Category: Racing
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It’s time! His lordship Mike Burns (Festival organizer AND Reigning King of the East) has decreed that the hour to declare our intentions has arrived*. So get thee to the East Coast Windsurfing Festival’s registration page, or just email King Burns directly with the following information: Thy name (all of it). Thy mailing address. Thy…
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It’s Baaaack…the fourth annual East Coast Windsurfing Festival! Two time King of the East freestyle champion Mike Burns sez “mark your calendars for June 11th and 12th and expect the usual big turnout with lots of action and fun.” We’re talkin’ Heckscher, y’all. There will be freestyle, there will be racing, there will be a…
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Andy Brandt and ABK Boardsports return to Long Island this year to make us all (you is "us" if you take a clinic) better windsurfers, friends, lovers, spouses, and citizens, as well as reducing our carbon footprints. If you're not a windsurfer yet but would like to be, this is the best possible way to…
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Yesterday was the birthday of the mighty windsurfing instructor/guru/obsessed lunatic/freestyle evanglist/racing master and chief cook and bottle washer for ABK Boardsports, Andy Brandt. We wish him a happy and healthy one. In his dotage Andy has begun to forget which side of the sail he belongs on.
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Nag nag nag. Come buy my used stuff (and other people’s) or sell me your great used stuff (or other people) Saturday at Hampton Watersports. Windsurfing equipment, kiteboarding equipment, stand up paddle equipment…come bring it, come buy it. And don’t forget the ABK clinics this Friday-Sunday (featuring a racing group for advanced windsurfers so inclined)…
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This just in from windsurfing guru and ABK-meister Andy Brandt: The dates for the second of two September ABK windsurfing clinics at Napeague…the "freestyle" clinic (a regular ABK clinic that adds a special freestyle group for advanced windsurfers interested in learning freestyle) has been moved to October 1-3. The clinic scheduled for September 17-19…the "racing"…
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That's a beauty (the poster). That's a beauty (the event). Both the Notice of Race and the registration form can be found on the web site. Event organizer Nevin Sayre wants you to know the following: "1/ Racing for the Gold Fleet begins Aug 3 with final check-in 1100-1200, Skipper's Meeting 1300, and first possible…
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Tentative dates for the second annual East Coast Fall Windsurfing Regatta have been announced. Racemaster Tom Hering commented thusly in the Peconic Puffin: We were thinking of holding it 1 day on Columbus Day weekend, 10/9 or 10/10, depending on the better wind day. The event venue will also depend on the wind direction. We'll…
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I would be remiss (as I so often am) if I did not get these last few bits and pieces out: 1. Junior Division Results: Total, complete, and utter domination by one Devon Roesch. That would be Devon Son of Pete. I once had "Must Defeat Pete" writ large on the deck of my Superlight…
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I can screw up anything. Yet I somehow managed to have a good time at the windsurfing festival last weekend, despite the following: -blanking out on the port/starboard rule 45 seconds after MC Thom reminded everyone about it, and ramming Peconic Jeff, who looked at me incredulously as I turned into him (maybe that’s what…