The Peconic Puffin
A blog about a group of windsurfers and other water sports enthusiasts, and their friends. Established 1993.
Category: Peconic Puffin Classic
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Sunsets on the Little Peconic Bay have always been exquisite. Yesterday we were blessed with a magnificent one as we gathered at low tide to scatter Steve's ashes on this bit of beach where so much happened. About 50 feet behind everyone is the water where I first tried windsurfing, and the beach where Steve…
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I've never had a uni break on me. Always believed in the safety strap (prevent rig separation, emergency sail home) but had never actually needed it. Sunday at Mecox with OG Puffin Steve (Peconic Puffin since 1993) conditions were marginal 6.3. I launched first, and was mixing jibes when I could plane with tacks and…
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A blast from Peconic Puffin past! Ran into Jace Panebianco, who the world knows as director of The Windsurfing Movie, but who old school Puffins know as that great kid who works at the windsurfing shop, circa 1993! When this thing was a three page printed newsletter Jace was often in it. In town from…
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Forgot to work this into my last post about Robby, so here it is solo: Back in the early 1990's when the "puffins" were a group of windsurfers, their SO's, children and friends living in summer share houses and sailing on the Little Peconic Bay, the "Puffin House" was the center of activity (at least…
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Years ago during a windsurfing trip to Maui, there was a day when the winds blew from the west (highly unusual) as opposed to the tradewind easterlies. Kona Wind, they called it, and it wild and wooly and gusty and all over the place. The great instructor Jason Voss was standing on the beach,…
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Award-winning surfer Kai Lenny shares “breath-taking sessions with international champions of big wave, progressive surfing, kite surfing, windsurfing, and SUP” in this film created by Johnny Decesare and one of the original Peconic Puffins: Jace Panebianco! There’s a special screening at the Parish Art Museum in Southampton Friday September 29th at 6PM. Be there! (Click…
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1. The Windsurfing Movie II is much, much better than The Windsurfing Movie. 2. It is not more of the first movie. It is different. That may be all you need to know. Here’s more anyway: Like the first film, “II” features absolutely spectacular footage of brilliant windsurfing in extraordinary conditions. Filmmakers Johnny DeCesare…
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If you're not one of the ten or so people who read the Peconic Puffin in the '90's, this is one big "what the heck?" Well that's just how it's going to be! The creature above ("pre-smushed" says Cindy) is Theo. Theo is Jordan and Avery's new puppy, and adopted little brother of Spooky. Or…
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Eugene has a sister. Ivette has a daughter. Slo has a nightmare once this beauty turns 16. And we have a new Puffin! Presenting the Peconic Puffin debut of Lea Slobadsky. We’ll have her on a windsurfing board by the time she’s three. (Top Photo: There she is…Ms. Peconica. Bottom Left: Slo on the water.…
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Not the Peconic Puffin, though. The Peconic Puffin is fourteen (“fourteen and a half!” says Avery.) Version One was a weekly three page newsletter (a few details can be found in the about section of the blog) that I’d do from May to October of each year (the months we had our weekend share house…