Taiwan's beaches are beautiful as well, offering some of east Asia's finest surfing and windsurfing spots.
And while windsurfing, Alfredo developed a cramp and was unable to swim back to the boat.
To be sure, windsurfing on the Sea of Galilee was not your typical aquatic outing.
The new watersports centre will also provide a focal point for celebrations, with kite and windsurfing demonstrations.
Take Robbie Naish, arguably the world's greatest wave sailor and now a manufacturer of windsurfing and kitesurfing equipment.
He is a qualified diving, climbing and windsurfing instructor and also lists skiing, mountaineering and motorcycling among his interests.
At the time, however, things were getting exciting in a sport that occupied a lot of her spare hours: windsurfing.
And there were third places for Bryony Shaw in the RS:X windsurfing and Helena Lucas in the 2.4mR Paralympic class.
One of the proposals is for the east shore to be focused on quiet recreation where activities such as windsurfing will be encouraged.
Since Aryeh's English was only slightly better than my Hebrew, I never learned much about the technical aspects of windsurfing.
Dempsey won bronze at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the RS:X class, and silver in Tuesday's Olympic windsurfing final in Weymouth.
Chief Constable Debbie Simpson wants to capitalise on the impetus volunteers created at the 2012 Olympic sailing and windsurfing events in Weymouth.
Feeling cut off from people and opportunities, Ms Greene returned to San Francisco's Bay Area to design commercial ships and windsurfing boards.
Naish and his windsurfing buddies started playing around with kites three years ago and instantly realized they could usher in a new age of sailboarding.
Bob Ingram, the chair of the UK Windsurfing Association said that ISAF's decision was met by "both anger and sadness" in the windsurfing community.
This year's programs include a weeklong cycling camp with Ryder Hesjedal, a member of Canada's Olympic team, and windsurfing with retired professionals Matt Pritchard and Shawna Cropas.
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Nick Dempsey is fifth overall in the men's windsurfing, while Bryony Shaw had a solid start in the women's event and two fourth-placed finishes put her seventh.
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Gowers said that he thinks it is "unfortunate that there are only 10 sailing classes available in the Olympics" and that the IKA never wanted kiteboarding to replace windsurfing.
Two hours later I was back at my starting point, taking a windsurfing lesson near the spot where Jesus had given his Sermon on the Mount some 2000 years before.
KITEnergy takes advantage of the high altitude wind way up in the troposphere and converts it into electricity through tethered airfoils, these actually look like kites you would use in windsurfing.
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But if you simply cannot be pried from the ivory sands of Muri Beach, the hotel offers scuba diving, windsurfing, glass-bottom boat tours and guided walks through the green jungles on the island.
Naish won't go so far as to say kitesurfing is superior to windsurfing--"on the right day, with the right conditions, windsurfing is still the best sport on earth, " he says--but he's cleaning up on the craze.
Excursions include diving, sailing, kayaking, deep-sea fishing, swimming with dolphins, championship golf, windsurfing, eco-tours, a trip to the Contoy Island bird sanctuary, guided nature walks, jungle river trips, fishing and day trips to the ancient Maya ruins in the area.
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My teacher was a deeply tanned fellow named Aryeh, who told me he one day hoped to compete for the Israeli Olympic team. (I thought of him four years later, when Gal Fridman's Athens windsurfing victory landed Israel its first-ever Olympic gold).
His death hits Makani hard because its founder is irreplaceable: a Stanford-trained engineer who pushed the edge of design, an able leader who snared funding from Google and the ARPA-E, and a handsome windsurfing champion who knew the power of the wind firsthand.
Especially when the upstart is someone like Kazuyoshi Nagashima, a windsurfing, snowboarding 32-year-old former TV reporter who campaigned for mayor of the Kanagawa prefecture city of Zushi on a populist platform to, among other things, cut the entertainment budget for the mayor's office to zero.
When I swam ashore for a break after the first hour, the girls complimented me on my windsurfing form ("you looked like you were trying really hard not to fall off the side of a building") and introduced me to Aaron, the white-haired Sephardim who co-owned the windsurfing operation with his daughter.
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