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Nearly all my friends had moved up to the mid and north coasts by about 1970. And there was the tragic story of a mate and his girlfriend who disappeared near Varanasi in about 1970 and were never heard from again. They owned half of a 100 acre property (another friend owned the other half) about 15...

When were the storied cranky H days? 1968 to 1977 (17 to 26), the glory years for drug experimentation. Surfers/hippies were at its centre, travelling in asia and bringing stuff back. We were lied to about weed and LSD and didn't believe addiction was a thing as there were initially no addicts in o...

Nah. I was not focused on surfing at all. "Nothing memorable" was in response to Steve's query re surfing. As I said, I got them all windsurfing - sometimes more 10' plus waves in a single day, (including one 25 footer, and that was fcuking memorable) than I would ever get surfing.

Good day today. The last 2 days promised good swell and conditions, but it was pretty bad, cleaning up and working fitfully on the low tide. Today at 6am it also looked unspectacular, but by 7am it looked ridable. I got out at 7:30am, glass, only a few learners in the water, but the first overhead s...

saltman wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 07, 2018 10:27 am

Whaaa
You have realsurf tattood on your penis?

Doesn't everyone?

Loofy rules realsurf with an iron fist

The wet season is kicking off. Glassy conditions this morning, patches of blue sky and fluffy white clouds in one quarter, dark clouds and heavy showers in another, skyline of volcanoes looming over the ocean - only five of us scattered around in the water enjoying the rain and the occasional wave. ...

Good conditions, an erratic swell, a three hour session, stuff all people, stuff all waves, I could count them - like 30 overhead with a hand full of doubles in three hours.

I'm flying in tomorrow!

Yeah, great story batoes

saltman wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 03, 2018 12:30 pm

I wonder how those star fins would go on a mid length?

Cheyne is riding a reasonable distance from the tail so they might work

Temples.

Tried out Cheyne Horan's Winged Keel. Its convincingly ahead at #AltFins.

Here's some recent pics of Cheyne riding it;
https://www.instagram.com/p/BpkdaUDAw_k ... spte9qrma2

Fair play. I ride 2+1's and Quads in Sydney. Ridden all sorts up in Indo but wouldn't have it as dialled as you. It's the old thing I guess. Get a 2+1 from a 2+1 specialist, I'd say. I've never found them slow. Its probably just me Thud, I'll keep trying I doubt it Cranked. Are these altered McCoys...

The single is a 6" dolphin and unfortunately the only rear sides I've got with me are GXQs, the rest are at home. The 2+1 experiment was supposed to just be a short try out before the move onto the Gulwing/Winged Keel.

My quad fronts are X-large, too much fin for a 2+1 with a 6" dolphin?

Thud wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 01, 2018 7:22 pm

Fair play. I ride 2+1's and Quads in Sydney. Ridden all sorts up in Indo but wouldn't have it as dialled as you.

It's the old thing I guess. Get a 2+1 from a 2+1 specialist, I'd say. I've never found them slow.

Its probably just me Thud, I'll keep trying

Had a few good waves today and it had reasonable speed in a straight line, but I needed fourth gear and there wasn't one - it just doesn't have the grunt of a heavily pumped quad or tri. Ditto for turns, it does them but too slowly. The waves I ride here need warp speed, everything is speed, speed a...

Thanks Buddy, that interpretation fits better with where I have my fin

Thud wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 25, 2018 1:13 pm

Think general rule for shorter boards is the back of the side bites line up with the front of the middle fin. Neal Purchase told me that.

Thud when you say "back of the side bites" do you mean the back of the tip or of the base?