E's Surf Report

pissed fost.

great pics today!

thid prost

Yeah, I second the hapless surf/jonesing for surf. Got out this a.m. for the sunrise and dolphins riding waves nearby. Haven't been out in over a week. Got my ass whomped by a set. Caught one nice one (I'm lame) that rose up before my very eyes; waves were warbly on the high tide. On the bright side of things, work is letting me come in later (and staying later) so I can do more DP-ing.

take to that first picture please!

Whats DP. Double penetration?

For the last 5 years, Matthew Scott has had the hand of a
dead guy attached to his body. During a 14-hour surgery
a human hand from a brain dead person was transplanted.

"Lina Medina (born September 27 1933 in Paurange, Peru)
is the youngest confirmed mother in medical history.
Originally thought to have a tumor, Lina was brought to a
hospital by her parents at the age of 5 years; a month later,
on May 14 1939, she gave birth to a boy through a caesarian
section performed by Dr. Lozada and Dr. Busalleu (operators)
and Dr. Colretta (anaesthesiologist). Dr. Lozada also took her
to Lima , the capital of Peru, prior to the surgery, to have
other specialists confirm that Lina was, in fact, pregnant."

From Surfpulse:
Yesterday Nov 2,a shark bit Tim West's surfboard while he was at Maverick's, near Half Moon Bay. He escaped with no injuries. In another encounter, a shark was sighted near Maverick's last Monday morning (the day after the biggest day of that swell). The surfer reported seeing a dorsal fin and a tail fin, moving side-to-side, about 75 yards outside of the surf line. And if those events don't give you the heebie-jeebies, a decapitated seal washed up recently on the beach just north of Maverick's. It's that time of year again.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/localnews/ci_3177719

that skim boarder and the surfer in that last pic are going to get OWNED!

unamed spot with colorful houses and docks and boats nearby was peeling rather cleanly in the dead calm glassyness of the dawns' early light this morn.

yes please

fuck that wave above me. i hate you all damnit to hell im gonna cry

Close eyes, click heels...poof, you're at Nias. If only....

hey fun facts, did you even stop to think that someone molested this girl? not so fun anymore, huh? jackass

ya, that guy doing the bottom turn into that sharks mouth is going to get so owned in like 1 second..

but why was that guy surfing the mavericks yesterday? was there waves there?

I think the media calls the whole HMB area Mavericks.

Who keeps posting those stupid fucking pictures!

Owned!

"Owned" is the new lame.

Went surfing at aaaaaaaaggggghhhhhh!

The surfing duck soap in my shower had ice on it this morning. Farking cold morning.

Any shredstick heads amping for snow this year...?

I guess it was at Mavericks... Surfline: Yesterday afternoon, 25-year old Montara surfer Tim West was paddling out to minus low-tide (baby-sized) Maverick's with his buddy Chris Loeswick when every surfer's worst fear came true -- a shark hit from below.

www.geocities.com/a_habib/Jazz/coltrane.html

Coltrane interview from the 60's. SOme dude transcribed an infamous cassette tape of the interview.

Is it OK to RENT?

I saw the interview with Tim West on channel 11 last night. He was hit while paddling out from the harbor to get to Mavericks. He was not at Mavericks but just outside the harbor, heading towards Pillar Point. He got knocked off his board and there's a shark tooth in it that they're going to analyze. Didn't seem like big marks in the board, just one hole and a tooth. So more of a bump than a chomp.

So is the 3rd pic a beach break?

if the waves are going to be shit. let it snow...

I also saw the interview with Tim West and Chris Loeswick - they were embarassing to listen to - real stereotypical "surfers".

This was the "top story" on kron4 last night - the fucking top story!
Over 2,000 soldiers killed in Iraq and this is the top story! Has America gone friggin' crazy!

There has been a change in the status of one or more of the beach
monitoring points in:

Ocean Beach
Foot of Sloat Blvd Station - Open
Foot of Vicente Ave. Station - No Sampling Data Available
Foot of Pacheco Ave. Station - No Sampling Data Available
Foot of Lincoln Way Station - Open
Foot Balboa Ave. Station - Posted

HA! Denial of service by random photos-- Call the Feds!

Can we have a replay of last year? This shot is from November 2, 2004.

oh noooo!

"Officials at Half Moon Bay want to warn other surfers about the attack because good surfing conditions are predicted for the next few days."

Man, this blog is getting lame.

It'll take more than one of these to think that we're gonna have some "good surfing conditions" over the next few days.

Hey E,

what ever happened to GVAG??

Man.. it sounds like Sliz-oat was *all time* yesterday afternoon... (instead of saying "afternoon", aussies often say, "arvo").. i'm bummed that i missed it. I cruised out there this morning hoping for traces of yesterday's low-tide glory.. but met with disapointing conditions. A marvelously groomed sea-surface, a solid, mid-range groundswell and a rising tide somehow didn't combine into nice surf. A few of the set waves would break and then mush on the outer bar, but most waves closed-out violently on the inside sandbar.. hmm.. so i headed south.. right to good ol' Schmlindy!!! gotta love it! Still pretty dark when i pulled into the lot at 6:45, but a few people already out.. Glassy, mellow, easy atmosphere at the Mar.. offshores flowing nicely, holding up the shoulder/head-high sets that cruised through here and there.. first half of my sesh north of the showers, north of the big group that invariably gathers in front of the showers.. I caught a bunch of fun, racy little rides.. one in particular where i furiously pumped and ducked and raced.. *kind-of* tucking into this little cover-up along the way. Then i saw the long-haired asian guy that pretty much rules it at Lindy catch this siiiick right at the far far north of the beach.. hmm... i hate to be the guy that paddles over to where someone else is catching good ones.. but i couldn't resist and paddled over.. immediately i stroked into this solid right, a ledgy take off and then a tapering, defined, meaty shoulder!!! fuck yeah!! i pumped, then bottom turned, then cranked as hard as i could off the top, came down, pumped a few more times.. then dug in and exhaled through a cuttie back into the white-water.. what!! this is lindy??!! but i wasn't complaining.. caught about 4 or 5 more of those.. just trading off with the asian guy.. We were laughing at each-other. i couldn't believe that nobody from the huge group just south of us paddled over!!! weird.. but.. who knows why?? then i finally, reluctantly, had to get out and go to work.. Believe it or not the parking lot was almost full at this point!! at fricking 8:30 on a weekday!! the water was packed with surfers and boogies and kayaks and longboarders and blue-crush-wannabes and shredders and grisled old carp dudes and little groms and shreddy girls and granny and dogs and just about everything else you can think of. The south and middle of lindy were probably the best beginner conditions i've ever seen there.. just totally mellow, but rideable..

anyway.. it was fun..

Hey great SF, I'll have to check out the Mar before moving back to 'vania. Sounds shredable!

again.. glassy... beautiful!
i feel like a broken record here... but.. again.. conditions at good ol' OB were glassy, head-high and amazing.. gentle offshore feathering the lips, oily-glass sea-surface allowing for unblemished slabs of carvable wave.. the line-up at VFers was populated but not painfully crowded.. people were stoked in general and there were a lot of waves cruising in. Some of the outside bombies were just immaculate beauties.. probably 8 feet on the faces, throwing out makeable barrels both left and right.. people hootin' and wooin' simply because the waves looked sooo incredible.. I saw a few telephoto lenses up on the breakwall

What's the smallest that Mavericks breaks?

I heard it doesn't break until double-overhead, but I doubt it was that big yesterday when the shark attack occurred.

What the !#@$ are you on, SF?

hey e, i'm really sorry about all the b.s. that's on the blog. how are you dealing with this? does it bum you out like it does me?

STONED

Buy yourself a surf trip all you Jonesin' rad dudes....

Sorry...

Anonymous,

Yeah this is sf, i am conducting an experiment. By posting old posts that have historically resulted in positive stoke sharing, I am checking the reaction of our current viewers. Basically my finding are this:

It doesn't really matter what anyone says anymore because it will met with negative, hostile bullshit. Sometimes I read old posts that are actually entertaining--- hey even EG PIMP was hugely entertaining. Now it is usually just a bunch of stuff that is less than entertaining..

Surf is entertaining, other people are entertaining, differences are funny. E must shake his head lately at what has become of the site.

Naming stuff doesn't mean shit. The people in the water are all that matter. Everyone has always named stuff, it is not the "niceness crew" that has "crowded" our beaches. In fact, good surfers will always get good waves.. The issue tends to be the non-niceness crew crowding the site. What makes you so fucking special?? Ask e about the site changing over the last few years, ask BVB, ask Blakestah. If you think these guys aren't cool -- don't read this blog. SIMPLE as that. If you think I am a fag for posting some old E comments fine. Why ruin something that we enjoy just because you don't??

Whatever. I don't need to be owned and what the fucking effect will those old e posts have when the temperature drops and the swell arrives.

Once in a while we all get surprised, Don't get your panties in a wrinkle..

newsflash: latest polls on positivity yields negative results.

reading some of my old posts makes me cringe!
i was a total self-congratulatory kook namer!
I suck and i apologize for that. geez. sorry to all who cringed back in the day while reading.

Agree that the namer-gets-owned thing is terrible.

but i think that, in general, a good spirit still prevails here on niceness. Like the other day with the blakestah leaving comments and the Fiona/Loon well-wishes.

It's amazing how internet communities involving guys generally devolve into aggressive pissing matches. sucks.

be the change you want to see.

Weeeeee, the merry-go-round is in full effect. Just what the "crew" wants!

SF, that is one of the better posts I have seen in some time. You nailed it! Your prize: what is behind door #1

Door #1

charge those charging chargeables

if you could take either tomorrow or monday off and wanted to get some waves and could drive all the way down to SC to get them, which day would you take? i'm thinking tomorrow. what say ye blakestah?

This weekend I need to get BONED!

love this photo of peter mel

i say monday, less crowds..

i concur. While the Golden age of E's knitting report is long gone there are some funny ass new posters that give me hope of a better tomorrow. the NMO guy is lame overall IMHO.

on a happier note...

Why does anyone burn gas when you can burn F***ing vegitable oil?!?

It's nuts!

apropos to nothing on this string

Interesting that most jumps occur at pole 69??

It's the middle.

Tomorrow morning our local beach will be hit with a freakish warm water current and offshores leading to conditions as above. You heard it here first!

My surf prognostication skills have been HONED!

Captain I wouldn't be afraid of a superNooovaaa!

Half the people on here couldn't surf the conditions in the pic you posted above. That is one mighty gaping 10 ft face barrel.

ya that waves huge! dork

And what's your point , bbr? That suicides are good? Or that they're trying to build a fence? WTF?

well boober you couldn't get with half of the girls posted by kaiser... or any of them at that.

one day in august ob was blown but montara was overhead and offshore. incredibly beautiful lines of cordury to the horizon, with long peelers to the beach, like one of e's photos--totally unmontara-ish. i surfed the end that is usually mush, and got a bunch of consistent, steep six-foot walls: fast take-offs, walls that stayed put for turns. i said to the one other guy out, a sweet early taste of fall! see, i was thinking...that there might actually be other days like that. not that i'm complaining, mind you. sure, good waves would be fun, but the important thing is that i live here by the ocean, and i've got my regularity; i'm not some land-locked guy who can't even shit. thank you for your time.

"You really don't have passionate users until someone starts accusing them of drinking the Kook-Aid. If you create passionate users, you have to expect passionate detractors. You should welcome their appearance in blogs, forums, and user groups. It means you've arrived." Maciej Ceglowski

the NGO guy lives in CANADA

so what?

his proxy lives in Canada, moron. Who knows where that guy/guys lives.

I like the guy that jumped at lamppost 2. Is there even a dropoff that far over?

"'m not some land-locked guy who can't even shit. thank you for your time."
haha

Watch the beach all day. There have been good waves around 1-2pm.

wow, this "starterup-steve" fellow (or "namers get owned" guy) sure is one cronically angry blog-troll. I wonder why he's so obsessed with this page, and surfing. Does his interest in a blog or website constitute a "virus"? Seems that way, this dude is one virulent parasite. You code warriors should develop some antibodies.

DELETE.

I think the owned guy is sort of creepy

that patagonia site is pretty sweet. those malloy bastards.

I like the owned guy. The pictures are funny.

I don't mind some pictures. It's just the word OWNED is so dumb. Hopefully the person is still in high school.

How do they know which lightpole the people jumped from?

Since they only list 833 of all the suicides, I would guess these are the ones that were witnessed, or they had a way to figure it out, like where they left their belongings. SFGate.com has been having a great series on this.

Doesn't ess eff gate have a blog you guys can talk suicide on?

Ward Coffey

Dumb - there is camera coverage across the bridge.

how are the waves at O C E A N   B E A C H right now? anyone know?

From what I've been told, there are several occasions when GG Bridge suicides have interacted with surfers in the lineup at Fort Point. When they jump from post 99 on up, I've heard stories about surfers seeing it and retrieving bodies (or helping the live ones).

One time, maybe 1998, I surfed a big, gloomy, foggy winter evening at the Fort, which sort-of underscores what an unwelcoming/foreboding place the Fort can sometimes be (even sans "locals"). I mean the place was just gothic that night, truly creeped me out. Point is, next morning another friend of mine was out when everyone witnessed a bridge jumper go nearly into the line-up. There were about 10 or 11 people out and everyone was mortified. They all helped the Coast Guard spot the body in the rip currents (CG arrived within 3 minutes). Apparently the jumper survived the drop, but eventually died later that day.

For some reason I found the story more startling (or riveting) b/c I had just been there the night before and was contemplating what a dark and eerie, cold place it can be when the parking lot is empty and no one's around during winter on a huge swell in dense fog or foul weather. Then here's this first-person account about a suicide to up the ante on my heebie-jeebies. Now, even if just for a brief moment, I sometimes think about those lost souls when I'm out there. Despite it's beauty, Fort Point is possibly the most haunted, creepy surf break in the world under certain circumstances.

1. I know a girl who jumped off the bridge. If the bridge wasn't there at all, she would have found another way to do it.

2. Can we get back to surf dialogue here? Maybe an afternoon clean up in the works?

Shouldn't there be beautiful places in the world to commit suicide? What a rush that would be while dropping. Bigger drop than any of us lowly surfers will ever do. Empathize guys empathize with these people. Spend the money on 24/7 hotlines not fences.

I'll go out on a limb here and say that the waves at OB are bad and will not clean up later.

Yikes.

Bagel, don't give up. I checked 20 minutes ago and it's not that bad. not blown out, tide starting to drop. cant make up mind if foggy or sunny. Not good, but not witecapped or anything like that.

http://waves.terra.com.br/novaschinfestival2005/galeria.asp?chaves=nova+schin+festival+wct+g10+2005

surf dialouge? i'm going to san diego this weekend and i can't effing wait. does that count? woohoohoo!! yeahahha! yeah!

i'm hooting for myself because it is raining cats and dogs where my proxy lives. and because it has suuuuucked up here for months and months. so i don't even care what it's like down there and i'm not asking for someone sitting in ensinitahs to tell me. i do not even care.

it's funny, because in some selfish ways i've almost been thankful to read that it has also sucked in SF for the last while...you know, the whole not wanting to miss out thing. but i do miss reading about friends being stoked on the DP down there. i miss that early drive, a lot. so if the result of so much SF slop is the wack agro anons and ownedness that now proliferates, well, then i wouldn't mind if all ya'll got some waves. :)

have a niceness weekend. pray for surf. keep the faith.

The Kelly's Cove 2nd Annual Reunion is on Nov 19th. Details and tickets at SF Surfhop, for all you Kelly's Cove Local Boyz. Note: to be a true KCLB you need an AARP card and a Hickey longboard, you've been warned.

I surfed really nice but somewhat small waves for two hours last nice and got quite surfed out. There were droves of people out in the city someplace. I think it was at the Cogwheel. Yeah, that's it. Naming the cogwheel.

Geez Bstah, even I don't qualify for an AARP card.

Blakestah are you sure it was the cogwheel? I saw about 20 guys out at Lands End incuding the Malloy brothers Rob Machado, mikey Dora and Tupac! Sam George and Drew Kampion were chronicling the event while Matt Warshaw and Dan Dwayne were having a spoken word competition on the beach! It was grand the waves and vibe were alltime!!

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Oh yes I forgot, Anthony Robbins will be giving a free seminar with Mark "Doc" Renneker on aging and surfing in the Sutro Baths Parking lot

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Hey Friendly,

Sorry to hear about the misery and dreariness. It is predictable though. I have a friend that lived in Seatle for 2 years. First 3 months were ok then he just got deeper into depression until he moved to sunny San Francisco.

and 'namers get owned' guy will be there to give tips on being a public butt-hole

oh yeah I almost forgot, the Kelleys Cove Crew will be performing their originally written historical musical "Tales of the Barbary coast" which will include a cameo by non other than BVB!

where's e? Must be out a Mav's.

I heard they were going to re-enact an actual shanghai like the old days, complete with a horse drawn carriage ride from fisherman's wharf!

Forgot to mention: this looks like an Andy Goldsworthy piece, but it's not.

Jarrod Taylor's "structural wave" draws surfers at Sculptures by the Sea in Sydney, the largest outdoor art exhibition in the world.

hey dennis,

yeah...i'm hanging in. it's not anything i'm not used to. fall has actually been gorgeous up here, but shittay waves. not even that huge south swell at the end of september showed up in any reasonable form...it boggles the mind.

sunny SF? yeah, that's what i remember... :)

cheers! i'm off to 65 and sunny. yeeeeheeheee! have yourself a great weekend.

I like the namers get owned guy. He adds character to this blog.

I can't see why anyone would want to live in the pacific northwest. If they had more fantastic bridges like they do in the Bay Area, it would be suicide heaven.

Miami, no waves, but unreal lifestyle. Women that would put Kaiser's posts to shame too. Love it out here. Would never go back to SF.

Miami seems fake and lame. If you are into drugging and partying all night with fake tans and fake boobs, I guess that would be your scene.

Gimmie the Pac Northwest anytime. The beauty, the fall colors, the culture, the down to earth people, the greenery, the wilderness. The life.

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getouttahere.

Hate is the only thing that helps keep our line-ups free of kooks, fools and trannies!

why is this miami dude always hyping miami?? the guy needs to start his own miami blog for the sex-obsessed and leave us alone.

for realzzzze

http://whatistng.ytmnd.com/

does every post have to be approved by some fuckwad?

Miami pussy is hot. Don't tell me about how real the PNW or SF. The fucking whores in this town never even go to the beach.

hey florida anon, you sound like a real steaming river of poo that flowed out of some retiree's ass

prison time + internet access = WELCOME TO THE BRIGADE!

sliz-oat = all time in the fun 8-10' range today. be shure you get some tomorrow.

it was way fun even at non-slizzoat parts, too. beautiful sunset session. crowded, though, where I was; but it didn't harsh my mellow, man, cause there were zillions o' waves.

I agree kloo! what a sunset!

No way, I agree, Miami fucking rocks. It's always warm, the water is warm and blue, the beaches are nice, there are TONS of super beautiful latina and european chicks, it's fun, laidback, culturally diverse -- almost like being in another country, the Key West is cool, and there are lots of other things to do besides partying, drugs, and hooking up. If I could move out there, I would.

Sloat was pretty big this morning: 10 feet on the face easy. It was farking cold as shit too. My 3/2 isn't cutting it. I musta burned 1500 calories in the water today.

hey wtf, obviously, if anybody was molested, it was you.
maybe get some therapy.