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...always looking for new ways to ride waves," says Pete Cabrinha of his Maui, Hawaii, surf fraternity. Enter their latest obsession: kiteboarding, a hybrid, extreme sport that is a cross between windsurfing and wakeboarding. A rider is harnessed to a giant kite as he steers a board that is strapped to his feet. The allure: taking off and soaring 50 ft. above the water as you glide over the waves, then perhaps dropping in on one. If that's not enough, copy Cabrinha and invert. "When you're upside down looking up at the kite, time just stands still...
Still, the gang from Maui rules the scene, including the new pro tours. Cabrinha sponsors his own team, which includes Julie Prochaska, who this year was named best female kiteboarder at the World Extreme Sports Awards in Munich, Germany. To complete the circuit, Cabrinha had partnered with sports manufacturer Neil Pryde, who is based in Hong Kong, to create a personal kite line...
...Jonah proposed on New Year's Eve 1999 and the two married in March 2000. They took their honeymoon in Maui, Hawaii, and Aja came back to Harvard in the fall to finish her degree. They are expecting a baby girl in September and are getting ready to move to Las Vegas, Aja's home city, where Jonah will work as a custom home developer...
...than the cozy, contemporary dining room at Chef Mavro, tel: (808) 944-4714. George Mavrothalassitis, a charming Frenchman of Greek ancestry, made his name in the islands as executive chef of La Mer at the venerable Halekulani on Waikiki Beach, and later at the Four Seasons Resort on Maui. In 1998, Mavrothalassitis launched his signature restaurant a few minutes away from Waikiki, serving a meticulous marriage of local seafood and produce with diverse continental and Asian influences, all presented in fine classical French style. Prix fixe menus range from $48 to $85 per person, though wine is extra...
...line Gulfstream V can zip eight passengers from New York City to Tokyo at 87% of the speed of sound in a cabin that looks more like a Manhattan pied-a-terre than an airplane. At this time of year, airports in Aspen, Colo., Miami and Maui are so jammed with Gulfstreams and other jets that you'd have to call in advance to find room to park yours. The most luxe of these planes come crammed with the toys that keep billionaires happy: showers, kitchens, satellite TVs. Gulfstream in particular has always been one fetish ahead of the acquisitive...