E's Surf Report

what a storm last night. the ocean surface is ripped to shreds.

thanks for posting that e. i've been at my company for 5 years now and got bumped up to 5 weeks of vacation. so a few surf trips are in order to escape the norcal summer doldrums.

oh man, e, i think you just read my daily thoughts. ubersuperultradream is to learn to sail, say F off to the world and juuuuuust live off the land, with some fiberglass and a few friends/ladies in tow.

that last photo is just silly

yeah. that would be a dream come true. maybe someday.

j, ya only live once.. go for it.

believe me man, it's on the plan. first things first, gotta save $ to take sailing classes!

Lady, I’m your knight in shining armor and I love you
You have made me what I am and I am yours
My love, there’s so many ways I want to say I love you
Let me hold you in my arms forever more

You have gone and made me such a fool
I’m so lost in your love
And oh, we belong together
Won’t you believe in my song?

Lady, for so many years I thought I’d never find you
You have come into my life and made me whole
Forever let me wake to see you each and every morning
Let me hear you whisper softly in my ear

In my eyes I see no one else but you
There’s no other love like our love
And yes, oh yes, I’ll always want you near me
I’ve waited for you for so long

Lady, your love’s the only love I need
And beside me is where I want you to be
’cause, my love, there’s somethin’ I want you to know
You’re the love of my life, you’re my lady!

A request:

Could we abolish the use of "Lady" that comes and goes on this site. Everytime I read about someone surfing with their 'Lady', it just makes me ill.

I picture some gold-rope wearing hasbeen with his polyester shirt open to his navel and his arm around some coked-out pornstar with Kenny Rodgers singing in the background, "Lady...

all...chances....of....productivity....shot! ; ) ahh...the lure of the Southern Pacific.

friend #1...for the life of me, i can't imagine why the visual image of polyester, pornstar, and Kenny should cause anything, but warm feelings of longing. ; )

ck-

Yeah, and some parts of Boogie Nights are fun (Heather Graham on Skates for example), but after a while you start to wish you hadn't started down that path (William H Macy's character for the other example).

It's like the response from the guy who gave me my first tab when I asked mid-trip what coming down was like -

"You just start to get tired of it."

You've been crying your face is a mess
come on baby you can dry the tears on my dress

Shes hurt you again I can tell
oh i know that look so well

Dont be shy
youve been here before
Pull your shoes off, lie down
and i will lock the door

And no one has to know
youve come here again
darling had to be
like its alwayse been...before

Breakfast in bed
this is on me
you dont have to say you love me

hola all, how's the how's the great highway/north of the bridge/south of funston life treating you folks? hope it's been a fun winter so far. I'm pretty out of touch up in the northwest, lots of work, very little internet access, and a good bit farther from the pacific than I'd like to be--something that should be remedied within 6-10 months. E's atoll daydreaming is the stuff that keeps me going--I'm learning a fair amount about boats and boatbuilding and sails and rigging yada yada, but certainly far from setting up the backyard shop and having a 35' cat built in a year... getting closer though.
Haven't been able to get to the coast much as the school schedule here is fairly intensive, but I had a great surf Sunday with three good friends. It was a startlingly beautiful day, gorgeous grey silver and gold skies, a foot of snow on the beach, tall offshore rock stacks and snow softened islands encircling the bay, snow falling on us off and on in the water with a gentle offshore breeze, beautiful clear cold water that went from a silver/grey surface color to perfect crystaline jade green as I would duck dive a gentle roller. My friend Adam had his first ever go-out in these crazy conditions and actually stood and rode twice on a too-small shortboard. Erin looked beautiful and James had a great time and over the course of three hours I caught a bizzillion fun little waves with enough oomf to get numerous turns in before a gentle pull-out. I'm still energized from it :)
anyhow, good stuff. hope you bay area folks are all well.
cheers, Benjamin

hey ben, hit me up nitsuj at gmail dot com.

Thanks E, just killed my work mojo for at least 12 hours.

I have some experience doing the sailing thing.My wife and I have had our boat for 14 years. We have done all Central America, some South America and the Caribbean. Lots of anchoring and surfing. I have done some South Pacific. We also did a 6 month trip up the West coast of Vancouver Island on a surf trip. We/I lived aboard about 5 years of that time. I know a fair bit about the program. (seasons, boats, blah blah)
It is pretty tricky combining surfing and sailing. Mostly because alot of surf spots are not good places to anchor overnight. Usually the wife or girlfriend is not a big fan of watching you surf all day, while she cannot even set a cup on the table because the "anchorage" sucks. I took a bit of grief over that .
We will be going to South Pacific as soon as our daughter becomes a good swimmer, (she is only seven months) So I am very involved in planning that.
Anyone wanting to exchange ideas, questions, suggestions on this topic let me know. We can post or email direct.

may i suggest listening to this:

http://213.158.118.36/schnappi/schnappi.mp3

while watching this:

http://www.surfline.com/video/vids/2005/jan/jsps/sebastian_dl_wm.cfm

Reminds me of the short film "Paradise, Nebraska"

http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/atom_1314

i just took the bagel challenge. weird. schnappi! good to see florida serving up the goods. classic 2-4 foot atlantic JUICE!!

sick pics today, e! last one is my favorite.

interesting I am trying to plan a relatively cheap surf trip to somewhere in Mex for a week or so in Late May.

Puerto Vallarta, Ixtapa?

Any suggestions?

Bagel, the theory is true. All artists are crazy. Where do you even find a song like that? Sounds like "sloppy sloppy slop." Also, good shit on the art yesterday. lerm email me at iane@sfsu dot edu. I'll be gone over that time, it'd be cool to meet up somewhere. I'll be in Central/South America during the Summer hopefully.

Hey Web.. would love to hear more about your sail/surf adventures and what is involved in such a trip. I am planning a surf trip in Sept with a buddy... any thoughts on a fun exotic place to go with high potential for excellent waves?

just dont get that song stuck on your head oi

sebastian inlet looks like a fun wave..not the really small ones..did you see the floater about 1/4 the way through oh man

Phil... You might wanna go further south than PV in Mex. Much better southern exposure once you get arouond that bend.

E, have you all looked at Typepad instead of straight-up MT hosting? It seems like their Pro account could do the number for Niceness with a somewhat-reduced administration hassle.

Cap this morning (again, if the link works).

Any chance of getting a copy of BASE to an SF expat currently residing in Santa Barbara.

-There's nothing like Ocean Beach!

phizen

Oh, more non-Niceness on the landslide in La Conchita. I guess they had a similar landside 10 years ago. Fark, I remember being in Santa Barbara when the late 80's/early 90's drought broke. Lower State Street was underwater in a big way. I think it rained 5" in an hour that day. But all was not bad, since it was another "get-out-of-work-free" day. I called my boss and told him everything was flooded, but that I was working... working at shooting some pool and downing some suds that is.

need some feedback from the other veal cattle
out there this sunny (what the fark is sunny?)
tuesday....does anyone think that tahoe is a
bad idea these next few days? say wed to sunday?

the surf seems to have left the building....

i have poured over every buoy and site i can muster.
i am jonesin' to surf but i am thinking that some
shoulder deep POW should do the surf stunt-double
nicely......

those inlet shots ARE fresh.
word to the mini-truck-toddholland-cocoabeach-rogerhealy
mullet heads!!!

surf tomorrow overhead early, surf Thursday shoulder high clean, surf Friday waist high clean, its gonna snow again this Saturday.

But next TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THINK SURF.

funny link

thanks for the tip Dano

Me thinks me will be dp'ing shortly. Me like.

Beer anyone?

Thanks dirgyblake - wouldn't know what to do with myself with outcha'. Lol, wink wink*.

South Pacific unrest in Papaeete. No need for a Kelly and Pam Quiksliver style 50 ft. charter. Nothing like being miles away from anything and then seeing the f**king Quiksilver boat on the horizen - 'oh perfect' -. Otherwise plenty of loco transpo if yer knerwd whered to find it.
Le Bus.
Plus it's not too too expensive - plenty of really hard to access waves; toughened women and rip off friends to meet. Thing is E you can't divulge the name of one single surf spot - not ever. Lerm or whatever he is should keep it all under wraps - like we don't want to know. Tuamotu islands - no surf, only pearls.
If you think the locals are heavy in Hawaii wait unitl you meet the real deal - you will want to cry. Recently a magistrate from England arrived to Spencer Christian's Pitcairn island. England has charged the elder males with statutory (sp.) rape. Some kind of heavy crackdown for odd deeds. Paradise comes with a heavy price tag...BEWARE

Kaiser, that's beer with kegs second from the right.

bagus, if you are talking a land based trip (airplane) I don't have any more insight than anyone else. September? Almost the end of Indian ocean season, good chance of a big swell in mexico from September hurricane, almost the end of rainy season in Central America.
I think I would hit mainland Mex.Bang for the buck. Myself, I would go to Rio Nextpa. I would fly into Acapulco with a buddy, rent a car, and go hit Nextpa. Good waves, gets big but not suicidal, and the last time I was there, which was 6 years ago, it was not crowded at all, and the surf was really good. My personal opinion when flying somewhere is to head for a really consistent spot and plant myself, rather than chasing surf.

Does anyone remember a tennis shoe in the 70's called Zips or zipzaps????

dano, i'm thinking we know each other from cyclocross peeps. is your landlord expecting?

beautiful pics e.

surf fantasizing! nice..

what's cyclocross?

e, "a steeplechase on bikes" was one description i always liked. it's actually older than mountainbiking.....
http://www.cyclocrossworld.com/

i asked her for adidas but she bought me zips...

re: tahoe this weekend, keep in mind it's MLK weekend. not everyone has monday off, but i believe most of the schools do so expect full on holiday/weekend crowds. with any luck the snow on the roads will keep them in the ditch...i mean at home and it won't be bad. if you have vert plus still probably long lines though.

this weekend would be a dream on horstman or high campbell if the conditions were the same up norf.

oops, forgot this

http://www.iconoculture.com/stellent/groups/public/documents/website/smpl_softrucks9228.asp

3to5setsof7... dude, you are correct. You ever do some of the old Surf City Races (R.I.P.)?

I got one word to make you cyclocross guys fight: Blanco.

Thankfully I think it will be a long time before the Tua's get a crowd problem, 415. Unless you are a frog, you have to have your boat out of there before the onset of hurricane season, as in you REALLY have to leave. They (the frogs)hold back $, or take a credit card # when you check in at Marquesas. You get it back when you check out of French Poly on your way west or north. Plus, it is a bitch getting around. Whatever to GPS being the end all solution. The GPS is more accurate than the charts. So a 1/4 mile off really matters. (and those are French charts. many are still Cook survey. Up to 1 mile off) So you really cannot travel at night with any surety. Radar does not pick up coconut trees very well, and the atolls are just that, atolls. Which means they are low. So you have to navigate via visual and GPS. And it is a maze of reefs. So the visual only works at certain times of the day. Sun in your eyes? Can't see the bottom. That sort of thing. Also, if you are there on your own boat, you either KEEP GOING west, or bail up for Hawaii. Any further than the Societies (Tahiti et al) and you better have an upwind machine to get home. BTW- the Quicksilver rig draws about 6 feet. That eliminates it from alot of Tua options.
Yes, hitchhiking is an option, but that is for the young and familyless. The wife wants her own bathroom when rotting in the tropics for extended periods.Plus, you only have a couple options to start from. Most atolls are empty, or have part time pearl fisherman living there. Freshwater is a real issue.
Bottom line, to get there is a major effort, and not many pull it off. And from that list, not many do it twice.
As for the local pearl fisherman, practical gifts showing your appreciation (new baby bottles,quality diaper rash cream,whatever, things that really make a husbands life easier) and just asking permission and showing respect go a really long way.

thanks dave, et al. yeah mlk is a chafe BUT
POW POW POW....

i am thinking kirkwood (shit! NAMING NAMES—ha ha)
on thursday and maybe some gun barrels at heavenly on
friday, a little backside of kirkwood saturday and skip
sunday....beat the traffic.....we'll see....

right now, from the hilltop mother ocean looks like
a dramamine ad.

web - though i'm nowhere close to picking up and going, that type of adventure has been a longstanding dream of mine. would love to chat up your ideas about how to pursue it. my email: temison@morganlewis.com
thx, theo

I'd be stoked to just sail the Hawaiian islands or the like.

I had some Zappa shoes once. Does that count? Surf. I need some. Gotta get some soon.

web.. you're the man! love hearing about that shit. sailing around the south pacific sounds less than easy-going. Would love to hear more about your boat adventures. If you have any stories or photos we could put them up permanently on niceness (place-names excluded) or if you're game i would love to get a little interview with you (online, over-the-phone or in person).. kick me your email address if interested (cranial_bulge@yahoo.com)

That's the ticket Korewin!

Focusing on the heavy POW POW this week and weekend! Starting tomorrrow on the backside of Squaw down to Alpine (-oops- the name thing again), then Sugar and Northstar. Going to be awesome. I will forget about surf for now, until I get back to work and watch surfcams. . .

80 and 50 are going to be full this weekend- have patience!!

i know some hot girls from Auburn.

niiice.

i am from auburn. born and raised. wonder if i know those babes you speak of e??

zips! now i DO remember those.

zips by stride rite (what a name)...
stride rite shoe stores were all over the
place....
some kid made a Z in the sand at the end
of the tv commercial......anyone else recall
that?

i found an image on ebay....not the snazzy
ones i remember but the BOX is the right one....

dano, i did a few surf city and central coast events a few years back. nothing serious, just fun.

hit me at three2fivesetsof7@yahoo.com with the sandbar update....i won't tell.

Anybody seen the Quicksilver flying boat ads on surfline? That sound's like the way to go. I just read an article about Jimmy Buffet. He has ancestors/relatives on PitCairn Island and flies a small seaplane around to fish and surf in the Caribbean.

Stay home this weekend and save yourself gas money and time spent sitting in your car at applegate, it's all tracked up already. I know cause I just came back.

Kirkwood is a farce. Don't waste your time with South Shore.

Dude I think you guys are posting on the wrong site- Here's where you guys need to go

http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/BayAreaGaySurfers/

On the snow tip, I'm soooo tempted to ditch work and hit the day trip up to Sugar Bowl. Mid-week is absolutely the way to go...

midweek is def the way to go, that or in a blizzard on the weekends. tomorrow the midweek ripping will be in full effect but it all depends on what was closed today.

sugar bowl is closed tomorrow

I-80 is closed tomorrow too. . .

Sorry

california is actually closed tomorrow. whole state. surf, mountains, sky, air, it's all closed.

on that note it's time for the new dad to post some ladies. mr. kaiser please stand up, please stand up, please stand up...oh wait, you are standing? ok, well just post.

Say Hello to Gaby:

Say Hello to Norkys

Say Hello to Daniella

I can see a nice reef break out the back....

Oh yeah, winds be offshore y'all. Check the reports. I don't tell a lie.

sick pictures seth. that guy in the first one is so stoked!

ya nice ones seth, at first i thought that beach break might have been **^%$# now i know its **$&@()&$..maybe tomorrow ill surf there

who the hell names their kid norkys?

thanks every for the comments on my pics...they were all taken on xmas eve '04 at you know where..

nice try seth....but kaiser gets the nod in that battle!

i agree. =)

Web- you should have star status on this little blog. Keep posting.

Everyone dreams about sailing the world but a trip out the Gate is usually enough to dampen one's enthusiasm. Da' wife and I lived on a 35' 11-ton cutter rig for four years in SF Bay. It's not an easy life. I can't imagine making it to the South Pacific. We had friends who made the run from Cabo to SF and immediately sold their boat. Very different from surfing when you're at the helm with your wife/kids/friends on board. Before these guys sign up, want to tell them about maintaining a sailboat and how many hours you trained to get where you are now?

p.s. Tell us where to ship care packages. You're probably dying for a Big Mac and fries!

Kaiser is a randy pig dog. Thank goodness you're such a nice guy and a new father. Otherwise you would get a few S.S. Sharkbait dope slaps.

I always hesitate when posting knowing that S.S. and other females are roaming out there.

But, then J pushes me to do it! I swear I don't want to but he makes me. At least that is what I tell myself anyway!

See ya all in the water. Looks like the bouy just started reading N winds. Hmmmmmmmm. I bet the Jetty will be off the hook tomorrow. Everyone meet there. I will buy the scones, PROMISE!

Thanks for the visuals Sef and congrats Pa-iser.

Xmas eve was a great present to me too...a nice fairly consistent head-high, neg. low-tide, a random jetty (that i had been watching for awhile) righthander by MYself for two hours as the sun set. Amazing

"People Funny Boy"Lee Scratch Perry is a great song, "i wanta, i wanta, i wanta yaaaaaard tonight."

Winds semi- changing E and can't fuckin' wait to get in that ocean in 8hrs.

Irie and DP's!

Holy Cow!

kaiser, saw some nice turns out there btw. hope that cow didn't attract any unwanted visitors.

i wussed out and went to work. looks like basically no swell until sunday.

Yo EEE! Went surfing at South Beach, FL this afternoon. Winds had picked up nicely so there were some sweet rides to be had. First time riding on a short board...fun stuff...though it will take a bit more getting used to. There were a bahjillion people in the water. Guess word travels fast when the waves are right down here.
Hope all is well with you and the Niceness goers on the West Coast.
-JDK

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