E's Surf Report

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how is it... can you see the wave?

is the sun shining...

tonight at the warfield

Its frikin insane, completely off the hook. Kelly's was going off like the bastard love child of hossegor and backdoor pipe. surface was plate glass with a light fog on top. go now or you hate yourself for the rest of the fall.

yep, i'm going to delete or edit your post because it's just not right to post that shit.

Dredg is one of the openers tonight as well. Good band, great guys, killer music.

Although I doubt any of those bands could touch what went down last night at the warfield. GD absolutely blew the place apart, amazing show.

actually I have no idea, i'm sitting in my cube. it was just a bad joke.

hope the guy further back has quick release straps and a good health plan.

A high cloud cover is moving in and the wind is picking up. OB is prolly a mess already.

That reminds me - I saw something really cool the other night at sunset. It's called a sun column. It only happens if there are very high and thin clouds filled with ice. The setting sun is reflected from the ice and the light forms a bright yellow/orange column from the horizon to the top of the clouds. First time I ever saw that.

Damn im jealous kookdom, those guys know how to put on a show and they've been playing arenas for so long..going down to LA for the weekend so get ready for perfect waves all weekend im sure ob will be glassy a little overhead lowtide barrels either that or you wont be able to see past the shorebreak all weekend.

Is that too many 'weekends' for one run on sentance?

there was on article on that day at Teahupo'o--
I think it said the guy who was deeper made it,
the one in front didn't... hard to believe.
Then again, the whole image is hard to believe

Okay, guys, seriously, how's the surf looking at O.B.??? There is definitely size on it. Damn, i'm VERY conflicted right now: O.B., or a masters class with a fine classical guitarist in San Jose. Dammit.

did i spell sentence wrong?

nice Dennis! I caught the northern lights while
setting up camp this summer in WA, had to do a
triple take before my brain accepted it. Never
a sun column, or the green flash. goodonya

Going to re-pose a question: I'm trying to plan a month-long sabbatical in Jalisco and/or Oaxaca next year (May, June, or July 2006). Anyone have an opinion on which month(s) would be good for surf? Not looking for huge surf--just fun headhigh/OH waves); want a relaxing respite from work. Planning on conducting some research on localTequilas and mescals. I've done some research, but opinions much appreciated.

Likewise, anyone know of any decent car rental places. Would like to rent a pickup truck on the cheap.

hey, friend #1: did you see the WC draw?

Looks like my picks of Czech Rep., Turkey and Spain could pan out!!!

bagel-I too will be in LA but things look promising...

46024 Pt. Arguello 11:00 AM 10.8 ft 20.0sec

Trying to decide between The Queen or The 'Bu.

Caroline Islands

went out where friend #1 and mr doof and marco espenales went out, great minds think alike. It was definitely surfing, but far from great. Oh, kdalle, I surfed the pollock left, seemed to be the best break going.

Why not both kdalle? it would be great if i could make it down to queens point by sundown..if the swells still around for my drive back up sunday it could take me a while..

I sure do miss the local Hawaiian girls:

Yesterday at Sunset:

planning honeymoon now, want somewhere awesome that has some surf available, definitely not looking for a big surf destination but it would nice to get some good waves. travel agent suggested Huahine, Tahiti. anyone ever been or heard anything about this place? any feedback would be highly appreciated!

fun arvo last night.

Has anyone surfed in Barbados? I know the one famous spot, but what about on the Southern part of the island? That's where I am staying-will be going beginning of November.

Last night was fun!
Was about 25 duckdives out getting in the rythym. Head down, paddling in synch, shoulders burning.. racing to get outside before sunset.
Looked up for a second- Oh Shit!- a flash of orange and yellow flourescent foam flying at my head. Was able to make a quick deflection with the right hand and make a semiduckdive with the left. Close call! Shortly after saw the owner with the other half of his board smiling- One of you guys? I guess it's that time of year.

Dennis I have a thin (1mm?) ripcurl hooded vest. It has outlasted 3 wetsuits and I almost never surf without it.

46023 is Arguello. My bad.

bagel-great idea. Right now I'm working on a key to Streisand Point. Sunday actually looks to be the bigger day so you might score. All depends on the angles and the Great Circles.

uh oh..its my birthday too tomorrow so im sure the great mother will bless me..and the circle of life will continue..and be unbroken..by and by loord..

Anyone know what kind of boardspeeds are reached in surfing?
I am guessing 5 mph for longboarding to 30 mph for extremely huge Mavs type waves.

You're all wrong. It has been, and will continue to be totally unsurfable until I get over this farking endless cold bug. Ugh!

Huahini, Tahiti...hmmm. Sounds like a good health plan. I can scope it out for you vons, and report back. I'm sure my insurance will cover everything.

Here's a video from a buddy of mine out in Hawaii. He's from the Bay Area, lived in San Deigo for 8 years, been out in Hawaii for 2. He makes great videos from the beach. This was taken at Bowls during the last south swell 2 weeks ago:

Jordan Stallard Bowls

Jordan Stallard Bowls

I know a guy who kneeboards in SoCal and has a GPS speedometer and a waterspeed speedometer built into his kneeboard. He usually hits 17-20 MPH.

Some reports on overhead very hollow waves reach a little over 20 MPH.

Tow-in surfing closer to the 30-35 MPH range. I doubt any paddle-in big wave surfing is over 30, but I am pretty surf 25 MPH is hit pretty often.

hth

e - missing a swell is definately a "hardship"...try and defer for a few months.

that video of bowls is friggin killer!! some of those drops are insane.

I've never been barrelled like that.

What about g-forces? How many g's can people pull on turns?
For comparison here are some typical g forces:
Space shuttle takeoff: 3 g's
radical roller coaster: 3+ g's
fighter jet tight turns: 9 g's
Black-out threshold: 10+ g's

Re: Barbados

Soup Bowls is awesome....good barrels. A bit crowded at times...locals are cool...but show respect. Reminded me of a medium day at Gas Chambers P.R. Holds everything from 2 ft to well o'head.

Brandons was my favorite spot...a little softer (but not soft) left....Barbados is small....you can find every break in one day if you want.

Don't leave valuables in the car.

GO SPEARFISHING!

Weed- sucks...but it's cheap.

Go drop in on some Florida boys for me....hate those roaches.

Thanks, Marty. Good to hear that Brandon's is fun....think it's right near where I am staying. What time of year did you go? Hoping I don't get skunked....thanks again for the info.

Nice vid post MSG. Couple nice wipeouts. Looks like two people ran over some folks littering the impact zone. Board gashes.

Forget surfing in Barbados! But don't miss the distillary tour of Mt. Gay rum. Free tastings and a bottle will do you right after you've had your umpteenth helping of flying fish.

I'm a visor-up person myself.. Just get used to really jutting your chin forward through on duckdives and the water pours off fine, bro.

dawn at ram adnil
awesome

sick barrels. thats so nice to set up for the same pitching section on every wave....
reminds me of eerrrr. what no spot naming. who named Bowls anyway. you suck, next time we go there its going to be sooo crowded. no spot naming guys...

Limevoodoo, you picked the seeded teams for the playoffs.

I am hoping: Czechs over Norway (this one is a given)

Swiss over Turkey (this has potential as there is quite the buzz going in Switzerland)

Slovakia over Spain (Spain always stumbles at the final hurdle, so why invite them. Slovakia is also buzzing with Artmedia playing in the Champs league).

yeah, those vids are gnarly. i will never surf that well.

ob definitely turned it on yesterday. the season is in full swing. i spent mucho tiempo getting out to that dang lineup. then i took off on a hefty one, flailed the drop, and smacked the water right on the ball sack! fuck!!! i thought my jewels were floating around in my suit somewhere! and then for my last wave, i took off on a nice one, the wall pitches up, i'm thinking of pulling in....then i see a dude in front of me just floating without a board...huh!? a second later his board is suddenly 5 feet away and directly in my path...ahhhhH!!!! and then, to my complete surprise, my instincts and body took over and somehow straightened my shit out. then i got ragdolled right along with this dude's board! i came up unscathed and made my way back out....and after 20 duckdives and near darkness, i accepted my fate, turned around, and rode on in one the belly. humbled.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++

Hey people, I'm just putting it out there that our band Bag of Toys ( http://www.bagoftoysmusic.com ) is playing tonight at the Plough and Stars (2nd and Clement). We're said to sound like a blend of Jack Johnson and Sublime. We're opening for The Pat Jordan Band ( http://www.patjordanband.com ), which is a kick ass band that sounds like O.A.R. meets Dave Matthews.

So if you've got some time to kill tonight, swing on by, and say hi!

Tait

hey band fags - go back to the east coast

rza - what happened to the man overboard? I know a dude that was "trying out his wetsuit" by going to OB for a little swim sans board. He quickly got sucked into the breakers and after taking 3 or 4 hold-downs, thought it would be smart to swim past the breakers. After being outside the lineup and jetting north for 2hrs, he thought he was going to die as he was getting cold and tired. He made for a channel and says the next thing he know he was on shore puking and nearly passed out.
Moral: Don't ditch your f*****g board peeps!!!

check the bag's kaiseresque poster

Music, sun, fun in the waves... man, I hope it's going down this weekend for everyone. I just got a call in from a buddy that's about to head out in the water in SC. Said that the winds are on it down there, but he's at a sheltered cove. How are the winds looking like in SF? It looks like it's picking up here in San Mateo. ARGH! I can't take it no more. I want to get out in the friggen water already!

arrrgh...i'm in the mountains of SD and after a good drive down just jonesin' to be in the water. A few more land locked days, then the journey north on Tues...pick up the first board I've shaped next week and christen that bad boy. I'm pretty damn excited to be back by the ocean...enjoy the fall.

Blakestah - aren't you the one who has all of the wave speed info? I think I remember seeing something about a 20 sec wave period moving at 25 or 30 mph all by itself. It'll slow down a little as the wave breaks, but then a surfer is dropping down the face at the same time. Is actual speed a combo equal to the speed of the wave plus the speed of the drop?

I've thought about a GPS for measuring speed, but I don't think it'll help deal with the vertical speed of the drop. Also, what about cutbacks and stalls? If I'm not mistaken, GPS speeds are an average over time and distance. Since most waves are ridden only for a short time and in a very inconsistent manner (I think inconsistent would be considered a compliment for most of us!), the GPS probably isn't terribly accurate.

Friend #1: Didn't realize there were seedings for the WC playoff draw, tho I s'pose that makes sense......

My personal prefs: Czechs definitely and I'd agree about Spain, but not the Swiss: the game against Ireland was really boring. Not adventurous enough to do much more that occasionally get out of their own half. Turkey would be more exciting.....

Ah, fuck it. Looks like S.F. is blown out and not as big as I thought it was originally. Argh... all this adrenaline rush this morning for NOTHING!

Shit's getting uppity on the bloog today. RZA, your description of OB sesh sounds so very familiar...to all of us who've done the exact same thing. Taking your beatings, and feeling quite lovely abou the situation nonetheless, thataway, that's the stuff.... :)

Definitely go to Barbados and *DON'T* surf, but instead go watch the shitty liquor being made. Yeah. Great idea.

Since Alain's post I've been inspired, working on some stencils for the OB wall. I'm going to Flax to get some X-acto blades and a cutting mat. I'm not really sure what I'm doing, technically, but I'll figure it out.

I saw a guy get sucked under the GGB last year. He paddled for a long time at full force to get back to the break but couldn't do it. Finally, someone told him to make landing at a small beach in the outer bay. He walked back and then threw up, from panic I guess.

20 second period waves travel in deep water at about 62 knots. The 20 second period wave groups travel at 31.2 MPH. The deep water speeds are very different from shallow water speeds.

The first approximation at the velocity towards shore of a shallow wave is sqrt(height) * 3.37 in miles per hour. So, a 20 foot wave moves towards shore at 15 MPH when it breaks. Now, you'd also get a bit of a boost from gravity, but lose some speed to drag, etc.

The empirical measurements from wave speed speedometers give results similar to the GPS ones, ie: for almost all "normal" surfing, up to 20 mph is the range.

I'm backing Turkey, Czech and Spain.

Spain's a country on a roll. They stood up to our stupid ass, limp dick, bully for a president. And Fernando Alonso won the Formula 1 drivers championship a few weeks ago. First Spainard to win and the youngest champ ever. Go Espana!

I'm hoping Renault can beat McLaren/Mercedes in the Constructors. It's all going down in Shanghai this weekend.

World sports rule!

Turkey play a good game. One of my old roomates from post college days is Swiss, so I have to root for them. Turkey is more likely to knock somebody out that I want if they make it, so I am rooting against them.

The Slovaks can scores goals.

The seeding was by FIFA ranking, of all things.

flades, the guy had lost his board. i'm assuming his leash broke. i saw the dude on the way back out and he asked if i'd seen his board...

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/11/18/1100748172541.html?from=storylhs&oneclick=true

Check this article about the Spanish fans durring their last friendly vs. England.

Sad....

good games tomorrow

USC or ND?
UM or PSU?
UW or UO?

j,
love to see nd topple the trojans but it aint gonna happen. michigan and oregon for sure

GOSHH tanks for sticking up four MEE

GOSHH tanks for sticking up four MEE

YOU'RE DOING A HECK OF A JOB

what's a "band fag"?

RELATED TO ABOVE POST / FORT POINT RIP:

Saw a guy get pulled through the outgoing current at Fort Point, also. It was about 2 years ago -- that current can go up to 5 knots, like a river. There ain't no return from that once you're on the "conveyor belt" out the Gate. Obviously a tourist and KOOK, the guy was *howling* for assistance and his entire family was there taking pictures (moms and grands and everything) and they full-on panicked out as he was yelling, screaming, getting pulled around the point and out toward the bay. There was a huge commotion when they ran for the the end/fence (the one that abutts the Fort, where the runners turnaround) and could not follow him around the point any further. We were in the water laughing our asses off and waving and going "Bye!! Bon Voyage!! You'll make Japan in 12 days!! See ya!!!" It was classic. The family begged for us to retrieve their son, but no local is stupid enough to venture into the river of rip on outgoing tide at the GG Bridge. The family was eventually told by a grizzled ol' local that their precious kook boy would be deposited on the other side, near North Baker Beach. And indeed, he was. But in their minds, he was headed out toward open ocean and it was a rabid, full-on panic. Total drama. Just 100% fear of the unknownsetting in, I could empathize but at he same time, just hilarious to watch unfold. I told every friend and family member about that incident for weeks afterward.

It's rare that you get to see full-on BARNYARD action like that. Priceless haole entertainment...hey, some people find out the hard way.... ;^)

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND ETHAN and all you O.B.-lovin' monkeys.....

I got sucked out at the Fort a few years ago. Probably one of the biggest days I've ever seen there. Everyone was at the other spot inside the bay. I was out with one other gut in an outgoing tide. A huge set swung wide and I managed to get around the shoulder but was now in the shipping lanes. Got sucked out. It was breaking big under the bridge so I tried to get into a wave but the current was too strong and I couldn't get into a wave. In fact it was so strong they were almost like standing waves. Now well past the bridge I scanned the shore for a place to land when a couple of jet skis turn the corner at lands end and head for the bridge. I hailed one and hopped aboard. He dropped me at the Fort and I caught a wave in.

Keep surfing no matter what.

hey since everyones talking about the fort...why do the locs there think they're the lunada bay boys?

That's a great question, I've been treated pretty well there since 1996, and never vibe anyone. But I have witnessed a very heavy vibe toward others. I am very lucky there and @ Dead's, I've gotten no guff and have somehow melted in quietly. I have seen some pretty brutal harrassment there. Grown men acting like little cunts, if you ask me. I see them yellin gat the top of their lungs from the line-up: "DON'T EVEN **THINK** ABOUT PADDLING OUT HERE!!!" as people pull up to check it. It's just retarded and rude. They are not worthy of respect, IMO, because really no one lives anyone near Fort Point. And yet they have this sense of entitlement, it comes out of thin air I guess. I live about 1 mile away, at the edge of the Presidio (so I'm prolly closer than almosty anyone to that spot), and have even ridden my bike down there w/ board, yet there are many who consider themselves "more local" than me even when they roll up from Marin in a big construction worker truck and that kind of shit. It really makes no sense to me. Nobody lives anywhere near the break and it's surrounded by an enormous city. I could never understand how anyone could ever "claim" that spot so unilaterally. Little whiny cunts, like I said. Better to just be a real human being and treat people mo bettah. Respect gets respect.

CHRONKITUS: wow, you're one angry man...

LETCH: Thanks...i think. you like the poster?

localism is ghey. reap what you sow.

TAIT:
The name's Chiaroscuro.

Do you even understand "angry" vs. "observing a fact"?? I've never been happier or more at peace than at this point in my life. The anger you reference is the observed anger of others, not my own. You seem confused. Maybe it was the big words. Have a nice day.

Man, this is a cool ass link here. These are the kind of girls/ladies I see walking around SF on an average day: not particularly attractive, nor beautiful, but just your everday, average looking sort of gal. Sometimes you just can't resist thinking how they would look naked. This happens to me every so often while i'm riding the BART, although, half the time I wonder if they might be hiding penises. Oh yeah, you can click on the pick to see their backsides. Actually, for some of em, you may not want to.

Naked Lineup

isn't it hard to spell "Chiaroscuro" every time correctly? do you have like a quick key you've preprogrammed so that you hit a button and it does it automatically?

fp "locals" with their big trucks and blasting music, showing up all high profile and claiming everything loudly remind me of small-town hicks in texas. from what i hear a fair number of these guys are trustafarians from Specific Whites (Pac Heights) or Marin. it's just so comical, rich kids with every advantage economically and education-wise, who grew up in one of the most beautiful areas of the world, in one of the most diverse cities in the US, acting like backwood, apeish rednecks. at least the hicks have the excuse that they have nothing better to do but beat each other up. and so much for that whole cali-cool, soul surfer psuedo-enlightenment image that so many out west like to front. the fp "local" crowd/bvb hassler types are more like some cheezy 80s movie of the week ...do those guys watch, like, The Karate Kid over and over so they can be the Cobra-Kai?
yeah bra! hella sick crew at the proint, locals only kook! like, totally!

clowns.

With 46022 reporting 19' at 15 sec land based activities are the call up here. Thanks for the pics e.

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Stoned Ferrets yields very promising news - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1013_051013_cannabis.html

bvb is my bitch. I throw him around like a rag doll when he gets out of line

actually dummy, unless you go under many names the "band fags thing" was posted by chronkitus.
"
hey band fags - go back to the east coast

Posted by: chronkitus on October 14, 2005 02:18 PM
"
chill fool.

Please no more anti Fort Point, Kelly's Cove sentiment.
Paddle out where ever you want, sit deep and if anyone say's anything, handle it there.
No more running to ethans "niceness rules" and locals suck blog to complain.
Talk is cheap, or else just get in line.

Funny hpw Chia suck off had got gay porn at the ready to attempt to offset being called a bitch.

I wonder if we can read in to this.

Chiaroscuro: you are a total tool.

It was out there again today. Surf and weather forecasters got today WRONG... big window of good stuff before winds in the arvo. Buoy is 14@15 right now - what? Sunday will be macking if winds go NE. Huge with a little smaller perid -yikes on the paddle. Second two pics turned out to be a friend once I zoomed in on the computer. He'll enjoy the email suprise.

great pix, walker!

more push out there than it looked like from the lot. nasty paddles where "i'm out!" about five times before it's true, unassuming peaks turning into air drops, decision moments about how exactly to end the ride when in mid drop you realize you can't beat the section, and finally a trucking right taking me on a block-long ride to the beach. plenty of getting worked.

fuck, can you stop calling the afternoon "arvo" already? shit.

yeah no anti-local sentiment to fort point locals- due respect to the guys who know and are there when its on. But you always wonder why some places have such vibes...wave scarcity, critical sections, dangerous....regulating for a reason??

I'm with bert on this one. Let's have an arvo-using vs. arvo-bashing slug out at FP sometime in the near future... yeah, and let's hold it in the late "arvo" too.

Man, looks like I missed out on a good day of surf today. Is it just me? or are those pics looking bigger than the reports? I've heard it was called head high to overhead today. Looks a lot bigger from the pics. Maybe it's just the angle, who knows? All I know is, lately, the surf reports have been wrong, or whacked.

sometimes it's necessary to actually drive down and look at the waves. yesterday was overhead in the morning but picked up pretty dramatically through the day. pretty mushy though.

ouchie...bbr with some early mornin' FACE

Reports have been weird (today wavewatch said chest high)...perhaps they were reading this board last month during the online surfing tools debate last month and are trying to play it down for the crybabies...

Last Sunday, several reports were calling it 2 feet overhead at certain spots. I'm guessing this is 7 feet on the face, right? Where I was at, it seemed A LOT bigger than that in the morning.

come drink orange juice and die

Yesterday, I got my front teeth knocked out about 30 feet from the beach on my first duck-dive. Day over but my dentist set me up with a temp bridge. That sucked.

Gawd, Florida is so retarded. Thanks for the post, since i'm going to Miami in a few weeks for work.

That sucks Dennis. How did that happen? Board came up and hit you in the mouth??

Surf looks okay today. The day is effing nice though. I'm probably heading to SC. Hope everyone has a good day of something. Looks like another beautiful day.

SF Median house prices, 5 "business day" median.

July 6, 780k
July 19 786k
July 26 799k
Aug 2 765k
Aug 17 750k
Aug 24 749k
Aug 30 740k
Sep 14 735k
Sep 28 730k

Little longer list of SF median home sales, each data point represents one week ending on the date shown. A 15% increase in the first half of 2005, and then....

sept 28 730,000
sept 14 735,000
aug 30 740,000
aug 24 749,000
aug 17 750,000
aug 2 765,000
july 26 799,000
july 19 786,000
July 12 788,000
july 6 780,000
June 15 752,000
June 7 755,000
June 1 758,000
May 25 770,000
May 20 770,500
May 3 755,000
April 26 745,000
April 20 730,000
April 12 725,000
March 29 702,000
March 22 681,000
Feb 28 699,000
Feb 23 685,000
Feb 15 680,750
Feb 8 689,000
Jan 19 682,000

Please regulate the gay porn and any other porn for that matter. Jesus, Buzzy's observations of sub groups in general does not seem to be to far off the mark this weekend.

Nature tonight (Sunday), sharks of the red triangle

Also, south park marathon

Anyone at Linda Mar find a honda key, lemme know. I knew my key pocket was shitty, but didn't think it could washed outta my wetsuit. That's what I get for swimming in Poo-cifica.

some many haoles so little time.

some many haoles so little time.

Surf was pretty fun today. Went to a protected cove in SC with shallow shelf rock jutting out. There were some tight little fun barrels, and very glassy conditions. It wasn't as satisfying as a nice 1.5x OH day at O.B., but it was still a lot of fun.

SUGGESTION BOX: get rid of the "posts from the past" may as well put lindy cam or a surf painting or some kaiser pornography deal, the space is neglected and gets no attention. who cares about what friggen PEZ or BAGEL said last tuesday (for like 4 months) How bout NAMED SPOT corner w/photo of the day? or just put an ad for Bush/Cheney or something

go get it:

http://www.craigslist.org/eby/tls/104936109.html

skil 100, $150