E's Surf Report

Where is fall surf? it absolutely sucked on Saturday...

I had nightmares about Bali last night.
Can anyone confirm the location names in Jimbaran? I've seen inconsistent reports, here's what I've found:

Nyoman Cafe - Jimbaran
Menega Cafe - Jimbaran
Raja's Bar and Restaurant - Kuta

Yeah, seriously, Oct last year was effing awesome. Man, I hope the winds just die and stay dead.

Do you think that guy paddling into the big wave in the 3rd Jeff Hornbaker picture made it?

What picture?

Looks like another sizeable south is hitting later this week. Supposed to hit Oahu by Friday-Sat. at DOH. Should hit us by the weekend too. This time, i'm going to Santa Cruz.

and what it that in the very top of the picture of the same wave? looks like a giant squid on the prowl.

Killer Dana - Paradise lost

Imagine a life of getting your dinner from the sea with a pair of fins, or maybe a skiff and a pole. Warm So Cal water with a one lane PCH, all between you and that wave. Lorrin Harrison had it good, I tells ya.

E - check out the Daktaris. Only one record, looks like a Afrobeat nugget from the 70's but it ain't. Some of the Daktaris evolved into AntiBalas.

Surf absolute shit with Doof on Saturday.

Just got the 7'6" back from Alex last night.

We ret to go!

Surfed absolute shit, that is.

I prowled around a few times on Saturday but couldn't commit. I saw the surf before the fog rolled in and it looked bad. Yesterday was not great but I had some fun. Gotta keep the paddle machine working.

i got some fun ones south of the city on saturday evening, sneaker south sets coming through every so often. sunday was pretty horrible, surfed anyway for some excercise and had some fun.

Happy spring everybody! Whitecaps to the horizon, blown out conditions, crappy inconsistent swell...you gotta love spring!

(oh, wait, it's October. WTF?)

Looking back at old photos, I'm not sure it really started rocking until the end of October, but then it took off and there was no turning back. Photo from 10/31/04 at Playa del Ethan.

The North pacific storm track is becomming livelier. The fog is mostly gone. The winds are soon to change.

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Surfed on Saturday at our beach. It was gnarly. Lots of whoomping. Never seen such a long closeout wall.

A drunk bum took a swing at me with his soon-to-be -empty Vodka bottle yesterday at the La Playa Safeway. Then he said we was gonna slash my tires. What's up with the town drunks/homeless? They're gettin' outta control.

Damn it sure as hell felt like winter in the sierra this weekend. New snow on the ground, bitter temps and howling winds- brrrrrr! What a change from Thursday in the city, Winter is knocking on the door!

I second Bruce's observation that it was late Oct. when things came together last year. The wind is dissapointing however. Whitecapped at 8am. Bad everywhere. Friday night was really, really fun though with some bombs rolling through. best session I've had in a long time and MUCH more consistent than these big souths with sets every 30 minutes. rest of the weekend was pretty much disposable.

Yeah, last year it wasn't real great through at least mid October. Oct 4 E's blog BBS was about a swell coming in, BVB trolling, again, e recruiting for a skate session, the previous few days of small surf...

The swell came in on the 8th/9th, clean initially, windy on the 9th....not really that great surfwise, but the first solid long period we had. The winds didn't really turn into that perpetual offshore until a lot later.

slow it down artifact. we don't want to get jip'd (sp) out of indian summer.

next time your stuck at the office and it's good. just plant your ass down in this:

Found this:

Gyped

As in "He got gyped!" Laura asks if this could be in reference to thieving gypsies?

Jena wrote: It was actually a derogatory term used to refer to the Roma people (commonly known as Gypsies) who were known as unusually adept thieves. So when one is 'gyped', one has become a victim of thievery. I also heard that the reason the Roma, who some speculate originated in the lower part of Eastern Europe, were given the slur of 'gypsy' in the early middle ages because they bore some social resemblance to Egyptians in the eyes of the western Europeans, who were not too fond of the North Africans at the time.

some guy in the lot asked me how it was out in the fog when i got in on saturday and i told him it was good, he immediately whipped out his cell phone and started dialing. doh! anyway i am sure he and whoever he called were cursing me later for overstating conditions as they walked a mile back up the beach through the fog after getting sucked down the beach by that current!

i had some fun sessions this weekend, these were only my 2nd and 3rd time in the water in a month due to travel so standards were low and stoke high. good times.

I did the "drift and sift" session on Saturday and caught plenty of fine set waves at OB/Kelley's. It was holding up fine thru the 10knot onshore wind, just had to stay over that summer sandbar peak and wait for ground swells. The rocks offered some protection from the froth outside the lineup. Don't know what all the blogplaining is about, b/c it was fine out there until about sunset. It was "better-than-it-looked," anyway. The sand sculptures, OTOH, were weak sauce. No sand castle gurus in the area that day, fo' sho'. I like when crappy weather keeps people away.

You can surf a fog-shrouded peak all to yourself. Then there's no one around to notice if you drown or get eaten by a shark, or to console you when you take a capping wave directly into your rib cage (which hurts, trust me). In a way, when it's lonely and foggy out there, you could just disappear as if you never existed. I tend to romanticize that, for a few reasons. Enjoy the remains of the day....

still waiting..argh..as a surfer in this fair city i feel i have a right to at least 2 months of good waves a year, thats not asking too much is it?. i dont think we've had 20 "good" days in 2005.

Come on 3to5 we all know the native american summer is a myth put out by the SF Tourism board, no good waves here. But really I bet Tioga Pass will close within 3 weeks- a great Winter indicator.

Anybody seen one of these? Trippy
Walden Stealth Geometric

Anyone seen one of these?

know what i mean? fo sheezy

We had 20 good days or more in January. We had 20 good days or more in February. People love a downtrend, we are heading into 3 glassy surfable mornings. After the first one everyone will complain about crowding, after the second one people will be pretty stoked, and after the third one people will be tired. The best days in the city in October are 4-5 ft 10-12 sec 300-320 deg with calm winds.

Artifact, a good ironing board is 1/10th the cost of that Walden......And will turn just as well.

No way, I'm not going to let your desire for a powder day usurp my right to an indegenous peoples summer.

SS7,

Heard something similiar about being 'Shanghaied.' I guess the term goes back to describing kidnapping drunk sailors in Shanghai for forced service in the fleet.

Someone at work corrected me on that one a few years back.

Surf was super glassy fun but small down this way over the weekend.

E, Second that about Antibalas...Fela's b-day is around the 17th. Some bar is having a Fela night which will be so much afrobeatin' fun. Check it around the City, i am sure you will find one.

And I still say there is no way MSG is real. I hope he is made up by someone's interpretation of everything that is wrong with surf.

stromba kicks arse!

Took the kid to the SandCastle contest.

SDD- "weak sauce" - The contestants are elementary schools and the like. What do you want?

My two year old loved it. As she loved the snack we ate watching you surf. The occasional ride mixed in with the close-out drops.

Better conditions than my trip out south, earlier that morning.

actually, 'shanghaing' refers the fact that lots of the kidnapped sailors ended up headed for shanghai. they were actually kidnapped here.

you got shanghai'ed onto a ship from here TO china. the other way there were plenty of willing sailors (who'd stay here).

"4-5 ft 10-12 sec 300-320 deg with calm winds"---make it happen, blakestah!

It's 3-4 and rising steadily on all shores.
It's gotta be drag sitting in the cubicle fondling
your scratchy nads. ...course Kaisers are larger than life - how does he walk?

Ala Moana? Kaisers? Blue Cheer?
The other day for the first time in many years I read through a few surf mags - now I understand this website a bit better. How sad.
Blake: the 'Oracle of Lame Pie'. EVER CHECK IT?

It's 3-4 and rising steadily on all shores.
It's gotta be drag sitting in the cubicle fondling
your scratchy nads. ...course Kaisers are larger than life - how does he walk?

Ala Moana? Kaisers? Blue Cheer?
The other day for the first time in many years I read through a few surf mags - now I understand this website a bit better. How sad.
Blake: the 'Oracle of Lame Pie'. EVER CHECK IT?

Had really fun sessions both Sat and Sun morning. 4-6 foot Sat, 2-4 Sunday. Offshore till noon. Somewhere in norcal...

oopsy, Someone missed thier med's!

How about we get some shanghaiing going at OB. We can call it to be "Lindamared". Like, while standing next to a pack of guys checking the OB surf you could say "Yeah, it looks ok here I guess, but I just got off the phone with my buddy down in Pacifica...he said it's all time down there!"

Hey SFkneelo!

When are we going to meet up for a kb sess? I need to start surfing with you and Don again!

~SS7

Hey,
Linda Mar is off its tits.

Buddy just phoned me to tell me.

Ahhhh-so!

I stand (or kneel) corrected! No getting gyped on false info on this site... no sirreee!

Better cut it a round short next weekend...

SS7, it would be great to hook up for a surf!
Don's just back from a wedding down South.

Tentative plans for a DP on Wednesday...

The sites down again. Darn hackers! When the sites back up, PM. Or, I'll check back here tomorrow.

On another note, went to the Raider game yesterday. 1st Pro game in at least a decade. I sat with a long-time season ticket holder in 'Black Hole Heights' (Section 107.)

Good stuff! I saw at least 6 folks (2 in Cowboy jerseys) getting hauled off to Raider Jail in a variety of holds. A couple of rows away, a cop was wailing away on one of the Cowboy fans that stood up to him.

Lots of bolt-on beauties running around as well.

The game wasn't too bad either.

Hey Hb,

I'm real'er than some of the fake boobs plastered on here, but not as real as an angry big black woman: they know how ta keep it real, ya know what I mean??

Anyways, i'm a different guy in real life. I'm pretty mellow. Word.

To "Friend #1" -- Well then, it's quite obvious those kids need to sharpen up their weak, flailing lame-ass sand castle style pronto -- j/k dude ;^)

....really though, my bad, I thought it was some more serious/adult sand sculpture competition or something -- the way someone described it to me over the weekend it sounded like you had to have skills and be qualified to compete. So when I got down there I was wondering what all the fuss was about. That's a whole different story if it was just kids. For kids that was pretty good.

Weak Sauce? What does that even mean?

Each Sandcsastle team is a partnership of architects, construction companies, and 5th graders, so it is actually pretty serious for bragging rights. Unfortunately the sand at OB is so fine that the castle or sculpture can't get higher than about 5 feet tall or the whole thing collapses on the weight of itself. I managed a team and out final sculpture was not that great but the kids had fun and we raised a ton of money to support visiting artists in SF schools.

Maybe all of those kids will grow up to be Mission/Surf Retro Art Dorks or even better, curators.

artifact- My laptop went out for a beer in the Ave's and picked up a virus who introduced him to a worm who tried to send out emails to my friends. I consulted with Dr. Norton and Dr. Gates and I think I have the problem solved. Deleted all my saved emails, temp files, contacts, etc. I was hoping you might resend the email address of your friend with the boat. I need better photos of big waves.

Ignore negativity

late post, but i just came across this so wtf...

...now THIS is how I want to get into waves this season to spare me all the duck-diving!

oops...that last one was me. i'd hate to be lumped in with the "anon" posters!