E's Surf Report: YO!!!

whassup all y'all! Got back around 1:30 last night.. Robme woke me up with the 6am "no go" call on the surf this morning. Things look blowy and raucous, mish-mashed and disheveled.. 15mph onshore winds already raging at the beeeatch.. geeez... so much for the open-armed OB welcome.. i was anticipating some glassy/punchy windswell sections.. drooling over some Western Australia images in the surf mag on the plane last night i had my sights set on some conical funnels.. but.. thass cool.. looks like the south pacific buoys are down.. but this weak NW windswell (6ft 7sec on the SF buoy) should continue for the next few days.. soo.. use your little bedside voodoo wind-doll to pacify the local winds and keep those demons calm for our dawn-patrols this week..

umm.. geez.. my cheeks are all rosy and i'm mighty embarrassed and awed and squirmy and in disbelief that you cats are collecting money for a new slippery green pickle for me.. You REALLY REALLY didn't/don't need to do that. but.. damn.. that's soo fricken cool! thanks soooooooo much.. I'm going to get a new green machine shaped by Geoff Raushe (sp?)... probably a 6'4" fishy shortboard. the niceness board. I'm also in the process of getting niceness t-shirts made.. the plan is to use bagel's image of that wacky guy getting barrelled on the front and then just a small "niceness" lettering on the back. My mom does silk-screening so we're working out the details right now..

but.. thanks people!! you guys are the true core of the community here.. it's grown way past the days of Robme, Lerm and i talking about our sessions. You all bring the kindest vibe and i just want to thank everybody for doing so!!

shiiit.. surf!! sounds like a few of you scored waves over the weekend..

bbr's chili report:
report from chile:
first two days were overhead to double overhead in a town that I wasn{t even expecting waves. major niceness at a lefthand reefbreak with a couple of barreling sections. locals were insanely nice and helpful. i was seriously sketching on a few of the sets.

we have since moved on to another more wave-drenched town. an insane but crowded right was firing yesterday, but we decided the 4 of us wouldn{t be welcome so we surfed another smaller gnarly reef instead. super fun tubes all captured by a vid camera with water housing.... stoked! today was smaller but still super fun at a random left reef. this town is like a santa cruz or the north shore. there are a ton of rock reef breaks all packed into a 2 mile long stretch. the swell is currently down, but supposed to pick back up tomorrow afternoon and then get REALLY big this weekend. there{s another swell scheduled after that. insanely stoked. pictures to come.... hope OB has been treating you all well.

Posted by: bbr on July 3, 2003 03:28 PM

paul b's so cal report:
never gave you folks the so-cal report from last weekend...friday, caught the residual leftovers of the last south (windansea) ... certainly not looking like the photo e posted a while back...small, but a few nuggets here and there. saturday even smaller, with windansea surf club "goofy vs regular" contest happening - peter king, joel tudor, etc...band on the beach, kegger...witnessed a few tudor magic moments on little microsurf. passed on the surf and swam at the cove. sunday the swell picked up a bit, got a couple good sessions in, and by monday a new south was going. windan again in the morning, then drove up to trestles to hoard neoprene at the rip curl outlet, surfed lowers for an hour +. head high, maybe a bit over on sets, and CLEAN. what an amazing wave! unfortunately i'm not the only one who thinks so - about 40 at lowers, 40 at uppers (on a monday!), etc...and the level of surfing there is so insane! 1/2 the guys out there seem on a pro level - one guy in particular was just going absolutely nuts, fins out on every turn, upside down lippers etc. anyways i managed to hold my own and get a dozen + lefts, with some nice ones among them.

a couple of Aaron Chang shots
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Witches Rock
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