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Damage just back safe & sound from 10 days in the Telos. Good time had by all. Swell tailed off a bit in the second half but jeezus it was a bloody surfing marathon so to be honest I didn't really mind. First time I've ever had to duck-dive a dead pig too. Now back to my 5000 phone mssgs/emails :-D-...

Gday Ducky, I'm staying at ZLR with 4 good mates, 3 brothers of mates and about 5 other mates of mates. Pretty excited!

You gonna be around?

Erm right so yeah I'm off the Telo Islands in a week or so. (!)

And have a great time M.

Ha! You remember. Nice one Boo.

Boo there refering to last year when I went camping in an ECL (ignoring the forecast) and got flooded in at Plomer for 10 days.

I was going to go camping with the cheese and tin lids down on the river this week; I've just seen the forecast. I should pull the pin shouldn't I?

Would just like to know if it's gonna be a little bit or a LOT of rain? Anyone?

Ron would go.

muggins wrote:Who is this bloke, Gyro Gearloose?

It's been good of him to stop in for a Christmas visit.

So I had about an hour and a half at DY point this morning. Had heaps of fun. Not great conditions as the wind started to get into it but the size generally made up for it. Couldn't believe how few were out. Saturday morning and all. But there was a comp on, the surf tag thing? No one (from the comp...

Well it was a bit of fcuken everything there wasn't it? Female out of depth x not a great performance on the ski x big big surf = a massive fcukup. I mean, fair dinkum, making spilt second decisions on some mechanical waterhorse with 30 feet of whitewater bearing down on you. faaaaark :!: Just how w...

But surely as a structural engineer you would be looking at static mechanics instead of dynamic mechanics? i.e. load, moment (or the Seppo word torque) Should have also said, I do ALOT of water design. Laminar flow, momentum, froude number, reynolds number, turbulence, propellers, impellers, 'jets'...

Fcuking skeptical.

Jeeze. You see, I'm a structural engineer. 20 years experience. I understand forces, vectors, drag , leverage, reactions both equal and opposite etc etc > all in their 'classic' senses. Why is it that intuitively I find myself completely at sea whenever I read discussions about fins and fin behavior...

So was any of you blokes at sth steyne yesterday (sat) evening?

Pretty well going off but packed. Was just wondering if I was amongst any fellow real surfers out there.

Seems there is one less octopus at the Coogee baths too.

Well done humoons

For a while, I employed a Bangladeshy fella who was convinced their were no gay blokes in his home country.

Had some pre-historic views and was also pretty useless at his job.

So who's next on the list in terms of long time unfulfilled world championship potential?

Taj?

I'd like to see how Fong's posts read when he's on the juice.