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hey bommy your points are more or less on the button, barring u don't have to be a superstar to get good results on a keel - just surf it smooth, draw you arcs out, don't back foot jam, and use the front foot and rail.. having said that i really enjoy surfing a keel but you're right they're better i...

no offence but work it out like the rest of us did!

i agree it's F****** STUPID A**HOLES calling up their mates on mobiles case in point... last october midweek 10.30 am at an upper central coast wave magnet known for its 'relative' solitude..small, full, offshore, some fun waves on a tanker and only three out....after an hour or so the swell builds ...

a dead seal at DY years ago, a big sea turtle bitten in half in PNG, and a wild assortment of stuff that had been flushed (before the ocean outfalls were done) when those b***** sewerage workers regularly went on strike.. wasn't it at Burleigh a long time ago when some assumed 'drug money' that had ...

oh and also if you are the sort to get on your mobile phone and tell all your mates and their dogs that its good at XYZ - then give yourself the BIG ZUCCHINI !!!!

perhaps that silliness at Manly is a function of 'over specific' surf reports.... maybe the reports just should be kept to size, wind etc and let the masses drive around and find out for themselves??

probably 8' to 10' area (backs) these days - but whether you can get in/out and paddle around without getting murdered is key for me with my dicky shoulder anyway...i.e. a nice deep channel is good

Squid wrote:

tootr wrote:I note on a Simon as well.. see photo on SMH site

is that photo of "occy" mislabelled?

yep - unless he dyed his hair and switchfooted

I note on a Simon as well.. see photo on SMH site

Amazing!

I'm all for it, but I can foresee the "Macquarie Bank Surfing Infrastructure Fund" starting up, charging big bucks per wave!

around 1979 on a 6'2" Al Bean MR twin copy for a year, then a Col Smith 5'10" round pin single fin, next a 5'10" Russel Lewis roundtail, then a KC (remember them old blokes?) thruster in 1982, then over the next 20 years a whole bunch of thrusters from 6'2" to 7'4" from basically only three shapers,...

Chamberess said; "chest hair is so gross!"

James Bond said; "bird never make nest is bare tree"

me 40, and only a few kg's heavier than 20, stronger, just as flexible (thanks to yoga), almost as fit, but that bloody bursitis/tendonitus in BOTH shoulders is giving me hell with all the surfing i've been doing lately. OUCH YOWCH GROAN WHINGE etc etc

if UR planning to do a few you can get a basic airbrush setup for quite cheap - much more control, can do much finer work and cheaper in the long run than using spray cans

Simple IMO - great stuff for bombies and days paddling is just too hard, but in ALL other cases it should not be allowed. I remember some jerkoff was towing at 2 foot Longreef (not the bombie) sometimes close to 10 meters of the pack and it seemed one slip up and he'd take someone out! Simply not on...

jeez what a commotion over the definition of front foot surfing!!! anyway I forgot to add I fondled a few of the Bushrat DH model fish at Monsoon Tsunami the other week. The workmanship is top notch A1 stuff. Double stringer, timber nose and tail blocks, ply keels, mirror finish gloss coat. They wer...

you know the swell had some grunt when there's a broken board at Collaroy!!

This article by Derek Hynd might help; A Fish is a Fish is a Fish! Twin Keels, preferably marine ply. Straight railed. Wide nosed. Big swallow. Low rocker. Touch of roll. Touch of concave. Designed for real waves not real slop. Anything more/anything less than two keels and it is not a Fish. Anyone ...