The Peconic Puffin
A blog about a group of windsurfers and other water sports enthusiasts, and their friends. Established 1993.
Category: Pamlico Pilgrimage (Hatteras)
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This is so wrong, again. Andy McKinney, who I knew as an Outer Banks windsurfer and fellow waterblogger, has passed away. He leaves behind a wife, young son and young daughter. Here is a link to his obituary. We met on the web, commenting on each other's windsurfing blogs (his was Lost In Hatteras.) In…
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Mike Burns, formerly Long Island's finest (now some bum living in the Outer Banks) reports that Dare County has a mandatory evacuation. Hurricane Florence, category 4 will be making landfall September 13th. To know Hatteras is to love Hatteras, and we wish it and its mad population well. Also the rest of the Southeast. …
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Pete Roesch, Jon Sassone, and the mighty Mike Burns scored big last week at the Hatteras festival. Way to go guys! (P.S. Andy Brandt not too shabby!!)
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That's Route 12 approaching Rodanthe, according to a post I saw on Facebook, credited to @ryaneosmond. Astronomical high tides plus storm. Remembering a quote from Wind Tracks Magazine back in the day: "You always appreciate Hatteras, because you don't know if it's going to be there". Good luck to all residents and transplanted wind chimps.
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There he is, wearing a shorty, hovering over the water as he windsurfs a foil on the Pamlico Sound. Mike Burns does it all, with a smaller sail and in warmer conditions that I ever do/rig/get. To quote Frank Messina: We all hate him. This is worse than when he learned the leopard loop.…
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Fresh from losing my OBX wave virginity I was hot to get back on the water, but there were no wind/wave combos to be found Wednesday morning. “Why don’t you sail at Canadian Hole?” suggested Andy. Canadian Hole. Probably the best known windsuring spot in Hatteras, in fifteen trips to the Outer Banks I had…
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The waves were small and there wasn’t a lot of wind, but I finally scored my first ocean session in Hatteras. I’ve been pestering my Outer Banks blogging buddies OBX Bill and Andy of Lost in Hatteras since I arrived a few days ago, and yesterday afternoon Bill told me to come meet him at…what…
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I needed a Hatteras fix, a window of opportunity opened, and an Andy Alert* promised afternoons of sweet thermals in warm waters. I hemmed and hawed for a few hours, then threw a sleeping bag in the van and headed out of New York at 6AM Monday morning. Nine hours later I was speaking to…
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This is an awful story. Most of what’s here comes from forum posts and emails from Long Island windsurfers in Hatteras (including Peconic Jeff and Mike Burns) along with posts in some kitesurfing forums that tell this story: Saturday afternoon winds were light…10-15 knots. Windsurfers and kiters were on the water off of Avon with…
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I've been looking for an excuse to link to Lost In Hatteras Andy's post about surfing with dolphins, which is one of the best stories I've read in the windoblogosphere lately. Go read his tale of "Stu and the Local Boys"…you won't be sorry. I never found an editorially plausible tangent to bring up Andy's…