The Peconic Puffin
A blog about a group of windsurfers and other water sports enthusiasts, and their friends. Established 1993.
Category: Windsurfing
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An inspection revealed "concerns about the concrete". Not good. Repairing bridge supports is not a fast process. The spring, summer, and fall are going to be impacted, other beaches are going to be impacted by the influx of waterlovers shut out from Ponquogue and points west. The Bowl is out. Not good. https://www.eastendbeacon.com/ponquogue-bridge-closed-for-inspection-by-engineers/
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It was my wedding anniversary, but Sally let me go out east for the day to catch the wind. A fine wife! Called Scott during the drive…he told me it was blowing big…4.2 at least! I arrived at Sebonac early afternoon, to watch two wingers struggling to get out of the water in nuking…
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Puffins at Sebonac Inlet? The watermen? The birds? Yes to both! With a supermoon high tide and up and down wind (I was on a 5.4 and 93 liters…powered then gagging, powered then gagging) the wingers were on the water first (John Nat and Christian, while Dan had been first and was already derigging) before…
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Met Scott at Sebonac. The forecast resembled that of two weeks earlier, when building winds brought us from calm to blown off the water in a few hours, so expectations were high. With maybe 10 mph breezes Scott was worried that he hadn't brought his 3.7, based on the readings he was getting from up…
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It had been a year since I'd sailed my 77. Someone said "check your footstraps for rot!" I've never had gear go dry for that long! The straps were fine. I met Scott at Sebonac, where we were joined by Winger John Nat and another guy whose name I forgot but he used to work…
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As I pulled up Scott and Joe Nat shouted "you killed the wind!" I hate killing the wind. They'd been on 5ish gear (Joe bigger, with a cammed slalom sail) before I got there, and were sailing lit. We stared at the water for half an hour, with me halfheartedly rigging my 5.4, when it…
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"Reasons? We don't need no stinking reasons!" That was Artie's thought as we rigged up for fun at East Landing. T'was George, Joe Nat, moi and the Art of Windsurfing on five meter sails. There were lulls, the tide was higher than optimal but it was full on buddy time with friends on the water!…
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The Coastal Marine Forecast is singing our song: Today: NE winds 10 to 15 kt with gusts up to 20 kt. Thu NE winds 15 to 20 kt with gusts up to 25 kt. Fri NE winds 15 to 20 kt with gusts up to 30 kt. Sat NE winds 15 to…
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Jan van der Wolf…the Wolf…commodore of the Eastern Long Island Wind Chimp Association and a proud Peconic Puffin…has decamped for Florida digs. “It’s too cold here in the winter” he told me. I agreed. It used to not be. “It’s the end of an era,” Scott says. More than that, says we. Ten years ago…
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August 24th me droogs! Hampton Watersports of course! If you're like me you wished there's been one in the Spring, but the waiting will make this one sweeter! Ya think? Who knows! The details from Jonathan Ford: "Wings, foils, EFoils, surfboards, SUP's, kites and windsurf gear – all at super inexpensive pricing. Stop by early…