The Hunt For 50–Masters Of Speed: While the Aussies are burning it up down at Sandy Point, windsurfing wildman Finian Maynard and his gang of speed freaks are back in action at their custom-made French canal, located at Stes. Maries de la Mer. Maynard set the windsurfing speed record here last December, with a run of 46.24 knots (just shy of Yellow Pages Endeavour’s outright record of 46.52 knots). If anyone is going to take the outright record, and bust through the 50 knot barrier, my money is on these guys. This is their third extended outing at the French Trench, and we all know third time is a charm. If you want to see how muddy, grey, and f*cking fast the location is, check out this intense nine minute-plus video from last March (featured soundtrack song, naturally: David Bowie, “We Can Be Heroes”). It looks as if they are windsurfing on a really long mud puddle (which is pretty much what they are in fact doing). Note how unbelievebly flat the water is, which is the key. Go Finian….



Finian’s Latest Go-Fast Strategy: “I’m Irish, so this is killing me. But if giving up the drink will take me to 50, so be it…”