On my honeymoon the resort had free hobie cats and lessons on how to sail. I immediately fell in love and bought a small trailerable sail boat when we got home.

On my honeymoon the resort had free hobie cats and lessons on how to sail. I immediately fell in love and bought a small trailerable sail boat when we got home. Launching and rigging was always a huge pain and took about an hour. While out on the lake I saw people on windsurfers sailing, it seemed so much easier to transport, rig, and sail so I took a lesson with a local club. After the first time windsurfing I sold my boat. Rigging the windsurfer took just 30 minutes and the equipment was so easy to load/transport. The stoke was pretty much the same and an additional benefit was all the core strength. I Windsurfed for a few years. I even bought my truck based on transporting boards. I picked my travel destinations based on the wind and availability of equipment at the destination. My friends had sprinter vans and dedicated trailers for all their boards/sails/masts/booms. The downside was the equipment was heavy and all dead weight. It was extremely difficult to travel (boards wouldnt fit in rental car) and even getting equipment to the waters edge sucked. And then I started to see guys show up in priuses with tiny boards and kites in backpacks. They could rig up in about 10 minutes and it was so easy to carry everything to the water. The boards/kites were so small they could fly as checked baggage at no extra charge, this opened up all the destinations with wind, but no equipment at the destination. I was in the philippines on a windsurfing vacation, but the wind was too light for the size sails they had. The kitesurfers were all out on huge kites, so I took a lesson and was blown away by how comfortable it was. Instead of a giant unwieldy sail, the kite flew itself and weighed nothing. When I got home I sold all my windsurfing equipment and have been kitesurfing ever since. The zen is still the same as sailing, plus you get the thrill of jumping 30+ feet in the air, or being able to surf awesome waves.