The Peconic Puffin
A blog about a group of windsurfers and other water sports enthusiasts, and their friends. Established 1993.
Category: Windsurfing Van
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Three months ago during a quick session with Christian the driver's door to my van got yanked by the wind…big time. Christian had warned me about parking tail to the wind, but I was not careful, and it cost me $900 to get a working front door (a lot of welding was necessary…doh!) But hey…
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A warm windy three-day weekend, and my van won't START? Argh!! The good news is this happened on the way home from Friday's session. The bad news is that it happened before Saturday and Sunday. So I sucked it up and hung out with my wife's friends, ignoring the trees, ignoring the texting on my…
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Technically speaking I have only sailed twice this summer (ie after the Summer Solstice). When there's a morning northerly brushing the beach at Towd Point (the closest spot to our house) I race down there, rig the 7.5 as fast as I can, and get some runs in. But rigging a 7.5 in…
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When I started outfitting my windsurfing van back in 2003 one of the first ideas I poached was the Spencer Bucket. I met Spencer at a Dasher Windsurfing Clinic in May of ’03, and I was immediately drawn to his bucket. “Ya gotta have one,” Spencer explained. "You can throw a good quantity of wet…
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In the four years since I first set up my windsurfing van, I’ve all but completely switched from standard to RDM masts. While my old mast base extension rack had no trouble accomodating RDM extensions, I decided to make a new rack anyway now that I’m all but completely RDM. While I was at it…
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A new thread in wreck dot about board storage got me Googleing for a rack design I’d found many years ago. Intended for surf boards, it is stupendously obvious and simple and brilliant. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Ply Rack: Check out the Plyrack web page and see how the thing folds up if you need…
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"It’s good to have a shredmobile" my friend Caldwell said, and now I have one. My windsurfing van is a Ford E150 done up with lumber and inexpensive "storage solutions" from k-mart. Check out the van photo album to see and read how I’ve set it all up. After four years…