The Peconic Puffin

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

Category: Ice Sailing

  • The Mighty Mike Burns recently queried the Long Island windsurfing forum thusly:  "Liquid water?"  What's a waterman or waterwoman to do with all this ice?   I had a great seven days in Bonaire last month (more reports coming) but I need more.  I subscribe to Long Island's Windsurfing Rule of 100 (works for SUPing too).…

  • 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.…

  • Saturday and Sunday's forecasts call for SW 20-25 in the afternoons.  Air temps around 40 degrees.   To quote Scott:  "oooohhhh tiana!!!!!!!" Let it be so.   I haven't been on the water in a month.  I am a fraud.  Meanwhile some of the guys have been ice sailing at Mecox.   (Top: Chimply Lord Scotworth, the…

  • "Take a picture!   Take a picture!"  I implored Peconic Jeff.  All my teeth were where they belonged and the pain wasn't bad, so my focus was on getting a good photo for the blog. Jeff snapped a few photos.  He wasn’t jazzed.  "Unfortunately it looks like you're wearing lipstick," he tells me.   Jeff understands…if I'm…