E's Surf Report

I thought the Ruffo story was pretty classic Santa Cruz. You gotta laugh. I sure did. Ithink I've ssen some meth mouths out in the line-up at 4-Mile....like some Hunter S Thompson shit gone horribly wrong....

Oh also, whoever wears "SurfingSucksDon'tTryIt" shirts looks real, real neeeeeeee-ee-eee-eat O!!

The problem with all the rad-rad-rad irony shirts out there these days is this: one person wears the "in-joke" shirt = cool; as soon as a 2nd person comes along and wears the same shirt = it's over for the ironic shirt + then YOU become the ironic object. OOooooooooooh, snap.

-MM

Isn't that Stuffs and Things?

I'm going to ease in on your beat
I'm going to shuffle when I move my feet
I'm gonna stuff your stuff with thang
Until I make your whole thang twang
I'm going to do things to your stuff (stuffs and things and things and stuff)

I got my guitar by my side
I got a band full of music, let's take a ride
I'll be flying somewhere in the stratosphere
But at the same time I'll be right here
Doing my utmost to your stuff (stuff and things and things and stuff things)

I'm going to move in on your groove
I'm gonna syncopate, good god!, I'm gonna be so cool
I'm gonna stuff your stuff with thangs
Until I make your whole thang twang
I'm gonna do things to your stuff (s & t and t & s)

I'm getting to your stuff when I get into my thing
I'm being in your stuff when I get into my thing
I'm gonna snuff your stuff when I get into my thing
I'm getting to your stuff when I get into my thing

Went out after work last night for some fun chest high waves. I didn't even look at the waves before suiting up and running to the beach. Essentially did a solo at crowded OB. Never got withing 50 yards of another surfer. Waves offered up some sections and bumps and a few relatively long rides. Some take-offs were mushy and others were steep and ledgey with quick sections. Lefts and rights oh yeah!

does anyone remember the old gotcha shirt that
said, "if you don't surf, don't start." i always liked
that shirt.

must be why gotcha is gone and quiksilver,
hurley(nike) and volcom are publicly traded
companies.

my favorite GC quote for the winter...
sing it loud while riding deep pow...

"swing down sweet chariot, STOP.
and let me ride."

My favorite funkadelic lyric that I sing to myself on the big days:

If you don't like the effects, don't produce the Cause.

nice job and nice stinkeye photo (top one)

Another car breakin (even worse - car stolen)...nice guy from Santa Cruz was out mid-beach this am between 7:30-8:30am. Came back to Noriega and GH, where he parked his car and it was gone.

I think he said it was a Saturn.

Lots of this shit reported recently - SFPD should do a stakeout on the GH (1st to nail the theif, 2nd to keep the creeps out of the public bathrooms).

Every morning came a tap on the window.

"wake up, let's go. I can hear waves"

and so it began each day. Scramble out of bed. Thomas would buzz across the street and wake the brothers Rod and Ted. By the time I'd flushed, Thomas would be in the garage climbing into his wetsuit.

"C?mon let's go. I rode by the trestle along Summer Dr. and could see waves through the trees!"

My wetsuit would often still be wet and cold from the previous evenings surf. Bbbbuuuuurrrrrr, even on a summer day, but that's northern central California.

The quiver choice was easy this day. My new frankenboard was a 6'1" wing round pin twin fin. Thomas and I cut off the tail of a 7'2" Sessions stinger swallow-tail single fin, and re-shaped and glassed it. One red and one orange fin anchored with multiple strands of fiberglass rope. This time the fins where staying on!

Rod and Ted would meet us in the street. Our little crowd. Ray would meet us at the short-cut trail, a ruthless steep pitch covered in eucalyptus leaves and acorns. Poison oak awaited any off trail excursion. Ray was big on bumping you on your already sketchy descent.

From the bottom we'd ascend up a road to a chain gate. Then a fire road trail along a coastal creek canyon. Dew drops and acorns falling from the trees overhead. This is when you could really start hearing the surf. We where getting fairly good at discerning the sounds of the surf. We'd argue predictions and theories, the typical alpha male surfing game of calling it. The whole time fanning the flame of stoke along the way. Depending on the mornings conditions, and sounds we'd often be in a full sprint down the final descent to the mouth of the creek under a trestle where it would then all be revealed. Sand..

"I told you there was waves."

"The trestle left looks good." "It looks just like that picture of Pipe in your room, only not as hollow."

"I'm going to walk up the beach to the right in front of that driftwood pile, it breaks like Jeffrey's, only it's a sandbar.

I knew a guy who admitted to regularly breaking into cars in his youth and never got caught. He said he only did it near home because he knew the area and when people were not home that could have otherwise been witnesses. Because most of the problems are in that area, I'd bet it's a person that lives by the beach and watches for opportunities.

anybody want to surf Bolinas with me today? Me and my friend want to go but his mom wont take us unless someone else is there cuz shes CRAZY

GRRRR on the car thefts!!!

niceness car theft list

if you have info post it here and i'll add it to this list

that's what you get for driving from SC to SF to surf during the summer

Guy said he had a work meeting up here - lost his laptop and I think he said a bike too. Sux.

Q

My thoughts too, Dennis. I was walking the dog to the beach and back via Noriega from 7-7:30. A cop car cruised by while I was crossing the street. Somebody must be spying from somewhere, and when they're breaking windows they must have a silent way of doing it. Nobody I know here who works at home has heard a thing. I bet when fall conditions start , the increased # of surfers clambering in and out of the water all day will slow the thefts down. Maybe if we swing the surf cams to the street for a couple of weeks this month....hello Surfpulse? It's might be worth sacrificing cam shots of summer slop in exchange for potentially saving some surfers' cars. Yeah, I know, too Big Brother, but still...some faces and liscence plates on the record could be mighty useful.

a few ideas to thwart car thieves.

1. Kill switch. Have a mechanic or bro with skills wire in a on off switch to the starter that cuts power to the unit unless it's on. Hide the switch under the dash. Pretty cheap and easy to do.

2. http://gprime.net/video.php/trunkmonkey2

Would someone fix the Ft. Funston wind gauge please?

Thing is about as reliable as the Jetty is surfable.

I just checked the SFPD crime map, not much reported along the great highway. Until niceness gets a patrol car, please report break-ins to the police so they will allocate resources. Now, as far as the police can tell, it's a crime free area.

I think cars are also getting staked-out by residents of the area, in particular the shady apartment complex across the street on Lesser Great Highway in the Pacheco-Rivera stretch.

I was out at Ortega or Pacheco (guessing) and felt that "I'm being watched" feeling and looked up to see a set of drapes hastily swinging back into position. I kept changing but looked up randomly two more times and both times noticed the curtains moving back into resting position. I was a little bit leery of that, and when I got out of the water the guy behind me had been broken into. He practically cried b/c they took some important shit from him.

Hey at least no one's been shot dead during a gang fight in the VFW parking lot yet (like last summer). Fun here, innit?

Great Ass!!! Wasn't that shot in Citizen Kane?

Some one stole my side turn indicators while I was at Vicente the other day. The kids like to put them in their bumpers for ground light effects. I thought I got off easy till I tried to replace them and all the wiring was clipped.

oh. i have a saturn and i was parked around the same spot at the same time this morning. damn!

i had a lot of fun this morning despite my 5 hours of sleep. just fun sitting out there watching christian. e was cutting it up in the beginning with 5 or 6 nice ones in a row.

barney

Leave a green nugget on the seat with a note, a pipe and a lighter.

Hope they smoke the nugget and leave the car alone.

Or, just leave it unlocked and bump up your insurance. Fuck it.

Still fun out there. Get some!

I think I surfed the same spot, E, except 9 - 11, and had a similar experience. Some really fun ones, some really crappy ones. Started around a handful or others, with clean-ish inner-bar stuff, once in a while lined up really nicely. At the end one guy and I suddenly found ourselves ripped out to a choppy, churning spot where there were some neat sucking-out bigger drops.

It's such a small area where all the theft is happening, and it's wide-open to view. A police force that was on the ball would set up some cameras themselves.

Good words, 3to5!

love this shot of Pete Mel

hey burnt reynolds i was talking to a friend last night and he told me they used to call this kid in their high school burnt reynolds, ramdomly. just wondering if theres any connection.

halfpipes or crackpipes? - story of an Oakland skatepark

I just read it somewhere and thought it was funny. I pictured "The Bandit" driving up to the beach in his t-top with a short board sticking out. Moustache. Sunburn.

In high school they just called me punker.
or fag.

I couldn't make it as a punker...

aaa different guy. cool. i guess this kid was a burn victim in his high school, we were telling mean stories last night. my friends a jerk and i hate him.

Pat Brown - Tried to run the cops down - Pat Brown - Ran 'em into the ground - Pat Brown - Tried to run the cops down - Pat Brown - Ran 'em into the ground - Patrick Edward Brown - Tried to run the cops down - Patrick Edward Brown - Tried to run the mother fuckin cops into the ground - Pat Brown

Someone ought to spray paint the Great Highway with a warning. Something like:
"Watch out car thieves! OB locals are watching you!"

...or something more threatening. I'm sure it would go a long way to making those F/#%!^*'ers think twice. Bastards.

~SS7

THAT'S THE GUY!!!

see the yellow? he made this

I decided to email the Taraval Police to make sure that they're aware of the growing burglary problem along the Great Highway.

If enough of us would contact the police to let them know of this problem and our dissatisfaction with the present situation, perhaps they'd allocate some resources to address it.

Contact info:
Taraval Station
Captain Keith Sanford
SFPDTaravalStation@ci.sf.ca.us

Steve

Steve, the SFPD couldn't find their ass with their hands, and they certainly could care less about car break-ins along the Great Highway. They will tell you not to leave anything of value in sight, take the keys with you, use a kill-switch and/or club, and say a few Hail Mary's every time you leave the car alone. They've simply got bigger things to look after - you know - like Chicken Fajitas - yummy!

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those skaters have the right idea. homemade parks rock!!

so....anyone wanna help me build an artifical reef at baker beach?

2468 YOXI|4!!!!!!!
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leave baker beach alone! closeout shorebreak is the future of surfing!

Already one artificial reef wi' da kine perfect lefts and rights at Baker Beach, just gotta go behin' da pine tree and pull da secret lever brah, reef rise up from da substrate and set up endless barrel. Shhh, secret...

I think there's one of those breaks (a left) pretty nearby Baker Beach. That crew would just move over to this new spot and continue spreading joy.

Point breaks have a way of breeding hostility.

Should be working but wrote this instead. Any others of you who want to
write a letter send it to the more pressure
that CALTRANS gets the better for the park.

Sir,

I am an ex-resident of the area in question in West
Oakland. My tenure there was less than a year in 1991- I found the area
unlivable and exceptionally dangerous. I was recently in Oakland
running
errands and went by the skatepark in question to see what it was like
(I
used to be an avid skater but injuries, age and time constraints keep
me
from skating much any more) since the kids took on their project.

I realize that the work was unsanctioned and most certainly illegal but
I was impressed at the reclamation of what could only be considered a
miserable corner of Oakland. Because of the dedicated work of an ad hoc
group of kids and their allies a real reclamation was achieved in an
area that had apparently been largely written off. This seems to be a
great thing.

I hope that CALTRANS can find some comprimise in allowing the park to
stand. As an architect and construction project manager I understand
what it means to have to switch gears during an ongoing project. It
seems, though, that the park has been an improvement in the area; an
improvement that is obvious to both the skaters themselves as well as
the residents and businesses in the area. Perhaps CALTRANS can broaden
it's view of serving California's commuters as an engineering and
construction entity and think of how, in this case, it might serve a
community in a manner beyond the scope of its mandate.

Thank you for your consideration,

got a response from Jack:

Hey, I know what you mean,

Even snowboarding is an exercise in pain anymore.
I am glad that the skaters that put that park together brought out the
media.
Without it, Caltrans would have simply took a front loader to it in
preparing for the park.
I'm trying my best to help these guys keep their park as well as remove
liability from Caltrans.
The guys at the park talked about a site in LA that Caltrans had, in
which
they were able to sanction an impromptu park. I am getting a hold of
the
PA folks down there to figure out how that works.

The only other problem is that our engineers are worried about the
stress
on the piles and pillars that support the freeway. The park ramps are
using them as supports for the quarter pipes.

Jack Holden Gaines
Public Affairs Officer
O: 510-286-4454
C: 510-316-2005

Caltrans Improves Mobility Across California

Who you know fresher than Hov'? Riddle me that
The rest of y'all know where I'm lyrically at
Can't none of y'all mirror me back
Yeah hearin me rap is like hearin G. Rap in his prime
I'm, young H.O., rap's Grateful Dead
Back to take over the globe, now break bread
I'm in, Boeing jets, Global Express
Out the country but the blueberry still connect
On the low but the yacht got a triple deck
But when you Young, what the fuck you expect? Yep, yep
Grand openin, grand closin
God your man Hov' cracked the can open again
Who you gon' find doper than him with no pen
just draw off inspiration
Soon you gon' see you can't replace him
with cheap imitations for DESE GENERATIONS

Now can I get an encore, do you want more
Cookin raw with the Brooklyn boy
So for one last time I need y'all to roar

Now what the hell are you waitin for
After me, there shall be no more
So for one last time, nigga make some noise

That little park is cool. But the locals that built it have a shitty attitude toward outsiders. Meaning they deny access if you aren't part of their little scene. If the local media is going to help them. WATCHOUT, cause I know a point break I'm gonna claim and get Hank Plante to do a story and facilitate meetings with the right parties and lock all of you out! hahahahaha

nice work goodmorning. here's another article with some video of the spot

also, here's Jack Gaines email: jack_gaines@dot.ca.gov

God built Dead Man's, and everyother point-break (save the SuperBank), those dudes built their own park with sweat and nerve. They have the right to be a little bristly. It's better than breaking into cars. How many baseball parks are there that just fill up with dog poo?

that's why this blog is cool. to call attention to stuff like this. i'm drafting up my letter right now. and i'm gonna drive by and check out that park when i get off work. it seems like it's right by the school where my partner teaches and not far from where i work. hope it gets a reprieve cause lord knows the kids there need some healthy alternatives.

Different Steve sent the email to SF PD. And now for something completely different.

i actually think that this is illustative of a sitch that happens in various activities of people wanting spots to be a secret, but when they actually need to protect it, their secrecy bites them in the ass.
if you want the community support to protect your little piece of whatever, you kinda have to accept that you might need to share.
that's not to say that those coming in shouldn't realize that they will have to be patient and pay their dues and endure a little stinkeye. but you can't have it both ways, you can't have your totally secret little spot in baja and then expect everyone to know to jump on board to protect it when they want to build a marina or whatever.
bit of a bind, i guess.

don't you love it when the CEO says: "3to5...., get outta here and go surfing." Why can't he say that on a day where there is some surf....arrrghhh.

i think there are some waves out there 3to5. yesterday afternoon looked tight.

It's low tide, there's some south in it at the buoy; low winds at the buoy, too. A little drive might turn up something unsneezable-at.

3to5, i was fuckin with ya. go get me some coffee and get back to work.

There's a great bar down the street from my house... Tor***do

e -- Why's that car theft page an ASP file? I don't think our host/server can deal with .asp. It comes up as source in Firefox. Try .php...

shark attack caught on film!

http://www.coastalbc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=722&sid=2369a13a401fe4c64dac33ed9587fef1

mwsf - i know your secret spot...i went and checked out the dogfish stuff recently, not what i was expecting

I admit I like the selection at Tor***do, but the owners of that place rank in the top 10 of the worst bartenders ever. They just hired someone from Ma**Do*and the***g, so now you can actually get a drink in there without having to wait 20 minutes. Before 7 PM, head 2 doors down to the N****oc for $2 pints.

thanks mwsf. just a knee-jerk thing in microsoft world over here.. now it's .html

lineups

j -- Were you there for the Dogfish Head tasting the night Sam Calgione was signing books? lerm and I were there that night. Got there late, drank a 120 min and a couple 90s, and hit another secret spot, N*w Ce***ry. The latter was just too much...

Andrew -- I'm friends with a couple of the bartenders there and get pretty good treatment but I totally hear what you're saying. Ordering beer there is like ordering from the soup nazi on Seinfeld: Know what you want when you step up to the bar, order it quickly, have your money ready, pay, tip well, and get out of the way. Do that a couple times and you'll have no probs. It totally depends on who's working though.

lerm totally set up e there one time. He was asking us for beer recommendations and lerm told him to ask the bartender, fully knowing what kind of response he would get. e went to the bar, asked for a recommendation, and the bartender said "I don't fuckin' know" and sulked off to the other end of the bar. Classic...

fuuuck

see if it works this time

mwsf - yuuuuuuup, got there kinda late, hit up both the 120 and the 90 myself. wasn't big on either, which surprised me as IPAs are my favorite. this weekend hitting up mactarnahans (fka portland brewing co) and the pelican, ooooooooooooooooooooooooooh yeah!!!

Ealier today a tourist approached me and said he wanted photos of " a typical California surfer". Apparantly " a typical California surfer" is me doing nothing but clinging to a banana yellow board and getting worked in the middle of ocean beach. [ yeah not my day ] I'd like to formally apologize to all the surfers in California for this desecration of our public image.

MacTarnahans is lame! Nut up and go to Full Sail.

Shark, any whitecaps out yander-way?

nazi bartenders are the worst..just get me a effing drink and ill give you a tip, you like tips right?

anyway im going surfing and i have good feelings about it..

bagel.. i have your back if you're downtown. hit me up.

j - Pelican is rad. If you're in Portland proper, Amnesia Brewing (http://www.ratebeer.com/Brewers/amnesia-brewing/4887/) is a pretty cool new brewpub built in an old gas station. The Horse Brass and Pub at the End of the Universe are a couple of my other faves up that way. Cheers!

yuuuuuup, the pelican is insane. i miss their brew...wonder if i can bring an empty suitcase up for some bottles?

i may check out amnesia after, appreciate the tip, depending on what my ride wants to do (we have to run out to the airport again ~midnight to pick up some others...)

My goodness, my guinness.