The Peconic Puffin

A blog about a group of windsurfers and other water sports enthusiasts, and their friends. Established 1993.

Category: Foiling

  • You know it is.  You KNOW it is!   Swap meet time, me droogs…Hampton Watersports is throwing the Spring Fling on Saturday May 18th.   Windsurfing swap meet, kiteboarding swap meet, SUP swap meet, surfing swap meet, and are you ready:  foiling swap meet.   If you're selling used equipment, drop off your gear during the week preceding…

  • David:  "Happy Year of the Pig!" (which it indeed is, beginning today on Chinese New Year.) Me:  "Besides bacon, what does it give us to look forward to?" Jake:  "Summer foiling at Napeague?" Wilson:  "The Year of the Peague!" There you have it.

  • Last Friday I headed out to Napeague for an ABK windsurfing clinic. The forecast was light…6 gusting to 12…but I was fired up and eager because ABK had just added foiling to their instruction program.   This was super exciting because -I’d only seen foiling on Youtube videos, where it looked exotic and cool, and -It’s…

  • Windsurfing swap meet. Kiteboarding swap meet Stand up paddling swap meet Surfing swap meet even Foiling swap meet (yes you heard right!) At Hampton Watersports. Saturday September 15th,  Saturday, 9AM to 4PM.  At the shop. Buy or sell used Foiling, Standup Paddleboarding, Windsurfing, Kiteboarding and Surfing gear.  Buying – closeouts available, specials on closeout '18 equipment,…

  • …too much rain in the forecast for tomorrow.  Instead, try and ride some of the wind today!  

  • Saying "there will be wind" is a sure way to jinx it.  Still, Scott says Friday looks hopeful, so we shall hope! Saturday's swap meet on the other hand, that's happening!  It's time to get up close and personal with a whole lot of other people's gear, and pass on what you don't need anymore. …

  • Award-winning surfer Kai Lenny shares “breath-taking sessions with international champions of big wave, progressive surfing, kite surfing, windsurfing, and SUP” in this film created by Johnny Decesare and one of the original Peconic Puffins: Jace Panebianco!   There’s a special screening at the Parish Art Museum in Southampton Friday September 29th at 6PM.  Be there! (Click…