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I don't know whether the boats are operating as scheduled, but imagine there will be problems getting fuel and provisions. If they're able to function, I don't think you should feel bad about joining the charter and going off to play while tragedy hangs like a pall over Padang. Surf travel is an imp...

Fly, bus or train to Da Nang. Head to Non Nuoc on China Beach. Beach breaks North and South of you. North up to just past My Khe. South almost to Hoi An. Pick the rips, banks and swell direction as conditions are very fickle. Winter and cyclone season are best. Good luck.

If this deal goes ahead, we'd better pray that QANTAS doesn't cave and follow BA banning surfboards. Or we could lobby our local members. Call for a bona fide activist or journo to lead us: NC, are you out there?

I missed the earlier post: "maldives surf legend dies....surfing"

It has some of the details.

Thanks for sharing the magical setup of the Maldives with us, Tony. Hope you find the setup's just as good up there, and bet the crew greeted you with: "Should have been here yesterday, mate." My thoughts are with your family, Ian and the crew at Atoll Travel, and Ibu, Dara and the crew at Dhonveli....

There's more to noseriding than hanging 5 or 10. Trimming, with some ability to turn, is the functional father of the hang. And yes, you can trim fairly easily on the nose of a Powerglide, making small directional adjustments (bullshit for 'turns') as you need. You can also do it on Walden 6'8" Magi...

Heaps of breaks on Long Island and quite a few spots north towards Canada. Also looks like good surf on the sandbars/keys off Carolinas. Guys chase the cyclones up the East Coast from Florida, surfing the same swell for a week or more. Never did get wet while living in Manhattan - the winter surf lo...

Here's a good forecast site, that's very accurate: www.surf-forecast.com/breaks/NonNuoc As you can see, the current Southwest Monsoon is keeping things pretty small and not really surfable. Another site option is the Northern Indian Ocean section of WWW3, which has reliable long-range swell maps. Th...

Surf season gets into swing October/November. From the middle of November you can be pretty sure of getting a wave: sometimes smallish and sometimes you can't see the beach from the lineup anymore. It starts getting cold enough for a steamer from January. US$100 gets you a return ticket on the 1 hou...

My Liddle lost its virginity on the weekend. Like most first times, the conditions were less than ideal: big, meaty beachbreak slamming onto a pretty straight bank. But the frustration level of week after week of not even a glimpse of a swell - let alone a feel - had built to a climax, so when the t...

No swell on the Dunsborough side, apart from a couple of not very well known and not very good spots near the cape. The good news is you do get clean offshore mornings between the lows, and a lot of the breaks hold up pretty well in the onshore as well, being mostly reefs. Most WA surfers are used t...

What got me interested in hulls again, Ninenorth78W? A perfect little storm of circumstances. I've been riding a 6'4" Southcoast Diamond Tail recently that's really smooth, but you have to ride it from further forward - especially through the turns - otherwise the combination of the single fin and v...

Ninenorth78W, yeah maybe the Clark Blank will make it a collector's item. Actually, it's the sort of board you really do keep - a timeless design. Wanderer, the point you make about the fin placement is spot on. Very small adjustments result in big changes in handling - which is why Greg even puts m...

Thanks for the links; some of them I know and others I look forward to learning about. I'm sure they're all great but the hull obsession really started in the hands of Liddle, so I chose to make the pilgrimage to the source. Then again, I do have a Surftech in my quivver so, even though it's a Takay...

Sorry for not replying sooner. Made a trip "up north" on the hint of a kick in the swell charts, but spent three days swimming in a flat sea. I actually specified no gloss coat when I ordered the board, to save weight and, as others have correctly guessed here, to increase slipperiness. I guess Greg...

Thanks to Morgan for posting the pics. I had to email them to him several times before I could get them to him in a format he could post. Security issues on my email and posting from a 'developing' country can be challenging. The board was not that pricey, considering that Greg is an absolute legend...

I've taken the pics but can't post them (firewalls and stuff).

If someone who can post could pm me their email address, I'd be happy to send them the pics for posting.

They're pretty interesting. Really.

I'll take some pics of the Liddle this weekend and post them.