The Peconic Puffin
A blog about a group of windsurfers and other water sports enthusiasts, and their friends. Established 1993.
Category: Bonaire
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I have a category for "Cold Weather Windsurfing" but I don't have one for when it's sunny, warm, and we're not in the Carib. Could use one for yesterday's sesh! Me Scott Pav the Wolf (plus Jon Ford to the rescue and Artie ever on the way) in sunny 4.7 conditions. "This is a good…
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My wife loves windsurfing in Bonaire. She’s the one who suggests the vacation each year. I say (I really say this) “we could take a non-windsurfing vacation.” I swear I actually say that. And she always replies “I want to windsurf in Bonaire.” What’s not to like? We rent a casita right next to the…
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Friday morning. Light rain. I have developed a sore back from I don't know what (the beachside masseuse says the chop has been rough on people's backs. The beachside masseuse…yeah I said it.) So I am in pain. But it's blowing 21, we leave tomorrow afternoon for the frozen Northeast, and there's a…
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Hail Caesar…he strikes again! This is a good one. Planing freestyle too (shot down at the mangroves at the end of Bonaire's Lac Bay) but his flowstyle lightwind work is once again devastating. Check out the new article about him in Boards.
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I just got these photos from the great Jimmy Rivera (documentary of many Long Island windsurfing events, and recurring water friend in Bonaire). All week during our trip we never saw Jimmy shooting on the water when we were sailing, so no pix. Then on Saturday (get in a quick morning session before running…
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Here at Peconic Puffin World Headquarters we receive a lot of inquiries about Bonaire. The blog posts are apparently not enough…some folks want specific questions answered. Here are the answers to the usuals: Best Place to Rent Windsurfing Equipment: Jibe City, because it opens at 8AM. Windsurf Place is just as good, but it…
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The moment we hit the water in Bonaire, Sally began her jibe program. Okay she sailed 50 yards, got off the board to adjust the boom height, and then began it, but really there was no warm-up at all. Sally was there to jibe, I was there to give her loving uncritical unjudgemental loving…
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Thandi is way cool. Jon Sassone is almost as cool (and a fantastic windsurfer. Thandi sails too, but Jon is crazy good. But cool as Thandi…?) Cooler still (and we're in a heat wave) are the upcoming screenings of Children of the Wind, the movie about the birth of windsurfing in Bonaire (the cradle…
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While on a windsurfing vacation in Aruba in 1997 I first heard about “the Bonaire kids”, a collection of young (and very young) locals one island over who were windsurfing on antiquated gear, many of whom were fantastic windsurfers, and some of whom were astonishingly good tricksters. We now know the names of some of…
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Back in February we reported on Sally's new wetsuit. One of the quotes that ended up on the cutting room floor when she got the thing was "see you in the straps" (quoting the great Dana Miller). Well, here she is, photo courtesy Jimmy Rivera. We're heading out to Napeague in a few weeks…this…