The Peconic Puffin
A blog about a group of windsurfers and other water sports enthusiasts, and their friends. Established 1993.
Category: Windsurfing Art
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Bonnie, Queen of the Kayak Bloggers and author of Frogma, has passed away after a battle with cancer. Years ago when a loose network of New York waterbloggers…windsurfers, kayakers, tug boat captains, nautical artists etc. formed, Bonnie pulled together a waterblogfest (or two or three. ) She was a wonderful and mad illustrator and a…
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Jace Panebianco (a Peconic Puffin since 1993) has a new film out on the origins of windsurfing, Broken Molds. The film: "is the complicated origin story of windsurfing; from its humble beginnings to becoming the fastest growing sport in the World. This is the story of a family drama challenged by cancer, lawsuits and broken…
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I have a category for "Cold Weather Windsurfing" but I don't have one for when it's sunny, warm, and we're not in the Carib. Could use one for yesterday's sesh! Me Scott Pav the Wolf (plus Jon Ford to the rescue and Artie ever on the way) in sunny 4.7 conditions. "This is a good…
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Set to a a slow cool cover of the Beatles “Come Together” is quite a cinematic piece of work for Mercedes Benz. The upshot of the commercial is that all Mercedes factories in Germany are planned to be powered solely by renewable resources by 2022 (next year). In the many bits of imagery in the…
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I don't know how well they worked, but they make for a pretty poster! As seen in the Old School Windsurfers Facebook group.
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At first I typed in Kanaha, on autopilot. Then I realized "wrong island".
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Arrive at the session in style! Philippe's shredmobile, a 1972 Volvo.
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Walking through blowing snow yesterday in Manhattan I did not expect to run into anything windsurfy. Wrong. This tiny patch reached out to me through a shop window. Windsurfing in Malibu sounds good to me (in July)!
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(I know, I know…this is pretty thin. But it's been quiet in Greater Puffindom. Haven't been on the water in two months…bad timing plus crazy temps at the moment. Still, we must prattle on!) When I upgraded my Mac's OS recently, the new "guide to features" featured a number of windsurfing photos. Usually when…
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Forgot to work this into my last post about Robby, so here it is solo: Back in the early 1990's when the "puffins" were a group of windsurfers, their SO's, children and friends living in summer share houses and sailing on the Little Peconic Bay, the "Puffin House" was the center of activity (at least…