E's Surf Report

He's right, I am out there...

Just me and a kneelo at dawn at the north side of the south end (huh?). Glass surface, no wind, warbly sets, juice for sure. That 5 wave set right on the head was a little humbling. The new board is a beast. Welcome to fall!

What types of boards are people ridin' these days now that we have some size?

Music. I was listening to NPR the other day and they were talking about the phenomenon of music. Music is a series of various sound wavelengths. Why do we enjoy music? Why is it that we enjoy some combination of sound wavelengths and not others? Testing on infants show they react to certain combinations of sound wavelengths in a predictable manor, similar to adults. Hmmmmmmmmmm. (That was in b flat)

Lots of paddling this morning. Disorganized set-up. Clean waves. Bars could use some shaping. Flades...I stick with my 6'8" until its a DOH+ day - then to my 7'8" OB mini-gun.

Hey Mexi...does your school's art dept. have a need for magazines? My office has a glut of them and instead of sending to the recycle bin...I'd like to give them to an art dept if they'd use them. I remember art projects as a grom that involved hacking through mags.

Let me know. Full gamut of mags from Newsweek to Forbes to Woman's Day to SI to Vibe to Game Informer...lots of 'em.

Took my new board out last night on it's maiden voyage. It's a 6'1 CI Mongrel. This is my shortest board ever and felt pretty comfortable right from the first wave, though the waves were not that great. Duck-diving has never been so easy. Paddling takes extra effort but it's my small wave board anyway. I've been riding a 6'8 Rusty semi in head-high plus. Love that board. Next sie up is a 7'6 for 1.5 to DOH. Beyond that, I'll prolly stay on dry land except for exceptionally clean days with long lulls.

blahg

awesome dennis,
share the deets on that mongrel
couldn't find it on the ci sight
although i did find the jimi

dude gnarly conditions man wow just super uber gnarls bro. if i only knew how to surf i would be killing it on my 6'9" bonzer twinzie brah. i was out at upper left side of the middle sand dune. did you see me there killing it? macking. if it gets any bigger i will have to cruize on back to linda mar.

dude...katwoman is hot. check out this boobies

i mean those boobies

Mig - it's 19 1/8 wide x 2 3/8 thick. There is a concave that starts at the nose and runs into a double. The rocker is fairly flat with a little extra thickness at the nose. It has a squash tail.

a letter kaiser or mrs. kaiser will never be writing about nat king

http://www.revo1.com/CamelToads.jpg

tomorrow....it starts

i'm heading up the north coast (m-------o) tomorrow through sunday, never been up that way. please pass me some knowledge if you're so inclined.

getting a non-surfing friend out of the city, but will try to score daily at dawn.

wineries? breweries? campgrounds? places to rent a canoe/kayak and paddle? places to avoid? etc?

sincere thanks,
outearly

zkume [at] gmx [dot] de

fat lips
protruding bowls
long tubular holes

What starts tomorrow?

? - be afraid. Be very afraid.

How big is that swell supposed to get tomorrow? You guys ARE talking about waves and not the Folsom Street Faire or some weird shit like that, right?

Folsom Street Fair was 2 or 3 weeks ago.

mucho
grande amigos

http://www.wetsand.com/swellwatch/swellwatch.asp?CatId=293

Cuppla good waves, buncha lousy ones for me. Definitely a wave selection issue, as there were plenty of good ones out there, judging from the buckets being thrown.

Been on a 6'6" except for two of the biggest days so far, but then I haven't been hitting the bigger parts of the beach the last few sizeable days.

Uh Oh!!!! Kloo just said buckets. You didn't just say that word did you???

Wasn't me throwing them. Some kinda...brigade. An' they were regulating! And all the bikini babes left with them! Meanwhile a lone figure atop the Cliff House gazed south, seeing farther than can be explained physically, and nodded once, "tomorrow".

I think blakestah really meant it ends tomorrow..Fall that is. Tomorrow is the beginning of winter.

46006: 10/12 11:50 14ft 13sec

swell-za-what-zit? I pick my surf spot on where my girlfriend's car has the least chance of getting broken into. Screw LOLA, I check the SFPD crime map.

Tomorrow is supposed to be 14ft 13 seconds??? WHOA...

I was thinking about getting a rashgaurd with a hood on it. Do they flush water down the suit? Comments?

Dennis...wear it over the suit and you won't get any water in there.

Dennis. No. But make sure to get one with a visor or you'll have water dripping down your face all the time.

Mine has a propeller on top.

I had lunch with the engineers today. Here's a funny software engineer joke:

This software engineer is walking down the street. Out from a bush jumps this frog. Suddnely it says to the engineer. "I'm really a Princess, kiss me unlock the evil spell and I'll make you rich."
The engineer picks up the frog, stuffs it into his pocket.
The frog pokes it's head out. "Hey I'm a beautiful princess and I'll be your sex toy if you just kiss me and un-lock the spell."
The engineer stuffs the frog back down into his pocket.
Flustered the frog pokes it's head out and says. "Hey I'm offering to make you rich and give you my sex whenever you wish....Why won't you kiss me to break the spell?"
The engineer looks at the frog.....
"I work in Silicon Valley and have plenty of stock options and money. Due to work I have little time for sex. But WOW a talking frog now thats cool."

I cant stop listening to this album:

this album is hooking me right now

Drums and Tuba - Vinyl Killer

they're playing at the Red Devil Lounge on Nov 11!! STOKED!!!!!

Anon, if I wear it backwards will it keep my face warm?

Dennis - I got the hotline hooded rashgauard. Nice thick hood with a little collar that goes over the top of the wetsuit. I find the visor to be of marginal use, as I don't care a whole lot about drips when I'm in the ocean and I'd prefer the wider field of vision. I find the collar is good for one wave, and I gotta be flipping it back down constantly (and I'm flipping my visor back up constantly). When the collar is down, it's fairly effective for bodysufing and when up, eh, it's not so bad.
But on the whole, I enjoy it greatly and recommend it. Excel seems to have a similar rashguard. I think I paid $45 for mine at Sonlight. They are good peeps in there.

Only song I learned to play on the tuba was "Mac the Knife" but lemme tell ya, that shit sounds awesome on a tuba. I just read a review of the band..they sound good...but they snuck in a guitar. Makes me nostalgic for bands like Morphine that played without a guitar.

There was a girl in my Jr High that played tuba in the school band. She was really skinny and tall. Unfortunately during concerts, she'd get nervous and pass out while blowing into the tuba. It happened twice.

yeah Andrew,
Morphine: I got a head with wings!!!!

Trying to plan a month-long sabbatical in Jalisco and/or Oaxaca next year (May, June, or July 2006). Anyone have an opinion on which month(s) would be good for surf? Not looking for huge surf--just fun headhigh/OH waves); want a relaxing respite from work. Planning on conducting some research on localTequilas and mescals. I've done some research, but opinions much appreciated.

Likewise, anyone know of any decent car rental places. Would like to rent a pickup truck on the cheap.

anybody ever try speedballing? heroin + cocaine.

Thanks Andrew.

Not eye-doc steve here. This is the Steve who showed up at the icebreaker hosted by Sharkbait.

e and bagel, thanks for the music recommendations. I just added them to my list of cds to check out.

what's the consensus on groceries, trader joe's or safeway or cala foods? more specific the better;-) --thx!

im a safeway guy myself..

anyone have any green day tickets they want to give me?

Dont't try it - aint worth it. Stick to the hippy speedball, kine buds + coffee. Whats the wind forecast for tomorrow a.m.?

99 ranch all the way. for every $10 you spend, they give you a $1 coupon for cookies or chinese take out. asian food's better for you than fat-fuck safeway.

Oh, I have a 7'2" pintail that duckdives really EZ. Full on pipe board, brah. Da ting no like working in cali waves, cuz.

Great sunny day out there

no way jose

goddamn it

some juice some lulls some beatings but overall freindly inviting yet at times teasing conditions. went out on a 6'1" fish and at times felt I needed a tad more but overall satisfying. man , dont know if I'm ready for some size in the am!!!

damn...that pic is sweet!! i'm on my way to the beach now! yes!!!!

Dennis...I was accidentally anon above. No joke...wearing on the outside is good. I thought goofy at first, and may look a little goofy, but it works like a charm and zero water flush.

Bullshit if that is what it looks like right now! Didn't look that good this morning!

Fuck. Work is bullshit. But then I get paid......And its cool again.

Ottobre - I think that means October but who knows for sure?

This here is an example of what I did ALL DAMN MORNING long...

nobody cares, for sure, Kaiser

i care, cool photos Kaiser! thanks for adding value.

yeah i did one of those 20 foot air drops today... not really

ottobre indeed. I refuse to believe it looked like that today while I sat at this desk eating a sandwich..

if i'm at my computer... it's DEFINITELY shitty out there in surf land.. that's a hardened factoid. and nobody can tell me otherwise.. and i'm stickin' to that story.. and there are no sharks in california either.

YES!! snargle!!

nice MP3 player

nice beaver

Fun! Fun! Fun! ...at 'deYoung Point' Hard to go wrong anywhere... just go... now!

tristan

she can play guitar too

Dennis- Check out the handsome young body surfer modeling the hoodie. You can see the collar is flipped up, but it still works. Though you cannot expect the hoodie alone would give you his rockstar good looks. I can't help but admire the cut of jib.

hoodie

Thanks again Andrew and Q. And special thanks to Kaiser for bringing us absolute perfection in Ottobre.

Waves were fun tonight.

I always surf with my collar popped on my hood.

heading south from sf to sd: any coastal camp spot recc's?
my family and i are heading down the coast next week in our camper van for a wedding. we are going to try to make it to SLO wednesday night so we can wake up to some waves. i've been to the calif parks.gov website and it's past the season where you can make reservations - now it's just 1st come 1st serve. we'll probably stay at sano the next night.

the camp site at sandollar is pretty good i think, and there are a couple of spots right there as well

Weather doesn't get any better than today/tonight around here. This is just awesome: the insects are chirping in the forest below, warm breeze is blowing thru my room, it smells like ocean or desert wind, and it's just surf shorts and some water. Too bad I gave up beer, otherwise I would be drinking a cold one right now.

The first swell hit the north shore last night...

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peter cole
pumped up for a sunset paddle out 10/13/05

seems like a good day to drive down the coast..

no posts yet today? is everyone in scruz?

Peter Cole rocks. He still surfs 10' waves in his mid-70's.