The Peconic Puffin
A blog about a group of windsurfers and other water sports enthusiasts, and their friends. Established 1993.
Category: Dasher
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My first windsurfing guru (and He Who Taught Me To Jibe) Dasher has been telling me about a super-easy to use sail for SUP windsurfing. Check this out: 1. The sail rolls up on the mast (no mast/luff sleeve threading). 2. No downhauling. 3. The boom folds down against the mast when not in use…
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When it comes to winter windsurfing, the community of lunatics I sail with is about as stoked as any out there. I just stumbled over a photo collection of these windsurfers in Norway, who appear to be true brothers and sisters in cold weather spirit. Found it on The Horse's Mouth (a most excellent blog…
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So many things I like are connected to this video: First of all, it’s a beautiful bit of wavesailing (love that) on SUP boards (want to do that) in a video by Dasher (He Who Taught Me To Jibe, and a maker of fine video to boot!) The video is a bit of an impromptu…
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My wife is learning to carve a jibe. I have a number of thoughts and emotions about this, so I’ll just make a list: 1. It took me forever to learn to jibe…she can’t just waltz on in, fit jibing into her mega-busy schedule of things to do, and succeed. 2. I still can’t jibe!…
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When you step up to the registrar at the Huts College of Windsurfing (the instruction desk at Vela Aruba) you know you’re in the right place. Back in Dasher’s teaching heydey this is where I learned to jibe, but I always stared wonderingly at the exotic mysteries being taught in grad school. I secretly aspired…
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This is an excerpt from the ProKids DVD. There’s another clip (and more info about the DVD) in this post. Bonaire…freestyle heaven!
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Elvis is in Bonaire. And Elvis has a message for us: Tricks are for Kids! Three-year-olds can windsurf. Eight-year-olds can do a world of moves. Twelve-year-olds will blow your minds. Fifteen and sixteen-year-olds rule! (Check out this excerpt from “ProKids”) Anybody who follows freestyle knows about Bonaire as a capital of the discipline. Tonky and…
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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…