Category: Pamlico Pilgrimage (Hatteras)
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Alas, the combination of wind direction, heavy currents, and preceding days of nuking winds produced conditions which were hazardous to my health, had I ventured into the ocean. Damn. Poor me…I was stuck with 5.0 and 5.5 conditions windsurfing the Pamlico Sound, while Ted, Rob, Peconic Jeff and I chased Mike Burns around…
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Mike Burns wasn’t kidding when he said the forecast for the Outer Banks was tremendous. Fortunately this morning lightened up a bit, so a few hours of 4.7ish sailing was available for the early birds (Ryan, Robert, and me on a 4.5). By late morning the switch got flipped, though, and it back on the…
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Scene: A sunny, windy day in Cape Hatteras. You are there, with friends and all of your windsurfing equipment. What could be wrong? The answer: Too Much Wind. We were on our smallest sails…Jeff on a 3.5, Mike on a 3.7 Ted with a 3.7 and me on a 3.4. We were all overpowered. And…
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George Pav has lamented the lack of wind for April (normally an outstanding month for Long Island.) "Where is the wind?" he asks? In an unlikely turn of events, I have found the wind, in the Outer Banks. This trip was so unlikely…it required a confluence of a certain company failing to offer me…
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From: MichaelTo: Billcc: Andy (Lost In Hatteras) Subject: Water temps (turn on your Ahnold Schwarzenegger text readers please. Thank you.) Gentlemen, you are girlymen! Whining about the water because it is a little cool: “icy 48 degree", “45 degree water is tough" You do not know what cold is! The Long Island windsurfer is sailing…
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Another installment from The Kooks of Hazard Part Two. This time Mr. Skelton interpolates logo to mast-high Hat’tress wavesailing with Southern Culture on the Skids. (I’m gonna get smacked for "interpolates, but whatever…) (If you missed our first Kooks installment, here it is.) In other Hatteras news, there is talk of a blogger summit down…
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The best distillation of Cape Hatteras that I’ve even known is found in two videotapes made in the 1990’s by the Hatteras artist (and most excellent windsurfer) Mark Skelton. They are titled "Kooks of Hazard", and "Kooks of Hazard Part Two". They are unlike other windsurfing videos. Below is an excerpt from The Kooks of…
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. He’s in there. One of many great images in a post on OBX Bill’s Beach Life about a bitchin’ Thanksgiving Day sesh on the Outer Banks. Photo by Keith McCulloch
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It is time to leave. We got a little time in on the water before rolling north, and Jeff and I met OBX Bill in what constituted a windsurfing blogger summit, though we didn’t get to sail together. Still, it was good to say Hello. I also met some readers of the Peconic Puffin (no,…
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“Bottle this. Serve it to me hot or cold. I’ll have it any time.” Thus spake Steve after a stellar Hatteras Wednesday. Sunny, warm and windy, it was the kind of day you imagine when you’re planning an OBX windsurfing trip and dreaming of how great it could be. An October day spent ripping on…