E's Surf Report

E- Your sunday sounds delightful. For some reason, I neglected all thought of surfing Sunday until it was too late. Looked nice on the way to the family dog walk.

It's always fun surfing when there is some significant other thing going on at the beach. Doof tells me of a great session he had back in the 80s when there was a Rave going on at the beach. I guess your Bay to Breakers might be similar to a rave. I guess more like a love parade.

Anyhoo, fun to have waves in May.

Steve-O: Give more details of your acquisition process on the Campbell Brothers Bonzer. I have been thinking of getting one, and Doof had a long process getting his. How did yours go?

Right on! I may be the first post! Hey, great
to meet you and Bagel at the party the other
night. Wanted to talk a bit with you about
Nicaragua, but was I so pickeled after two days of boozin' that the night came to an abrupt
halt! Only to get up and repeat for Bay to Breakers on Sunday! You care if I shoot you
some questions about your past trip to Nicaragua?

And Bagel, nice trick you've taught Chardonnay .... Keep that chicken coming!

Good to meet you guys!

got reacquainted with the long board at lindy early sunday, seems to be my favorite day to surf early..relatively uncrowded while the surf world sleeps off the effects of the saturday night party scene....
9'0" rp, hanalei - performance long
7'6" wilderness, santa barbara - greenough pintail
7'0" herbie fletcher, glassed in tri fin
7'8" papa sau, fun shape
6'2" terry chung, fish

ya man, 1 day of dog school and the shits allready paying off. good to meet you too, obsurfer, cool peoples. fun niceness party weekend..sweet neighborhood bbq last night, thanks robme for the use of the grill and the fire. also a fun sloppy afternoon session with tons of drunks on the beach on the way out. was funny and pretty disturbing to get out of the water to see 2 wasted marina type kids with beeds around thier necks drunkenly sucking eachother's faces off at waters edge, they were in desperate need of a room. the amount of trash everywhere yesterday was a bummer though, hopefully Gavin's out there cleaning up right now.

and since when did beads represent lets get f'd up drink alot of beer and see if any chicks dig us
anywhere other than at marti gras and in new orleans, it will loose its magic for all the OG's im thinking..

Has this Mavericks thing gone too far??

Hard Rock International and Mavericks Surf Ventures, LLC today announced the launch of the "2005 Mavericks Live Tour," a multi-city concert tour bringing the authentic experience of Mavericks - the "most dangerous wave on the planet" - to Hard Rock Cafe audiences in California and Nevada this month. The Mavericks Live Tour will feature live performances by the Mermen (the legendary Northern California band known for its high-powered surf anthems and psychedelic sounds) as well as World Champion surfer, model, and recording artist Daize Shayne. Memorabilia and video footage from The Mavericks Surf Contest™ will be on display, and some of the world's best big-wave surfers will be on hand to speak with fans. The nine-city concert tour - sponsored by Verizon Wireless and Surfer Magazine - will kick off on Thursday, May 19 at the Hard Rock Cafe San Francisco.

Hard Rock Cafe and Mavericks, huh????

WE'RE SELL OUTS!!

The guy you are referring to is named Bobby Trulove (Sp?)....a cautionary tale of what can happen when too many paint fumes are sniffed.

Capitalising on mavericks is kind of a joke. The spot happens to be blessed with a good marketiable name. Other than that some of those other big wave spots are much more pleasing to watch on-screen.(anybody see that pebble beach shot in latest surfer-jeeezus) Kind of ironic too that all of those maverick's flicks are all the same (i've fallen asleep to two in the theater)my .02

dayze has some pretty radical tunes on her website...
http://www.daizeshayne.com

fun little waves yesterday afternoon

speaking of nicaragua...

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/travel/15nicaragua.html

"EL CHINO LOCO" is a good friend of mine

daiz ripping

bird, hit me up on email. nitsuj@gmail.com.

so, they're bringing the 'authentic' experience of mavericks? what, walk in the door, they hold your mouth/nose shut, punch you in the stomach and throw water on you?

Daize Shayne is the anti-Christ.

speaking of Nica
I'm going in August and staying with Dale Dagger.
So psyched and I would be grateful for any advice or commentary on the surf and his package.
thanks!

Can't comment on the surf, but Dale's package is pretty average, don't let the porn star name fool you.

i heard dale is an arsehole. I'd avoid. You can get to all the waves without Dale.

If you go to Nic, imho try not to use Dale or JJ. Travel by yourself or one friend. Explore independently of the surf tours, you don't need them and you're usually forced into bigger groups. Support the local crew. Some horror stories of drunken, mean-spirited Dale yelling at people and such.

I hate to talk about central america (other than Costa rica) on this blog. I'd be happy to email with anyone who's curious but i feel bad talking about it on the site.

is the Teahupoo live feed working for anyone??
Slates just won.. but.. i can't see or hear.

D'oh.. just read this on the surfermagbb:

It's on but you can only get scores. Round 3 starts today. No video due to storms/rain in the area. Live scores should start shortly....

looks like a good work day ahead.. sucks!!!

Good fun jammin with the soulful e and his crew! Thanks.

Trulove (or is it Truelove) is the guy. Avoid at all costs. Fumes fer sure but I think it was the crank. Rumor is he and BVB are shacked up on the green isle.

Tom Sims is the guy. A skatin' maniac in his day.

Now can we pleeeeze have some clean surf.

test

e...go to the aspworldtour.com site and connect from there...video seems to be working for me.

B. Irons is currently leading Ward

thanks jdz.. but.. still not working for me.. grr..

feeds pretty choppy...keeps stalling and disconnecting..

E-
I think we should be able to name any spots we want to on this blog...FUCK IT AND THE NAY SAYERS!!! Better niceness kooks go rather than most other Americans (especially slocal fucks)! At least niceness folks wont behave like the nicas are second class citizens and that they own the place....just cause you buy land doesnt make you a nica, tico, or mexicano...your a friggin visitor

I actually met Dale and he seemed like a good guy and knows the area well...he also employs a lot of Nicas, but I have heard that at times he does act like he runs the place....my exp was very positive...guy seemd real cool to me and other travelers despite not using his services...fun guy too...maybe its cause Im a booze hound too?????

The kids out of Pappoyos and San Jaun del Sur run surf trips but I dont know if they have a boat...they would be the way to go if they have a boat..Pappoyos rocks!!!!! In any event they will take you to plety of spots for a couple of bucks....they also do good ding repair and are just rad kids...very helpful friendly...forgot the great kid I gave a couple of bucks to do some sanding for me...damn good people...

I heard there is an awesome camp run by an Aussie. Personal guides, boats, fishing, great bungaloo et al supposed to be rad......He also donates time and money to poor kids...Christian based I guess but from word of mouth a great buisiness to support...do it yourself sure but going to this guys camp I heard is the way to go!!!

Close your mouth as you croos the river and cover your cuts....

Took a drive south of slide on Sat. First stop was actually crowded at 7:30am. Never saw a crowd there before. Passed and drove to stop #2. No crowds at all. It was a bit crumbly but what the heck. Suited up and went out for a few almost-sorta-kinda fun waves. The water is clear but definitely chillier than OB.

Sunday at OB was fun. Foggy but glassy. Met a few of the peeps from my hood in the water. Nice crew overall. Got a dozen or so waves and headed in. Probably would have been better with a longboard cuz the faces were soft but the shortboard was an ok call for the day.

Drove by the North end after the mayhem. man, the trash containers were filed with all kinds of debris. Dumpster diver heaven. Home made wagons and stuff I didn't know what the heck it was...

Let's raise the kook quotient a bit in here: yesterday morning was AWESOME!! Oodles of shoulder-high rights with pockets and lips and rumpled walls that sometimes went forever. Most of the morning there was no way to tell where you'd drifted to; though I think it turned out I was almost exactly in the same spot for three hours, luking a ways behind a steep sandbar that would give new life to fading waves. Dolphins, seals, pelicans, and good vibes.

Has the real estate bubble burst yet?

Irons beat Wardo...will surf against Slater in the 1st heat tomorrow...

TPOO cam working!!! siick!

bruce irons beats wardo.

bruce vs. slates tomorrow.

Hey, WTF is going on in Uzbekistan?
Is this George Bush's fault too? (Isnt everything bad?)

I got some fun ones solo yesterday early, and more fun ones on my way home from a party in HMB in the afternoon, glasssssy with a light beer buzz! Fun.

I had new fins put on my fish and the thing hummmms, debating resetting the fins.

Anybody notice that some of the better sand bars this years hadn't worked in years?

Steve O, Surfrider foundation is going to team up with FUF to do native grass planting in the Aves. Contact SEAN@ surfrider

tpoo cam not working again :(

i agree... sunday morning fun zone! psyched!

nice on the hmb afternoon jam mexi.. a rarity!

E: can I get your "E"mail address?

e@niceness.org

Mexi - I've noticed recently that a lot of sand has been moving around. The concrete drainpipe at Vicente is completely out of the sand and a huge bar has built up just to the south of it. There are very deep pockets and very shallow spots all along the beach. Moderation is not part of the scape right now. I haven't bothered with the north end lately but it looks to be kinda wierd too.

Inspired by kdalle's question, what's missing from your quiver?

Missing:
6' fish
7'semi-gun
8'6 gun
9'6 longboard

Hey e - What's new?
Thanks for posting the flyer for movie night this Thursday. Hope to see you all there, should be a great movie!
--B

sumerfun- I was in nicaragua this march and agree with others that there is no need to get hooked up with dale dagger or JJ or the other camp / tour operators. I'd be happy to share some details if you want to email me at eadeeds@yahoo.com

later

What is missing from my quiver?

- Any board I don't own.....If I could own 100 surfboards I would.

What is the deal with the ASP Ho contest? I keep getting spotty voice and hardly any video. Anyone else having the same issues?

kaiser...agree with you one both counts...more boards the better (need to figure out how to justify to my wife).

And the contest stream is very spotty~

Missing arrows from quiver:

Small wave short board be it fish or really thick egg/bonzer thingie.

8'0" midrange gun.

Highperformance (trans: likely to break) Longboard.

Steve-O where are you?

Tell us about the Campbell Bros Process.

hola from the trail.

70 something and rain here on the west
coast of cr. that south is big. saw a board
tombstoning at hermosa that looked like
a shot from mavericks. on par with a large
hungry OB. got the front end and am waiting
for the closeouts to stop while eyeing escondido.

the water is dirty. boca barranca looks like
a field of baby ruth's and all manners of detritus, plastic, oil...blecch. part of a
natural cycle added to a bit too much in that
spot...

CR is warm and fun. slow and real.
the sounds i heard walking jaco today
were like a symphony. two stroke motor,
dog barking, man braking concrete by hand,
alien horn sounds from alien vehicles of strange
shape, chickens and rain falling. simultaneous
and unknowing.

i miss my lady, and home a bit
but not my wetsuit.

cheers.

curtis- bring the bigger board.

kaiser..shoot me an email.
cscorwin@yahoo.com

thanks for the recap korewin. sounds kinda heavy down there.

drive to pavones korewin!! stat!

imho

Surf Report: Onshore

Yo Korewin!

That's my Lady!

On selling out....I am wearing a LOST SHIRT that just out right claims that they sold out....Bob Hurley and Tony Hawk maybe sell outs..nah check that Tony is no sell out but Jeff Clark and Stacy Peralta..you gotta be kidding me...these dudes are pioneers...sure early on Stacy exploited some youthful skaters THE BONES BRIGADE..paying $$$$ to the likes of Lance Mounatin, Tony Hawk, Mike Mcgill, Steve Caballerro, Tommy G...guy is responsible for the birth of modern skateboarding..he's an employer of legends and has earned every dollar he gets..even if it was off the backs of others..hoiw different is he than your boss? Well he fuckin skated, made videos and supported kids who skate..Stacy should be respected..he's given opportunities to other skater/surfers turned camera heads..led the way to the like of Taylor Steele..would Alva,Mark Gonzales, Ed Templeton or any skater turned entripenuer have a start if Stacy did not lead the way...sure Steve Rocco was a sell-out but Stacy Peralta comon.he created Powell and Peralta for Christ's sake.....your just stupid..I WORK IN THE INDUSTRY AND WOULD GLADLY SHINE THE ASS OF STACY AS OPPOSSED TO THE KOOK SUIT FUCKS WHO ARE RUNNNING THINGSIN MOST EVERY COMPANY EXPLOITING TODAYS YOUTH...AT LEAST STACY WAS ONE OF US....LONG BOARD LOVIN FAGS!!!!!!

As far as Jeff Clark goes...learn the details..he doesnt even get the $$$ you think he does...he's a pioneer and surf adventurer who deserves any penny he can get from Mavericks...he's not..Ive heard he's not even a part of Mavericks LLC and only gets some scrapping from this whole Mavereicks thing..some suits stole all the right to it from under his nose.....In any case the man is part of the foundation of NORCAL surfing and desereves some $$$. I surfed with the guy and unlike his counterparts he's a friendly guy despite snaking me one day...but I didnt trip it was in his home and he deserved every wave he wanted...we laughed about it when I called him out...wasnt a smart ass about it...THE GUY LOVE MAVERICKS AND THATS JUST NUTS!!!!

Would we be upset if Fred Van Dyke got rich off of a movie?????...which is a good idea...fuck the dogtown story how bout the story of NORCAL surfing and the likes of Fred getting paid...

I harp on wise for example but I respect BOB WISE and Dave...they made a biz and it's working for them.....you dont have to support them but dont hate on em!!!!! Are they really that different from Alex, Devin or John Shultz? Is Jack Johnson different from Dick Dale?

SELLOUTS ARE PEOPLE WITH NO SACK WHO HIDE BEHIND THIER COMPUTERS DISSIN PEOPLE THEY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT!!! SELLOUTS ARE PEOPLE THAT DISS PIONEERS ONLY TO HAVE 10 BOARD QUIVERS,FANCY HOMES NEAR THE BEACH, QUICKSILVER THIS....VOLCOM THAT...DONT BE HYPOCRYTES!!!!!

SELLOUTS ARE THE FUCKS WHO CURRENTLY RUN EVERY COMAPNY IN THE INDUSTRY WISHING THE HAD THE SOUL AND TALENT OF STACY PERALTA OR JEFF CLARK!!!!!

Sure I talk a hell of a lot of shit...but at least I have enough sense to respect people who have put blood, sweat and tears into surfing and skating!!!!! I could care less if they are rich as long as they do it cause the love to!!!! guess Im bored and upset cause I cant get a job in this industry beacuse THE SELLOUTS ARE IN CONTROL!!!!!

hey, welcome back BVB!

dude makes a couple good points... especially the quiver thing...

Sorry that rant was mine.....shit look at the gramatical errors and spelling and it had to be.....forgot to put in my name....

Dennis, cool confirmation, I've surfed that bar too, and hadn't surfe it in a long time.

i knew BVB couldnt stay away

welcome back you sell out BITCH!

...LONG BOARD LOVIN FAGS!!!!!!

Hey, that was not a guy in that picture!

that wasn't BVB. BVB's rants are FAR better. nice try pez. ;)

BVB's are better!!!!! COME BACK BOB AND SHOW THIS SELLOUT HOW ITS DONE!!!!!

EXCESSIVE PUNCTUATION MAKES ME NERVOUS!!?!!??!!?!?!?

just playin'. i don't know you, pez, but i like that you don't hold back. how come the loggers always get the brunt though? i've seen plenty of guys on thrusters posing as buoys, too...

check'd off the last day of the northerly snow season yesterday. sort of like riding a mountain of jamba juice. slush cup!!!!!! glad to read it was a fun weekend down south as well...

Had a good session yesterday, a few largish drop ins and ate shit, finally got myself a nice sized swell and got a good shoulder ride. Felt good after that and content, the day was not wasted.

I guess I am a sellout.....Damn, anyone want a free board or 2?

Nah, really, I agree with the Jeff Clark take that Pez has. The issue with Clark is that he is by no means a business man. Show me a surfer who is? Maybe Kelly Slater merely because he has strong people behind him. If there is a dollar to be man, someone will find an opportunity to make it. We should all just hope that the ones doing it show respect to the subject matter.

Jeff Clark has a nut sack. Too bad he doesn't have the bag of cash he deserves.

SF Bouy is up to 7.9' @ 11 sec's. Up from 5.6' this am. Something this way comes.

First off, I'm looking for a grandma style cart to cart my kite surf gear around in, and possibly make a trailer for my bicycle. I'm asking the niceness heads, as you all frequent the beach, and I hear there is an overabundance of carts there. If someone picks me one up, e-mail me at andrewon44th at excite and there might be a sixer in it for you.

Second off, I was talking to a sediment type engineer the other day, and he was saying the dredge materials from the channel are being deposited on the south end of the beach offshore, the southern swells create a longshore drift that move it up north, meeting the tidal current from the bay slows the flow and the sediment drops. However, growing sandbars is not the overall trend. I think Blakestah mentioned the detailed bathymetry being done. That report is part of trying to figure out why the beach is shrinking...I'm in the school of thought that all the levees in the Sacramento River stifle the natural sediment transport. Hell, back in the day, San Francisco was sand dunes from Twin Peaks to the ocean...they used to film desert movies in the Outter Sunset. Now we've paved it over...sand bars really aint what they used to be.

On the topic of Surf Profiteering...the story of Jeff Hackman provides some great insight into the early days and current days of merchantdising. Also fits in the drug topic of the other day. I'm stoked it's available on-line. Long story...you might want to bookmark it for Friday afternoon.

http://outside.away.com/outside/magazine/200004/200004mrsunset1.html

Yes please

good business Surfers:

Hobie Alter
Fred Hemmings
Ian Cairns
Bill Stewart
Jack Oneill

The list goes on.

Without Jeff Clarks name among them.

It's called vert kids.

Check this out, Sick River barrels on the Zambezi. Always wanted to go raft there (one of the worlds best class V's)- now maybe I'll have to bring a board

http://www.surfingthemag.com/surfing-photo-video/surfing-videos/zambezi_part1/

The 'bu was a zoo, Hang Ten was doing brisk business and Hollywood cameras were rolling before Clark was even born.

Go pick on someone else.

YEEAAH!! that's what i'm talking about Kookdom!!
steep drops rule!

Damn that looks sketchy artifact..but fun

thanks Kaiser. i needed that.

Joining late... Mexi, thanks for the tip on the surfrider eco-thang. I'll contact Sean and maybe bring my 6 year old with me to help out.

Friend #1, I first contacted Duncan to see if there was any place on Oahu that I could buy a Bonzer, since I was going to be vacationing there for a week in Feb. He said no, but invited me to come to the cafe and say hello.

Later, I saw on Craig's list that Palm Street Surf Shop in SC was selling a couple of new Campbell Bonzers, so I contacted Barry Green, the manager. I was finally able to make it down and placed an order in person. I gave Barry my stats and told him that this was to be a head-high OB board. He started asking me about dimensions, which I would have thought Malcolm would figure out, but I threw out some numbers anyway. When I got home, I thought better of it and sent Malcom an email asking him to watch out for my board and feel free to discard every dimension on the order except for the length. He asked for my phone number and said he would call me if he had any questions. Almost two months go by without hearing from Malcolm, so I call Barry at the shop and ask for status. He says he hasn't heard from Malcolm either, but that's par for the course since Malcolm is shaping these in his spare time (his full-time job is shaping for Merrick). I go to the fish fry in SD a week later and the guy who runs Moonlight Glassing tells me that Malcolm has been out of the country for a month shaping in England. That explains the lack of communication. He also tells me that Moonlight will be picking up the business operations piece of Campbell Bros. boards so that Malcolm can stay in the shaping room, which is his natural habitat (paraphrased). Finally, a week after the fish fry, I get an email from Malcolm saying that my board is at the glasser and should be done soon. Two days later I get an email from Barry saying the board will be done soon and apologizing to another guy for having to wait since October for his board. So, if I only had to wait three months, I think I made out. Manny and Pavel have 5+ month waiting lists. Oh yeah, I really have no idea what this board will look like, but I hope Malcolm used his best judgement and ignored my feeble attempts at spec'ing a board for myself.

If you need contact info for Barry let me know.

i love butts! thank you kaiser.

wow. that river is amazing. i was waiting for footage of a river wave of that caliber. crazy. loony. riverheads are nuts.
nuts, crazy, and loony.

as for everything else. spring. nw wind. waiting.
work and more work.

But you got to admit, that "Lords of Dogtown" thing looks like shit! And look whos claiming it? Stacy Peralta. You think he didnt have to bow down to hollywood at least once? from the look of the trailer i'd say way more than once. If he would have stoped at the documentary I would not call him a sell out. Jeff Clark I dont know much about and if he didnt have anything to do with the hard rock thing than ill my sell out statement back.

That river is crazy... Terry the landscaper (red VW camper van guided rafts on the Zambezi... Crazy shit

mexi -
I got some crooked fins on a summer fun times board - I like it. I know when I'm goin' when it starts a hummin'

dave from wise is not a pioneer. He was like 10 years old when Bob opened the shop in 68. He's just a big ole blowhard - biggest bag of wind in the city. Whooooooshh.

Bob shaped, then Domond Lee and PeeWee with Orbelian working there too. Dave came later. After Wise stopped selling their own boards.

someone's talking about blowhards?

Pez, you're acting like a kook.

Don't act like you surf with Clark and you are bro's. I've seen you surf, you're no Clark and you hardly should be claiming anything. The reason you can't get a job in the industry is cause you can't get your shit together, it's not brain surgery and you can't blame anyone else for your situation. It's all about your skillz and your connections. Sorry if you lack either. So don't get so fired up bro.

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