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Re: Mentawai quiver.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 4:37 pm
by Drailed
steve shearer wrote:
Wed Oct 03, 2018 4:33 pm
Drailed wrote:
Wed Oct 03, 2018 3:59 pm
steve shearer wrote:
Wed Oct 03, 2018 3:57 pm
Drailed wrote:
Wed Oct 03, 2018 2:15 pm
How did you find Scarecrows??
Fun, rippable, challenging, occasionally hollow, flawed.
haha yep thats about it, I stayed in a land camp right in front of that wave a few years ago.
run by a Canadian chick?
American/Canadian -long blondish hair... ... Her and her hubby run and own it....

Re: Mentawai quiver.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 4:39 pm
by steve shearer
yeah, she was a great indicator of the sets and where to be positioned and a pretty cool surfer.

Re: Mentawai quiver.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 4:43 pm
by BA
steve shearer wrote:
Wed Oct 03, 2018 4:33 pm
I'm surprised people took it as a negative.
Really? That’s the only way I took it. Aggressive adult learners taking primo set waves and blowing them. Then positioning for more. Urrgghh.

Re: Mentawai quiver.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 4:48 pm
by Drailed
steve shearer wrote:
Wed Oct 03, 2018 4:39 pm
yeah, she was a great indicator of the sets and where to be positioned and a pretty cool surfer.
Yeah, lovely woman. They run a nice set up. Pretty chill vibe and nice accommo/food etc. Was considering going back on a last minute trip recently but yeah, it adds up and with 2 young kids and a Mrs at home it feels way too indulgent.

Re: Mentawai quiver.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 4:51 pm
by steve shearer
how much to stay there?

Re: Mentawai quiver.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 4:54 pm
by Drailed
2,350 usd for 10 days/9 nights full board and transfers to Padang. So not too bad but with the exchange rate not being great and another $1000 for flights I couldn't justify it.

Re: Mentawai quiver.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 5:30 pm
by Kunji
steve shearer wrote:
Wed Oct 03, 2018 1:36 pm
all lefts.

Telescopes, Scarecrows, Lances Left, Macaronis, Thunders.

rights are shitt and winds were wrong.
Spewing. Well about the winds. Was Greenbush on your radar or nah?

Re: Mentawai quiver.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 5:45 pm
by steve shearer
hell yeah.

wrong winds, not enough swell and tide for it.

Re: Mentawai quiver.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 9:37 pm
by black duck
steve shearer wrote:
Wed Oct 03, 2018 3:57 pm
Drailed wrote:
Wed Oct 03, 2018 2:15 pm
How did you find Scarecrows??
Fun, rippable, challenging, occasionally hollow, flawed.
Very flawed. Needs perfect swell direction and currents. Super sectiony and short walls generally. Some strong currents wrap around that corner. The reef is beautiful, hadn't been blasted when we were there. The snorkelling was way better than the waves. It was by far the poorest quality wave I surfed in the Ments. I've heard it can get good, we didn't get it like that, 3 times.

Re: Mentawai quiver.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 9:48 pm
by Drailed
Fark, are you for real??
We had it good 7 days out of ten and zero currents.

Re: Mentawai quiver.

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 10:03 pm
by black duck
Drailed wrote:
Wed Oct 03, 2018 9:48 pm
Fark, are you for real??
We had it good 7 days out of ten and zero currents.
yep. was the shittest wave we surfed in the ments, by a fair margin.

Re: Mentawai quiver.

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2018 9:22 am
by Drailed
Might have just had random poor 3 days of conditions.

Re: Mentawai quiver.

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2018 11:03 am
by black duck
Drailed wrote:
Thu Oct 04, 2018 9:22 am
Might have just had random poor 3 days of conditions.
Was spread over 2 years

Re: Mentawai quiver.

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2018 11:10 am
by Drailed
So many breaks in the ments are wind or swell affected though. I have a mate who went back to the same resort and surfed scarecrows 4 different times and all pretty decent.

Re: Mentawai quiver.

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 1:18 pm
by steve shearer
sorry boys.

this was the biggest wave I surfed in the Ments.

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Re: Mentawai quiver.

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 1:31 pm
by Hatchnam
Styling. Pyzel ghost ?

Re: Mentawai quiver.

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 2:31 pm
by steve shearer
thats a Lost Sabotaj.

very similar: forward weighted outline, round pin.

easy rider.

Re: Mentawai quiver.

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 2:43 pm
by Drailed
Loving that bottom turn in pic 2.