The Peconic Puffin
A blog about a group of windsurfers and other water sports enthusiasts, and their friends. Established 1993.
Category: Press
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Love me some PBS.
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Relive (or check out) last month’s outstanding Mattituck session through fresh eyes, as digital magazine LI Sail reports on the big southerly blow and the twenty or so lucky ones who caught it on the North Fork. Check out Tomas on the cover!
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The Wolf continued to dominate the media spotlight over weekend, following his dramatic rescue at New Suffolk last week. “I hope the Giants win so this nonstop Wolf coverage calms down,” Jeff Slecta said to me yesterday (the Giants won but the Peconic Puffin isn’t done just yet!). In his latest interview with The Southampton…
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Tonight on USA, if you should turn on the dippy "Royal Pains" (which follows the exploits of a doctor serving the uber-rich in in the Hamptons) you can catch some of the Long Island fleet in the background (catch a few seconds in the video promo.) In order to capture the Hamptons watersports scene, the…
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The Long Island Press (my first employer…I had a paper route with them a zillion years ago) is running a "best of Long Island" survey, and in the Sports category Windsurfing Hamptons is a nominee under "extreme sports". As it's the only windsurfing nominee, I encourage all windsurfers to vote for it, to encourage visibility…
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Mayhaps you’ve noticed the paucity of functioning webcams…(editor’s note: we slapped him. Take two:) Long Island webcams have been on the fritz lately…the Gilgo Cam was off, with a note of “bandwidth exceeded” for explanation, the Cooper Beach cam was stuck with an image from a week ago, and the Meschutt cam on the Great…
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It had nothing to do with windsurfing. But to be in New York City the night of Election Day…to hear the sound of the city when Barack Obama was declared the next President of the United States…it was so overwhelming that I took some photos and wrote a quick post. To my jaw-dropped surprise, The…
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The Peconic Puffin likes to be liked. So thank you WindSport magazine for the item on this extraordinarly brilliant windsurfing blog. Go directly to page 30 and skip all the other stuff in their first issue of the year. Actually, don’t skip the other stuff. Editor Pete DeKay is starting out 2008 strongly, with (in…
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Windsurfing doesn’t do well in most newspaper headlines. Either the headline is about someone being rescued (and it’s usually a kiter being rescued but the reporter screwed it up) or it’s someone making windsurfers out to be crazy or extreme or whatever (not that these contingents aren’t well represented in our community.) When a local…
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When The Wolf called to say that some guys were heading to the Pier my response was reportedly less than enthusiastic. I distinctly remember saying “okay, see you there!” But hours later as we reflected on the fine session, John said to me “so you like it here now? Because you sounded tentative when I…