E's Surf Report

FIRST POST OF THE DAY, YAH!!!

That sailboat sequence is nuts.

Went longskating on Saturday in the Aves and managed to melt a wheel!! I at first thought some bubble gum got stuck in my wheel as there was some red goo ozzing out of it. I then touched my wheel and it it was very hot and felt as if it were going flat. Its a spitfire, go figure. Anyone ever had this happen to them.

melted a wheel??!! WTF?

my buddy and his girl from OR in town for the weekend, just left. their sabbatical from intel just started, 7 weeks PAID off! they're doing the slow road trip/camp out for the next couple weeks, than off to hawaii for 3 weeks at the end of april/part of may, than back up the coast to oregon. must be nice.

Went to Squaw on Saturday and ripped the Headwall verts as wind blew powder down and over my back like a wave of powdered suger in an eternal backside powergouge of Tom Carrol proportions. Waiting for John at sf to finish me new stick....waiting....waiting....
peace.

pooh on daylight savings!

how was your wait time on the coffey, e?

that sailor must have heard BVB wasn't around to regulate fort point so he felt comfortable getting into the line-up, too bad he blew the take off.

haha that boat thing was nuts, i was surfing the inside on the rocks with some friends when it happened. i was surprised at how long it took for the harbor patrol to respond. the boat was basically sunk and the two dudes on the shore by the time the safety boats arrived. much respect for the longboarder, shortboarder, and the cool black boogie guy who helped the dudes in.

on saturday april 2, 2005, between 11:15 and 1:30 i parked in the lot on highway 1 a half-mile south of the entrance to ano nuevo. while i surfed two windows on my car were smashed and my car was looted. items missing: pair of black cargo shorts, orange shirt, blue zip-up sweatshirt, addias runnign shoes, socks, grey boxers, keys, grey motorola cell phone, black leather wallet which contained cash, credit cards and my silver wedding band/ring (2 interlocking pieces), and a 6'11" rounded pintail custom shaped Saurtitch surfboard in mint condition, greenish-blue with an S on the top, 3 white future fins, black traction pad, black leash black & white julie designs daybag.

there was some high performance surfing out in the water, and a small crowd, but i stayed out of the way and took leftovers and even avoided crumbling the shoulders, and the vibe in the water seemed mellow to me. there was a suspicious guy in the lot as i was getting ready to go out, and i noted the make & model of his car and included that in my report to the police. i suspect that everything except the surfboard was thrown into a nearby field or garbage bin, but the fields looked like they are filled with poison oak, so i didn't want to risk it.

i will be parking in the state park lot when i go back there in the future. also looking into renter's insurance.

please contact me at pnmcs at comcast dot net if you know anything about this or or have seen any of the items above, especially the wedding band or the surfboard.

is there any reason besides stupidity that they were sailing so close to the break?

i like how they just let the boat sink...
(not that anyone could do much anyway)

chalk another one up for the ocean...

E - cool you got some good waves this weekend. New board too eh? I love the feeling of laying the first coat of wax down, taking the board in the water for the first time, the first few strokes, the first duck-dive, and the first wave. Must be great being a pro with 60 new boards a year. Do you think Kelly waxes his own stick?

Loon - sorry to hear about your car. I read about it on Blakestah's site early this am. Bad enough having it happen at a local break, but being 60 miles from home really sucks. Make sure you IMMEDIATELY contact all the credit reporting agencies (TransUnion, Experian, and Equifax) to put a freeze on your accounts so the thieves can't take out any new credit cards in your name. Also, request a report from all three.

California State law says the must give one free report each per year. Go to http://www.privacy.ca.gov/ for more info.
Also for the freeze: http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/cc/20030613c1.asp

If you have not done it yet, I strongly suggest you do it now. Identity theft is much worse than losing your car and wallet.

shoulder hopping is kooky but at a tight point you can't just go in elbow to elbow with a pack of locals - you'll get no waves and it will suck. i think shoulder hopping is the right etiquette in that situation, as long as you err to the side of caution and make sure a wave is free before you try to hop it.

I thought kayaks in the linup was a bit much Jeeez. A few years ago I was at the fort and a group of folks in a 25' cabin cruiser got nailed by a wave while observing the surfers from a too close-up vantage point. Lucky for them, the boat spun around but did not flip. With eyes wide open, they took off in a hurry.

2 windows broken? that's not just a break in- that's vandalism. Soo sorry to hear that man.

If I catch one of these guys- I'm not calling the cops. I'm locking them in my closet for regular beatings for a week or so. Great exercise.

thanks for the sympathetic posts and especially the tips on the new account freeze, dennis.

That boogie boarder is Harun...great guy and boogie baorder...major props to him as he genuinely knows whats is importatnt in life...guy is so friggin humble he didnt even mention his acts to me in the line-up yesterday. BLESS THAT MAN!!!!YAAA BUDDY!!!!!

It is once again truely sad that not one longboarder came to Harun's aid when obviously he appears to be struggling to get that guy in...SHAME ON SF SURFERS..I AM EMBARRASSED ONCE AGAIN TO BE A SURFER WITH SUCH A BUNCH OF SELF-CENTERED KOOK HYPOCRATES!!!!!!!!! YOU DESERVE ALL THE HARRASSMENT YOU GET!!!!YOU DESERVE TO BE SHOUTED OUT OF SANTA CRUZ!!!!YOU DESEVED TO HAVE YOUR CARS VANDALIZED!!!!!YOU DESERVE TO GET SKUNKED!!!!! SAD...SAD...SAD.........

damn, that sailboat got worked. i saw the same thing come very close to happening last year. the few surfers in front of the boat were paddling for their lives, expecting the thing to capsize on their heads....

e, cool that you picked up a Coffey. i just bought a 6'9" a couple weeks ago. i almost picked up a 6'8" with a round-tail. is that the one you got?
also, i've only ridden this board once, and it was on a good-sized day, but the board was whistling the entire time. has anyone else experienced this? is it due to the fins?

traut, bummer on the wheels. try calling or visiting the DLX shop on market. they manufacture/distribute Spitfire and other SF brands and may hook you up with a new set. i've had luck there in the past.

loon, you may want to think hard about renter's insurance. my buddy collected twice on renter's insurance over a period of 3 or so years, both times totally legit, and then had a nightmare of a time getting homeowner's when he bought his first house. if it hadn't of been a Tenancy in common with the other guy on the insurance he may have been uninsurable. It may not be worth getting your surfboard back and then later have to worry about losing your house if/when you buy one.

word, bird.

rza...

i have a fish that squeals, hums, whistles.
elias can vouch, he heard it too. i have
no idea whether it is the fins or the board
itself. sounds like a goddamn banshee.

it is cool though because it is just weird
enough that folks sitting on the shoulder
get distracted and don't drop in....heh heh heh.
if you have future fins, maybe change them out
and see? mine are glass on so no dice there.

Haha.. a singing fish.. Loon I said it last night, but sorry to hear about that man. Just remember those people will have it coming back to them.. What goes around comes around.

rza,

whistling or humming is due to fins. if they are glass-ons, (who does that ANYMORE) the trailing edge of the fin is ususally a bit thick and is the 1 place to look.

if they are box fins. check to make sure your fins are flush with your board bottom. in some cases that leading and or trailing edges of fins have a little gap between the bottom of the board and the bottom of the fin. if that's the case, a little grinding of the bottom of the box insert on the fins to stop the bottoming out of the insert in the fin box usually does the trick. if you don't have power tools, a good course file or rasp can do it.

new boards rule!

fins usually hum if there is a protrusion near the fin base on the trailing edge - like a bead the sander missed. Sand it smooth and it stops.

A whistle is usually the front edge. Sand it and it stops.

Sometimes a hum is just a fin that is too flexible - too thinned out near the trailing edge. Add a few layers of glass and it stops.

And sometimes the fin just doesn't know the words and you gotta live with it. HTH.

Has anyone read Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe? Reading it right now.

actually that humming is a sign of cavitation, which slows you down and can send you sliding out on a solid turn. if it's bad enough you can actually feel the fin vibrating. bigger issue the faster you go.

sheeit,

a mild epidemic. my car was broken into last night and all cd's, camera with undeveloped snow shots, bino's, trunks, fleeces, etc snatched. outer richmond is the neighborhood...my truck and another both burgled. keep your valuables, well not in yer car

Things Fall Apart-excellent book

ouch zebra. i'm feeling your pain. and you reminded me that my thief took a pair of binocs, too. fuckers.

I had a great trip to the mountains, fresh pow pow, then headed south on the 395 throught the Eastern Sierras and into Baja, Highlights were the butterflies and an over-head day at the Sunset Cliffs,

Loon buy a state park year pass... best deal around, 65$

Things Fall Apart-great cd!

looks like state parks passes went up in price, to $125:

http://store.parks.ca.gov/park/product.asp?dept%5Fid=201&pf%5Fid=201&mscssid=43QQ616GW4F28GEJLLGHM5HQNHDHE139

but from where i sit right now, still worth it...

so psyched to ROCK tonight.
music is the best.

I think my amp problem was actually a faulty cord!!! not totally positive but looks likely. Farking psizzleyched on that.

word

loon and zebra - so beat on the car break-ins. weaksauce.

Large bummers, loon and zebra.

Congrats on the new board, E!

No surf this w/e, dadgummit. Maybe a drive is in order one of these days. Without valuables.

Loon, good grief, they even took your boxers? Sorry about the your aggravating encounter with such freakazoids.

My accountant literally laughed at me over the phone this morning, so afterwards I spontaneously fled far away in search of surf. Anything. Rides, 0. Paddling, yes. The beautiful scenery almost drowned out his evil cackle which is still ringing between my ears. Ah spring. At least it was a pleasant paddle n' float

anyone ever surf Valencia, Spain? I am going to be there this summer, I didn't think there was surf in the mediterranean but from wanna.surf etc. it looks like there are some spots. anyone know if it would be at all likely to find decent surf there in the summer? Muchas gracias.

Things Fall Apart... Great Book Chino Acheba

Nice Mexi- Eastern Sierra is where it's at, some amazing stuff around there.

Bummer Loon that lot is notorius along with some other dirt ones in the area. Seen some lurkers for sure around there. The probability of a breakin is proportional to broken window glass on the ground.

Vons- been to Valenica no surf. I think surfing the Med is like surfing the Great Lakes only with hot chicks and warm H2O. It is also a real pain to travel in Europe, no car with boards.

Got back from AK- Thought we were gonna get skunked but then the snow stopped and the skies opened up... Never seen anything like it.

For a skier or boarder the Chugash is the North Shore of snow riding.

thanks all for the fin advice. hopefully a little sanding will solve it...

in the meantime, the big H on the logo stands for hummer.

After "Things Fall Apart", if youre on an african trip, try "Waiting For The Barbarians" or "Disgrace" (or both!) by JM Coetzee.

Mexi, That's CHINHUA CHEBE (in case anybody actually goes to look for it).
And yeah, the book is awesome, love the !kung people.

I remember when 4 mile was pretty empty...but that's SOOOooooo "last century"....

;^)

4LoveOfSurfing

TYPO in my previous post, should say:

CHINUA ACHEBE

Words. Word up.

artifact, did you do north points heli? my buddy jeff was up there for a month this year, said it was sick.

mexi, I dig your album on the pulse, especially that kitamura shot, something about the trimming and his foot placement puts me right there on the wave.

A friend brought a McCoy board back from Australia, about a 6-8. It had this very wide squash tail that was oddly thick, everyone laughed at the thing and said it had a fat ass. When he rode it, it hummed loudly and made a slight whistling sound. Pretty damn ugly board, but he caught lots of waves with it.

not a big fan of the new surfpulse... " (read more) "? that sucks, it should all be right there on the home page. i guess they want more page hits, but still that's a pain in the ass.

thanks artifact, i will reset my surf expectations back to low. there is a lot to be said for hot chicks and warm water.

Kookdom,
No we did some runs with ABA out of Tompson's Pass mile 30 out of Valdez. They are more a la carte, pay by the run- way less expensive but still amazing (the've been up there longer than anyone else)

Points North is in Cordova, super bank and bogged down by fog. All the terrain in any of the areas is straught out of Dr Suess and completely mind blowing. I'm sure Point North is great if you have the extra cash, I think you can even go surf with them on down days.

It seemed like everyone except for us was there for at least 3 weeks- the weather is a real wild card. 1000 + inches of snow a year doesn't happen from pure bluebird days.

Vons- Yeah southern France, Northern Spain or Portugal are better bets- we went to the best Euro spots and still got mostly skunked (surf wise anyways) but the Southern coast is fun time- hotties galore!

Jon K is an excellent surfer, so graceful, definately one of SF's best.

Eastern Sierra was off the hook, so amazing.. Mono Lake., Death Valley, Mammoth

and I'm a terrible speller, sorry

Vons--I suggest you ride the cider wave while in Valencia. There are some cool lil' hole-in-the-wall places that serve up locally brewed cider. Tasty stuff.

bbr, maybe just bookmark

http://surfpulse.com/surf_report.shtml

Yeah Artifact, my buddy did the 5 week tour up there with points north. Has been sending me pictures daily, some sick lines they have done. A couple first descents even. Last year we went down to Cabo after he got back and low and behold one of his guides was staying next door to us. Nice guy, also have met a bunch of the guides up at Tahoe cause I think they work out of backcountry up there early season. Great crew for sure. Lots of downtime up there though, crucial to have the laptop with DVD. He sent me some pictures of the guides ski diving off the side of the helicopter during scouting missions, crazy shit!

I am gonna clock in for this next year before the wife says no dice. I gotta get some 50 degree stuff in before it is too late!

where is the most annual snowfall on earth?

What do I win if I guess the snowfall question?

Typo in my namo

good call kloo. i dig the gallery they added.

E I think Bachelor or Baker the el Nino year (98-99) was a record. But never trust snowfall records provided by a ski areas marketing department- it is inflated by 20 to 100% more than patrol measurements.

That was a freak year It is hard to imagine snowfall greater on a regular basis than the Chugash- Blakestah??

Speaking of skydiving we met some guy who was planning to jump from 10,000 feet without a parachute- only a flying squirrel suit- onto a 45 degree slope. What a nut!

Yeah we hit up a first descent.. sweet- Took tons of photos- really hard to shoot the steep stuff due to Avalanche danger.. no safe place to set up- Most of the steep photos are shot from the heli. But snow there sticks to slopes that wouldn't hold snow anywhere else 60 degrees + sustained

e - i believe the most ever recorded snow on record in one season was paradise in mt. rainier, if i recall was near 100' of snow (something like 1100 and change inches over a year). however RECORDED means has a recording station, i believe alaska has some places that have blown that number up but aren't 'official'.

artifact, you have any pics from the chugach??

What is Ski Diving? I can only imagine that its dudes with skis on, jumping out of a helicopter, headfirst into powder and relying on their skis to keep them from sinking deep into the pow-pow. Post some pics kookdom - por favor.

loon is correct on the most snowfall in a 'skiable' area, was baker i believe with (i think it was) ~890 inches.

artifact is correct on the most snowfall in a 'skiable' area, was baker i believe with (i think it was) ~890 inches.

dammit, tried to catch my "loon" before it got posted.

sorry if this is random. But, i've been dating my girl for 5 months. She's wonderful. The only thing is the frequency of sex. It only happens about once a week usually. I'd prefer more. Just curious about the sexual frequency of other people/surfers.

Meant sky diving, sorry. Here are the pics:

Met this dude, he is nuts, they call him captain insano. Funny stuff.

Nice pics kookdom! Captian insano is right. It seems that the Chugash is a magnet for the true "extremists"- Saw some sledheads (snowmachiners) highlining vertical faces, hucking cliffs, launching 100 feet plus, unreal.

I'll post pics this week sometime

Check it.

http://www.skimountaineer.com/CascadeSki/CascadeSnow/CascadePrecipMap.Med.gif

Loon,
i hope you had some decent skidmarks in those boxers they stole. dont worry, thieves and liars never prosper. we all got to face the man eventually.

--99

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Curious, in the Brigade's opinion, making love once a week is entirely adequate, if not a bit taxing (both emotionally and physically). And when members of the Brigade are between boyfriends and haven't made love for months on end, the Brigade finds solace in quarts of ice cream and whatever happens to be on the lifetime channel.

Brigade!!!

that guy in kookdom's pics is jumping out of a perfectly good airplane?? whattup with that?

One warning about helping out a capsized sail boat is that a gust of wind can take a corner of sail and slam a bunch of shit right into your face at very high speed. I noticed on the news the 3-4 surfers were down wind from the boat and also near where the wave could have picked up crap and tossed it on the surfers. It's cool to help them out, but you don't want anyone else killed helping the sailors get their crap to shore. The sailors should know what they are doing in such a situation and should be responsible for themselves and not get other people killed or hurt.

Fiona, thank you for the further reading suggestions.

dude, Von, I lived in Valencia, and it's not quite true that there's no surf. it was perfect for me at the time though because i was just learning. definitely comparable to the great lakes... most of the time you are trying to catch storm surf. i saw one day with clean lines in 3 months. otherwise you wait for the winds to blow hard onshore and blow up a bump to ride. more waves in the fall than summer. but damn Valencianas are the hottest girls in the world, and there ain't no inhibition against nudity there.

not to blow up the surf scene there, hehe, but the best waves are right next to the industrial port... on the north side of the rock jetty. take avenida de tarongers to the beach and head south to the jetty. not that the waves are good there. and did i mention the large industrial port? the water is soooooooo polluted. like maxi pads and diapers on your face polluted. hepatitis polluted. hehe. there's a cool surf shop in the center of the city called Quiver, and the guys there will happily break down the local scene for you...

Finally, there can be decent surf an hour south in Alicante, and here's a link with everything you need to know about when there will be waves: www.surfalicante.com

Valencia is the shiiiiiiiiit!!!!!!!! Ciudad de mi corazon.

I have sex at least once or twice a day. But the frequency drops off quite a bit if you include "with partner" in the question.

Lemme just say that I had a car this Sunday, and went to a spot by a Taco Bell, and surf lessons have already begun for the season. I was thinking maybe I should hit up the refesher course. It was my first time on a longboard since last summer, and I pearled 3 times before I realized I needed a few feet of board in front of me. And it turns like a pig. But she paddles like an angel. It also occured to me that they are actually boat platforms rather than boat docks since they are not at the water's edge.

Uluwatu has been cooking...bali people extremely friendly. Sunday's set waves were 12 foot in the face and throwing!

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