Rental Information

Board & rig:    $20 hr. minimum of 2 hours
Board or Rig:   $10 hr. minimum of 2 hours
Kite Board & Kite:   $20 hr. minimum of 2 hours
Kite Board or Kite:   $10 hr. minimum of 2 hours
O'PEN Bic Sailboat:   $20 hr. minimum of 2 hours

Keep your Equipment Rigged and Ready to Sail at Wind Power.
Beautiful Lake Winnebago is the best lake in the Mid-west for Wind Sports. It’s size provides clean strong winds, yet it’s safe with the warm water.

Make Windsurfing easy!!
We provide outdoor board storage for: $5 month
& Indoor Rig Storage for: $5 month per rig
No hauling equipment or rigging

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Wind Power has successfully been teaching beginners since 1983. Kevin began with a trailer that held 10 boards, teaching on lakes and rivers in Dodge and Fond du Lac Counties. Wind Power’s current location is across from Roosevelt County Park on the south east corner of Windy Lake Winnebago.
Wind Power’s Beginner Program has come a long way in the last 25 years. The advent of the shorter, wider Beginner Boards has reduced the lesson time from 8 hours to just 2-3 hours, with more time spent on the water than in it. Twenty five years ago it was often that a student spent a half hour falling in before they got their sea legs. That Never happens today! Using wider boards and small, easy to handle sails, learning is a fun and drier experience. Learning windsurfing on a friend's equipment can be a disaster if they have a narrow board and a large sail (anything larger than a 4.5 meter sail). Everyone who has ever tried windsurfing in the past owes it to themselves to try it again. Success is guaranteed!
The first part of the class is spent on land covering safety, understanding the wind, and learning the parts of the board and rig. Next the beginner learns how to handle the sail in the wind, how to carry it and how to maneuver it to get started sailing. After the beginner feels confident and comfortable handling the sail on land they are ready to start sailing on the water. Beginners start sailing in a small area, expanding it as their ability and confidence increases. When they can do the basic tack and jibe, sail out and return to the beach they have completed the beginner’s course. Now they need to practice so these new skills become an instinctive reaction. As they practice and progress they will be able to sail faster with bigger sails in higher winds. They are now ready for an advanced program. Remember rentals are 50% off for the first month after the beginner class!

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Emphasis is on fun and learning in a social atmosphere, with safety as a first concern. Windsurfing tricks, races and games will be part of the activities. There will be two classes for each session, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Due to the wind typically being stronger in the afternoon, Kevin would rather keep the younger kids in the morning class and the older ones in the afternoon. His nephew Blaise will be assisting in the fun classes. Parents are welcome to watch or even help out. They will learn also!

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Wind Power would like to teach your child (and their friends) how to sail. We use the most modern, fun and safe equipment on the market. We will have mini regattas every Sat. & Sun. from noon till 2pm for them to become more comfortable and develop better skills. Join us in taking advantage of the great Fox Valley Resource mother nature gave us, Lake Winnebago!

Wind Power would like to teach your child (and their friends) how to sail. We use the most modern, fun and safe equipment on the market. We will have mini regattas every Sat. & Sun. from noon till 2pm for them to become more comfortable and develop better skills. Join us in taking advantage of the great Fox Valley Resource mother nature gave us, Lake Winnebago!

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Back by popular demand is Ladies Night! This is the third full year for this fun program. It is much like the Wednesday Night program except at a pace geared toward the women in it. Designed for women to get more comfortable in all aspects of windsurfing. From carrying the board, rigging, sailing at different angles to the wind, using a harness and much more. Kevin is very patient and supportive in making one comfortable in and around the water. “The Board is Your Island of Safety” is a phrase he uses while he builds your confidence and comfort windsurfing. This is for the woman that is tired of sitting on the beach or staying home while her significant other is sailing. It’s also just a fun night with other women learning to windsurf.

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The Wednesday Night Classes are a great way to break up the week and get out sailing with other windsurfers while learning some new techniques. Windsurfers of all ability levels participate. The only prerequisite is that one has already completed the beginner course.
At the beginning of each class Kevin looks at the wind conditions and weather forecast and the abilities of those in that class and decides what to teach that night. He goes over everyone’s rigging showing everyone the proper tuning before they enter the water. There is class every night rain or shine wind or no wind. On nights when the wind or weather does not cooperate, theory, safety and equipment differences are discussed. Training videos, as well as past class videos are also reviewed.
During these classes, Kevin breaks down the steps to perform many sailing maneuvers (tacks, jibes, beach-starts, water-starts, etc.) and teaches each step individually. After each step is practiced and mastered, the steps are combined to yield a successful maneuver. These methods have been very successful in teaching all of his past students to enjoy the great sport of windsurfing more, whether they are just sailing for fun or racing with the MoWind group.

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Wind Power offers private lessons for either Windsurfing or Kitesurfing. Kevin will work one on one, teaching Novice to Racer. These are preferentially two-hour lessons, giving the student time to practice the skills learned before returning for more lessons. Beach start, water start, harness, footstraps, planing, tacking, pivot jibe, step jibe, carve jibe, jumping & racing skills.

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Wind Power instructs Kiting safely. Small Trainer Kites are used first to get used to steering a kite with a bar. The student then moves up to a slightly larger 4-line kite with 100% depower, learning the skills needed to launch, depower, fly and park the kite. After one is confident and comfortable flying the kite on land they move on to the next step: flying a larger kite and doing body drags in the water. After one has learned the skills to do controlled body drags they are ready to progress to learning how to ride the Kiteboard.

Want to meet a lot of Fun and Great People? And Learn to Windsurf Better on top of it?!
Come to a MoWind Event (Mid-West Organizers of Windsurfing). Racing and hanging out with some of the best windsurfers in the Mid-West is bound to make you a better sailor.
Wind Power is a Big Supporter of MoWind, and participates in and sponsors many of their events. The Wind Power Championships, Sept. 19& 20, is the beginning of the 2010 Season and End of the Year Banquet for 2009. It is one of the better attended MoWind Regattas with a dinner banquet at the Sunset Supper Club across the street. .