E's Surf Report

E your site is boss!
I have some cool pix from last winter.
How do I post on you site?
Dennis ,I thought I might know you from the "Big O" a rivermouth in Maine.
Toneman

Toneman - replied to your ealier post. I haven't surfed there--yet. Actually, never surfed north of NJ. New England coastline would be fun though. Especially mid September, eh.

Kelly's looked better than the south end of the beach as of 7am, at least it was windless and peaky anyway despite the ledging 2 foot clean up sets....I surfed alone save one other soul.
Grab your fish or order one. Summer has sank its claws into us.

Let the October countdown begin: 5 Months 18 days

Not so fast La Playa Pimp! I see a big swell over the horizon. Mid to late next week could be seeing some 8 to 12 footers rolling in. Weather permiting, it could even be rideable.

Dennis
New England coast is good fall//winter but the water temps drop to 34-35 by December.( if you are at the right place /right time.)I travelled up and down the New England coast for about 27 years chasing waves. I have been out here now for 10 years and I dont think I will surf really cold water again. I really enjoy the northern California 54-57 degree H2O and wave consistency. Plus I only need a 4-3 now. NO MORE 7 mill booties -NO MORE gloves -NO MORE hood -NO MORE ice scream headaches.No more frozen solid surf sessions. VIVA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

BAY AREA REGIONAL SUMMARY
YEAR 2000 2020
Population 6.9 M 8.0 M
Households 2.4 M 2.8 M
Employed Residents 3.5 M 4.4 M
Total Jobs 3.7 M 4.7 M
Mean Household Income* $77,400 $96,000
People of Color 47% 59%
Under 20 Years 27% 24%
Over 65 Years 12% 19%
Surfers .0013 M 1.3 M
* In 1995 Dollars

You must know Peter Pan-apoulis from the Watershed.

Picked up my first pair of Van's at the
'shed in 1978.

"'Gansett Juice" ...ya just gotta wait for it.

dENNIS - Is the last line "Surfers ...." fictitious, or is the whole thing made up?

Hey Toneman. Do you happen to know the Haseltine (Haze)brothers? John and Matty? They're from Ogunquit and have been surfing the Maine coast for the last 20 or so years. Both are buddies of mine from college. Just curious.

surf blog

Tom
I know Pete Pan from my college days in RIduring the mid seventies. I was lucky to surf many of the Rhode Island points and reefs before rich A**holes closed off the private roads ,and built fences at the parking spots. We could camp overnight at some of the spots and no one would care. Ah the good old days

8-12 footers?

Do you also see spots before your eyes?

Id say your suffering the from early onset of summertimus rabbititus

Pink and Blue are my favourite colors

ooooo baby i think i love ya
from head to toe.

DC
The names sound familiar but I was a visitor not a local at Big O . I probably know them by sight not names.
I think there are 2 surf shops in that town now. Also way to many surfers on a good day the rivermouth is more crowded than SC.
Surfline has a York Beach Cam now. If you ever think it is flat at Ocean Beach check the York Maine cam. Find out what flat really means.
So sad for my bros back east.

I hear you on crowding, e. DP solo, just a couple of surfers far, far away, tons of room but immediately this seal decides to swim right to my spot and dominate! Snaking around, uncannily picking off the best spots...one wave in particular the seal pauses, l looks straight at me [ I was to her/his right ] perfectly drops into a right and cruises down the short line , almost a teeny barrel, staring right at my face the whole time. Saying, "THIS is how it's done, ya clumsy oaf! " The nerve!

Oh, kidding on wildlife annoyance. Suprisingly, super fun session despite crrrrrap conditions. A few droplets and turnlettes as well as seal crowding.

Just jivin' on the surfer line. The rest is from
http://www.abag.ca.gov/abag/overview/pub/p2000/summary.html

Built to Spill, Doug Martsh's old band. is good..

Indie meets jam.

listening to the album "keep it like a secret" now. kinda modest mousy.

s.s
I got to share a few waves with the stellar sea lions at a Monterey bay beach break on Tuesday. They have the spot wired. In the spring they are very frisky/horney and sometimes come within 5-10 feet to check me out.
We are very lucky to have these experiences , no?

Hey Blakestah,

How R-U?

When inventory prices are increasing, FIFO gives you the lowest cost of goods sold. If you or I were a CEO we would chose FIFO as an inventory valuation during times of rising prices when issuing a new stock offer.

LIFO gives a potential investor the best idea of what future profits of a company will be. This is because FIFO Is old inventory and FIFO tends to overstate profits and does not reflect future inventory pricing.

There you go blakestah. Let me know if I can be of any other help.

-acctgnut

No Elmer. This is what I see.
http://facs.scripps.edu/surf/images/maps/ganimnep.gif

Got to stop posting. I'm addicted! Damn, fist booze, then meth, then qualudes, then coke... now niceness! When will it end?

outrageous

insane

real

Some movies of me in action:

http://www.mvgroup.org/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=22&t=4558&st=0

You might have to register (free) before you can download, and you need bittorrent. If you need that, google for azureus.

See you in the water.

new england is not only of interest to surfers, it is a place of historic significance. just think, pilgrims stepped foot on the same shores you're surfing on. too bad they gave natives dirty STD's and killed 'em off.

my favourite thing about new england are the stuffy preppy chicks. i also like the lobster and pirate ships.

any niceness peeps climb rocks? leaving the safety of cowells (indoor) and heading to the point breaks and reefs of the pinnacles, looking for the beta on the westide vs eastside. espicially where the mushy easy lines are.

btw, the climbing - surfing article by Jeff Johnson in the latest tsj ahhh rocks....

New England History 101
In New Hampshire there is an ancient replica of stonehendge hidden in the woods possilbly created by a viking. He used his knowledge of stars , sun , and moon to convince the natives that he was a god.
In Mass. there is a mysterious stone covered with ancient Phoenician petroglyphs.
The Pilgrims were not the first to land ,rape, and plunder etc...

Nice pics Jav- I like the sharks, really nice colors- what housing do you use?

3/5/7 That climbing -surfing article rocks for sure. I have always found similarities between the draw of both the mountains and the ocean. Lived in the valley for awhile. After taking a long break I'm getting back into it. Aspirations and dreams this year include spending a couple days riding ultimate ocean of granite - el cap

Easy Pinnacles go to the eastside, some fun routes. You can make a really nice day hiking the high peaks trail and climbing portent, photogs delight etc. West side check out machete ridge

Fuck, first surf in a week for me. Head still spinning, but I got that good ole surf vibe thing going that I have been missing for much of the last week.

Nice to score a few. E got the move of the day, a little floater/cuttie thing. Lerm had some smooth ones. I happened to catch the rogue wave because I could paddle to it. Fun times. Lots of fisherman, none as bravado as the dude in shorts wading out at 7 in the morning.

Off to NORCAL (I hate that word) after work tonight. Going to hang with all my redneck peeps back up in the sticks. Fired up. Let's hope that swell kicks in for next week and Chopes runs its course in some good waves. The ASP has been pretty weak this year so far in terms of conditions.......

Damn, almost forgot! Javier, I would love to get some knowledge from ya!

LanceEA at yahoo dot com

Just the wife and I. Preferably lefts, and I don't want to a coral head sticking me in the ass. Otherwise, I will take any good reef pass that comes my way. Never surfed a reef pass actually.

When we run out of oil, surf population will go down again. Most people drive to the beach and with $7 a gallon gas, a lot less takers.

Sharkbait: according to guy at Marine Mammal Rescue Center, all the sea lions you see in SF are male. Females breed in the Farralons and then feed out to sea. Males hang out on the beach and at Fisherman's wharf.

In kite news, I had my lesson yesterday from the guys in Alameda. Also have the jetski...took me out to Treasure Island. It's a chunck of cash ($350) for a 1 hour land lesson (mostly worthless) and a 3 hour water lesson (only about 90 min of which is actually in the water). But you appreciate being in the middle of the bay when you are first getting a handle on the kite and being dragged and lifted around. I didn't quite get up and moving on my feet, but I think I have the face plant down pretty well.

VFW lot was closed this morning. Therefore some surfing traffic was diverted. Don't know why. I couldn't surf anyway....but it looked a LOT like yesterday.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue...

Hey, anyone have a copy of this? Better yet, before I buy it, is the OB article worth the purchase?

built to spill: alarmed on the ancient melodies album, sweet as all hell. got my tickets for the slims show. amped. hope he'll do a song or two from now you know.
asp contest conditions: funny how they never admit the conditions are less than optimal when they are running the contest. reminds me of the surf reports from surf shops in south carolina. "4-6 foot and glassy today." uh, yeah, okay.
sucks they ran the women's in crap! keala would have won if it had been pumping.

Your worst experience out there?
Probably freesurfing one morning, it was quite big, 8-to-10 feet, and I caught an 8- footer. I was on the foamball with one foot on the board and one foot off... and I thought I was still in with a chance! [Laughs] I got
sucked over and the next wave was huge. I have been in some hairy situations out there. I remember when I lost to Poto, I had a really sore back at the time. I had some good medium-sized barrels and he didn’t have much, and then right at the end a really big wave came through. I had priority and he asked me if I was going. I said “Ahh... nah”. [Laughs] I couldn’t do it. It could have been my worst wipeout ever because I just didn’t have the right mental space. I thought that was a good decision. I lost the heat because of it, but I saved my life.

VFW's lot is closed for Bay to Breakers this weekend.

Dennis - You know where it ends "... jails, institutions and death." ;)

Healed up enough to get back into regular, lightweight yoga practice.
I'm gonna try to get back in the water later today.
School's almost over for summer.
Life ain't too bad. But I wish the waves were better.

kaiser, can you grab me some skyway tuff wheels while you're up there? HA!

i heard rumors that oneill has some sort of factory wetsuit sale 1 or 2x a year, anybody heard of that and/or know when the next is??

i do it twice a year J.

memorial day and labor day weekends.

3~5~7,

Come spring time I trade in my surfboard for my climbing shoes as well. I've spent a fair bit of time climbing in the pinnacles and some of the best routes are found on the monolith. The regular route is a classic (5.6) but it is pretty run out. 20' between bolts. There are some solid refigarator and microwave sized blocks that stick out of the facade.

Right next to the regular route, post orgasmic depression (pod) is a stellar 5.11 with better protection. This can be toproped after doing the regular route.

Also, if I rememeber correctly the discovery wall (i think that's what it is called) has some fun trad routes and sport climbs.

Make sure you bring a headlamp for hiking through the caves and check on climb closures due to condor breeding season. Rock on!

YOU GOTTA CHECK THIS OUT
http://www.cafepress.com/beatbushgear/

Dinosaur Jr. Start Choppin is a fun song.

J, Tuff Wheels, for swizzle.

On the Oneill sale, they do it Memorial Day weekend but they also run it the weekend before. Wise has a good sale as well that weekend.

But someone on this board doesn't really like Wise.

Band: Isis
Album: Panopticon

heavy, melodic, strange broodings. I like.

Pinnacles! My father and sister and I had an annual trip every year, I sure miss that place. Definitely climb Photographers' Delight and have a non climber friend snap a photo. Without the ground showing that boulder looks 3000 feet in the clear blue sky. As a little kid I took a photo of my dad and older sister clustered at the top, when my mother saw the pic she kinda flipped out. Whoop...sorry mom!

Went out solo just south of e. Twenty minutes and two almost waves later I was outtathere. Choppy, hacked, weak...WTF was I thinking?!

OK, todays question...what's in your quiver right now?

quiver:
6'8" round-pin Ward Coffey shortboard
five waterlogged, broken, fucked-up boards.

e- great built to spill site
http://bts.23.com/
recordings link has a show download from '99

7-0 ROUNDED TAIL THRUSTER
7-10 SQUASH TAIL THRUSTER
9-0 ROUNDED TAIL THRUSTER
I MISS MY OLD 6-6 DOUBLE WING SWALLOW TAIL TWIN

I'm heading to Oahu in a couple days, just to go for the hell of it. I only started surfing in October, and I've only been out maybe 50 times.

Any recommendations for spots to check out? Looks like the south shore is going to be pretty flat all next week, but if I head up to the north shore, am I going to get murdered by locals?

thanks artifact and jahmir for the beta.

rock it: http://www.jmascis.com/

6'4" channel islands thruster
6'8" SF swallow tail thruster
6'6" rounded pin thruster
9'0" pin tail performance longboard
recently ordered a 5'10" twin fish from a guy in Santa Barbara

I love the quiver thread

Kaiser, I've got that issue, unfortunately it is in French, I bought it while I when I was in Nice France.

Nice shots Javier, black tips are cute buggers.

On the music subject, I just picked up a TV on the Radio album out of the used bins at Amoeba, after remembering a friend of mine recommended them 6 months ago, now I can't get a couple of songs out of my head. Pretty cool when you get past the peter gabriel thing.

Anybody else pick up anything cool recently?

6'2 almost finished home made fish
6'8 CI Flyer
7'6 Rusty Semi
9'0 hybrid longboard/gun

"Hanging in my garage" quiver (retired boards)
8-6 High performance LB broken 4 times (Pat Sims put back together)
Hobie Silver Bullet 7-6 early 70s single-fin pintail gun never seen a leash.
Gordon and Smith Magic 7-8 early 70s single fin never seen a leash. This is my first short board after some waterlogged longboards.

Dino Jr, "the wagon". only song I've ever heard by that band, but I've had the single since early nineties (bought in japan of all places)

my 9'6 log.

quiver:

6.6 mel round pin thruster - beached
6.9 coffey round pin "mini-gun" like the one curren rode at the lane in 88.
6.9 coffey "mini-egg" thruster
6.11 coffey "fuller" round pin
8.6 coffey "comp" squash 2+1 LB

procrastinating a hospital visit, here are some boards & some comments in no particular order.

6'7 hawaiian line int'l thruster: one of the best shortboards I've had. nice lines thanks to the thumb tail
7'6 arakawa mini gun CNC. fast and sort of loose up to 2x- beyond that I don't need to know.
7'2 manolito fastback (1x fin) butt high to 1.5x great board, really loves reef breaks. fassst
9'0 tyler typhoon (1x fin) dribblers to well overhead. the if "I only had one" board.
"who knows" 9'0 performance longboard. fun in hollow reef waves. kinda useless here.
6'0 modern "fish". when it is this small ride a longoard...
early 90's HIC 6'6 chip. no float with a wetsuit...

6'2 180lbs

Hey Kdalle - What's in your wallet?

W A N T   W A V E S

6'2" Vernor single-wing swallow-tail thruster
6'6" Nev squash-tail thruster
7'4" Coffey round-pin semi-gun

5.10 elias fish which ive been forced to ride exclusively lately

6.5 al merrick too narrow for my liking but still nice

need a new one

good to be back..baja sur was fun but ive gotten better waves in northern baja imho and i kinda missed ob..haay

"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?"
Joe Namath

"Play for more than you can afford to
lose and you will learn the game."
Winston Churchill

Kaiser - I have that TSJ issue. As for the OB article, I liked it, ....but I'm not sure that will tell you much. If I recall, it was basically about OB AND Matt Warshaw. You'll probably find yourself agreeing and relating with much of what is said.

7'2" PA semi- gun
8'0" PA almost gun
9'0" PA high- perform log
9'0" Eaton Zinger "the beater"

Photog's Delight

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."
Soren Kierkegaard

7'4" SF squash
8'0 Pearson Pin tail gun
9'0 Patagonia longboard gun

and another 7'4" sf board somewhere near Swami's at my brothers house.

Oh shit, here comes mine.....

6'4'' CI Flyer II - Lives in Hawaii, light glass, love it!
6'5'' Doc Lausch Single Fin - Never ride it!
6'5'' Ward Coffey Modern Fish - Tri-fin, Version 1, "Ole Red".
6'5'' Ward Coffey Modern Fish - Verison 2, bump near the tail.
6'6'' Xanadu Shortboard - From South Africa "Ole Blue"
6'6'' Hobie Retro Egg - My mini longboard.
6'8'' Butch Rameriz - Currently resides at E's house.
7'0'' Ward Coffey Shortboard - My "step-up" board.
7'10'' Rusty Semi-Gun - For the big days at OB, or at least the biggest days I can ride!

Is that too many?

Never.....

one 9'0''. waves change, board stays the same. wipeouts increase and (occasionally) decrease as one might imagine.

looked at a 7'6'' singlefin yesterday though...just about enough change in the piggybank. psyched about the idea of picking up a lighter ride...

nice one, winston.

If anyone has a used 8'6'' gun they want to sell, I am interested.

"stock your quiver in the off-season...." That is my rule.

El Salvador or Panama in June? Which is better? I need a little help in making my decesion. Any help?

Far Right

Uh, Dennis, that's a man??

Javier excellent shots, i am hoping to hit the south pacific next summer for honeymoon, if you know anywhere that has good surf, nice beaches and is good for couples any info would be awesome. i'm at: hammer2003 at gmail.com

quiver:

6'6 ci swallow (like half the other surfers in town it seems)
6'10 rp squash
a couple assorted ancient funboards/logs.

hoping to get a proper gun for next winter, definitely felt undergunned on the 6'10" several times this winter past.

If that's a man then I'm a gay surfer!

The adams apple is a dead give away.

Dennis be careful unstrapping your leash then...

Shit Kaiser maybe if you sold a few boards you could buy a house.

Quiver:
6'4" Fish Homemade
6'10" Solution squash Yellow and old
7' Rusty Pirhanna 5 fin swallow Brown an very old
8'6" Rusty Gun I use it on big crowded points
9'10" Andreni OG log "the watermelon"

6'3" RP thruster retrofitted with RFS and homemade fin
6'6" Hickey RFS board
6'8" RFS SF board
7'0" first rotating fin board shaped by Peruvian Eric
7'9" funboard Hinds with RFS
8'0" SF RFS gun
9'10" Craig Mavs gun

AND

6'4" Patagonia epoxy three fin RFS

Anonymous, it's funny that you've learned to check for adam's apple, is there a story you'd like to share?

SWEET SHOT ARTIFACT

5'6" mandala fish that i love
6'6" sf pintail rfs that i am still not sure about. sometimes it works great, amazing, and then every once in a while it feels like i am riding a slingshot.
7'6" coffey hybrid - sweet board. basically a long board for me. i'm 5'1".
9'6" triple stringer 2+1 arrow. trying to learn to cross step and nose ride. walking forward is easier than walking backward. also a good board for friends to learn on.
i want a 6' coffey rounded pin or rounded squash. something standard for headhigh days.

question: take a board to kona in july or rent?

bagel: you missed getting posted yesterday in your black tighty whiteys in fiji. i love that photo 'cause it really makes you do a double take. tighty whiteys are hot!

the asian girl 3rd from left. she has the look, like she wants to get down.

Thanks Mexi, actually that isn't mine

Ok here's one of mine

We thought we were pretty cool climbing this and this dude is fricking tightrope walking the thing, while singing opera -Serious Huevos

Darrin Carter walking the line High Above Yosemite

e and logger-the only purists in the bunch. One surfer, one board.

Oops, forgot mine:
7-3 80's thruster
7-6 Jobson Twinzer hybrid
7-10 Jobson Twinzer gun
7-10 Coffey Twinzer gun
7-10 Coffey Twinzer gun
8-0 hinds hybrid
8-4 Jobson twinzer gun
8-8 Jobson Twinzer gun
9-8 Stewart gunlog
10-0 Coffey elephant gun

Anyone come across my '72 Channin gun that I threw out when I moved I'll give you top dollar. That was my Rincon board. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Eric: I just don't go for the tranny look, Adams apple or not! There are far better choices in the line up, come on!!

i didn't post a pic of myself yesterday so there's still no proof that i can actually surf....but these are my surf sleds....

6'6" M10 yellow thruster - sweet stick
6'8" Coffey thruster - aka 'the hummer'
7'2" Surftech Minami semi-gun - never ridden cause i am good at convincing myself it's too small for 'big' days
6'5" Florida shaped fish - used to love this board but now i'm too fat to ride it and too attached to sell it

as an addendum, I'm willing to bet i'm the lankiest dude on this blog at 6'5", 190

I'm not disagreeing, I like 3rd from left the best too. But I wasn't looking at any of their necks until you pointed it out. Just wondering if you learned that the hard way.

For Friday afternoon:

Dino Jr. - Feel the Pain

Kdalle got me! Damn. He also has some lumber. Nothing under a 7'3'', very interesting.

I guess I better buy another board.

Ha! Good one! No, I didn't point her out,
someone else did, and that's the first thing I
saw was a tranny looking woman ( o shit, wait
that's a man, look at the apple on that one ) Don't be fooled by the dress. Kaiser can do way
better than that with the postings, and it is
Friday..... Kaiser?

WTF on that artifact tight-rope photo.. WTF? why?

friday arvo.. only 1.5 hours left. must... keep... coding...

can't wait for a gigantor spliff and 3 hours of band-practice after work!! maybe some Liberty ales too.

charge those charging chargeables!

gigantor spliff?
The Wailers tonight at the Fillmore.

ya..
gigantor spliff
humungoid twist
massive doobie
psychotic fatty
power-fueled cone

farking stoked!

at least it looks like the tightroped guy is tied off/harnessed (or i think i see a safety line coming from him?). some of those dudes go w/o one. they probably ask the why someone would paddle into mavs though, hahah, same planet different worlds.

another climbing spot worth checking out for newbies is 'the underworld', up at castle rock. lots of fun little spots to climb.

7'6" Squashtail Thruster Scott Miller
7'6" Bonzer Mike Eaton
8'0" Bonzer Mike Eaton
8'10" Gun Scott Miller
9'4" Trifin Noserider Chuck Vinson
9'6" Longboard/Gun Scott Miller
9'6" Longboard Scott Miller

Worship my ego.

I only ride the bonzers, the gun, and the last longboard with any regularity, the rest are back-ups.

TVon the Radio rules, OK?

Yeah E- We were thinking the same thing

Consider this to:
No balance bar, the wind was gusting crazy that day, and yes Darrin has done the Spire traverse "leashless" (although not that day)
He was in that zone, when you're total focused and there's nothing else in the world at that point

Totally true j- some climbers are terrified of the ocean. To each is own I guess, every sport has their nuts!

i wid you e.
time to roll a bone of stone.

Someone call for a photo?

This one is better...

Thanks Kaiser, I was starting to doubt your game today based on the earlier pic, and E thanks for the blog this week. Hope band practice rocks

Excellent depth of feild on this one, again, the thong resembles the distribution of wealth in the US, the poor In the crack get the best sex though... Have a good end of week!

oh yeah 3to5!

whattup with the leeches on the headstand honey?

I thought they were bed bugs myself...

bloodletting probably. can't blame the girl for multitasking. cartwheels for photogs, ritual cleansing...check, check...

ha steamwad..those were the good old days..funny i still have those shorts and just wore them for another straight week in mex..

hey if any of you east bay heads are looking for something to do tonight me and my friends that do this comic Hickee are having a little thing at:

Comic Relief
2026 Shattuck Ave. in Berkeley..

should be fun if you can make it..my friend Hans will be playing some live jazz too..

http://www.comicrelief.net/

thanks again e and mwsf

Kaiser, I have a copy, I like the article, cool to read about OB anytime. Speaking of, there is a page in Steve Hawk's book, "Waves", that well sums up the spirit of OB surfing...

6'0" Kane Gardens, Old school "Twinzer" fish, shaped by the larmo himself.
6'8" Surf Prescription, rounded pin
7'6" Channel Islands, semi-gun
8'4" SF, John Schultze, gun
8'6" Beater, called the log, in desperate need of repair

Feel blessed to have all of 'em. Have to love the quiver. :)

7'2" semi-gun/fat man short board, 540 on the logo (dunno where from), bought used for $180
9'2" Bob Miller reto longboard (yellow), bought used for $350
5'5" Me body surfing...this one is beat to snot, but I can't trade it in for anything better

Quiver: All SF boards:
9 6 Gun, single fin: magic board, have surfed it the majority of big rideable swells at OB last 10 years, heavy glass, still mint condition.
9 6 Gun, thruster
9 0 heavily glassed LB
7 6 travel board, works great in Cabo
9 0 gun, glassed on fins, perfect rocker for double OH offshore OB

Did I mention I like bigger boards?

my quiver

-9'6 rob brown log, heeaaavy glass jobb
-9' G&S comp, shaped by larry mabile (she resides in SD though)
-7' harbour spherical revolver (hand me down from a good friend)
-6'8ish scott rowley (NW shaper) tri

hmm... long time again..
quiver.. i don't need no stinking quiver...

oh wait.. i do.
cause i actually only have 0 boards right now!

2 on the way and more to come...
all made in a garage by my handmade CNC machine.

crap.

while looking for the shaper of my board, I came across this New England Surf Blog. We should all post an aloha post to suport our left-coast cousins.

http://www.nesurfari.com/blog/

e

about the crowd cluster - so true, so true. me and bud had a sweet peak, think you were about 200 yds north. Then the gang drifted north to us - typical clueless. We shifted up towards you all but kept a peak south. Most surfers are like most people - sheep. Lately there's been this really tight cluster phenomenon. On days with a decent current I just shift ahead to let them drift past the peak, then get back to where I once belonged. Today no such luck. Still, a truckload of waves for onshore shortperiod groveling.

BTW - bay to breakers this weekend - got to let the aerobics crowd have their day (3) the sun (fog). Besides, the outfits are a hoot.

Quiver:

2 6'8"
1 6'11"
1 7'6"
1 8'0"

The 8'0" is delamming and not long for this world.

Peace

The old Surfer's Journal issue above; the OB article is pretty flabby and unengaging albeit a few good photos, (nobody has ever written anything worth reading about the Beach excepting William Finnegan--which is fine by me) look for a scolding pissy but eloquent letter to the editor in that issue from BVB.

9'6" rounded pin single finy
6'6" rounded pin single finy

Quiver, in order of acquisition:

9'6" Hobie noserider
7'0" John Mel round pin semi-gun
6'6" Vernor squash tail thruster
6'1" Mandala canard quad fish
6'8" M10 epoxy round pin
5'9" Mandala turbo quad fish

Coming soon:
6'8" Campbell Bonzer, round pin (probably have to sell a board to keep the wife happy)

me: 6'1", 172 lbs

Worship Thy Wicked Weasel

Covet Thy Quiver

charge 2 foot OB

Steve-O, how you like the epoxy? I was considering going that route one day in the future.

I like the Bonzer call. I need to remove and replace in the near future as part of the "2005 Quiver Re-organization Plan". Uncle Sam is sponsoring.

A pic of some girls out at Ala Moana Bowls this weekend.

DEATH METAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd been doing research on epoxy for a while and asked Vernor if he could do my board that way but he said no. I heard on the surfermag design forum that M10 was doing epoxy boards, so I checked it out. Turns out Geoff Rashe is only doing epoxy now. He makes the smaller boards with EPS foam and the guns with polyester/epoxy. I've got an EPS/epoxy board and I like it. It seems very lively. I don't think I'm a good enough surfer to be able to tell the difference in flex between this board and an equivalent poly/resin board, though. Epoxy can delam if left in the sun/heat too long, so someone told me to be careful if I take it as a travel board. I've become interested in an epoxy fish, since I saw a post on surfermag about one using Resin Research epoxy. Maybe Pavel can do one for me...

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