Some folks may have seen Bailey fluffing around over the last year on his learner gear. Well his perseverance has paid off.

I'm a very proud dad of my little fella.

It was amazing to see Bailey sailing on Sunday, puts me to shame and make me want to up my game a lot.

Congrats Bailey

Awesome

A future champ, well done guys.

Cool !

I enjoyed watching him sail on Saturday. Great job guys as the wind had some kick in it for a little guy!

How old is bailey?

Thanks Guys.

Bay turned 9 last month. He first learned to sail with a weeks worth of lessons in Maui at easter 2012. He was seven at the time, and could tack and gybe after this first week. He had a fantastic teacher who set up some key instruction points that I was able to use to reinforce his technique. Since then, he has been a semi-regular tag along at Board Crazy's lessons with Simon who my son looks up to and actually listens to.

Now more recently, he has been hassling me to go sailing, and as some would know, he was out on Saturday where it was gusting to 20 at times.

He loves coming down to the slalom, and so I could sail with him I decided to not race this season, . Mind you, he does ask if he can race every event , and really loves hanging with the guys.

GeoGeo said..

Can't wait to get my son doing windsurfing, only problem he's only 2.5 so I might retire by then, ha ha.

Me too, my boy is only 16 weeks old so awhile to go yet, But got my 5yr old daughter that wants to windsurf with me every time I go out. About to cut down an old 6m I tore up on Saturday for her.

Very cool!
Your son wouldn't need much wind to get going,
sailing in 20 knts is an awesome achievement !

I've just started teaching my 13 yr old son, I hope I don't pass on too many bad habits.

Thanks for posting this, I'm teaching my 8yo daughter atm and this has been a great incentive for her..

soo cool...My kids are up and sailing also. It proved to me how kids can learn anything if they set their minds to it. Windsurfing was easy for them, just needed some serious dedicated attention to get them over the initial steep learning curve.....

Next question is how do we get all their friend and other kids involved in this life sport?