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  • The Water Is Like The Dance Floor

    Relaxing in our Bonaire bungalow after yet another day of fine sailing, Sally was excited about windsurfing.  She has a love/not love relationship with the sport, but right then she was glowing.  "It's like going dancing," she said.  "You may think you're not sure if you want to dance or not, but once you hit…

  • These are a few of my favorite Bonairian things

    Here at the Puffin we get a lot of direct email asking for recommendations regarding Bonaire this and Bonaire that.  I'm hoping to refer everyone to one post based on our trip from a week ago, so here are some of my Best Bonaire Recommendations for Windsurfing Vacation (etcetera): Gear rental:  Shout out to Jibe…

  • Jibe City Scene: Too Windy For Caesar, Torturing Brendon. Bonaire Report #2

    There's no such thing as guaranteed wind.   Doesn't matter what a meteorologist tells you…all you need to do is ask a group of windsurfers who have flown great distances to get to Sure Wind…the skunk stories come out, or at least long stretches of barely planable conditions.  I've had the experience in Aruba, Bonaire, Hatteras,…

  • Can I Get a Witness? Bonaire Windsurfing Report #1

    “Did you see my ____?" “Did you see mine?” Such was what could be heard in the air at Lac Bay in Bonaire, and not because we were staying at a former nudist colony, where everyone saw your ___ if you stayed there.   No, the Did You Sees were all about friends enjoying ideal conditions…

  • Sally is Ready to Shred (she has a new wetsuit)

    Sally and I will be going to Bonaire in the not too distant future, to windsurf with some friends.  Amongst those friends will be Lily and Dana, Napeague shredettes whose wetsuits Sally has long admired.  A couple years ago Sally told the Peconic Puffin "if I had the sleeveless shorty that Lily and Dana have,…

  • By Popular Demand, More Caesar from the Vault

    http://www.peconicpuffin.com/the_peconic_puffin/files/caesar_in_bonaire.mov Dennis 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.

  • Caesar’s Freestyle Bedazzlement (through fresh eyes)

    http://www.peconicpuffin.com/the_peconic_puffin/files/cesar_in_bonaire_part_one_1372.mov The 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 while hanging out in the Hang Out bar, I heard someone loudly ask…

  • Windsurfing Bonaire, Pt. II

    I 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 then overpowered on a 5.9.  I couldn’t pull off anything tricky (strictly jibes, duck jibes…

  • Bonaire Invaded by Long Islanders

    Sitting 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 360.   God knows what Mike Burns is working on.  There goes George Marr.   And Kurt, Marianne, Susan, Tomas, Jill, Jeannie,…

  • Hail Caesar…He Is Coming

    The master of jawdropping lightwind freestyle magic, Bonaire’s Caesar Finies, will be competing at the second annual East Coast Windsurfing Festival at Hecksher State Park, June 6-7.   The bar has just been raised Big Time!  Of course Long Island counters with the reigning King of the East Mike Burns, along with LI expat Chachi Sassone.  …