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by BOOMA
Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:27 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: lewis samuels in surfer's path
Replies: 33
Views: 8499

Re: lewis samuels in surfer's path

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by BOOMA
Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:19 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Surfing Australia and crawford report
Replies: 14
Views: 2678

Re: Surfing Australia and crawford report

Clif wrote:Surfing ranks right up there with marbles. :lol:
What is surfing?
Sport? Art? Lifestyle? Work?
by BOOMA
Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:01 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: What's the largest wave you've ridden?
Replies: 151
Views: 30513

Re: What's the largest wave you've ridden?

i used to go to hawaii between 86 and 96 every year in about 1990 me and col bernasconi hooked up with rusty moran and ani devine, those guys were constantly dragging us out to surf the bay and other outer reefs like the ones way the f out behind velzy and off to the right it was like about a 30 mi...
by BOOMA
Fri Nov 13, 2009 4:56 pm
Forum: Logs, eggs and alternatives
Topic: The Baron project.
Replies: 40
Views: 14636

Re: The Baron project.

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He looks like Jeffrey Dharma :lol: :lol:
by BOOMA
Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:53 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: What's the largest wave you've ridden?
Replies: 151
Views: 30513

Re: What's the largest wave you've ridden?

UPDATE Dad just told me a story about Margaret River. It was about twenty years ago, give or take. He rocked up to the car park, there was no one parked there, no one was surfing. The swell was 15 metres. He decided to go for a surf. He paddled out the main left, way,way,way out the back. He caught ...
by BOOMA
Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:22 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: What's the largest wave you've ridden?
Replies: 151
Views: 30513

Re: What's the largest wave you've ridden?

Coops@DY wrote:Christ! I guess on that 60ft wave he was measuring literally?

What about the times when the chopper came out to rescue him?
He never needed rescuing,
He always waved them away.
by BOOMA
Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:02 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: What's the largest wave you've ridden?
Replies: 151
Views: 30513

Re: What's the largest wave you've ridden?

I've just asked Dad, What's the biggest wave you've ever ridden? HIs answer was 60 foot, a little bigger on the face :shock: :shock: :shock: roflmao.gif Then he said something about a 15 metre swell in W.A. So I asked him about Eastern Seaboard!!! He said he was 4 kilometres off Curl Curl and caught...
by BOOMA
Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:31 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: What's the largest wave you've ridden?
Replies: 151
Views: 30513

Re: What's the largest wave you've ridden?

Scan and post the pics! And throw that one in with the tiger shark as well. I don't have the scanner working. It's actually a Mako shark. Dad didn't spear it, he only brought it to the surface. Theres other photo's and Newspaper clippings (e.g. being stuck on the deck of an oil tanker explosion in ...
by BOOMA
Fri Nov 13, 2009 1:55 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: What's the largest wave you've ridden?
Replies: 151
Views: 30513

Re: What's the largest wave you've ridden?

Booma! You've discovered the internet. Welcome to 1996. haha. Whats crackin? You're oldman would have a few tales for this thread out German Bank. yeah I should have joined Real Surf back then. Not cracking Ribs as much. Oh hell yeah!!! And Cape Naturaleist (sic), Margaret River Bommie and second R...
by BOOMA
Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:29 pm
Forum: Logs, eggs and alternatives
Topic: The Baron project.
Replies: 40
Views: 14636

Re: The Baron project.

Thank you Puurri, I'll look it up somewhere.
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by BOOMA
Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:07 pm
Forum: Logs, eggs and alternatives
Topic: The Baron project.
Replies: 40
Views: 14636

Re: The Baron project.

TrevG wrote:
BOOMA wrote:Arn't the stuarts from Ireland?

Wash your mouth out, Booma. :twisted:
Nice pic BTW 8)
I appologise my understanding of Scottish history is indeed poor.
Why is the same sounding word Stewart and Stuart spelt differently?
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by BOOMA
Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:41 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: What's the largest wave you've ridden?
Replies: 151
Views: 30513

Re: What's the largest wave you've ridden?

How do boogers measure waves?Surely a different knee/waist/shoulder/double overhead(two foot) than real surfers! When I was a hardcore gutslider, Back in the day, When the Black Swan Flew freely, We measured our waves by WIDTH. Booma, is that REALLY you :shock: :shock: :? Booma is my father, So too...
by BOOMA
Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:27 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Manly Tsunami?!?!
Replies: 26
Views: 6168

Re: Manly Tsunami?!?!

I agree. When I had a gig there the NSROC study that showed much of the lower bits of NSB would go under and that the insurance companies and developers would wimp out and the LGAs would go down the gurgler AS THEY CERTIFIED the DAs for their WANKTARD MATES. FFS this is an OLD FROCKING TOPIC!! so s...
by BOOMA
Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:18 pm
Forum: Logs, eggs and alternatives
Topic: The Baron project.
Replies: 40
Views: 14636

Re: The Baron project.

Arn't the stuarts from Ireland?
If so!
How so?
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by BOOMA
Mon Nov 09, 2009 6:32 pm
Forum: Logs, eggs and alternatives
Topic: The Baron project.
Replies: 40
Views: 14636

Re: The Baron project.

roy Stewart wrote:Sorry I don't understand Ockerspeak all that well you might have to translate into the Queen's English.

Would that be the Queen of England or The Queen of Scotland :lol:
by BOOMA
Mon Nov 09, 2009 6:27 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Manly Tsunami?!?!
Replies: 26
Views: 6168

Re: Manly Tsunami?!?!

Revolution wrote:Im thinking a nice ledge heading into the corso. Corso lefts and Corso rights. Quick lets build a layne statue so we get a fun end section aswell.

If only that pit was still there, could have had corso reforms aswell.

It happened in 1974,
Salt water flowing down the Corso 8)
by BOOMA
Mon Nov 09, 2009 6:18 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Manly Tsunami?!?!
Replies: 26
Views: 6168

Re: Manly Tsunami?!?!

yes,
Pittwater Rd & Belgrave St,
Would make a nice Left hander
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