The Peconic Puffin Windsurfing Blog

A Great Day at the Bowl

I missed it, but 25 lucky waterpeople didn't!  4.7 in the AM, 4.2 in the PM according to Scott.  Wow!   

(Top:  Air Scott by Bill Doutney.  Bottom:  Crowd shot by Jeff Schultz.)

Storming North Sea Road

I never got around to writing about the magnificent long windy weekend a coupla weeks back.  Three meter sailing at Napeague on Friday, then back to back 4.2 days at North Sea Road (where men go when Gardiners and Napeague are blown out.)  NSR on a NE with outgoing tide gets a bit Gorgelike, and a great many of us (Scott, the Wolf, Peconic Jeff, Tomas, the brothers Natalie, Jon Ford, Christian, Bill Barber, Curtis and more) tore it up.   Tomas even managed a breakdown (broke his boom, lost his 25+ year old sail...what a shame!) though not long after getting back to the launch he made the round trip to Hampton Watersports to hit the water again!

Here's a teense of video from Saturday, showing NSR's storm inside conditions.  Out in the big swell I was getting flattened, and have no worthy (read "unhumiliating") video to share.  Can't wait for the next one!

Man Up for Friday

“Man up, Puffin,” Frank said.   I was whining about the prospect of sailing at Goff Pt on Gardiners Bay in 40 knot gusts (that’s 46 mph winds.  Highway speed!)  Mightn’t we consider sailing someplace slightly less insane?  East Landing?   North Sea Road?

No.  I am a girlyman it seems in the eyes of greater Wind Chimply Puffindom.   So of course I will join the crowd!

Thus spake NOAA Thursday morning:

Fri

NE winds 25 to 30 kt with gusts up to 40 kt