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- If we could only add five knots to the forecast, maybe we'd have a prayer / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinYou can just imagine the agony. Sun sets on Sunday, THEN it starts to blow. I'm hoping it comes early. (Thus spake NOAA: Sat E winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 1 ft or less. Sat Night Se winds 5... ..
- ABK Long Island Clinic Nearly Sold Out! / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinABK windsurfing clinic at Napeague is almost sold out. Yes ABK's website and Facebook said it was sold out, but a small window of opportunity has opened. Jump! To the poor slobs who miss the chance, we say Sign Up... ..
- Fun Wavesailing Video For Friday / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinThis is the weekend I'd like to have: ..
- Keep Windsurfing in the Olympics! Sign the petition. / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinWhat are those Olympic people thinking (a proposal to replace windsurfing with kite stringing)? Support your sport's Olympic status and sign the petition. Please. ..
- Swap Meet This Saturday / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinYou gotta go if you need windsurfing equipment (or need to get rid of some). Kiting and SUP too. Here are the Peconic Puffin's top tips for the Spring Edition of Hampton Watersports' swap meet: 1. If you want to... ..
- Helipad Suppin' / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinTwas a weekend of modest conditions east of the Helipad. I caught some with the Wolf and Jeff on Saturday, and on Sunday Christian took my place. My dinged elbow is still holding me back...I can not push or pull... ..
- Saturday...a little ocean potential? / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinThus spake NOAA: Sat: NE winds 5 to 10 kt...becoming E with gusts up to 20 kt in the afternoon. What say ye, men of wind and waves? Ponquogue? ..
- Notice of Fun: East Coast Windsurfing Festival V Coming in June! / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinWe race. We freestyle. We SUP. The good times they do roll. The fifth annual East Coast Windsurfing Festival takes place June 9-10 at Joe's Beach in Heckscher State Park on Long Island. His Highness The King of the East. ..
- Le Bruise / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinWrist to shoulder. This is a week after being hit in the lower tricep by the 11'4". Still hurts, but didn't stop me from getting a half dozen waves on Sunday. (It did stop me from getting the other half... ..
- Another ding to another arm / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinThe plan was to SUP for about 90 minutes at the Heliport launch, then handle some work. Joining George Pav, Jon Ford and the Wolf I caught all of two waves (about ten minutes of water time) when on my... ..
- Surprisingly Good Sunday SUPsurfing Sunday / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinThe wave forecast was middling (maybe we'd get some knee high) but enough of wanted to get out that a search for waves was called. I checked Flying Point whilst Peconic Jeff (Atlantic Jeff on these days) cruised the Hamp ..
- Lord Scotworth Wants to Sail / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic Puffin"if it blows please call me i will go anywhere" Thus spake Chimply Lord Scotworth, the Earl of Kielt. Wind Chimp, Puffin, a Man Who Would Shred, he like the rest of us clings to the increasingly distant hope th ..
- Windsurfing Swap Meet (SUP and Kiteboarding and Surfing too) May 12th / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinYou need more gear. Or newer gear. Or different gear. Maybe (I can't believe I'm saying this) you have too much gear, and need to sell some of it to someone else. Nah. Okay, but maybe you have perfectly good... ..
- Sweet Sunny 4.0, and Debating Jeff's Broken Nose / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinAfter an hour of a full powered ripfest at Sebonac (sail sizes 3.7-4.2, the reef serving up fine ramps) Peconic Jeff headed for shore with face a-troubled. We all joined him and gathered round. "I broke the nose,&qu ..
- Happy and Bleeding...Hot Girl Horror Show (not a windsurfing post) / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinChristian Charles has made a movie. It’s got my wife Sally pacing (“I’m so tense”) and me very, very, happy I am married. Dating can get you killed (or worse)! It's called Happy and Bleeding. Dori is searching fo ..
- Happy and Bleeding...Hot Girl Horror Show / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinChristian Charles has made a movie. It’s got my wife Sally pacing (“I’m so tense”) and me very, very, happy I am married. Dating can get you killed (or worse)! It's called Happy and Bleeding. Dori is searching fo ..
- Sunday SUP / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinI had to do gardening (code for "my shoulder is still iffy") but a SUP sesh was had at Cupsogue. Jeff emailed me: "Jon, Christian and I found an outer bar well to the east of the Cupsogue pavilion. Rides.. ..
- The Bowl...She is now a Dish / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic Puffin"Big shift in beach and sandbars, waves aren't showing up so well. The amount of sand on the beach at the Bowl is huge, biggest we've seen. Then the shoreline from Ponquogue to Quogue runs straight with hardly any p ..
- Whitecap City at Sebonac / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinI missed it, but Peconic Jeff, Dr. Pain, Scott and the Wolf reveled in 4.2 conditions. Jeff reports that CD came by to do paperwork. You have to know CD to understand. (Top: Air Wolf. Bottom: The return of Jonathan,... ..
- Nine Sails / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinMy friend Mass has a new home on the bay. He wants to be able to sail at a moment's notice should a whitecap present itself, so he has rigged. Can you say "nice quiver"? ..
- Pi Day in my Elevator / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinOur New York apartment's elevator ID number is Pi to four decimal points (if you imagine a decimal point inserted.) I've been waiting almost a year to share this fact. But 3.14 is here! Shoulder problems clearly have lef ..
- No Ice Sailing for Long Island this Year / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinWith only two weeks left to the winter, medoubts that the iceboards will be seen out east this season. Bellport and Mecox are not going to freeze over... ("SCREECH!!!" I hear varied disembodied friends and polt ..
- Wakeboarding Alaska (Isn't it a bit cold for this?) / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinWith the bulk of the Puffin/Wind Chimp community up north snowboarding at CD's place (wish I coulda made it!) I have no tales of derring-do (or doofus do) of my own to share. So thank you Bill Nightingale for sending... ..
- By Popular Demand, More Caesar from the Vault / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinDennis likes my taste in alternative music (alternative for windsurfing videos) and a lot of people apparently never saw these when they first ran (new windsurfers?) so here is more. ..
- Flame Throwing Board Video / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinThey start messing with the fireworks around 2:30. As seen on windsurfatlanta.org ..
- Caesar’s Freestyle Bedazzlement (through fresh eyes) / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinThe flowstyle genius Caesar Finies was not putting on his daily magic shows last week in Bonaire. When I asked around I heard he’d hurt himself recently and so was on the mend. Our loss, but okay. Then on Friday... ..
- Windsurfing Bonaire, Pt. II / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinI am back, baby. After being unable to windsurf since October I managed four 2-hour sessions in Lac Bay: The previously reported 7.3 day, an 8.0 day (I haven’t sailed a rig that big in ten years), a 6.6, and... ..
- Bonaire Invaded by Long Islanders / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinSitting on the beach looking out on the water and along the shoreline, I thought "there's a whole lotta Long Island windsurfers here!" There's George Pav sailing backwinded. Chrissy Burns just threw a sail body ..
- Andy Brandt, ABK Windsurfing Long Island Spring Dates / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinWho: Andy Brandt and his merry band of windsurfing instructors. Where: Lazy Point @ Napeague, on the water and on the beach When: May 18th-20th, 2012. Any questions? Of course you have questions, and there's nobody bette ..
- Six Perceptions of Windsurfing / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinI saw this in an iWindsurf forum, posted by the mighty Jerry Evans (maker of both the Clew View and East Coast Windsurfing Festival trophies) who tells me he found it on Facebook. In any event I think there's a... ..
- Polish Windsurfing Babe Photo + Valentine Post = Traffic / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinA Polish windsurfing site picked up our "Reasons to Date a Windsurfer" Valentine's post, and added a photo of a young lady with a sail, as well as a link back to the Peconic Puffin. We received LOTS of traffic. ..
- Valentine's Day Top Ten Reasons to Date a Windsurfer (with bonus "date a sailor" stuff!) / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinLadies, are you still searching for that special someone? Consider looking amongst the windsurfers: 10. The ratio of men to women is 4 to 1. 9. They can talk about something besides football. 8. They don’t smell too ba ..
- I Return to the Water: SUP Surfing at the Cup / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinConditions were nothing to speak of...knee to waist high waves without much left or right to them. Was it cold? Air 35, Water 42, but it had been 22 weeks since my last SUP sesh, so: 36 + 41 +... ..
- Nice WaveSUPin' Video for Wednesday / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinI don't just miss windsurfing. I equally miss paddle surfing. My favorite watersport videographer (and master of how-to-jibe) Dasher recently put this up on Youtube. Enjoy. P.S. If you keep a portion of your awareness on ..
- Stained Glass Shredding, Rusalka Wind Sculpture / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic Puffin"Stained Glass Shredding, Rusalka Wind Sculpture"? How about "More cool windsurfing stuff from Ron"? About a week ago I posted some photos of great looking old boards on Ron's deck, and afterwards Ron ..
- When is it Warm Enough To Sail for You? / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinLast we ran a piece about windsurfing's 100 Rule, Long Island Style, in which the traditional temperature guideline of: Air temperature + Water temperature = 100 or higher, or it's too cold to sail, while the rule for ma ..
- The Legend of the Reef Warriors / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinThis is just too good not to share. When I stumbled over the Lake Erie wave sailing video earlier this week it lead me to the web site of the Reef Warriors tribe. They dwell upon Lake Irie (mon). They... ..
- Groundhog Day for Puffins / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinEvery year on February 2nd, Peconic Puffins emerge from their burrow and consider their shadows. If there's a shadow, what does it mean? Should I visit Bill and Hulse in Puerto Rico? Take the wife to Bonaire? Check the s ..
- Windsurfing Bear Video / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinWindsurfing bear video. That's what I said. Berni sails a JP one handed, loops off of waves, and has the one handed (one pawed?) thing down. (First spotted on Average Joe Windsurf Blog.) ..
- Windsurfing Boards as Wall Art / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinA recent thread about an old board (and what to do with it) in the iWindsurf forums turned into a discussion of old boards as displayable art. "Noshuzbluz" Ron displays some beauties on his patio. In the second ..
- More Press for The Wolf / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinThe Wolf continued to dominate the media spotlight over weekend, following his dramatic rescue at New Suffolk last week. “I hope the Giants win so this nonstop Wolf coverage calms down,” Jeff Slecta said to me yester ..
- Windsurfing Video for Friday (critics say it's "really good!") / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinOne of my favorite windsurfing bloggers (and the Peconic Puffin's #1 commenter from Malta) Bunty calls this a "really good Neil Pryde video" and I agree. Philip Koester is in it, which means you're going to see ..
- How To Self Rescue On The Water / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinTed Bretter has been telling me for months about an old Windsport article that did a thorough job of explaining how to derig at sea. He told me that it once got him out of quite a jam. “You’ve got... ..
- Lost (and Found) at Sea…The Wolf at New Suffolk / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinIt was 25 gusting to 45 with 5-7 foot swell in the North Race mogul field, water temp 40 degrees with swirling currents on Friday the 13th. What could go wrong? Scott, Frank and John vanderWolf had been tearing it... ..
- Reason to Hate Bill Barber / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic Puffin"20 knots - 80degrees - small surf - 9.5kite & surfboard & 3 guys out-small craft ad. today & tomorrow-c'mon down boys-no rubber necessary-peace-bb" This is not a real invite to join Bill in Puerto ..
- Scott is headed to the Bowl...where are you going? / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinFeel the sweetness. Feel the urgency: Today E winds 20 to 25 kt with gusts up to 35 kt...becoming SW 10 to 15 kt with gusts up to 25 kt this afternoon. ..
- Shark In The Lineup / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinWhat is the wave etiquette in this situation? Women and children first? As seen on The Horse's Mouth. ..
- Wolf Moon, Puffin Moon / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinThe Wolf returned to the water a few days ago, sufficiently recovered from a dinged knee. Peconic Jeff noted that this event took place on the auspicious day of a Wolf Moon. I asked Jeff (who knows about moons) when... ..
- Platelet-rich plasma and a Peconic windsurfer / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinNot a lot of water time for me in the last six months. I’ve been suffering from a bicep/elbow/semi-mysterious upper arm affliction that has not responded to rest or physical therapy. My long-time orthopedist (who has b ..
- Oh, Tiana (don't kill me) / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic Puffin(the following is a guest report by Peconic Jeff filed last week:) "Scott, Jon & I showed up at Tiana around noon to perfectly side-shore 25-35 mph winds and sand a-blowin'. With plenty of wind on the beach, we ..
- Merry Christmas / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinThe editors and staff of the Peconic Puffin wish you a Merry Christmas! The image is from a favorite Christmas card, which says "original design by Roz Davis". We thank Roz every year (Thanks Roz!) ..
- Windsurfing Magazine R.I.P. / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinWindsurfing Magazine was my bible when I started. It was 1992, and the magazine was loaded with equipment reviews, technical info (you haven't lived until you've read a Ken Winner technical piece), instruction, the whole ..
- Cloud Surf (Kelvin-Helmholtz On Yo' Ass) / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinThis should cause Peconic Jeff to bug out. Wave clouds...hell yeah! Spotted on Facebook in a post by Ely, this image was taken in Alabama a day or two ago. From the Cloud Appreciation Society: "The breaking waveform ..
- My Favorite Hurricane Flood SUP Holiday Card / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinThis made my morning. Windsurfing friends Cecilia and Greg were home in Connecticut when Hurricane Irene came through. While they found the winds overly strong for sailing, the flooded streets seemed just fine for some f ..
- Video: Sticking the Mast Mid-Aerial / Peconic Puffin /
Peconic PuffinThis clip of Arthur Pollet (French/Brazilian, PWA Freestyle competitor) getting stuck is making the rounds. ABK's Andy Brandt told me years ago that many freestyle moves were invented out of other moves going wrong (ie d ..
