E's Surf Report

Wow. Guns on the car? You guy's charged the charging chargeables with the other early morning chargers!

that "Tramp Stamp" comment yesterday was the hottest of the year so far!

Those two slashes by the red tomato gold medal guy were fucking insane. shit that was cool.

The wife and I wandered into a garage sale on Sunday and I found this framed, grainy picture. On the back it said Point Knox, January 30th, 1998. The woman there said her late husband did not surf and was a California state parks employee in the bay area when he took the photo. I just got around to scanning it last night and thought you SF guys might enjoy it.

Guns---really now?

The future of foam is Livermore?

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/13867710.htm

1/30/98 was a huge day and waves were on the cover of almost every newspaper in California.
In the background of that pic you can see huge swell outside or wide of where the surfing takes place at Fort Point even. Cool shot.

photoshop or the real deal? thoughts

Sure it didn't say P***t K**x?

Casper prepare for your blog beating, the angel island locals aren't gonna like seeing that photo

I remember the Harvest Buoy that day as 30+feet at 20 seconds.

Look at how big FP is in the background.

Definately Photoshop! Doesn't exist, nice try Casper.

e

Going to check out Tab Benoit tonight. He was down your way last week. Anybody catch the show?

what up HEff!!! doood!

i don't know Tab Benoit. what's his deal?

Point Knox? Hmmmm.....

http://www.nps.gov/prsf/coast_defense/third_system/angel_island/angel.htm

So not even real.

Surf P. Knox -
What was the weather like on January 30th, 1998?
Looks like fog on the coast in this picture, but sunny inland.

I'm backing the photo!
As a Tiberon lifer I've heard stories of that spot. My uncle said he caught it good 30 years ago.

how do you post photos here?

Tiberon????
Try again... As a Tiburon lifer you would know how to spell Tiburon.

More photoshop b.s.; anything to get the niceness "locals" going... you digress.

So your saying the photo is as false a claim as "guns on the car"

point knox -
That's Fort Point backwards... photoshoped up.

A survey for a ten-gun battery at Point Knox was undertaken in November 1863, and construction of the earthen parapet commenced soon after. Point Knox's armament -- seven 32-pounders, one 8-inch Rodman, and two 10-inch Rodmans -- were mounted by September 1864. This battery was considered to be located at the most strategic location, although the irregular ground required several different heights for the guns.

you could get swell in there if it was really west like 270 degrees or less and really big, 30ft 20sec could do it. not impossible.

swell yes. but bottom setup?

Why not real?

If that day indeed was a huge day...if it was photoshopped unlikely someone would have gone to the effort of adding in all the huge whitewater around the tower and FP.

It breaks various places inside the bay HH on big days - maybe this guy just nailed it that one time...

Or to put it more plainly:

e

deep south blues guitarist-can be a little out there-plays a lot of shows and somehow makes it to my town every once in a while

Shut it Cankor.

April 18th 2005 on Niceness all over again.

http://www.niceness.org/new_surf/archives/000930.html

Excellent, congrats on scoring surf e and L.

Okay, forgive me but I'll stick my neck out for a kooky survey question: what's the fastest way to paddle into a takeoff? Angle of pushing water w/one's hands, etc..Done the homework and lord knows many hours of practice but curious to compare with what others say. I still think I'm too sl- no, I mean, the waves are too fast.

Onshores lurking out there...

So I'm out there on the log for about an hour and a half with a couple other guys switching back and forth between two peaks about 30 yards apart depending on which was working better. Some guy paddles out to the (temporarily) unoccupied peak and settles in. We other guys sit on the other peak and wait. And wait. And wait. Seems like maybe the rip has shifted with the rising tide and this peak has crapped out. So I head back over to the other peak. Just as I get over there, a wave comes, this guy takes off, and cruises on into the beach. I set up in the takeoff spot and wait for the next wave. There's only the two of us around.

It takes him maybe 5 minutes to paddle back out and nothing comes in the mean time. He paddles directly up to me and sits about 2 feet to my right (the wave is a left) and a little inside. The next wave sets up, I turn and start paddling for it. He sees me start, turns himself and starts to go as well. The peak is pretty broad and both of us can easily make the wave. We both catch it at the same time, pop up, and I intentionally stuff him because I think he's being a dick. Words are exchanged for some time afterwards.

At least one of us is an asshole. Which one?

the best thing about being a long time local somewhere is knowing when and where all the nooks and crannies break during various conditions. especially the rare oddities that only break during monster swell conditions or extremely fickle winter spots that light up on rare huge souths.

pah...I will not shut it!

It's TibEron! sheesh! I've lived there my whole life. And it's FART point, not fort point. What are you guys smoking on here anyway? pass it over!

post the most obscure place you have surfed.

Lake Tahoe in the middle of the winter. Walked through snow to get some shoulder to head high windswell. Sweet backdrop and cooooooold crystat clear water. Best ones were racey down the line, maybe a turn but closes out in some boulders...kinda a novelty but cool enought that i've done it twice.

The Cogwheel

so which photoshop tools were used to make that picture, digital rolling pin or jackhammer?

KIX you need your GPS to find PNW cuz here down in in Cali our swells are from the W and NW in the winter. Your rare mid winter south is a big west swell for us.

And there is no-way that's a real photo the light is all wrong on that wave for where it would be breaking in the bay vs. the arc of the sun for that day.

eh? perhaps it's early morning that's why the sun is in the position it's in on that wave.

Where would you go and why?

My buddy cancelled on me yesterday for our trip tomorrow to Costa Rica. He is having some serious family issues and to leave may cost him his family…so, here is what I’m left with as options.

1. Go to CR solo and simply make my way. No major financial impact.
2. Go to North Africa in 2 weeks with a native friend of mine IF my work let’s me off, which is being decided today. Increase in $ over CR by about 300 bones.
3. Go on Indo boat trip with other friends in summer. Need to find an extra $3k or go in debt.

I love problems like these. Don't hate, just opinionate.

MM

yeah well I am for speed and efficiency in my photoshops! none of this professionalism that takes more than 90 seconds.

If it's more than 5 clicks it's not for me.

not only photoshop, but crappy photoshop. but i want to believe too

in 1998 like all el nino years the warm water tends to allow the storms to drift more southerly like every time we get rain in sf it's usually a more westerly swell
1998 was filled with wet, huge swells all through california so in fact the bay area and points north were receiving wsw swells with the emphasis on south
1/30/98 had 15-20 foot faces at rincon. harvest buoy was 24 at 20 but with a SE wind, typical wind when california has rain

the pic has plain and basic facts supporting it.

Lard Hamilton -- tough call on that drop-in. I feel the need to do the same thing under these conditions: someone paddles directly up to me and blatantly sits inside when there are empty peaks in all driections and very little crowd factor. I call it the "lesson" and the drop-in is definitely a message: "Get some sense of space." I swear some of those surfers are scared to surf with the sharks by themselves, they simply magnetize toward the nearest warm body. These kinds won't paddle out alone at an empty beach. Then again, everyone loves to lump up on the nicest peak on the beach, so maybe that was your problem. Either way -- TOUGH call! I try to avoid at all costs, but yah you have to stick up for yourself a bit sometimes.

I love empty beaches and surfing alone. There is a peculiar joy in the void of man and sea.

Angel Island locals uber alles!!!

;^)

the light angle is correct for that spot, its coming from the south, look at the shadow under the guys board. the lighting is correct, the question is whether or not you can get swell around and in to angel island?

i got my swell in to a few angels islands when it didn't seem possible.

a few promised to be true and a couple i love you's works wonders.

I am not geographically challenged. well. actually being here in the PNW I am currently, but I do know my geography. my example was in reference to spots only known to break on NW winter swells, typically blocked by islands from normal southern exposure, getting lit up mid summer by a BIG southern hemi, totally off the radar of the general masses. making the call ang getting it empty. that kind of knowledge.

that's some sweet knowledge

man i wish I had that kind of knowledge

I don't know shit

wave refraction does amazing and unpredictable things.
15 second swell from a certain direction can light up a cove with it's best day in years, or on record. same direction 16 second energy can give you a just a touch more refraction and a big fat slow shoulder despite the swells better power
ya never know. the angle, period, and direction only happened on that day. it was not a typical swell so waves broke where you may never see them again

time for some buddha:

a big enough and long period enough swell could theoretically break on the other side of sbc park

I know lots of secrets like that relative to where I originated. makes it easy to believe about other places.

I surfed McCovey cove on a big wrapping south swell last summer. I had to dodge splash hits in the tube.

Dick Cheney still hasn't appeared in public to discuss his accidental shooting of a 78-year-old man, but there are plenty of people willing to speak on the veep's behalf -- among them, Comedy Central's Rob Corddry. Playing the role of a "vice president firearms mishap analyst," Corddry explained it all Monday night for "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart:
Stewart: Rob, obviously a very unfortunate situation. How is the vice president handling it?
Corddry: Jon, tonight the vice president is standing by his decision to shoot Harry Whittington. According to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the brush. Everyone believed at the time there were quail in the brush. And while the quail turned out to be a 78-year-old man, even knowing that today, Mr. Cheney insists he still would have shot Mr. Whittington in the face. He believes the world is a better place for his spreading buckshot throughout the entire region of Mr. Whittington's face.
Stewart: But why, Rob? If he had known Mr. Whittington was not a bird, why would he still have shot him?
Corddry: Jon, in a post-9/11 world, the American people expect their leaders to be decisive. To not have shot his friend in the face would have sent a message to the quail that America is weak.
Stewart: That's horrible.
Corddry: Look, the mere fact that we're even talking about how the vice president drives up with his rich friends in cars to shoot farm-raised wingless quail-tards is letting the quail know "how" we're hunting them. I'm sure right now those birds are laughing at us in that little "covey" of theirs.
Stewart: I'm not sure birds can laugh, Rob.
Corddry: Well, whatever it is they do -- coo -- they're cooing at us right now, Jon, because here we are talking openly about our plans to hunt them. Jig is up. Quails one, America zero.

laird- your at fault! you didn't have to sit right on top of the fella..geez! it's big beach go sit somewhere else..

this may be old but...

cheney said if he and bush didn't get re elected that he would declare war on america too.

man that is a nice bud, purple and orange swirled through the green...

My brother-in-law brought a roach and a lighter into the line-up a few weeks ago. Had it wrapped in a plastic bag and tucked in to his wetsuit. Unfortunately, our fingers were two cold and wet, and we ended up saturating the poor little thing before we could get it lit.

Any suggestions? Anyone?

Use a pipe next time sackomess

The only thing I was sitting on top of was the peak. He came and sat on top of me. When I paddled over to that peak I made sure he got his wave before I set up in the takeoff spot.

lard - you're both asses.

His problem - if there are only two of you on the peak and he just caught a good wave there is no reason for the 2 ft. away set-up.

Your problem - if you thought he was being a dick and wanted to re-establish your position on the peak you should have made the effort to get inside and snake him. the stuff - especially when you are on a log - is a pussy kook move. no offense.

obscure surf:

Point Roberts WA. Nowhere near open ocean. Located in the strait of georgia on the inland side of vancouver island. Catches wind swells that come whipping down the strait and wraps them hard around the point (see satelite pic). fickle but fun. you can only drive to point roberts via canada. I do not care about naming, because, well because it breaks rarely, head high at best and you will probably never go there regardless.
still. reason to believe.

i find the beach pushes people together with emptying rips. i've been pushed within a couple feet of people - what are you going to do? paddle away, wait for him to paddle away?

other people don't pay attention to the longshore current, just sit there and let it push them down/up beach. they think they're surfing the same peak but they're just moving down the beach. then they run into you and they give YOU stinkeye because they think YOU are paddeling towards them when all you're doind is paddeling to stay stationary. those people suck.

But seriously, has anyone surfed any spot on the north side of the Golden Gate? We can go ahead and name the "spots" because, other than rumor, there are almost no surfable spots over there, and when they do break, it's like once or twice per year, every other year.

Black Sand Beach?
Point Bonita cove?
Kirby Cove?

Anyone?

Back when I was around 14, my bro and I used to get up at 5 to catch the bus down Bolsa transfer at Beach Blvd, and we were in the water on our boogies, wearing churchill's, and my Brothers old 1/4 inch Beaver tail Dive suit. Stuffed two joints and matches (this must have been before the cheap bic lighter became readily available, into my suit, and we attempted to light up in the line up off HB Pier on a cold foggy day.

We double bagged (no zip lock) and it everything got totally saturated.

The only good thing to come of it, was I got to keep my Bro's joints, and ended up smoking it in a pipe in my bathroom, blowing the smoke out the window, so the peeps wouldn't know.

My suggestion, drop acid or shrooms instead, or smoke before the paddle.

In my opinion, surfing drunk is way more fun that surfing stoned as long as the paddle-out is trivial.

lard - i didn't mean that you really are an ass or a pussy or a kook. just describing those actions. sorry.

however, if you smoke 24/7/365, then surfing not stoned is the new stoned.

sobriety is the new drug

Two guys,

I'm willing to consider that I could be one or more of those things. The whole deal bummed me out because I went over there with nothing but respect and the idea that two guys can't share a peak is just f-ing sad.

Stuff vs. snake? Are they really that different? Either way you have to choose between starting shit or eating shit. I figured that if I was going to be aggressive I'd rather do it in his face rather than behind his back. So I don't think the drop-in was pussy. I don't think it was kook because I did it on purpose. I do think it was probably an ass move but I didn't feel I had a lot of choice.

Oh, and as a clarification, we were both on logs so it was equal footing...

the minute he moved to paddle I would have called him off verbally. "I've got it".

can you tell I have nothing going on today?

I've totally surfed spots north of the Gate. Since you didn't name it in your little list there - I ain't gonna do it for you. Rocky, shelfy, fast right - breaks more than a few times a year...but not a lot..best on a ***** swell - cliff offers wind protection.

We usually just toke in the parking lot before paddling out, but something novel and interesting about doing it in the water. Problem with the pipe is that you've got to hold on to it in your wetsuit. Maybe not a big deal, but I'd prefer the jizoint

Cool Sactomex. I've always checked some of those spots, but never did a personal pioneer. I don't know if I ever will surf over there, but I'm stoked other people have!

I eat non-locals

best days to look for obscure spots:

a. huge swell
b. huge winds
c. extreme tides
d. fresh new sack o green goodness
e. hooky day from work
f. any combo of the above
g. all of the above

What about the Great Lakes? I have seen some pictures of good waves there. Talk about obscure. How far up the Sea of Cortez can a south swell go?

That does it, the most consistant secret spot left and now everyone will be headed to Angel Island. C'mon, isn't anything sacred anymore?

Great Lakes = great surf= move now!

Maybe? From a Google search:

January 29, 1998, Honolulu News: "Big Wednesday: 40-foot surf hits the North Shore-the biggest swell in 30 years."

On January 28, 1998, a Wednesday deep in the heart of El Nino's journey from the Gulf of Alaska to California, the storm gave birth to a 40-foot swell that pounded the North Shore of Oahu. For big-wave surfers, it was the ultimate wave. The buoy reports the day before predicted huge surf, which brought on the infamous Quiksilver Eddie Aikau competition at Waimea Bay-a contest dictated by 20-foot-plus surf and intended for surfing's elite in honor of the ultimate big-wave rider, Eddie Aikau, who was lost to sea years ago in a heavy storm. Ironically, the contest was called off by North Shore harbor patrol because the surf was too huge.

that's actually pretty good photoshop work, for someone paralysed from the neck down with a special mouth-operated drool stick

Yeah, but you have this to contend with:

i remember when that happened. thats when they first discovered sharks actually breached the surface during an attack. i was ripping the point when it was happening..i was like "look oue rescuer dude!" but he totally died..

that should read "look ouT rescuer dude"..OUT! 2 beers at 21st amendment and half a day left, oopsy

Dude, that shark pic is so gnaaarrrr.
I was surfing the point that day too, and that shark had a go at me before he went for the rescuer.
I socked that shark in the nose though, which is equivalent to kicking a human male in the balls, and he darted away.

i believe that's my point blunt, itstrue
named after the common practice of military personnel stationed on the island to sneak away for a toke on the leeward side of the white shack near the flag pole

Sidenote, in the almost 3 years I lived directly on the bay @ Treasure Island I never saw anything even resembling a rideable wave, although some swell did hit the island. But the weird trash that would wash up would make any Bay venture more than interesting.

Jan 30 '98 that sure was a sweet day!

I've seen Kirby Cove break and that shark vs. Coast Guard photo never gets old.

And on really north swells the surf pumps in Alviso.

I know it was played out in the 90's. but this album still kicks ass!

i'm a believer in mystic sometimes spots and in fact have a spot i call; "possibles". it's possible you'll catch a dredging left...it's possible you will hit the reef ledge it breaks on cause it's shallow... it's possible you'll catch a good wave or 2 each set... it's possible you'll take a several on the head cause the wide ones closeout on the reef... it's possible you'll have the spot to yourself... it's possible to go right but not advisable. it's possible you'll see a shark... it's possible you'll always be out of position when the right ones swing in... it's possible you've driven right by it...

Dano, keep 'viso on the down low man. shhhh.

let's hear it for fun hobbies!

check out the Google earth shot of PK. (north is directly up). Got to say those two points could produce some nice waves given the right swell. Kindof reminds me of eagles.

artifact: treasure island was artifically made, right? for the world's fair or something? thus, it has no natural bottom contours, just deep water, straight to rocky wall/land. nothing to create wave breakage.
s.s., i have found that my body positioning on the board is a key to wavecatchage and you can even make-up for a shortage of board length by a more forward positioning. also, putting yourself in the pocket and committing. but nothing can help if the period is really long and the wave is just moving too fast. in that case, i think you need a longer board and to get paddling before the wave is on top of you (and to be stronger than i am, probably).
i love the takeoff techniques of good spongers and kneeboarders where they just kinda scoop the wave underneath themselves. I wanna learn how to do that.

Celebrate Black History Month...

are those men?

Celebrate Black History Month by continuing to exploit women of african descent.

woops

tat'd hottie

I think I recognize the backdrop as the bluffs along the coast of Santa Monica, and that house looks like it could be one along the PCH before the California ramp.

That's funny MxRxHx . . . I think I had that exact conversation in a Santa Cruz bar once with some UCSC literature major

love the tatted girl. Love the outfit. Love the boots. love just about everything. ahhhh.

I don't know. Those girls aren't my type. This is my type:

Come on? Is that shark coast guard picture real? No way, I cannot believe that!

"exploiting women of color" what a joke.
she is wearing a bikini, in a friggin modeling shoot or bikini contest. doesnt look like anyone was forcing her to stand there.

that is such a friggin lame complaint.

how about "exploiting chicks that choose to wear bikinis to show of their bodies"?

get a new whine.

Steamwand- yeah it's manmade Yerba Buena is natural. Impressive currents probably move any silt/ sand accumulation required for waves. A couple interesting raft and kayak circumnavigations, one resulting in a bored coast guard insisting on a rescue.

If i get another fucking cute funny valentine message im going to go fucking postal.

chicks that lay out are lame. its about as smart as smoking cigarettes.

Ana Kournikova is HOT!!!

yes, the shark picture is real. it ate that helicopter.

More Ana K shots!!!

tasty

That's godzilla and mechzilla. Anna K. has nicer legs and that super-hot braid thing....

Oh yes, she is so hot..

i got "rescued" by this lifeguard on hilton head island last summer while i was going for a nice long swim. i kid you not, i thought she was going to drown on the swim in. she was like, "huhhhh, huhhhh, you are not hhhhhuhhh, supposed to be huhhhh swimming out huhhhh this far." a few days before i dragged in a 3 foot long raft that someone had just let go off the coast of sunset beach in n.c. the guy who i returned it to was just like "well, [insert southern accent here] i just figured it was off to china"
i have to say, in many ways we are lucky to have nice cold water to stave off the ridiculous crowds back there.

HB
My grom nephew has tried a few boards and he is looking for a 8'6"-8'8" fat kid board. Mini-mal with a pulled nose.
The nephew is of Sumo proportions!
Cheers.

Stick a fork in it.
Hey Blakestahller - whadda we do now?
Kite it or bite it?

Most obsure spot: Fullers.
Bitch.

Boasterskewerclaimerworst

Soapback Bridge Broken Weiner

way hotter, and a way better tennis player:

exposureposerfersuresurfwad

most obscure spot: Hammonds on a hard northwestclaimerspot

Nice Bigg'n

damn maria! thank you.

vote for your favorite tennis hottie here:
http://www.acehotlist.co.uk/frames.html

i like iveta

She's kinda dressed like someone in the Reno Circus Circus buffet line though.

it's doubtful that anyone else on here cares....but both roddick and blake will be playing tonight in san jose.

Drake's estero: barrels out the ying yang

does Anna have a tramp stamp?
damn, she is so hot. i guess she sucks at tennis though, but who cares?
are we "exploiting" her too?

I would "explore" her.
The surf is blown to shit, so we might as well talk about hot tennis players.

dude, she's all low rider magazine style.

We live in a patriarchal society dominated by men.
Women sexuality is exploited to attract the primitive male lust so dominant in our culture. Sex sells, yeah no shit, but at the expense of innocent young girls, who are lured by media and advertising into equating their own self worth with their appearance, and projection of their sexuality.

I see 13 year old adolescent girls wearing cut off jeans pulled so far up their taints - giving blowjobs to their boyfriends at school, plastering their faces with make-up like blowup dolls.

I blame it on internet porn and the media!

steamwand, how far is a long swim? shit, I woulda been out of breath too if I had to swim a mile.

fembot, you must be an ugly woman

FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fembot's pissed

I will kick your ass

...and you are probably VERY overweight. just a guess.

Look - just because I like to munch carpet, and recognize that young girls are victimized by the media portrayal of women, does not mean that I'm ugly or fat.

BTW - I would totally stick my tongue up what Sacto just posted

Steambot?

FUCK YOU!!!!!!!! - Don't hijack my monicker!!!
I'm out of here.

You bastards!!!!!

Screw you guys, I'm going home.

Like, I am totally gone now!

when did women's worth become based on something other than their looks? did i miss something? what else could it be ? I mean i don't care how she cooks and cleans, this isn't the 18th century, there are lots of good restaurants in SF and its pretty easy to find a cheap housekeeper. I'm confused...

kite it or bite it???

Dunno, never kited, prolly wait, bound to be a few more rounds of high pressure coming, its still two weeks until March...looks like winds might abate for the weekend...

To put a slightly finer point on my question, its a combination of looks and wit, right? There can't be any other basis for value in a woman, can there?

At least as long as you're not looking for labor, as I noted above. If you are, you're pretty old school.

Who doesn't prefer a prettier face or a nicer curve on the ass, all else equal? Is this even a serious question?

I see the swirl of the water and it goes down the toilet yet again!

What a bunch of fucking windbags on here these days.

Yeah, I exploit "women of color" by posting them. Give your windbag a fucking rest.

Speaking of wind.....Its blowing about 50 mph at my DOTCOMMIEEXPOITER office right now. At least all you hippie-art-veggy-recyclers will be happy to know that when I drive home tonight in my overgrown SUV, sans trucker hat (bagel is borrowing it!), the wind will be at my back. Might push my MPG up to like 18-20 or so. Who knows, maybe this global warming thing will be good for gas consumption in the long run.......

More global warming, more wind and freaky weather, more driving downhill on the commute home! Fucking Nobel Prize right there if there ever was one!

I'm a jackass by the way, and i like to fuck sheep.

nope, not me. i have been purusing this blog way too long to get riled up like that.

it wasn't a mile, but it was a ways. still though, i was really glad that she didn't actually need to rescue me and really worried that i might have to half-nelson her in.

I saw a shark at that spot once. It was freaky.

WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDD-Bags suck!

word fembot.

speaking of recycling. I took an old burned out (clear) lightbulb, hacksawed off some of the metal part and removed filiment, put a cap from an alcohol bottle with two holes in it and put to lengths of aquarium air hose in it. put the california sunshine green in the lightbulb and heat up lightbulb with candle. watch it vaporize. suck it up cuz.

best head high, clean the bathroom, update the resume high i've had maybe ever. pure, clean, lung friendly too. ahhh...

*standing ovation for kaiser* (far right)

surfed the wrong side of catalina island. wind slop on a lifegaurd paddle board at boy scout camp.

make that kaiser, 3rd from right. much better..

hey kaiser,
show respect for black history month by posting some pictures of black surfers fer crisakes. this is a surfing blog after all. balance bro. quiet the haters.

Whassup 3-5-7 brah? Did you narf on the reefer while reefing?
Do you drink around the kids and smoke herbs outside while the wife in the window sees you but you can't see her. Narl moon - clear. Meet you at 4-mile just after 1pm manana bro!! I'm in the blue helmet with BVD grafittied on the side_________yeah brahhhhhhhhhh!!
Do you have a face or are you all board?
Kdalle!!! Fuck!!!! I knew that was you!!!
You're gay.
Once I sought out "Bagel" at one of his trade show signing appearances. Knew it.
He surfs?
NO WAY!
Where's Kaiser driving in from?
MARIN.COM
Uh.. ease up on "the race thing."
All da same bleed red.
Bstah - kite or bike, whadda we do dude???!
Biking, windsurfing, kiting, jogging, tennis, handball; all too dangersous.
Seriously, suggestions please - how do we stay in tip top shape during this long 7 month non surf season time?
BEAT IT.

...burp...

Point Blunt Surf Report:
Probably better with a shitload of west wind as opposed to ocean swell, unless maybe straight west.

http://www.iwindsurf.com/windandwhere.iws?regionID=125&siteID=334&Isection=Current+Wind

Totally Cellular (agnes), too much time on your hands? I've seen Bagel surf and he rips. Plus he's a totally cool guy which makes him off limits except for the most pathological poser poster aggro local who should have left a long time ago.

go gettim agnes --- RRRUFF!

Yea, we got Billy Boy out of bed! Welcome to the party Bob.

All we got here is some windbags, a recent Nobel Prize winner (yeap, me!), some herbalists and some crusty locals. Of course, you fall into the latter.

Bagel, thanks for the props! I like the dude on the end. Looks more like me with 6 or 7 less vertebrate.

Windbags are good BTW. When you get enough of them together, they help push your car home and save petrol. You just gotta organize 'em. I once won a Nobel Prize for a concept like that. But that was a long time ago......

Celebrate Black History Month....Go Carbon Fiber BRROOOOOOOO!

Oh, and Bob, before I go...
Let's do a little Geography/Physics work. Here is the exercise:

The winds were blowing really strong out of the ___ tonight. So, when I got on the road, and headed _______, the winds were at my back! It saved me gas-O-leen and I got a medal for it. Therefore, I must live in _______.

To complete your quiz, I will give you one hint: I FUCKING HATE MARIN!!!

Good night now. Talk to you when the winds stop and my gas mileage is back to Republican levels.

Bad Vibe, this one's for you...

http://forum.surfermag.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=923437&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

oh no! someone posted a link to a pic of the secret spot!

Now we are in for it!

From that site, like this photo. Time to duck and cover....

e - what happened to that pic that was being passed off as the UK, that you'd posted this morning? I am missing it somehow - or did it get pulled?

Didn't look like the UK to me!

Is this normal occurance, sounds a bit suspect?
From P%#@$c W(*&R)(*& website:

"...The interesting thing about both lows is they are to form a gradient with the dominant high to the north, with gradients developing and all wind in the gradient blowing from east to west, aimed at Japan. In other words, a massive offshore flow is forecast across the North Pacific."

Arctic Blast Baby

Sometimes it's windy in the Spring. It's called the Spring windy effect. A gradient occuring between a high and low causes strong winds from north to south.

We have mini-gradients in the summer on the bay. Cold air from the pacific and warm valley air create a gradient.

Point Blunt goes fucking off when the gradient is a little farther out from the gate. Pure windswell, it rides like windward Hawaiian Island beachbreaks. Juicy sweet nectar like that which drips from Anna Kornokova's sweat.

Insane thing is having to kyak out there. You can always take the ferry and hike. The point blunt area of SF bay is known by some as the Bermuda Triangle of the bay.