Category: Racing
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(click on the link and start playing Led Zep’s Whole Lotta Love. Once it starts, begin reading below.) (turn up the volume, too. Okay, ready? Start reading!) It's time for Rocktober Racing! Pete is ready to pull the trigger, which means three things: 1. He has a plan to defeat George, 2. He’s found…
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Notice of a Scheme to Race: Given the popularity of the races at June’s East Coast Windsurfing Festival, and the great time that was had at the 2009 East Coast Fall Regatta, Pete Roesch (who always does well in these things) is hatching a plan for a Fall racing event this October on the north…
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That's New England's finest Josh Angulo pulling transorbital G's as he rounds a mark in Fuerteventura last month. In the ongoing windless hell of 2011, my callouses gone and jibing a distant memory, this image jogged a recollection of jibing in days past (I jibe EXACTLY like Josh. More or less. Press "1" for more,…
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The winds were light and off-shore for day two…yeah boy! The standings as of Day One were on display, but things were going to get shaken up. Racemaster Tom set up a modified course. I thought “I could do well on this course if I had a longboard,” but I’d left my Superlight home like…
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(A semi-coherent description of the events of day one of of the festival may be found here. Tomorrow a second helping of scattered recollections and thoughts, focused on day two may be found on the Peconic Puffin as well. Here now are the names of all the good people who participated:) Pro Men’s Freestyle (Fully…
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Where to begin? Here’s an early report on Saturday. (early? I know…) 70+ competitors turned out (including former PWA champion and new east coast windsurfer Josh Angulo) for 18-24 easterlies at Long Island’s Heckscher State Park, where the racing was fast and furious. We had two racing classes (open and 7.5 limited) but unless you…
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Mike Burns thinks it could blow big. I'm not trying to jinx it! I'm just sayin' that's what Mike is sayin'. MC Thom Hering thinks we may need jet ski rabbit starts. Say what? If the wind is from the east then racers will a-gather on the water (as opposed to the rabbit beach starts…
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He is coming. Windsurfing legend Josh Angulo (who WON Cabo Verde…that’s more rad than the Bowl, homes!) is bringing his mightiness to Heckscher this weekend for the 2011 East Coast Windsurfing Festival. We at the Peconic Puffin say “Wow!” Stoked, we are. Fools, too, but not so foolish as to pass an opportunity to ask…
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That's right. Oh yeah. PWA wave champion (and your basic windsurfing legend) Josh Angulo will be on the water with you (or at least with me, and everyone else who is coming to the fourth annual ECWF). I don't know if we can say he'll be competing…maybe it would be more accurate to say he'll…
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…is less than four weeks away! The fourth annual East Coast Windsurfing Festival takes place June 11-12th at Heckscher State Park. If you've been to the festival before but haven't yet signed up (by emailing his lordship King of the East Mike Burns at mewindsurf@aol.com) then please do, so your name can appear in lights.…