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Fetched: June 29th, 2009, 7:32pm CEST by Michael
After my recent shark experience I thought it was a particularly good time to inspect my unis. I’ve always been pretty good about eyeballing them and giving them a bend to see if any cracks or rot are visible, but...
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Fetched: June 23rd, 2009, 9:21am CEST by Michael
Seventeen-plus years of windsurfing and I’d never seen a shark. I never wanted to see a shark, but if I did my preference was to see a fin perhaps 100 yards in the distance, swimming parallel to shore, oblivious of...
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Fetched: June 22nd, 2009, 9:33pm CEST by Michael
There was a gale warning issued for today. Oftentimes on Eastern Long Island, Scott tells us that a gale warning means we get nothing. (Yeah we oftentimes get gales, too, but you gotta admit that when they’re calling for 30...
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Fetched: June 22nd, 2009, 2:32am CEST by Michael
Where is today's promised wind? (Across Long Island, windsurfers sit poised to pounce on the promised NNE, whilst the view from iWindsurf keeps us at bay.)
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Fetched: June 20th, 2009, 9:35pm CEST by Michael
What a day! About an hour into it I thought I knew what I would write about, but then stuff just kept happening... A Tale of Two Masts The wind was up and down and light at the outset…Scott and...
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Fetched: June 16th, 2009, 3:30pm CEST by Michael
That looks pretty good to me. I'll take a dozen, thank you! (Photo snagged from Lost in Hatteras.)
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Fetched: June 15th, 2009, 9:26pm CEST by Michael
I am so very lucky. In my hands is the finest rig I’ve ever touched…a beautiful new Maui Sails 6.2 Global, held in shape by matching zillion percent carbon hardware. Light as a feather, perfectly balanced, born to play in...
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Fetched: June 15th, 2009, 9:26pm CEST by Michael
(Long Island transplant-to-the-Gorge freestyler Jon "Chachi" Sassone wrote the following description of last Friday's pre-East Coast Windsurfing Festival freestyle expression session. Like a fool I let it sit in my In-box for days without reading it. Now I wish I'd...
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Fetched: June 12th, 2009, 2:36pm CEST by Michael
If you missed it and wished you were there, If you were there and wished you competed, If you competed and wished you’d done better, You will have your chance! The 2009 East Coast Windsurfing Festival was such a success...
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Fetched: June 12th, 2009, 2:36pm CEST by Michael
The second day of the East Coast Windsurfing Festival began with no wind. To pass the time until the breeze arrived, soon to be 2009 King of the East Caesar Finies gave an on-shore 101 instructional clinic on a few...
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Fetched: June 9th, 2009, 7:22am CEST by Michael
The second day of the East Coast Windsurfing Festival began with no wind. To pass the time until the breeze arrived, soon to be 2009 King of the East Caesar Finies gave an on-shore 101 instructional clinic on a few...
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Fetched: June 9th, 2009, 12:56am CEST by Michael
There were hundreds of stories at the East Coast Windsurfing Festival beyond the extraordinary pro freestyle competition (complete results of amateur and pro competition can be found here.) Every participant I saw was having fun, giving it there all (sailing,...
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Fetched: June 8th, 2009, 10:52am CEST by Michael
The second annual East Coast Windsurfing Festival was another smash success. Caesar Finies, the “flowstyle” freestyle magician of Bonaire defeated defending King of the East Mike Burns for the freestyle crown. Local young gun (and future Olympic hopeful) Jimi Sobeck...
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Fetched: June 7th, 2009, 5:32pm CEST by Michael
Your editor is too tired, bruised and bulldozed by the competition to come up with a real mid-event report, so please take what little I’ve got: 1. The pro freestyle competition is dazzling! Caesar Finies, hero of a thousand youtube...
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Fetched: June 6th, 2009, 5:38pm CEST by Michael
(from the Mighty George Marr as posted in the Yahoo Long Island Windsurfers Group:) " The Heckscher pros sailed the flats since there was not much wind at the launch. So I was the only witness to the expression session....
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Fetched: June 6th, 2009, 10:31am CEST by Michael
This morning's quandary: What should I do? A- Practice for the East Coast Windsurfing Festival? Or B- Play in the waves at Ponquogue. In the spirit of the East Coast Windsurfing Festival, I chose B. I windsurf for fun, look...
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Fetched: June 4th, 2009, 2:30pm CEST by Michael
This just in: The pros wanna get it on ASAP, and ASAP is Friday. This also in: Windsport Magazine is sponsoring it! So: Come to Heckscher State Park on Friday at noon, and see (or join if you're hardcore) the...
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Fetched: June 4th, 2009, 2:30pm CEST by Michael
The pros from Bonaire have already arrived and are practicing, including mighty Caesar. A Facebook page was just set up to further the cause. A weed fin is never a bad idea for Heckscher (the Boy Scouts say "Be Prepared"!)...
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Fetched: June 2nd, 2009, 11:52am CEST by Michael
We looked out over whitecaps brightly reflecting the sun in the 20ish breeze at South Jamesport. A fine June day for a little windsurfing. “It looks cold,” said the Wolf. “January at Iron Pier is cold,” I replied. The Wolf...
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Fetched: June 1st, 2009, 6:54pm CEST by Michael
“A surprisingly awesome day at Mecox” said Peconic Jeff on Saturday. We’d driven to the Yacht Club on the off-chance that some marginal planing thermal winds would present themselves…otherwise we’d practice nonplaning freestyle for the upcoming windsurfing festival. But Mecox...
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Fetched: June 1st, 2009, 6:54pm CEST by Michael
Starring/Produced/Directed by the defending King of the East, here is a taste of what Mike Burns will be bringing to the East Coast Windsurfing Festival next Saturday. I'm heading out to practice with Peconic Jeff right now!
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