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After further consideration of a number of factors I've abandoned the DIY splitboard project and turned it into a snurfer instead.
Been scoping out lines in local parks.

This weather app looks pretty cool. Like Earthnull but for swell.
https://vetours.co

Doesn't work very well on mobile.

Yeah, but waverider buoys weren't deployed in Qld until August 1968, and I think 1972 in NSW.

I've got reports of 30ft waves in Sydney in mid-May 1968.
Pine trees were washed away at Brighton le Sands.

Haven't found anything in June?

I'd love to see the pic, it apparently wasn't a major erosion or flooding event.

Sure it wasn't 1967, Nick?
There were about 5 cyclones that year, some of which went extra-tropical.

Well they certainly won't be announcing it before the election.

Seasonally.

steve shearer wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 11, 2020 4:15 pm

yeah, can't see QLD pulling those nets, or at least not without replacing them with drums.

They were planning on doing exactly that next winter.

There's very little age-growth data for great whites (hard to get a good sample size when your test species is subject to CITES restrictions). And what does exist is difficult to interpret, because they don't seem to lay down age rings in their vertebrae/otoliths/teeth in the normal annual pattern. ...

I support Nick's theory.
These 2-3m sharks that seem to be responsible for the attacks are going to reach breeding age in about 5-10 years.

We might need to come up with a plan for reducing the risk of surfing by that point.

Pics, Steve.

8'1" is my favourite length.

The Qld government was going to trial replacing nets with drumlines but it wasn't due to happen until next year https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/business-priorities/fisheries/shark-control-program/shark-control-and-protecting-non-target-marine-life The current gear location has a net at Coolangatta and dr...

Why are you leaving Cranked? That all seemed like light hearted ribbing. I'm struggling to see what you got upset by, considering how easily you've weathered the storm in the kilojoule and McCoy battles. If you were upset by my joke I apologise. I posted the pic to help out with some terminology I h...

I'm staying to understand how Cranked gets 'permission' to spend 6 months of the year in Indonesia.

Cranked, for the love of spiders, I said bushings not bearings!

Listen to the mullet.

I have built-in bearings with spacers on the inside of the wheel, and speed washers either side.

I can go hulk on the bolts in the wheels without affecting the roll.

No, the nut on the kingpin



If it's too tight then it doesn't turn as much because the bushings are compressed.
If it's too loose then the board is hard to control.

Post em up. You knows the rules.

Cranked I'm just talking about how hard you tighten down on the bushings. I had them too tight to start with.