The Peconic Puffin
A blog about a group of windsurfers and other water sports enthusiasts, and their friends. Established 1993.
Category: Aruba
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Q: What do 10,000 puffins say when a few more puffins show up? A: Great! More puffins! Puffins like to be together. And so it was that when Sally and Michael planned a windsurfing trip to Aruba, soon Karin and Massimo decided to come, and Dana and Andy were already going (with Una and Kai),…
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We’re not talking Gekko Flakas or Spock 540’s. We’re talking much cooler than that. When the wind dropped to subplaning in Aruba last week, Dana Tang and Andy Darrell showed the crowds how they do things back on their home waters. Daughter Una (“I’m not as good as my mother…yet”) showed off her noseriding skills.…
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There have always been wind shadows in Aruba for the sailor who heads south of Vela’s launch (where the high rise hotels play havoc with the trade winds) but had things got worse? What about the talk of a new hi-rise hotel being built straight upwind from the Fishermans Huts sailing area, where the wind…
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(An impending trip to Aruba after six years away has brought past adventures to mind. In that spirit, Peconic Puffin Classics presents: Why I Really Love Aruba The Unexpergated Version, for the Discerning Puffin (In the summer of 2000, Windsurfing Magazine asked the editor of PP to write an article entitled “Why I Love Aruba”…
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I once watched a friend slice mushrooms with a Rainbow V1 blade fin, but the full range of possibilities was revealed to me in the Gin Su Fin infomercial. Starring Chef Alberto Benitez (then an instructor at Vela Aruba) and Dee Imbert (star of The Search for One Eyed Jimmy) this ten year old clip…