The Peconic Puffin

A blog about a group of windsurfers and other water sports enthusiasts, and their friends. Established 1993.

Category: Surfing/SUP

  • Swell Info is calling it large for late Friday through Saturday.  Nine feet @ 15 seconds, with side off winds of 18.   If only I was twenty years younger and thirty times more talented…

  • Tomas, Jeff, Christian, the Wolf and I caught it nice and wide Saturday.  Most of the waves didn't last long despite the offshore breeze, and there was no left vs right consistency (not to mention the closeouts) so you pays your money and you takes your chances. The Wolf took his chances with me (not…

  • 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.…

  • It’s been all about K Road lately (except for Sir William of the Barrels at Cupsogue).   Friday’s head-high plus into strong offshore winds made for particular excitement…it was hard to catch the wave, but if you did: big speed and turns!  I saw Jeff on what looked to me like a nine foot wall of…

  • No wind, but SUPsurfed three days in a row.  K Road is working big time! On Friday I caught my longest ride of the year.  Five feet of long left on a day full of rights. On Sunday I caught my best ride of the year.   Six feet of left (six feet of diesel…

  • What I missed Saturday I caught Sunday morning.  Long user-friendly lefts at K-Road.  Not very big (3-4 feet) but they kept g-o-i-n-g.   Jeff, Tomas, Christian, Jon & Nicholas and a few more of us enjoying the sets.  Must be noted:  Both Swell Info and Surfline had forecast a choppy mess.  Not what we got.…

  • Please I would like some wind or waves please.   The Coastal Marine is all five to ten, and Swell Info etc is knee high and bumpy for the foreseeable. C'mon…

  • Very nice Sunday morning paddle at Tiana.  Jeff, the Wolf, Christian, George Pav and I (Joe Natalie arrived as I was leaving) caught the action at Tiana.  No surfers in the water (???) so we had it all to ourselves.  Chest to shoulder high waves going left and right, with the occasional six footer.  …

  • No posts for two weeks, during "the windiest Spring in years" according to Peconic Jeff?  Between dinging my back and having a dead car, the sweet wonders of wind and waves have been denied me.  I hope to be back on the water any day now. AND Don't forget the swap meet this Saturday at…

  • Windsurfing.  Stand up paddling.  (cough) Kiteboarding.   All that stuff to buy, to sell, to swap. I love swap meets.  All that gear that's seen all that wind and water.  Waves even! The details: Hampton Watersports, Saturday May 10th, 9A-4P.  Swapping is free, if you sell you get 100% store credit or 80% cash (last…