A top-gun windsurfer, Pauline Katz had to kiss her former life goodbye to make her dreams come true on the world's biggest swells. An engineer by trade, she jumped ship at 30, waving farewell to her native Swtzerland to catch the wind of the Canaries, her new home turf. But scaling the heights of pro sports is no walk in the park. Pauline repairs her own sails, and her side hustle as a magazine writer helps keep her world tour windsurfing seasons afloat financially.