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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"It's going to be a HIGH of 32!" Scott said. "Fireplace and football!" Scott was talking about Sunday, but it was still Saturday. Saturday too late… by the time we got to Sebonac and rigged (5.2-5.7) it was too darn light. Still, Christian, Jeff and Scott launched. I had rigged (5.5) but hadn't put on…
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Christian and Peconic Jeff are talking about hitting it tomorrow. Yeah it's going to be cold, but I haven't sailed in a month! Let us remember Long Island's version of the windsurfing 100 rule: Air temperature + Water temperature + Wind Speed + Weeks since last session + 5 (if it's sunny) = 100 or…
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Sailing with the Wolf and Scott usually means that you're in location perfect for the wind and tides. A 5 degree difference in direction will change the launch call for these guys. So imagine my surprise when I arrived at Mattituck to find about ten people windsurfing in the wrong direction. The wind was southwest…
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I've never seen so much sand blow at Sebonac before. Still, when the sail recommendations were 3.7-4.2 I rigged the 4.0. Took off, caught one blessed jump, then came back to the sandstorm to add downhaul and outhaul on account of I was nuked. Scott came over to supervise, and immediately said "oh man!" What…
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After an hour of a full powered ripfest at Sebonac (sail sizes 3.7-4.2, the reef serving up fine ramps) Peconic Jeff headed for shore with face a-troubled. We all joined him and gathered round. “I broke the nose,” he said, pointing to the front of his fairly new 86 liter Fanatic. “And my other board…
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With only two weeks left to the winter, medoubts that the iceboards will be seen out east this season. Bellport and Mecox are not going to freeze over… (“SCREECH!!!” I hear varied disembodied friends and poltergeists shreiking. “What the heck are you doing…trying to JINX it? Are you a goshdarn evil GROUNDHOG? Dude…shut up!”) Ahem.…
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Windsurfing “100 degree rule” as practiced on Long Island: Air temperature + Water temperature + Wind Speed = 100 or higher. Some Long lslanders like to get a bit more technical, and windsurf when: Air temperature + Water temperature + Wind Speed + Weeks since last session + 5 (if it’s sunny) = 100 or…
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The Wolf continued to dominate the media spotlight over weekend, following his dramatic rescue at New Suffolk last week. “I hope the Giants win so this nonstop Wolf coverage calms down,” Jeff Slecta said to me yesterday (the Giants won but the Peconic Puffin isn’t done just yet!). In his latest interview with The Southampton…
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You’re out on the water and a line breaks. Inhaul, outhaul, downhaul, uphaul, harness line…something you need snaps. You’ll be happier if you’re carrying a piece or two of downhaul line to put yourself back together. In twenty years of windsurfing this has only happened to me once (I’m fanatical about checking and replacing worn…
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I was standing on the beach, facing the eastern wind with my mouth wide open. I wanted to eat the air, so good did it taste. It was cold, but clean…immaculate…and it reminded me of a pristine Carribean breeze. Carribean ice cream! It was delicious. Perhaps it tasted so good because I’d been missing Ponquogue. …