazines to me in the 90s from USA. I am sure I saw these legends on them.
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Ty B
6/14/2020 08:16:30 pm
Thank you for this blog! Had no idea Sierra Emory died he used to cut the grass at our rented house in Paia back in 1990 and was a great windsurfer!
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John Meyer
9/7/2020 07:52:19 pm
I didn't know all of the people in your story. I did know Janie and she was in everyway how you described her. I loved her and admired her and of was stunned to learn that she had died. Gone way too soon. RIP JANEY.
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Mike Thomson
5/26/2021 09:49:20 am
Jonathan Weston , thank you for being a class act and showing the good side of our mutual friend Peter Boyd !! Much respect sir ! Your a good man and an amazing photographer and writer !
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Johnny Campos
10/17/2021 11:19:16 am
Hi. Thank you for the information. I like to think I am part of Maui and I certainly believe I had my glory. But time flies by and next thing you know you’re 55 and there it went. No way out of this next times of my life. Kind of gets to you and you start thinking weird shit. So I feel our pains of living. The best to all of you! Good bye.
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William Musson
10/20/2021 07:12:34 pm
Angus was a good kid and fun.....we roomed together and others at the Pan Ams at Kailua years ago......John Zell was also rooming there and he has also passed .....1996.....
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William Musson
10/20/2021 07:19:43 pm
I think Angus did it over a girlfriend who dropped him......most of us would know the lady......she is and was a good lady......
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10/27/2021 11:07:45 am
I have personally known everyone of these water people that have passed and I appreciate Jonathan bring up their names as they all went to soon! Life is short and we all should chase our dreams to the fullest before our time is up! Go for it!
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Pam Lewis
11/14/2021 06:26:52 pm
An amazing tribute. So nice to read about my brother,
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Deidre
1/24/2022 02:22:53 pm
Thank you for this thoughtful description of those lost too soon. I moved to Maui in the 80s to sail and looked up to many of the folks you mentioned here. I was lucky enough to meet Janie working with her at Mamas Fish House. She was so kind and quick to offer friendship and assistance with just about anything along with her equally generous boyfriend Pat. Janie was making amazing custom swim suits that were perfect for windsurfing or really anything so I spent time at her little place picking out materials and chatting. Janie and Pat shared friendship, their access to prawns, a car during a flood, and laughter with me. I was new in the community so really appreciated them reaching out to me. Sailing with Janie was inspiring-what a rock star. I lost touch with her (she may have moved to California around same time?) after I left Maui but thought of her kindness frequently. Thank you for sharing about this sad loss of such a kind but troubled spirit.
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Brian Marshall
3/1/2022 07:46:44 pm
Wow so sad and so many suicides,
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Michael Constable
3/21/2022 08:40:21 am
Moving to Maui from Fl. For a few years in the early 80's I was lucky enough to work for Sailboards Maui then Maui Sails. This gave me the opportunity to cross paths with a number of sailors mentioned. Have to say I liked them all and think of them often.
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John Rust
6/22/2022 12:52:59 am
Aloha Jonathan,
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Scott Burns
6/4/2023 12:36:37 pm
Peter Boyd; A master at hang time with a board under his feet. There were times he flew like an angel, then other times, taking his gymnastic prowess into kamikaze mode on his next jump. It was always a treat to be on the water with him. Those early years of high performance windsurfing produced an incredible band of wind gypsies, that laid the foundation for the next generation. Aloha no. SB/Amelia Island, Fl.
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Arturo Wesley
8/2/2023 08:38:36 pm
Hello Jonathan. I really enjoyed your article and remembering the people mentioned. I started sailing on Maui in 1980 and although was never at their level, I was at Kanaha and then Ho’okipa for many years( still am!).
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Debbie Spreckley-Johnson
10/11/2023 11:25:47 am
Interesting read, but very sad. I knew Angus before he went to Maui. He lived in Dorking and worked for a Timber company in Kingston. I met him down at Hayling. Wonderful guy, very talented. RIP Angus
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Duff Antony
2/16/2024 12:24:13 pm
Lovely words, I knew Angus well, met him on my first windsurf event. he used to visit in Cornwall and later I stayed with him in Hawaii, it was in 1982, I was amazed at how much his windsurfing had progressed living there. His mast shot photography was amazing. Your assumption is correct regarding lost love. Just an outstanding guy, and indeed such a sad loss.
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Joseph Prestwood
2/16/2024 11:30:21 pm
Excellent post that reminded me of names from the past. That Lake Lanier pic is intriguing, I cut my teeth at Van Pugh Park on Lake Lanier with the Windsurfing Atlanta guys.
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