E's Surf Report

Frothy!

I'd like to hear more about the towering boulders please.

I said towering, not groveling

nice...
That was an awesome story, e. I was transported there for a minute.

I have always hated sit-down starts.

I was looking for pictures of Argentine surf, and what do you know, this pops up:

Went snowboarding all weekend... ugh. Surf > snow.

Yo anyone ride/tried a tuflite/surftech epoxy board? I'm looking to repace a much-loved but weathered shortboard and am looking for feedback. I've heard the social issues - child Thai labor, soul-less, death of the small shaper etc. and taking those with a grain of salt I am considering them. In terms of performance talked to the shops and looked on the internet and I've heard:

-more impact resistant but harder to repair
-faster and lighter but squirlier
-float and paddle well, good for bigger guys (I'm pushing 200lbs)
-i've heard both that they snap easy and that they are way harder to snap?
-good in clean conditions but bad in rough? also heard mixed reviews on this point.

If anyone has any input on these points I would like to hear them! Thanks

"It's a total shocker," said ASP President and 40-year Snapper local as he surveyed the damage to the most famous sandbar in the world. "Even with the sand bypass system, I don't see the Superbank coming back for at least a month."

No sand? I got Buckets!

more impact resistant AND a lot easier to fix. the epoxy epoxy is so much nicer than the fiberglass stuff and you can paint over the fix with factory colored paint that gives a last seal and hides any evidence.

very light

I like the extra float. hard to dig rail on big bottom turn becasue so buoyant but you adjust

no stringer, don't really know though. although sometimes on duckdives I feel like I'm going to snap the thing - I can feel it flex and want to break

don't take bump too well, not enough momentum down at the board level, especially bad in offshore chop - board tends to flutter-up on you

they're so light and there is so little material that you feel like you're really getting ripped off but I've grown to like mine. mostly becasue I HATE fixing small crack and dings every other weekend.

if anyone's interested in some free or near-free neoprene, let me know. I have 2 O'Neil womens', size 8. Some friends laughingly nicknamed them The Frankensuits -I've repaired them plenty and can't take it any farther. But maybe they're good for somebody in warmer water, or who can do miracle fixits, or wants neoprene for patching up their other suits. I'd feel bad just tossing them in the garbage.

Good to hear from you Welle!

what's the most high-performance wave on earth for tricks and shredding?

...trannyspotted...

is pamela still hot?

or too old?

My experience with surftech epoxy boards has been good with small fishy type boards in small mushy waves and bad with regular shortboard shapes in good waves. I wouldn't want a surftech board in really good conditions.

curious....
1. mavericks.
2. palos verdes
3. malibu

you forgot stinson

high performance wave:
- Macaronis
- J-Bay
- Trestles
- The Slot
- Kirra
- Restaurants

Pam's still hot in an airbrushed, lots of make up, plastic surgery kind of way. But dang, how about that flying tomato. And further-more why is every pro snowboarder named Shawn?

Remember when every surfer was named "Shane"? Those were the days.

obro & walker - thanks! question Walker - why don't you like epoxy in really good waves? I have heard the opposite.

eenor show

BoBo this am! Where were you?

High perfomance.... Linda Mar

what's better, Stinson or Linda Mar?

Honestly... not enough experience on surftech -type epoxy in good stuff to know. If it's good I go to standard equip. But in small stuff I like the float of epoxy. That's probably also why I avoid epoxy in better conditions - too much float. Just my 2 cents. Much better surfers than me rip on epoxy but it also still seems the worlds best dont touch them - even if it is one of their own pro models. Exceptions seem to be the small wave air guys.

pacifica was going off this weekend. not totally kidding.

Pam's still hot... maybe in the mature hot woman sort-of way... hot, anyway, fer sher

bagel... 'word' on Pacifica, Saturday

The big story of the day is the demise of the Superbank. The massive storm that pounded the Gold Coast over the weekend tore up the fabled mile long sandbar and left it a shadow of its former self. Wobbly peaks are folding over near Snapper Rocks, then disappearing through Little Marley before reappearing as dismal crumblers at Greenmount. So when will the bank return and what does this mean to the event? We consulted the source, Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew, ASP President and 40-year Snapper local.

Q: Can you explain what happened to the bank from the storm and give your predictions for the coming days:

A: What happened is that the banks moved west to the middle of the bay at Snapper. It’s a completely unfavorable condition. Unfortunately even with the sand bypass system it takes a couple of weeks for the bank to rectify itself. So I don’t see the Superbank rehabilitating itself during the waiting period of the Quiksilver Pro or Roxy Pro. Duranbah has survived pretty well though. I think that later in the week, when we get a little South swell, we’ll have good waves at Duranbah.

Q: Was the damage caused by this storm worse than the storm two years ago?

A: Much worse. This storm caused damage over a 72 hour period. The one two years ago was only a 12 hour event. Sanbanks are very sensitive things. All the sand moved through the system and all the reserve sand moved through the system into the bay. It’s a total shocker.

idle question for a non-surf day: how to get rid of old wetsuits in an eco-friendly kind of way?? anybody know? would o'neil actually recycle? etc.

I have a couple that have been hanging around and I dont want to just toss 'em in the trash... (and they're not good enough for anybody to use)

If it's mostly just rubber, is it bad to throw it out in the garbage? They don't seem recyclable like tires. I've been throwing them out, nobody wants my brittle, damaged, urine-tainted old stuff.

Cadaver and I surfed killer Frank's on saturday. For those of you not "in the know" Frank's is the inside left bowl to the north facing north of the Ventana spillway south past the creek.

I have to say, as much as I hate LM, that place had much better waves a few years ago. Now it seems like the waves have to be less than four feet on the pefect tide for the whole beach to not close out. I am convinced the sandbars have totally deteriorated compared to a few years back.

"She stylishly walks up to the tip and places her tanned latina toes over the nose." - E, by far the best prose I've read online in weeks...

" Towering boulder-fields dot the land while curving, expansive beaches stretch out in both directions." - full on erotica, gave me a hard on

What is the best burger in SF ?

I am claiming BURGER JOINT!

IA good again this morning.

Surftechs work best in real smooth conditions. Too light in heavy offshore winds.

Wow this is some hardcore regulating. I think the third man in on this fight is considered quite a local heavy around here by the people who are into that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyueIjbhXnE&search=Fights

bagel carving hard at snappah!

Pam needs to make a movie with Jenny McCarthy and Jenna Jameson. I'm talking three "X"'s.....

The grom in that vid is classic -- all piss & vinegar and no common sense whatsoever. He gets rightly dunked. Ahh, I remember the days....

I agree on BURGER JOINT -- Nieman Ranch niceness.

Mo's in North Beach. Burger Joint is McHype.

Bills Place

Perry, i'm partial to your little sister's fur burgers

BVB RULES EARTH

j2, stop hating.

that wasn't hate, that was props. hate is reserved for white people in dreadlocks.

hey, don't hate on eenor. dude rocks!

back on the epoxy thing, I'm not a "performance" surfer by any stretch of the imagination - more of a scrapper - so I can't speak to the boards' upper limits. It seems those SC pros are on short,wide epoxy boards on small days getting 4' airs on 3' waves and then bring out their real fiberglass boards on the better days.

I wouldn't feel comfortable on an epoxy in big surf - they just feel too flimsy. I also find that you can't really throw an epoxy board over the ledge and follow it down and go with it. you sort of have to pull it with you which makes me feel like its a little behind me on the drop. this doesn't always work out for me.

Jay's Cheesesteaks' burger with jalapenos

Regarding white people with dreadlocks, isn't it perhaps more pity, possibly combined with a touch of jealousy (assuming a trust fund is to blame)?

i'm not sure I've ever seen big rock good and EMPTY! ?

just because theres no one in the picture doesnt mean its empty.

down with wasta's!

damn, lindy's cover's been blown right off.
remember everyone, it's rife with fresh colon blow...
but really worth it this weekend.

21 Amendment - beer's so good the burgers fall in line just fine.

I am an epoxy convert. My boards last twice as long, without the dings and delam you get towards the end on fiberglas. A little bouncier on chop. Some of that could be because nobody is taking advantage of the weight and strength and making a really thin board with more flex and sensitivity. Paddles fast too. Oops now I'm selling them. Yea stick with fiberglas.

One of my surfing buddies passed away a couple of weeks ago while freediving on Maui. He was a very experienced SCUBA diver, with an instructor rating, but relatively new to freediving. Don't surf or dive alone and know your limits.

Aloha Anthony.

whoa, steve, was that the guy that was also bit up by some sharks?? that was terrible.

thanks banjo, walker, obro and others for the epoxy info!

give me sweet potatoes please