This blog is going to feature some Stand Up Paddle surfing posts. It’s a windsurfing blog, but my pursuit of wavesailing lead me to take the recommendation of Jon, Fisherman, Jeff and the Wolf and try SUPing in the ocean, and I am smitten. Also my wave sailing is more…”informed” now. And hey fellow waterblogger Bonnie (Queen of the Kayak bloggers) has a whole subsection of posts about cucumbers, so I don’t feel wildly out of bounds yammering about paddling a board.
On Saturday Jeff, Scott (in his surf ski) the Wolf and I hit the water at Dolphin Road, about two miles west of Ponquogue. Waves were 4-5 feet, fast, and closing out hard near the beach 
(I managed to escape a closout exactly once…need to work on that!) But otherwise had my best day…I’m starting to turn the board more aggressively (ie less tentatively) and working the wave more. Not having his best day was Jeff, who got pinched in a wave with Scott and the Wolf, at the end of which Jeff’s board sported quite a gouge. I myself haven’t graduated to trying to protect my board…when I fall in the wash I’m too busy curled up like a ball trying to keep my head intact.
(Sequence: Scott and I prepare for a wave…so far so good…that’s me with the pearl…munchola! Photos by Peconic Jeff.)
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