And it's great for sailing, too. It provides for some very exciting sails all over this bay - in big boats and little boats. No place like it in the country. It has been said that living in Corpus Christi and not windsurfing is like living in a bowling alley and not bowling. This is one of the best places on the globe for windsurfing, said Chester Hulme, commodore of the Corpus Christi Windsurfing Association.
Wind is consistently strong.
Our season is much longer. The Corpus Christi Windsurfing Association conducts regattas each year, including the U.S. Cellular U.S. Open, which attracts professional and amateur windsurfers from around the world. Wind is such a valuable commodity in the Coastal Bend that Ralph Pyle Jr. has made a living from it for the past nine years. Pyle owns Fly It Port A, a shop that sells all kinds of kites, windsocks and other merchandise that has to do with the wind. I've got customers who have thousands of dollars worth of kites.