E's Surf Report

Barcello's the best!

that is some serious hill time traut. good for you.

i used to live on top of twin peaks and we'd bomb down corbett to 18th and then haul ass through the castro. i've been fortunate to never take any major spills but i've been witness to some gruesome ones. the worst was my little bro, who got run over by a truck. the rear wheels went right over him. he took some heavy damage, spent a few days in the hospital, and to everyones' surprise recovered perfectly. but damn...it's definitely slowed down my hill exploits.

i'm with bagel

which one is by barcello?

speaking of bagel UPDATE YOUR WEBSITE SON!!

i think it's barneclo, it's the red one with the cityscape above and skulls below. he's an SF-ite.

Umm, yeah.

Swell coming. Time to celebrate....

ya the middle red one..i know j i know..i knew i shouldnt have made a deal with my girl who said she would be in charge of my site or at least i should have listened when she told me how to do it..such is life..

Nice traut- I think the longboard skate + kite combo is up next

Go to a dark place tonight or tomorrow, grab some beers & look up- always sweet from the Sierra

Annual Persids meteor shower
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids

Ai caramba! Hate to be a wet blanket, but thought it best to pass on these links. Jah, it's sharky, so read at the risk of your mental health:

http://www.surfpulse.com/2005/shark/shark_sighting_at_ocean_beach_08100721.shtml

http://www.surfpulse.com/2005/shark/shark_sighting_at_ocean_beach_08100714.shtml

Talked to Stephen for a long while and I'm convinced it's legit. Talk about ruining some waist high peelers! ;P

Literally,

And these for the next surf brunch:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maggiemason/26999241/

back tat ?
or no
which do you prefer

Give Brad a break. he just got off the Big Dipper roller coaster.

From last week's Chronicle Fishing Report. Enjoy.

The gray suit returns: First great white of the season (or the first that we know of) was spotted Sunday off Stinson Beach by Flying Fish skipper Brian Guilles. The shark was busy chewing a sea lion, didn't seem to notice the party boat at all. Wednesday, the New Rayann's John Atkinson came across a great white off Double Point. This one was eating a harbor seal, paid no mind.

HO! YEAH!
Mid-Thursday Special Event:
Don't miss the 3rd annual bi-weekly expression session cirlcle jerk ! This time around the Norey at dusk.
Pick a burnt out white-trash ember pig-pile.
We be the ones with the norcalhoodies.

Bring 2 40's, one for youself and one for your buddie. See U There!

no back tats please. especially if it's a sun.

ya bvb!

hate the back tat, a/k/a tramp stamp

If you're gonna get a tat, step up and get a flaming skull on your shoulder or some maori designs on your face or something. the only think lamer than a sun or a butterfly or whatever above the ass crack is the frat letters on the ankle.

If the ass is nice like the above, I can live with it, but its still lame.

Last Sunday at 9AM there were probably 20-30 people in the water along the seawall. I was body surfing north of Licoln from 8:30 to 9....guess I picked a good time to get my board. This is why I always make sure I'm not the surfer furthest from shore.

And what's up with tatoos these days? You used to have to be in the military or a gang to get one. You used to have had to kill a man. Now they are a goddam fashion accesory. Is that a sign of rebellion? Rebelling against dad? He had a litigatation that ran late, and he missed your piano recital when you were 8, so now you're gonna rebel with a tatoo. Wow...that's sooooo hardcore.

s.s. - shark or no shark, waves or no waves, i'm headed out tomorrow morning. wanna join? looking out your window, do you see any sign of building swell. hoping to use the fish rather than the hybrid.

Re: Mendocino County

E-dawg, sent you an email and some info on this area. Hope it helps.

Pelagic Predators cruising the lineup. Bipedal Burglars stalking parked cars in the avenues.
Surfing Sucks!
I Quit!!

I like the tattoo. Maybe it's just the canvas. I was thinking about getting the entire volume of Encyclopedia of Surfing tatoo'd on my chest. What do you think?

wickedweasel RULES! oh my sweet jebus!

I got a little photo from the Mavs contest into this issue of Long Board Mag. Wish I had been shooting from a boat. I scanned the page and posted it here: http://www.surfhumor.com/Posters%20&%20Stuff.htm

Here's a version you can see without a magnifying glass. The caption should probably read "are we having fun yet?"

Nice shot Bruce! I bet that guy was wishing he was some place else at that moment - like LA.

one word about that chick.
SMOKIN!

pimp will be in town all next week. any hope for waves? dream peelers?

peace
EGP

Any of you locals remember this? Any stories about its effects?

Jan 1971 - Collision: On 18 January 1971 at 0141 in low visibility, as the HARP watchstanders looked helplessly on, the Tankers ARIZONA STANDARD and OREGON STANDARD collide near the Golden Gate Bridge spilling 800,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay causing extreme environmental damage and raising national publicity. This collision resulted in the complete shutdown of port operations. The cause of the accident, according to the NTSB was: (1) the failure of the vessels to establish and maintain communications; (2) navigating a narrow channel in dense fog; (3) failure of the OREGON STANDARD to make timely radar contact; (4) Loss of radar contact by the ARIZONA STANDARD and (5) negligence on the part of both masters. The NTSB recommended that HARP be continued and that legislation be passed by congress requiring the use of Bridge-to-Bridge radiotelephone.

Wool beanie with a t-shirt on a sunny 80 degree day (in south beach anyway) - cool or hella cool?

The shark sighting at Ortega should convince EVERYONE that surfing there will place one in mortal danger. Please go surf someplace else.
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My nephew and I had been surfing at Ocean Beach for about 1 hour. It was about 8:10 PM and we had maintained our same position in the water, just south of Ortega, for about 1/2 hour. There were no other surfers in the water and only a handful of fishermen north of us. The air was relatively still and the fog was very thick making the homes on the Great Highway difficult to see. We were approximately 60 to 70 yards from shore in about eight feet of water. The junky conditions had cleaned up and glassy waist high waves were coming through. My nephew had just caught a wave, which he rode into waist deep water; I was sitting on my board facing south. I looked west to check for waves; over my right shoulder I could see there was some movement in the water. I expected to see a dolphin. Instead, when I turned, I saw a medium grey colored rectangular shaped fin which came to a point and 15 to 18 inches in height. It was approximately 25 to 30 yards from my position. I immediately knew that it was a shark and not a dolphin. It was moving slowly south and rose so that I could see a portion of its grey back and then it submerged beneath the water's surface. I looked back towards my nephew who was still in waist deep water; he had seen a large dark object moving below the water's surface in my vicinity. I shouted at him to stay put because there was a shark in the water. I tried to spot the shark again but didn't see anything. There were no waves coming, so I promptly paddled for shore. Once there, I looked for the shark again, but I didn't see anything.

above 55 degrees my head sweats too much in a wool beanie. not cool fu**n' stupit. but thats what makes this USA of ours so great we can be stupit if we want.
but I am becoming an old fart

great whites are are part of our reality here
reality is not always what we see
many whites cruise around checking us out
it is shark week every week near the red triangle

enter the food chain at your own risk

I like the little cupcakes though SS.

yo, toneman
how about wearing your beenie while getting ink done

I like the little cupcakes too

i was out off of vfw's sunday around stair 23. gray slop. about 1/2 hour into my sesh (hmm, about 9 am?) i see a fin coming at me, maybe 30 or 40' away. straight on, so i could not see its profile. it did NOT look 2' high! maybe 10". anyways, even though i am usually not too weirded out (first assume seal or dolphin) i just had this spoooooky feeling and kind of freaked. started paddling away. i'm out of here. then i got a hold of myself (should have listened to the spook?) and said, don't worry about it, it was a dolphin, no biggie. so i paddle back out...very jumpy and skittish. catch a few waves. then i see a BIG-ASS dolphin about 30' to my south. ahhh, there you go. no problem. but i'm still a little nervous. a few waves later another big dolphin to my north, riding a wave. then another 5 min later a seal pops up not 10' from me and just about gives me a heart attack. what's going on?

then i look towards shore and the three guys who'd been a hundred yards or so north of me have all gone in. so has the guy who just paddled out to my south (who had only caught one or two waves). hmmm...i look closer and he's waving me in. without hesitation i bellyboard one in. ask him if he saw a shark..."no but those guys say they did; once from shore and once from the water." i figure anyone that can positively ID a shark from shore (or from 150+ yards north down the beach, cause they supposedly saw it more by lincoln) may be a little alarmist. i left the beach pretty convinced that it was a false alarm and that there were some big dolphins tricking us into thinking they were jaws. but now after all the other accounts i'm not so sure. in any case the surf was certainly not worthy of risking a paddle back out!

anyways, they're out there. still not sure what i saw was a shark, but that first moment sure was spooky.

Mmm the landlord is back, it's that time of the year! Usually right before the surf gets good. Funny how there's never any shark sitings when the surf is going off.

Congrats Bruce on the shot! Hit me up this year before the contest & I can probably hook you up a spot on the media boat.

Artifact - Sharks fear the ripper.

The Wizest Skater

Who's yer daddy?

no woll beanie on so crates.

no wool beanie on so crates.

An ocean without its unamed monsterw would be a like a completely dreamless sleep.

sharks are the heavyweight champions of evolution

Paul, Paul, Paul,

Don't be such a blow-it, Dude.

Just be glad we got the murkey water to see all of our surfing friends. Clear water and a mask will show the alarming(?) amount of activity under that foam protector.

Sharks really don't hang-out at the surface. They're well hidden.

that's right there were sharks

four of em...maybe five

huge

aigh

This is the time of year when our local waters are absolutely alive. If you're a fisherman (with a boat) it's not that hard to pick up your limits of salmon, striped bass and halibut in the same day. It shouldn't come as a surprise that the larger predators are out there too. Saturday morning there was large pod of dolphins cruising around the north end. Probably 10 or 12 of them, including one really big one that swam past me on his way to breakfast.

I'm not sure about these shark reports but hey, whatever.

Perhaps we are looking at this the wrong way. After all, one of us is from a powerful dignified speices that has lived for millions of years through several great extensions in perfect harmony with the ocean, while the other works dead-end jobs in order to buy brand name clothing, overpriced real estate, and low carb pastries. How many people in the world get killed by sharks each year...couple dozen? How many people get killed by other people each year? I say I spotted a monster at Ocean Beach and truly it was me.

andrew,
you're spot on
when was the last time you saw whitey carrying dog shit in a little plastic bag

less shark talk!
more girl pics!

Andrew, you are completely off base.

I have have never knowingly bought a low carb pastry.

Will Brad Gerlach be the Bernie Ecclestone of surfing?

Word, janitor. I only spend cash for real pastries and cupcakes. Therefore I am slightly more evolved. Bonus: fat floats.

Sharks do not swim slowly at the surface and check you out. Dolphins and whales swim slowly at the surface and check you out.

Like, a Great White shark is a master predator. If you think you have ANY chance or control you are luny. The sharks are in the water, if they come for you they come for you, that's all.

nothing like a tasty cupcake or 2 or 3 or more

read collier's interivew on surfermag.com. sharks will check you out by giving you a bump, or maybe if you are lucky, a test bite.

be happy to take a test bite out of that anon. 3:59 pm post

way to get the blog back on the surf track e
enjoyed the skate story this morn

check out the vintage surfboards (nsfw)

thanks e

the left (last pic)...chile? NZ? top secret?

nice girl shots today!

rare day... better to be an atlantic surfer than pacific.

http://www.joemac.net/SurfReports/show.cgi

http://www.bayareasurf.com/

Thanks for the offer, artifact. I'm at btopp [at] pacbell.net.

need swell

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(or the well known sexual manuver commonly called the "shocker")

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(e, we're looking at you here)

(itunes and the internet generally are pretty rad)

Who wants to be going down on a young lady and see a "Daddy" tattoo? I do not want to be there if "Daddy" has been there.

Last time I asked a girl "Who's your Daddy," she started crying and said that because she was adopted, she didn't know. Ruined the moment.