Gran Canaria
"No other European region has created as many professional windsurfers as the volcanic island of Gran Canaria. Time and again young Pozo unknowns flourish in the annual World Cup wavesailing event, teaching the world’s elite the meaning of fear. Their ‘secret’ is the reliably challenging conditions: the island receives trades all year, thermally strengthened in summer to ridiculous levels, plus wintertime Atlantic swell that often produces mast-high waves. So the local standard is accordingly high – and it has to be as the coast here consists mainly of lava rock, with head-sized lumps in the shorebreak crashing on sailors and ..."
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