South West Offshore Wind

Spent a week in Taipei to sort out Mom's to sort out the newly arrived helper, Wulan. Wulan is very young, and a great cook. She is patient and quiet, always standing by Mom when she needs help. I just think sometimes she gets bored because there is not much too do. But she seems fne with it. We are so luckly to have her around. We tried to go to the north shoreline to do some surfing practice but the weather was not working for us. The first day it has no waves and the second day the waves are huge, 1.8-2m waves, but wind is too strong - perfect for windsurfing but we have no gear. Finally came back to Cheung Chau, Jon thinks I am more relaxed at home comparing to at my mom's. We wait for a few days for the good wind day, the moonsoon brings strong south westly wind, which is offshore from the beach we normally launch from. It is always tricky to get back to the beach with offshore wind, but we have been windsurfing for years, nothing too bad to worry about. We rigged up and dived into the strong wind, I got into the footstraps, whizzing across the bay planing. Later I checked my heart rate went up to 185 per minute in those andreline filled moments. While I was enjoying the strong wind I saw Jon on his board for a while, it sometimes means equipment failure or injuries. But I can see that he is packing up and started to paddle back to the beach, he is in the middle of the bay, it might take him a while to get to the shore, nothing to worry about. But after 15 mins, I see that he is still around where he was, no progress was made. I realized he was in trouble so I sailed back to the center, changed into a Kayak after confirming his whereabout with binoculars, I went out to find him -he is already drifted to the end of the pennisula, the tie-out current and offshore wind have both pushed him out of the bay in that 20 minutes. I paddled as fast as I can to the tip of the pennisula, but I cannot see him. A windsurfer came by told me that Jon has drifted out beyond the pennisula, i.e., he is out of the bay, he might be in the container shipping channel. I need to report to the marine police ASAP otherwise he might be in danger. I paddled back to the center, ran to the life guard hut by the beach and we agreed we should call the emergency right away. Marine police, Firefighter brigade and life saver units were all out looking for Jon. My guess was Jon must be swimming/paddling to the little beach behind the pennisula where there is no road access. Because it is a sheltered location, there should be no strong current and offshore wind to push him out into the channel. I explained this to the marine police but they cannot see his windsurfing gears on the beach. it is not 1 hours passed after Jon disappeared from the bay, no sight of him on the water, but I belive he is safe because worse comes to worse, he will hold on to the board, it is just a matter of time to fine out where he is. 1 hour 15 mins after he walked back to the center, as I have guessed, he landed in the beach and walked back. I had to make a number of phone calls to cancel the search and thank all the people involved.