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by WANDERER
Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:27 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Magoo Charity Classic 2012 - We need your help!
Replies: 2
Views: 1466

Re: Magoo Charity Classic 2012 - We need your help!

News story that aired today on NBN TV news regarding the contibution that the Magoo contest has helped make to Cancer care and research;
http://www.nbnnews.com.au/index.php/201 ... w-machine/
by WANDERER
Tue Mar 20, 2012 3:55 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Magoo Charity Classic 2012 - We need your help!
Replies: 2
Views: 1466

Magoo Charity Classic 2012 - We need your help!

[cleared with admin prior to posting] Hello Realsurfers, I am acting as an assistant sponsorship and donation coordinator for the 2012 Magoo Charity Surfing Classic, the Magoo is an Amateur Longboard surfing contest held at Soldiers beach on the NSW central coast every April/may. The contest, which ...
by WANDERER
Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:37 am
Forum: Logs, eggs and alternatives
Topic: Loggin' contests
Replies: 7
Views: 4465

Loggin' contests

Seems that my wishes for something other than high performance surfing in longboard contests have been answered. Just checking out the Noosa festival website and I coud see there that there is another division added this year based around logging, having seen that my mind moved to this years Snowy c...
by WANDERER
Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:57 pm
Forum: Logs, eggs and alternatives
Topic: Ways to rack/hang your boards.
Replies: 14
Views: 6498

Re: Ways to rack/hang your boards.

I need somethin non invasive due to the fact I'll be renting, about to move into a house with a decent length but narrow garage but the roof is no bullshit 14 foot high, so I'm thinking something above head high is the go, that marquee idea is on the right track cuttlefish, might have to go round to...
by WANDERER
Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:26 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Snapper - It's not paradise.
Replies: 55
Views: 13636

Re: Snapper - It's not paradise.

fair weather surfers, them and the friday morning faithful and weekend warriors are the worst... seriously, there's dudes that I only ever see in the water on fridays, but come rain hail or shine they are there, bloody weird, swell, tide and wind knows no calendar!!
by WANDERER
Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:28 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Snapper - It's not paradise.
Replies: 55
Views: 13636

Re: Snapper - It's not paradise.

I'm with kookster; I'm actually about to move closer to the F3 entrance at Wahroonga simply because I can't stand (attempting to) surf Sydney's northern beaches on the weekends, the pre-work crowds I can handle for the most part, but come saturday and sunday I'm gone. Also I haven't bothered with an...
by WANDERER
Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:36 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: sharks holidaying in NSW
Replies: 135
Views: 31116

Re: sharks holidaying in NSW

as a pom in Oz , are there always this many reports in the summer in NSW? (just because everyone in the water). Is this the usual yearly summer media frenzy or are there more than normal? just wondering. Pretty much, late December through to the end of march usually, plenty of them close to shore a...
by WANDERER
Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:24 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: sharks holidaying in NSW
Replies: 135
Views: 31116

Re: sharks holidaying in NSW

Bait fish flying everywhere this morning, was a bit freaky...
by WANDERER
Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:23 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Where did you surf today ?
Replies: 30076
Views: 11338258

Re: Where did you surf today ?

Nick Carroll wrote:fcuken having some fun in today's happily unpredicted 4-6' ENE pulse, ha ha ha
Indeed, Mona was larger than I expected it to be and the wind was nice early too.
by WANDERER
Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:08 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Paradise Lost for Aussie Surfboard Makers Amid China Imports
Replies: 334
Views: 80512

Re: Paradise Lost for Aussie Surfboard Makers Amid China Imp

Colorados are GM Daewoo, they are sold as Chevrolet Colorados stateside, along with a few others that the GM Daewoo factory shares with us and the yanks; Cruze, Barina/Aveo, Spark - Holden here Chevrolet over there.
by WANDERER
Wed Jan 18, 2012 11:09 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Heads up
Replies: 15
Views: 4504

Re: Heads up

daryl wrote:
spork wrote:Righto-got all the ingrediants, but had trouble finding a purple beret, anyone?
the reggae outlet
It's in the Beret precinct.
by WANDERER
Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:28 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Surfing Sydney Airport, early 1960s.
Replies: 60
Views: 27349

Re: Surfing Sydney Airport, early 1960s.

In the midst of these breakers 10 or 12 Indians were swimming who whenever a surf broke near them divd under it with infinite ease, rising up on the other side; but their chief amusement was carried on by the stern of an old canoe, with this before them they swam out as far as the outermost breach,...
by WANDERER
Sat Jan 14, 2012 5:09 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Insane
Replies: 34
Views: 9106

Re: Insane

what fin setup and bottom and rail shapes do they run on boards like that? I mean it looks like they are riding the back few inches of the board and that any extra speed might be welcomed, now I have no clue about this stuff, but what I'm thinking is twin parrallel symmetrically foiled daggers right...
by WANDERER
Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:23 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: fatal shark attacks on female surfers
Replies: 50
Views: 13029

Re: fatal shark attacks on female surfers

I think we test whether sharks have a taste for the jeebusfreaks, I have just the bait!

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by WANDERER
Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:27 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Paradise Lost for Aussie Surfboard Makers Amid China Imports
Replies: 334
Views: 80512

Re: Paradise Lost for Aussie Surfboard Makers Amid China Imp

ozbluesman wrote:I believe that there is room for BOTH tiers of the board industry. Cheap boards give everyone the opportunity to enjoy surfing.
There it is then, down with cheap surfboards!
by WANDERER
Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:48 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Paradise Lost for Aussie Surfboard Makers Amid China Imports
Replies: 334
Views: 80512

Re: Paradise Lost for Aussie Surfboard Makers Amid China Imp

This thread reminded me of that slogan that Mambo used to put on the tags of their clothes;
MADE NEAR AUSTRALIA
by WANDERER
Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:50 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Watch out for...
Replies: 66
Views: 15002

Re: Watch out for...

There's just something about really predatory, tryhard, aggressive-looking cars, they're lame as shit. The guys who buy them must have really tiny cocks LoL o-k. Since we're on that topic... I wanna Charger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYLtSl6RiPQ&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ry...