The Peconic Puffin

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Category: Freestyle

  • ABK Windsurfing Clinic Coming Soon

    September is getting closer, and that means it's time to get better.   Time to learn to windsurf (or windsurf better.  Or different.)  Time for ABK Boardsports y'all. Here is a partial list of the people who should take the coming ABK clinic (at Tiana Beach September 19-21): -people who have never windsurfed, -people who…

  • Three Days

    “Where is Christian,” Tomas asked. “In Hersey Pennsylvania, with a pistol in his mouth” I replied. We are all grateful to Christian, who promised to be a wind sacrifice for the holiday weekend, and delivered mightily. Friday:  Olympic conditions at East Landing.   George, Joe Natalie, Scott, Bill, Hulse, Tomas, Jonathan, the Wolf, a friend of…

  • Kiss My Ass, Kick My Ass

    Had a lovely solo session at Towd Point on Sunday (woulda been a buddy sesh with Bill if he arrived earlier…he launched as I packed it in.)  6.2 on the 109 in sunny onshore NW…modest ramps on port, and a sweet jibatorium on the inside on starboard.   I missed the East Coast Windsurfing Festival,…

  • East Coast Windsurfing Festival Is This Weekend!

    Here is the word from King Mike and MC Thom: The 2014 East Coast Windsurfing Festival (at Joe's Beach in Heckscher Park) is guaranteed to be a great weekend party for the East Coast Windsurf community! We got trophies. We got T-shirts We got demo boards. We got a ton of raffle prizes and chatchkas.…

  • Flowstyle Freestyle Windsurfing Video: Caesar Finies

    Hail Caesar…he strikes again! This is a good one.  Planing freestyle too (shot down at the mangroves at the end of Bonaire's Lac Bay) but his flowstyle lightwind work is once again devastating. Check out the new article about him in Boards.

  • May ABK Clinic Cancelled (See ya in September)

    ABK's Spring clinic for Long Island (May 16-18) has been cancelled.  Andy Brandt tells the Peconic Puffin "while I love the Long Island windsurfing crowd, and the Hudson River crowd, and everybody else who comes to our Long Island clinics, not enough of you have signed up for me to bring ABK to Long Island…

  • East Coast Windsurfing Festival Dates. X2!

    The festival so nice they're going to throw it twice!  The seventh annual East Coast Windsurfing Festival will be a twofer, with events on Long Island and Cape Cod.  Save the dates: Long Island:  June 14-15 @ Joe's Beach, Heckscher State Park Cape Cod:  We don't know yet, but keep it in mind. Casual racing,…

  • Bonaire Windsurfing Vacation Guide 2014

    Here at Peconic Puffin World Headquarters we receive a lot of inquiries about Bonaire.   The blog posts are apparently not enough…some folks want specific questions answered.  Here are the answers to the usuals: Best Place to Rent Windsurfing Equipment:  Jibe City, because it opens at 8AM.  Windsurf Place is just as good, but it…

  • Jibe Sally Jibe (Puffins in Bonaire)

    The moment we hit the water in Bonaire, Sally began her jibe program.  Okay she sailed 50 yards, got off the board to adjust the boom height, and then began it, but really there was no warm-up at all.   Sally was there to jibe, I was there to give her loving uncritical unjudgemental loving…

  • Haas Tack, Not Push Tack Homes!

    http://www.peconicpuffin.com/files/slow-pushtack-1.mov I met it as the Hoss Tack. A crazy jibey looking thing in Aruba, as performed by Andy Brandt and Jason Voss. A carved question mark. That was 2000. I was hitting the occasional Hoss (ugly but dry) a few months later, but not long after that I caught the move on a Peter…