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The Hook has crowned a king and queen
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The Hook has crowned a king and queen

  • RJ Chavez
  • Updated

Windsurfing board tricks, relay races, tandem sailing and attempted acrobatics on the boards are just some of the fun that goes on at the Columbia Gorge Windsurfing Association’s King of the Hook event.

Introducing Bart Vervloet, new CGWA executive director
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Introducing Bart Vervloet, new CGWA executive director

  • Ben Mitchell
  • Updated

For many people, especially longtime Gorge windsurfers, Bart Vervloet probably needs no introduction. He’s been active in the Gorge windsurfing and local recreation scene since the mid-1980s and has been a resident of the area for just as long.

Good wind is good for business
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Good wind is good for business

  • Adam Lapierre
  • Updated

Although an official record of this type is hard to qualify, July 2013 will go down in the boardhead recordbooks as one of the windiest months the Gorge has seen since the invention of epoxy resin and neoprene.