The Peconic Puffin
A blog about a group of windsurfers and other water sports enthusiasts, and their friends. Established 1993.
Category: Cold Weather Windsurfing
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31 gusting to 62? Air temps in the 50's. Could be interesting, ya think?
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4.7 is my favorite sail size. Yes it is yes it is yes it is. You can have your 4.2 days (I'll take those too, actually, and everything else!) I like 4.7 best. That's what we got at Sebonac yesterday. Scott on his new 75 liter, plus the Wolf, Jonathan, Kurt, Rich, Jan and Bruce,…
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“That’s the most wind I’ve sailed in years,” Scott declared, after tailwalking in to the beach at Sebonac Inlet on Sunday. It was crazy windy. We were mostly on 3.7’s and 3.4’s, and LIT. Frank, Anders, Peconic Marty, Scott, John’s Natalie, Ford, and vanderWolf and YT were all going for it. The one saving grace…
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It has been over three months since I'd been in the water at all. No windsurfing (Bonaire trip cancelled) no SUP…I was dry and lame and out of practice. I was so lame that even when I met Peconic Jeff at I Road to scout the waves (followed by K and Ponquogue) I had…
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I love the winter for windsurfing. Yeah it's cold but we usually get a half dozen ripping sessions in…3 or 4 meters on the bays, maybe a 4 or small 5 on the relatively warm ocean. And we rig in snow! Where are the snow sessions this winter? Windsurfing "100 degree rule" as practiced on…
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I need a session. Scott needs a session. The Wolf, Peconic Jeff, Christian…the whole lot of us need a session. Winter windsurfing please!
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Another Saturday at Sebonac. Scott Jeff Kurt and yours truly (me later to be swapped out for Frank and Joe) on 5-somethings and all kinds of boards. I started with the 5.5 on my 109…then the wind picked up, so I boarded down to the 99. That killed it. Then it came back, then…
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My first local sesh since mid-November! Plagued by minor surgery, a dinged back, and the Winter That Froze Over Hell, it had been awhile for your humble editor. But the dry spell is done! 4.2 at Sebonac Inlet: Scott, the Wolf, Frank, Jason, Peconic Jeff, the Natalies and moi in the bright sun…
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The Mighty Mike Burns recently queried the Long Island windsurfing forum thusly: "Liquid water?" What's a waterman or waterwoman to do with all this ice? I had a great seven days in Bonaire last month (more reports coming) but I need more. I subscribe to Long Island's Windsurfing Rule of 100 (works for SUPing too).…
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Peconic Jeff's ride, post-Snowpocalypse.