Category: Ice Sailing
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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).…
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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.…
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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…
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"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…