Windsurfing

In Bonaire there's a place called Loc Bay.  It's a big bay full of clear shallow water.  On the beach there's a beach resort and a windsurfing place called Jibe city.  Our friends in Bonaire are expert windsurfers and the mom an instructor, so one day we all went and took a windsurfing lesson.

A windsurf is a foam board bearing a resemblance to a surfboard.  It has a small, stiff, sail with a metal oval encircling it.  

To start our instructor led us out a ways to avoid crashing into the lines that mark off the sea creature breeding ground.  To mount you climb up onto the board on your knees then stand.  The next step is to haul up the mast and hold onto it with your front hand.  From there you can easily grab hold of the boom with your back hand, and adjust your position to a bow-and-arrow-like pose.

And that's how you windsurf!