The Peconic Puffin

The day began with the following comment, emailed from Peconic Jeff:

“Moohoowahaha!”

There were a few other words, arranged in complete sentences, but it was all exposition to support the declaration of “Moohoowahaha”.   The forecast of planing winds after a month-long drought did this to P-Jeff.   I whined back that I suspected that there would never be decent wind again, ever, and that I had sold all of my windsurfing equipment in disgust.

But I was lying, and plans were layed to sail at Peconic Jeff’s formerly secret spot, the Red Cedar Point Jibatorium and Trickery Studio.  (The bad news about this spot is there’s no legal way to access the launch…you must cross the Great Peconic from South Jamesport or find some other way onto the water and then sail to Red Cedar.  Jeff and I may not have done that, exactly…)

Anyhow we shared the super-flat waters with a pair of well-mannered kiters, and had all sorts of fun.   In the video clip below I can be seen screwing up backwinded jibes and carve 360’s (smooth camera work and title graphic by Jeff), whilst Jeff can be seen (barely, thanks to my unsteady hand) hitting a nifty donkey jibe.