The Peconic Puffin is packing its umbrage and taking it somewhere! We take great umbrage at the New England Windsurfing Journal’s August 2009 issue, which characterizes the East Coast Windsurfing Festival’s longboard fleet as having been pulled out of various junkpiles.
We don’t care that it’s true. We’re offended. There are politically correct ways to describe such boards. How about “maintenance and cleanliness-challenged boards that time forgot”?
We’d also like to point out that five of the top ten finishers in the ECWF racing competition were sailing these boards (as were a few thousand insects that accompanied some of the boards from their storage-challenged homes.)
So NEWJ: We’re all umbraged up! Damn straight…
Actually we’re delighted to have coverage from the mighty NEWJ! And we hope to see NEWJ cover Long Island’s upcoming East Coast Fall Regatta, taking place October 10-11th during Columbus Day weekend. Read the event announcement for details, and in the meantime, think about hosing down your junkpile longboard (or go get one if you aren’t yet a proud owner.) Because NEWJ may be conducting white glove tests at the event!
We don’t care that it’s true. We’re offended. There are politically correct ways to describe such boards. How about “maintenance and cleanliness-challenged boards that time forgot”?
We’d also like to point out that five of the top ten finishers in the ECWF racing competition were sailing these boards (as were a few thousand insects that accompanied some of the boards from their storage-challenged homes.)
So NEWJ: We’re all umbraged up! Damn straight…
Actually we’re delighted to have coverage from the mighty NEWJ! And we hope to see NEWJ cover Long Island’s upcoming East Coast Fall Regatta, taking place October 10-11th during Columbus Day weekend. Read the event announcement for details, and in the meantime, think about hosing down your junkpile longboard (or go get one if you aren’t yet a proud owner.) Because NEWJ may be conducting white glove tests at the event!
Classic Longboards:
Boards we wish we never sold,swapped,or forgot about.
Mistral Equipe
Mistral Superlight
Lechner
Vassina 390
Fanatic Ultracat
Bic Dufour Wing
Widsurfer One Design
original Hi Tech 9'8"
Posted by: f messina | August 08, 2009 at 09:36 AM
Pete Roesch and George Marr did well on their Ultracats at the races, that's for sure. It will be interesting seeing what shows up at the fall swap meets.
Posted by: Michael | August 10, 2009 at 06:21 PM
my F2 Comet was alotta fun! fast! nice tail shape.
Posted by: K dog | August 18, 2009 at 02:34 PM
Anybody want a Wing? I got a contact. But I'm keeping my Equipe!
Posted by: Sue | August 26, 2009 at 09:34 AM
As a newbie should I learn with an old Wing Dufour or Bic Windsurfer from my garage and get new rigs for them ?
Posted by: Andie | November 14, 2012 at 12:47 PM
Andie, you should not do that. There are any number of much better boards for learning on (and rigs that will work with them) that you can now buy used. It's much easier to learn windsurfing now. Not easy, but easier, with more modern (ie made in the last dozen years) equipment.
Posted by: michael | November 14, 2012 at 01:39 PM
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Posted by: Alex Smith | February 02, 2015 at 01:36 AM