The Peconic Puffin
A blog about a group of windsurfers and other water sports enthusiasts, and their friends. Established 1993.
Category: Freestyle
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Danny MacAskill is the only non-watersport athlete that’s ever been featured in The Peconic Puffin. His freestyle bike riding is so transcendentally mind-blowing that fans of any sport with freestyle can revel in its magnificence. He recently teamed up with GoPro to create this beauty. Enjoy, and make sure you watch until the very end!
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At Tiana Bay on Long Island! Outstanding shallow-water learning location (better than Napeague IMHO) will be taken over by the great Andy Brandt and his merry crew of top-notch windsurfing instructors. Nobody teaches windsurfing like ABK, whether you’ve never clambered onto a board before, through planning, tacking, jibing, footstraps, harness sailing, speed sailing, jumping, racing,…
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With the windy season approaching it's time to get better. Learn to windsurf, learn to windsurf better, learn to windsurf even better than that* at ABK Boardsports September clinic at Tiana Bay on Long Island, September 25-27. Andy Brandt and his merry band of instructors will be ready for you! C'mon…
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Lord Burns has spoken: June 6th and 7th! "Pencil in the dates" he wrote in Facebook. Yeah well we'll write them in sharpie, and fix it later as kneed bee. "Cause the East Coast Windsurfing Festival is the bee's knees!
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Friday morning. Light rain. I have developed a sore back from I don't know what (the beachside masseuse says the chop has been rough on people's backs. The beachside masseuse…yeah I said it.) So I am in pain. But it's blowing 21, we leave tomorrow afternoon for the frozen Northeast, and there's a…
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For nary a decade I've been posting New Year's Resolutions for the coming water year. The lists have varied from long and detailed to "the unaimed arrow never misses" (no resolutions…just sail.) This year I want some goals. Here they are, in alphabetical order: Air, on port. I can't remember the last…
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I wasn't able to attend the ABK clinic at Tiana last weekend (various personal obligations) but I stopped by Friday morning to say Hi and to sail the eastern breeze. Just being near the clinic pushed me to think about my technique, and as I sailed I thought about all the things I was…
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Attention freestylee sailors and admirers: Word is that Caesar mighty Caesar will be on the water (and at the simulator) at next week’s ABK clinic at Tiana. For anyone aspiring to learn flowstyle (or mad freestyle): FYI! And regardless…if you’re not signed up time is running out. As ABK’s website says,…
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I caught the best part…an hour powered 6.2 on my 99 liter Skate. Jibes, upwind 360's and even a couple backwinded jibes. Woo Ha! (ABK is coming soon…I am preparing.) Then it began to die as Sally arrived, followed by Xantos 7.5 guy (must learn his name…) Sally planed a teeny bit…
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Photo from the 80's? 90's? Oughts (terrible word…have no idea how to spell it nor do I want to)? No No No! It's the great Pierre Coupal keeping it real in a time machine, as seen on his Facebook page today. Go Pierre