Need A Place To Stay? Need Wind? East Coast Windsurfing Festival Update #261

You need five things to have a great time at the East Coast Windsurfing Festival.  "Five" you say? (I say?)  Five is a weird number...marketers like to list three, and book authors seven ("The Seven ____ For Success" etc.)   Anyhow, the five things you need to have a great time at the East Coast Windsurfing Festival are:

1.  A great parking spot (we've got one for you.)
2.  Windsurfing gear (you bring that.)
3.  A great attitude (you bring that.)
4.  A place to stay nearby (if you don't one that we have suggestions below).
5.  Wind (Mike has the word.)

Re #4 (a place to stay) if you aren't ocal and don't have friends or falmily to impose on, here is a link in the area.  (The prices may have changed, but it's a great place to start.)  Also, if you are in the "as long as it has a roof, gimme cheap!" category, check out this special recommendation:  The Sayville Motor Lodge.  The Puffin has been told "you get what you pay for" so caveat emptor.

About the wind:  Hecksher has been setting up for classic conditions.  Mike Burns (event co-organizer, not to mention a guy who sails Hecksher nine time a week) has the word:

"If you're thinking about going to the windsurfing festival, Heckscher has been in full swing.  The water is warming up nicely, but more important it's been blowing like crazy.  Monday there was a large crowd at Heckscher to catch the 20 to 35 mph winds.  Pete Dekay of Windsport Magazine stopped by in the morning to see what all the hype was about.  After a few spocks and loops he proclaimed Heckscher the perfect spot for an event, tell me something I don't already know!  Pete had to head back home to Canada around noon when it was blowing 4.7.  Right after he left, the wind kicked up a few notches to a solid 3.7.  While it's typically not 3.7 at Heckscher (although this was my fourth 3.7 day since the end of April), I'm on my 4.7 and 5.3 more days than I can count.  Yes my fellow wind stalkers, Heckscher is in full swing and has been getting plenty of practice blowing its wind for the event."

Comments

[Ann Phelan]

Just an FYI I called the Sayeville and they do not take reservations. She says it's not that kind of hotel whatever that means. Sounds like a by the hour kind of place if you know what I mean. Has anyone actually stayed there..?? Never mind, that's way too a personal question to ask..haaaaaaaaaaa

[daisy]

i'm gonna stop by the event on my way to eastport (where i'm gonna be for the summer), need used equipment, i own nothing, always rented, anybody have anything they wanns sell to me?
thanks,
daisy

[mike burns]

Hey Ann, I don't know anyone who's stayed at the sayville motor lodge, or at least admitted to it. It's just a place that's really close to Heckscher.

Daisy, you're bound to run into somebody selling something that weekend.