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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Four ripping days of windsurfing! It’s been awhile since my legs ached from day after day of jumping and high chop jibing, what with Wednesday 5.5 at Mecox, then Thursday 5.5, Friday 4.7, and 4.7 Easter Sunday all at Sebonac Inlet. The new 5.5 was broken in properly, a new toy…a boom mounted video camera…
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Q: What do 10,000 puffins say when a few more puffins show up? A: Great! More puffins! Puffins like to be together. And so it was that when Sally and Michael planned a windsurfing trip to Aruba, soon Karin and Massimo decided to come, and Dana and Andy were already going (with Una and Kai),…
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In 2003 some friends and I drove down the East Coast for a ten day windsurfing tour. Three days were spent in Dewey Beach, Delaware, sharpening our skills in an ABK camp, and then we continued on to the Outer Banks, to spend a week sailing brilliantly out of a rented house in Avon. But…
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We’re not talking Gekko Flakas or Spock 540’s. We’re talking much cooler than that. When the wind dropped to subplaning in Aruba last week, Dana Tang and Andy Darrell showed the crowds how they do things back on their home waters. Daughter Una (“I’m not as good as my mother…yet”) showed off her noseriding skills.…
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Windsurfing hasn’t done too well in movies. There is the outstandingly bad “Wind Rider” best known for the half-second of Nicole Kidman naked. Then there’s “No Way Out” in which Kevin Costner’s car is followed by a station wagon with an original Windsurfer and rig on the roof. That’s about it. But soon Jace Panebianco…
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(An impending trip to Aruba after six years away has brought past adventures to mind. In that spirit, Peconic Puffin Classics presents: Why I Really Love Aruba The Unexpergated Version, for the Discerning Puffin (In the summer of 2000, Windsurfing Magazine asked the editor of PP to write an article entitled “Why I Love Aruba”…
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(the following excerpt is from The Peconic Puffin, Volume 7, Number 4 originally published August 1998): “Adventure on the High Seas Steve buys a Kayak, but will Jordan get the paddle for “oh sh*t”?” PUFFIN ON THE WATER Sailing News Plus! It may have started when Michael bought MisterAl, all 260 liters of him, a…
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Who amongst the Puffins doesn’t remember young Jace Panebianco when he was the kid working at Windsurfing Hamptons? Who doesn’t remember when they were taller than Jace? And who could forget the Puffin Party in 1993 when sometime after midnight Jace showed up at the back door of the Puffin House in his wetsuit, having…
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The driveway at Chateau Marks ranneth over with the cars of happy guests. Downstairs, the floor was runneth over by Sasha and the Speed Mob. But upstairs, all was calm and collected as Puffindom engaged in studious partying. While Steve was conducting vodka tests with experts and Michael (“his opinion matters not” said the good…