The Peconic Puffin
A blog about a group of windsurfers and other water sports enthusiasts, and their friends. Established 1993.
Category: Racing
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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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At Tiana Bay on Long Island! Outstanding shallow-water learning location (better than Napeague IMHO) will be taken over by the great Andy Brandt and his merry crew of top-notch windsurfing instructors. Nobody teaches windsurfing like ABK, whether you’ve never clambered onto a board before, through planning, tacking, jibing, footstraps, harness sailing, speed sailing, jumping, racing,…
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With the windy season approaching it's time to get better. Learn to windsurf, learn to windsurf better, learn to windsurf even better than that* at ABK Boardsports September clinic at Tiana Bay on Long Island, September 25-27. Andy Brandt and his merry band of instructors will be ready for you! C'mon…
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Lord Burns has spoken: June 6th and 7th! "Pencil in the dates" he wrote in Facebook. Yeah well we'll write them in sharpie, and fix it later as kneed bee. "Cause the East Coast Windsurfing Festival is the bee's knees!
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For nary a decade I've been posting New Year's Resolutions for the coming water year. The lists have varied from long and detailed to "the unaimed arrow never misses" (no resolutions…just sail.) This year I want some goals. Here they are, in alphabetical order: Air, on port. I can't remember the last…
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September is getting closer, and that means it's time to get better. Time to learn to windsurf (or windsurf better. Or different.) Time for ABK Boardsports y'all. Here is a partial list of the people who should take the coming ABK clinic (at Tiana Beach September 19-21): -people who have never windsurfed, -people who…
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Here is the word from King Mike and MC Thom: The 2014 East Coast Windsurfing Festival (at Joe's Beach in Heckscher Park) is guaranteed to be a great weekend party for the East Coast Windsurf community! We got trophies. We got T-shirts We got demo boards. We got a ton of raffle prizes and chatchkas.…
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The festival so nice they're going to throw it twice! The seventh annual East Coast Windsurfing Festival will be a twofer, with events on Long Island and Cape Cod. Save the dates: Long Island: June 14-15 @ Joe's Beach, Heckscher State Park Cape Cod: We don't know yet, but keep it in mind. Casual racing,…
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It's on in Cape Cod, y'all. September 14-15! The East Coast Windsurfing Festival Cape Cod edition carries on the traditions of Long Island's East Coast Windsurfing Festival, which is to say that it will be a fun factory. Casual racing, casual freestyle, not-so casual freestyle…competition at it's funnest. Be there. (The East Coast Windsurfing…
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When Sandy trashed Joe's Beach it shut down the East Coast Windsurfing Festival for a year…we thought. But now rising like a puffin from a pile of sand eels, the ECWF is happening…a Cape Cod version! We reached out to a longtime King of the East…Mighty Mike Burns…to ask what the word is on…