The Peconic Puffin

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

Category: Video

  • The flag at the Coast Guard station said WIND but "there aren't any whitecaps" Scott complained.   Still I saw some people planing, and I had a feeling 6.2 would do the trick.   It would have, too, if it weren't for the bushels of weeds in Tiana Bay.   Quick change of the fin…

  • Skeleton Bay, in Namibia. Video courtesy Stab Magazine.

  •   4.7 windsurfing, sunny and warm, on a Saturday?  Hashtag Jackpot I say!    And it wasn't even in the forecast.  I'd been by the windsurfing shop to chat with Jonathan, sent the obligatory lamentations about the crumbling forecast for the day (first the gusts were to be 20, then 15, then no gusts.)  …

  • Yikes! A fool with his fool friends dives off a cliff without looking where he was going first, and is nearly impaled on the mast of a passing. What else can you say? Shish Kebab, nearly. Thanks Jerry Evans for posting in iWindsurf.

  • It was cold on the beach.  "Wind chill" said Scott, but I thought it was the humidity.  "What works is a long hood that covers your neck," Scott continued, showing me his, which is attached to his wetsuit.  Mine doesn't come more than halfway down my neck.  Must go shopping…I imagine a hood/shirt combo. Jeff,…

  • http://www.peconicpuffin.com/files/slow-pushtack-1.mov I met it as the Hoss Tack. A crazy jibey looking thing in Aruba, as performed by Andy Brandt and Jason Voss. A carved question mark. That was 2000. I was hitting the occasional Hoss (ugly but dry) a few months later, but not long after that I caught the move on a Peter…

  •   http://admin.brightcove.com/js/BrightcoveExperiences.js http://admin.brightcove.com/js/APIModules_all.js // Or seriously harmed, at any rate.  Can you imagine being in those waves?  What an incredible rush (do not let go of the boom!)  Red Bull Storm Chase, Cornwall, UK.

  • W A S from Michael Sumereder on Vimeo. It looks pretty great too. A cross between the usual Bonaire mastery, James Bond, and a Mike Burns fantasy session! Learned about it from Dasher, by way of Mike Gebhardt. None of the trustafarian faux reggae and third rate metal crap that I dislike (but apparently most…

  • Jeff:  "This was probably my best day of the year." Me:  "This was one of my best days of all time.  Best conditions in three years." Thank you thank you thank you L Road.   In the last few years I've felt that I was tricked into SUPsurfing by conditions we used to get, but…