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  • Peconic Puffin: The Sebonac Bounceback
    A story is told From days of old How the wind comes back at Sebonac. If it dies around three You’re a fool to flee ‘cause it’s gonna crank late at Sebonac. Bill and Scott were telling me about this phenomenon as we warmed up in the van...
    2010-11-04 13:48:02 | 132 views | 0 Comments
  • Peconic Puffin: The Legend of Frank and Lauralee
    In the beginning, a friend invited me to try windsurfing.  I uphauled a sail, went forward a few feet, and then fell.   But it was Good, so I wanted more. I was invited to join a share house full of windsurfers, and have the opportunity to learn the sport from them whilst they sailed obsessively...
    2010-10-19 13:39:59 | 293 views | 0 Comments
  • Peconic Puffin: Two Days O'Nuke at Iron Pier
    I was whining like a bad Cabernet… “I hate Iron Pier.   I’m having no fun at all! They looked at me with scorn and derision. “I can never get comfortable here.  I’m going to Sebonac Inlet...
    2010-10-18 13:48:02 | 216 views | 0 Comments
  • Peconic Puffin: We Shred With The Fishes
    The waves may have only been waist high and mushy, but what they lacked in size was more than made up for by friendly, playful, sunny conditions that had everyone on the water grinning like kids.   Even the bluefish had a good time...
    2010-10-12 17:45:41 | 130 views | 0 Comments
  • Around the Edges of ABK
    I had to drop out of the clinic this weekend after starting on Friday, but I did get to see enough and sail almost enough to know that it was an outstanding clinic, though overly windy for beginners. I was with the freestyle group (packed with the regulars...
    2010-10-05 07:38:41 | 273 views | 0 Comments
  • Peconic Puffin: Mud Sailing, Anyone?
    I was once in an ABK clinic in Delaware in which Andy Brandt put a fin-less board and rig in some shore-side "magic mud" and proceeded to teach non-planing freestyle in the slurry.
    2010-09-29 13:07:32 | 437 views | 1 Comments
  • Peconic Puffin: Even CD Is Getting More Water Time Than Me
    I've been on the water maybe three times in the last month.   Scott drove the point home with "even c.d. is getting more time on the water than you now!"   Not that I begrudge CD.  Lord Chimpleton misses many sessions, busy as he his working and being a great dad...
    2010-09-28 19:11:01 | 108 views | 1 Comments
  • Peconic Puffin: Foolish Rigging Syndrome
    What to rig what to rig what to rig?  Folks were in a tizzy at the Bowl on Friday. Anticipating Igor’s waves and the forecast of  solid winds, there was a decent turnout at the Bowl.  Peconic Jeff (who seems to spend more time in the ocean than the bays these days…perhaps we should call him Atlantic Jeff?) was on it first…SUP board and a 5...
    2010-09-19 14:40:10 | 168 views | 0 Comments
  • Monday Is the Windiest Day of the Week
    "Monday is the windiest day of the week," Andy Brandt tells his windsurfing students.   In case you felt that it was just you who was being persecuted by the wind gods, this pearl of windsuffering is presented to let you know that you are not alone...
    2010-08-24 11:24:05 | 168 views | 2 Comments
  • Peconic Puffin: Wind Prayer Answered!
    That was fast.  Less than 24 hours after the wind prayer post the Peconic Bays started to whitecap.   Then the Wolf called from South Jamesport, where he was rigging a 5.2.   Drop what you’re doing…it’s time to sail (if you remember how)! I arrived and rigged a 6...
    2010-08-19 21:25:36 | 178 views | 0 Comments
  • Peconic Puffin: The Flattest Water You've Ever Seen
    Scott is overpowered on a 5.7 (Jeff and the Wolf were on 5.2's) this day at the flattest spot I've ever sailed: the north sand bar of Robins Island. When the wind is just right (SSW I think...one of the guys will comment to correct me if I'm wrong) you can buzz alongside the sand bar on a broad reach at crazy speeds (it's like sailing on a pool table) and then crank the G's with a hero jibe at the end of the run...
    2010-08-10 10:36:40 | 930 views | 8 Comments
  • James' Blog: Brandon Bicmeister Over-revved
    Watch what happens when a progressing sailor gets his hands on a slippery old slalom board like a Bic Veloce 290, and he takes it out in 20 knot winds with some big chop and ocean swells. Delightful carnage ensues.
    2010-08-09 10:58:12 | 873 views | 1 Comments
  • Peconic Puffin: Strangest Fin...Could It Work?
    This skeg was spotted by Peconic Jeff out at Montauk a few days ago. It’s called the Turbo Tunnel Fin, and there are surfers who say the thing does many wonderful things…helps maintain speed through turns, improves nose riding, provides lots of drive and so on...
    2010-07-31 23:00:26 | 672 views | 3 Comments
  • Lost In Hatteras: !!!!
    Oh, Man, Oh Man! !!!!! What a whirlwind couple of weeks! I'm so stoked, I can barely contain myself! First, I need to apologize for not updating the blog, and not sending out those free Weather Alert Emails that I usually stay pretty on top of...
    2010-07-23 11:35:59 | 1156 views | 17 Comments
  • Lost In Hatteras: First Day on the Gaastra IQ 4.2
    I've been following Thomas Traversa and Alex Mussolini for a while now-  They both have a pretty sick style, blending new school aerials and wave moves with old school carving power and style.  Thomas is a Gaastra rider, and Alex rides for Vandal sails, both of which are designed by Dan Kaseler...
    2010-07-02 13:17:49 | 2198 views | 12 Comments