Sunday, May 30th, 2010
Rockaway
Surf: 2-4ft, Mellow and Crumbly. Sunny. Board: 5’10 Retro Fish. With summer on it’s way, I’ve been eying a few smaller wave shortboards on craigslist. The shortest board I’ve been able to stand up on was something like a 6’3 or a 6’4 so I figured I’d try one of Josh’s little fish and see [...]
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Saturday, May 29th, 2010
Small Wave Holiday
Surf: 1-3ft. Inconsistent but clean. Warm sun, low winds, blue water. Sunny and warm down in SC. Small waves, relatively small crowd given it’s a holiday, and lots of kelp. I got one very dramatic over the nose of the board pitch when I came to a dead stop mid wave on a big clump [...]
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Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Board Repair and Testing
SURF: 2-3ft, little bit of jumble but fun, peeling, and beautiful sunshine. Gear: 9’0 Stewart Hydro Hull My 9’4 has been in and out of the repairshop lately. Poor board has been getting dinged at crowded breaks and, since it’s practically a new board, I have it repaired professionally. With the week or so turnaround [...]
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Friday, April 9th, 2010
Got it!
Surf: 1-3ft and inconsistent. Warm water, warm sun. Gear: My usual Stewart and a 6’3 twin-keel retro fish. Work was slow and the sun was out so I headed up to Bolinas to meet a few friends. It was small! Teeny tiny little waves rolling in, but man was that sun wonderful. I caught lots [...]
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
The Jetty Gets Angry
Surf: Shoulder High to Well Overhead waves. Jumbled up, short period surf. Angry. I’ll admit it, I’m a little out of shape. 20 days between surf session is killer for surfing fitness. I’ve tried to do at least 20 pushups a day (made it to 40! yay!) but there’s no substitute for water time. That [...]
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
7′ Al Merrick
SURF: 3-5 ft. waist to head high and poor conditions. This morning’s dawn patrol: Mostly walled up lines coming through with just a slight texture to the surface. Occasional workable corners through the inside. This morning was a bit mixed up. The pumphouse was showing some niiiiice waves for people who could catch them. After [...]
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Almost Got One!
SURF: 3-5 ft. waist to head high and fair conditions. This morning’s dawn patrol: Just a slight texture to the surface with sectiony/broken up walls coming through. Plenty of scattered inside corners to work with. Back on the 6’8. I am determined to ride this little board. My duck dive practice on Monday was pretty [...]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Taking out the Shortboard
SURF: 3-4 ft. + waist to shoulder high with occasional 6 ft. and poor-fair conditions. Apartment hunting had put me in a pretty rotten mood and after failing to catch a wave on Tuesday I opted for an early morning with the new shortboard. I was trying to practice duck diving and paddling to get [...]
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Saturday, October 10th, 2009
Small Days at Kelly’s Cove
SURF: 2-3 ft knee to waist high and fair conditions. This morning’s dawn patrol: Clean, scattered lines getting up around waist high. It’s fairly small-scale, but definitely rideable this morning. Waves this weekend were looking pretty small up and down the coast. I met up with Cryptomail to spend a little time on my Stewart [...]
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
Finally got a board
After 8 months of searching, a board came up on craigslist the same time I had money to buy it. This is a 9’4″ Stewart Hydro Hull. Never been ridden, never even been waxed. A father bought it for his daughter and she’s never taken it out. He’s been surfing for 53 years and spent [...]
