Catching the wind - The Boston Globe Article on Kiting New England
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Pleasure Bay, the manmade lagoon at Castle Island in South Boston, has become a New England hot spot for kiteboarding. Like their cousins -- and lagoon mates -- the windsurfers, they embrace a sport involving boards and wind. But where windsurfing comes from the more genteel, John Kerry-photo-op tradition, kiteboarding, also known as kitesurfing, is a descendant of the extreme sports world of go gnarly or go home. And Pleasure Bay is where locals are going to catch the wind.
Pleasure Bay, the manmade lagoon at Castle Island in South Boston, has become a New England hot spot for kiteboarding. Like their cousins -- and lagoon mates -- the windsurfers, they embrace a sport involving boards and wind. But where windsurfing comes from the more genteel, John Kerry-photo-op tradition, kiteboarding, also known as kitesurfing, is a descendant of the extreme sports world of go gnarly or go home. And Pleasure Bay is where locals are going to catch the wind.
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