Very Funny AC

Watch it mate I still have the password to switch-foot.com....

Very Funny AC

Watch it mate I still have the password to switch-foot.com....

Home

I've had so many days like this at Greenmount over the years. Such a fun wave it takes some beating.

Winter swells

Barnacle Season...

It's only a few weeks away. Plowhand and myself will be on the road up and down the California coast then onto the UK.
Looking like September 20th at the St Merryn Hall, Cornwall for a soulful evening of art, film, beer and T shirts(?).
Be there or be keelhauled.

Whilst on the subject...

Of California culture and the 60's, Ed Roths long lost 'Orbitron' was recently found outside a porn shop in Mexico where it had been sitting for quite some time and served as a waste bin. Great find.
http://www.theorbitron.com/

surfer's cross

... used by surfers as a talisman to bring good waves, worn to distinguish the surfer from the rest of society...

... co-opted because young surfers would wear their father's war trophies as an anti-establishment statement...

To catch a thief

3/4 way through the Miki Dora biography, what a great book. A highly recommended read to all Tube Farmers.
Read the Bunker Spreckels bio last week, another good one.
You couldn't invent characters like these. Seems to me that all the colour and life has been squeezed out of surfing in the last couple of decades.... but thats another story.

well equipped

some log type stuff

????

More surf history from the 30's and 40's

Brit roots

Don't know what all the fuss is about with this alaia business, us Brits have been riding them for a century or two.
Check out .... http://pronetobelly.blogspot.com/

From the vault

More of the Da Cat ad series from the mid 60's..... new wave way before new wave.

Which profile do you fit?

Which picture best represents the surfing lifestyle?

Surfer A

or

Surfer B

At the Bu

Choose a wax suitable for conditions....

Wax job police

Hows it looking MP?
Bead job OK for starters?

mk1 spitfire

Had its maiden flight today in onshore shoulder high surf. Tricky waves with low tide suck outs, reforms and double ups. Board felt great though! Lots of fun.

Lets Rumble

Woke up last night to the UKs biggest earthquake in 25 years! 5.2 on the Richter scale. Biggest one in England for 250 years.
Started as a faint rumble then the bed started moving from side to side, things rattling in my room. I sat up and felt the walls and the whole house moving.
Strange thing is I was back home in 2002 and exactly the same thing happened. I seem to always be home for quakes. Then on the way back I stopped in Bali and was woken by one there too. Odd stuff.

Brit peelers

Cornwall continued.....

Ye Olde Kernow Road Trip

Well just got back from 5 fabulous days in sunny Cornwall with Jojo. We had an ball down there meeting up with DC and his lovely girlfriend Anna.
Waves were superb every day, the 10 degree water made it nice and refreshing.
Good food, great beer (Tribute - sneaks up on you a bit), nice company, beautiful scenery - what more do you need?