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From: gukeren@isis.cs.du.edu (Guy Keren)
Subject: Report from Israel'''s winter
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 92 17:42:53 GMT

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Date: Sun, 5 Apr 92 19:30:31 +0200
From: Guy Keren <s2366196@techst02.technion.ac.il>
Message-Id: <9204051730.AA14751@techst02.technion.ac.il>
To: gukeren@isis
Subject: aa

Hi,

Hope you'r having good surf, Here (Israel) exept all the Policics
and Terrors we'r having good surf almost every week, more
precisly we had the best winter for the last 5 years, lots of
swell most of them in the rang of 3-7 feet, lots of suny days
off-shore wind and "cold" water 15C....
The last good swell was about 3 weeks from now, it pump after
strong strom, I wake up that morning and walk to check the surf
like (I'm 6 min walk to the beach), well I tought It will be 
another cold-unsurfable day with strong wind, I step out of my
home and the sky was bright with wind from the east (of-shore)
I felt bad and was sure it's flat or maybe 2feet high if I'll
be lucky, I decided to go check it anyway altought I's sure
the surf is flat, But as I get closer to the beach I heard the
waves breaking, I finly got to the beach and was shoked
the surf was 5-7 feet high, PERFECT long lines of PIPE-LINE like
swell, suny day and off-shore wind, I tought I'm the happy'st
man in the world (ww.w.w. you know that feeling),
in 10 min I was back with my board and surf till i couldn't
move my arms. It was one of the best day of my surfing - all
perfect condition came to one day. I never surfed Pipe-Line
but from the pictures it was as it (not in size..) very strong
pipes in long lines, glassy water, off-shore wind, only half
wetswits and above all- anly me and 10 more guys in the water.
wahoooo, it was realy good.

Hope my TRUE story wasn't boaring.

Keep surfing all and Have good surf too.


  P.S.
       I'm planning on surf trip this summer to France, if any
       of you could give me any tips - good surf spoots, prices
       etc... thanks.




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From: tcritchl@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Tod Critchlow)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Waves and Vests
Date: 15 Apr 92 22:01:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: sdcc12.31695

Hello all,

Just thought I  would drop a note.
A swell picked up yesterday morning and
what with the warmer water(65 degrees F)
I was surfing with just a vest.  Love that
feeling.  
	Waves were pretty junky with some sets
hitting about 4-5 feet.  By noon both days it was blown
out.  Mostly it was just nice to get out in
the water again.
	Lots of deep bottom turns, some wild
assed drops and off the lips once in a while.
All and all the last two days of surf have
been great.  
See ya,
T.C.(SIO)


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Tod Critchlow                         |  What the Hell is a
tcritchl@ucsd.edu                     |  Signature anyways??
Scripps Institution of Oceanography   | 
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: st883787@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: Surfboard for sale
Reply-To: st883787@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 02:06:34 GMT

I have a board that's just been sitting around, so I'm selling it.
It's a Dove 6'4" thruster, got some dings, but they're all repaired.
The board is in La Jolla CA, if anyone is interested I'll be in 
La Jolla from April 16th to April 26th on Spring Break.  The number
there is 456 0970.  I'd be happy to show it to anyone.  I'm asking $75,
but will consider any decent offer.  Happy Waves!
						Josh
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: wsr@leland.Stanford.EDU 
Subject: surf in France
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 16:20:55 GMT

Anyone out there in Net land ever surfed in France?

I will have a chance to catch a few waves there this september and I was
wondering if I could get a couple of questions answered:

What size board?

What type of wetsuit?

Any other info would be appreciated

thanks bill
From: gch@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Greg Hartman)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Surf Report for St. Augustine, FLorida
Date: 17 Apr 92 14:41:40 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.

Surf Report For St. Augustine, Florida.

04/04/92 Sun. - 1 ft. very occasionally 2 ft. choppy, pretty shitty waves.
                light offshore winds.
                something you would not want to have a contest in.
                The first ever SSA contest was held at Blowhole this day.
                (more about that later...)

04/06 and 04/07 - winds switch to the NE real hard. 
                  waves 2-6 ft. Very Choppy. some secluded spots were rummered
                  to go off.

04/08 Wed. - winds switch to very light out of the SE. VERY GOOD waves.
             2-3 ft. clean form and long lines.

04/09 Thurs. - winds still from the SE.
               waves smaller, about 2 ft. with the occasional 3 ft. set.
               I surfed Mantansas Inlet alone. Lots of fun, but real spooky.
               long lines.

04/10 Fri. - winds continue SE
             waves a little weaker, but still 2 ft. backside. mushy form.

Side Story:
   The SSA (Scholastic Surfing Association) had its first contest on Sunday at
Blowhole in the State Park. I surfed like shit (I'm not made to surf waist
high waves), and didn't advance out of my first heat.
   Our team needed a bodyboarder and "volenteered" me. Someone found me a real
old board, looked like a rental board that the tourists use to flounder around
on. You could bend it so the nose touched the tail. It was made before people
even thought of putting slick bottoms on sponges. Real small too. 
   So I go out in my heat (there was only one, so it was a final), no leash 
and no fins either. Luckly the waves were only breaking in mean shorepound
where I could almost stand up.
   I had fun. Lots of tube rides (everything was overhead!), a few floaters,
and even a nice el-rollo (which i dont know how i made and i almost but my
hand through the board gripping it so tightly).
   I couldn't really tell what the other riders in the heat were doing, but it
looked like they got some nice rides.
   Imagine my suprise when i found out that I won! And looking at the judges
sheets showed that I won by a long margin.
   You could not even fathom the shit i have gotten by all of my friends for
winning a bodyboard final. One more comment on how I should cut my surfboard
in two so that I can have a nice quiver of bodyboards and i will scream.

Ill never live it down.

The sad thing is that it is the first contest that i have ever gotten first
place. I have a lot of 2nd and 3rd places in the past for surfing, but my 
only 1st place was done riding a sponge....

our team (University of Florida) got 3rd out of 8 teams.

greg
gch@reef.cis.ufl.edu
(a SURFER who occasionally, when he HAS to, and is FORCED to, rides a bodyboard)
From: mascdb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (C D Burdorf)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Surfboard info.
Date: 9 Apr 92 13:14:11 GMT
Organization: School of Mathematics, University of Bath, UK

In article <1992Apr8.043429.13219@cc.uow.edu.au> g9024557@cc.uow.edu.au (nobody) writes:
>jlinder@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU (Darrow Linder) writes:
>
>
>>9'6" is good if you like a longboard.  Personally, a 6'0" (or a couple of
>>inches less) if you are experienced.  Ol' Souherm California hasn't been
>>very good the past...month.  Not sure how worth your while it will be to come
>>down here.....
>
>>-Darrow
>
>Is that the typical board length (6'0" or less) for small waves in Southern 
>California ? In Wollongong and I imagine most of NSW, typically small 
>punchy wave territory, the 
>shortest boards that are normally used are about 6'2". (I hope Nigel and
>the NSW crew agree with me!). I bought a new 6'3"
>and certainly wouldn't want anything shorter - it goes best in 
>small waves as it is. 
>
>What about it - what board size is typical in other locations ?
>

When I lived on the Central coast of Cal. boards were sort of 6'6 to 7'.  Here
in England they seem to range from 5'10" to 6'10".
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: g9024557@cc.uow.edu.au (nobody)
Subject: Re: Surfboard info.
Organization: University Of Wollongong
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 04:34:29 GMT

jlinder@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU (Darrow Linder) writes:


>9'6" is good if you like a longboard.  Personally, a 6'0" (or a couple of
>inches less) if you are experienced.  Ol' Souherm California hasn't been
>very good the past...month.  Not sure how worth your while it will be to come
>down here.....

>-Darrow

Is that the typical board length (6'0" or less) for small waves in Southern 
California ? In Wollongong and I imagine most of NSW, typically small 
punchy wave territory, the 
shortest boards that are normally used are about 6'2". (I hope Nigel and
the NSW crew agree with me!). I bought a new 6'3"
and certainly wouldn't want anything shorter - it goes best in 
small waves as it is. 

What about it - what board size is typical in other locations ?

Jim
Wollongong
NSW
From: scottp@pvec.bridgewater.ns.ca (Peter Scott)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: surf report 3/26/92
Date: 8 Apr 92 17:40:35 GMT
Organization: Parkview Education Centre, N.S. Canada

Gee, you guys! I can't believe you all. Here I am in lowly Nova Scotia, 
Canada (ever heard of it? I bet not!) where this water is @#$%$#*&$#@@ COLD 
and I haven't seen a swell in months! 
 You're all spoiled!
 	I canna take it n'a more!
					Peter Scott

SCOTTP@pvec.bridgewater.ns.ca
From: jlinder@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU (Darrow Linder)
Subject: Re: Surfboard info and on....
In-reply-to: Your message of 07 Apr 92 22:51:39 +0000.
             <1992Apr7.225139.6198@picasso.cssc-syd.tansu.oz.au>
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Date: 8 Apr 92 01:01:30 GMT

>jlinder@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU (Darrow Linder) writes:

>whats wrong with long boards? I've been surfing for years and I use an 8'
>Mal with a spoon nose practically all the time! I`ll admit though, that
>I'm not exactly the best surfer in the world, but most of the breaks here
>in Sydney are well suited to mals, because they are either pretty full
>waves or they are really crowded breaks and a mal gives you an advantage.
>Apart from that they are much >better in smaller surf.

Sorry.  Didn't mean to offend your longboarding.  Nothing wrong with it it's
just that hear in Southern California, it seems as though short boarding
(freestyle etc.) is more popular.

-Darrow
From: p-kun@blacklabel.Japan.Sun.COM (Kevin Parrington - Nihon Sun Logistics)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Report from Israel'''s winter
Date: 14 Apr 92 03:31:07 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: blacklabel.japan.sun.com

In article <1992Apr5.174253.10965@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> gukeren@isis.cs.du.edu (Guy Keren) writes:
>Return-Path: <s2366196@techst02.technion.ac.il>
>Date: Sun, 5 Apr 92 19:30:31 +0200
>From: Guy Keren <s2366196@techst02.technion.ac.il>
>Message-Id: <9204051730.AA14751@techst02.technion.ac.il>
>To: gukeren@isis
>Subject: aa
>
>Hi,

>  details deleted>


>move my arms. It was one of the best day of my surfing - all
>perfect condition came to one day. I never surfed Pipe-Line
>but from the pictures it was as it (not in size..) very strong
>pipes in long lines, glassy water, off-shore wind, only half
>wetswits and above all- anly me and 10 more guys in the water.
>wahoooo, it was realy good.
>
	>>sounds like a dream...


>Hope my TRUE story wasn't boaring.
>
>	>> Great story, keep 'em comin' !!!!

	No flames please but I've gotta ask, what, if any, is the bodyboarding
	scene like in Isreal ???
>


later,
kp
From: scott@edstar.ucsb.edu (Scott Thomas)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Surf report from Oahu for 10 April 1992
Keywords: report
Date: 10 Apr 92 21:04:35 GMT
Organization: University of California at Rincon



SURF OBSERVATIONS AT SELECTED OAHU BEACHES
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI
1020 AM HST FRIDAY APRIL 10, 1992

                  LATE MORNING

BEACH             FT

ALII              1 TO 3
WAIMEA            1 TO 2
EHUKAI            2 TO 3
MAKAPUU           1 TO 3
WAIKIKI           2 TO OCCASIONAL 4
ALA MOANA         2 TO OCCASIONAL 4
NANAKULI          FLAT TO 1
MAILI BEACH       1 TO 2
NANIKAI           1 TO 2 OCCASIONAL 3
MAKAHA            1 TO 2

SURF ALONG ALL SHORES IS FORECAST TO REMAIN UNCHANGED WITH
HEIGHTS OF 2 TO 4 FT THROUGH TODAY AND SATURDAY.
From: colas@bagheera.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: surf in France
Date: 14 Apr 92 15:49:08 GMT
Organization: Koala Project, Bull Research France

In article <1992Apr9.132208.1384@gdr.bath.ac.uk>, mascdb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (C D
Burdorf) writes:
|> In article <1992Apr8.162055.4948@leland.Stanford.EDU> wsr@leland.Stanford.EDU
|> writes:
|> >Anyone out there in Net land ever surfed in France?

I'm french :-)

|> >What size board?

well, it depends on the place. Near the south of france, you get Biarritz with
slow beach waves, a bit like california, but with nice rocky points (Lafitenia,
Guethary), but 20 miles to the north, you have Capbreton/Hossegor/Seignosse,
with a deep oceanic canyon just in front, with hawaiian-like power and speed.
In september, however, the swell in not very powerful, but the climate is nice
(juicy swell begin to come in october, but we had octobers where it rained
every day :-(), and here , rain means onshore winds :-(((((). We had once a
totally sunny october, though...

I have a 6'8" (I only surf in june and october, as I leave near Nice, and trips
to Hossegor in winter are a bit too much "risky"... you can stay under the rain
for too long, I'd rather windsurf home...). DONT bring a longboard, californian
longboards are totally useless in this kind of surf. You can find good boards
at 3000 Frs new (~ $500)

so, good points:
no sharks, corals or any offensive marine life. Quality of life.
bad points:
weather: onshore winds, rips... if the wind is right, the rip is not here, and
there are not interferences from other swell, be prepared for pure magic.

|> The waves are similar in power and size to Ocean Beach in San Francisco
|> (which looks like is in your area). 

I'd say Hossegor waves are much faster than in calif, but you can't surf
very often due to the poor climate. But: the northen I have surfed in Cal is
Jalama...

|> Take lots of money.  France is mega-expensive compared to the USA.

yes, and no. Biarritz is a very fashionable place, so it is expensive, but if
go a bit north you are in the country and it can get much more affordable.
Hotels and camp places are much cheaper than in Calif, restaurants are more
expensive than in the US, but I think quality of food largely makes for it :-).
Just go to the market, buy local ham and real french bread, and you are in for
a real treat... you wont touch a big mac in your life afterwards :-)

-- 
Colas Nahaboo, colas@sa.inria.fr, Bull Research, Koala Project, GWM X11 WM
Pho:(33) 93.65.77.70(.66 Fax), INRIA, B.P.93 - 06902 Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE.
From: mascdb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (C D Burdorf)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: surf in France
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:42:57 GMT
Organization: University of Bath, England

In article <17468@sophia.inria.fr> colas@bagheera.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo) writes:
>In article <1992Apr9.132208.1384@gdr.bath.ac.uk>, mascdb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (C D
>Burdorf) writes:
>|> In article <1992Apr8.162055.4948@leland.Stanford.EDU> wsr@leland.Stanford.EDU
>|> writes:
>|> >Anyone out there in Net land ever surfed in France?
>
>I'm french :-)
>
>|> >What size board?
>
>well, it depends on the place. Near the south of france, you get Biarritz with

>
>|> The waves are similar in power and size to Ocean Beach in San Francisco
>|> (which looks like is in your area). 
>
>I'd say Hossegor waves are much faster than in calif, but you can't surf
>very often due to the poor climate. But: the northen I have surfed in Cal is
>Jalama...

Did you surf Blacks or Silver Strand or the Wedge while in Southern Ca? 
I'd say they equal the power of Hossegor.  Also Ocean Beach in San Francisco
gets real powerful as well, but I've never seen it as perfect as Hossegor.

>
>|> Take lots of money.  France is mega-expensive compared to the USA.
>
>yes, and no. Biarritz is a very fashionable place, so it is expensive, but if
>go a bit north you are in the country and it can get much more affordable.
>Hotels and camp places are much cheaper than in Calif, restaurants are more
>expensive than in the US, but I think quality of food largely makes for it :-).



Can you please name some cheap places to stay near Hossegor?
I've always gotten burned there (probably because I don't really know French).
From: leif@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Leif Eric Johnson)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Rusty !
Date: 15 Apr 92 01:24:55 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

In a previous article gilgan@ug.cs.dal.ca (Tommy Gilgan) writes:
>Just picked up(firday) a Rusty 6'4 for the low low price(locally anyway)
>of 175 Canadian... it is a little beat up but not bad compared to
>my other boards.
> Any Rusty owners on the Net? you like em? how much are they new(in Cali)
> Later on,
> Tom Gilgan 
> (in the icy waters off Nova Scotia..it snowed saturday..argggg)
> gilgan@ug.cs.dal.ca

Hey Tom,  I've got two I surf regularly: a 6'3" soft-square tail and a really
clean 7'0" round pin.  I got the 7'0" brand new about a year ago, and love it!
I've surfed the 7'0" in anywhere from head high (about 3' back) to 11', and
gotten some of my most killer rides on it.  This winter, I surfed it almost
exclusively for about 2 months, and when I tried to surf my 6'3" again, about
6 weeks ago, I couldn't even catch a wave!  Well, I decided right then not to
surf the 7'0" anymore until I could surf the 6'3" again.

The 6'3" is a little small for me (I weigh about 185 lbs.) and is fairly wide,
but when I get going it is very responsive. It can also actually handle a
fairly large wave (I've surfed it up to 6 feet, almost double overhead).  I
busted the nose off about 12" back, clean, one time surfing a shallow sand bar.
I liked the board so much, I had a guy stick it back together for me, and have
been surfing it like this for the last 15 months or so.  Good repair job!

Today I surfed the Half Moon Bay "jetty", on my 6'3" rusty.  There was a
nice bowl starting to shape up right near "the wall" (surfing almost directly
towards the rocks of the jetty) that burgered about half the time, but would
occasionally wall up for a fast hollow ride.  I caught one today where I got
higher off the lip than I think I ever have (no air tho' :-( ) and then snapped
a nice re-entry.  I got several really nice floaters in, and was really just
basically charging it today!  Most of the pack (8-12 guys) were at a peak
farther down the beach, away from the jetty, and I had "the wall" to myself '
for most of the 2 hours I was out this morning.  

Do I like 'em?  I did today!  :^)

Later all...

-Leif
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: JACK PETERS - the ultimate surfer
From: T.D.Sadlier@massey.ac.nz (T.D. Sadlier)
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 03:42:14 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c


Hey you surfers - have any of you ever run into a friend of mine the one
and only JACK PETERS.  He works in Yosemite Park for six months (Spring
and Summer) and then goes off to Bali, Thailand, India etc for the other
six months, surfing and buying jewellry.  He's cool - he started surfing
at 37 and he's now 45 and still surfing!
From: st883787@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: 6'4" Thruster for sale
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:08:00 GMT
Reply-To: st883787@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

Vikas, my mail to you is getting bounced. Call me between april 17th and 25th
and we can try to work something out.  Or email me your #.
					Josh
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: g9024557@cc.uow.edu.au (nobody)
Subject: Re: That universal feeling.
Organization: University Of Wollongong
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 04:41:05 GMT

u8801863@cs.uow.edu.au (Nigel Brendon Robinson) writes:

>Guy,
>	Your story was grate even with all the spelling errrars.
[...]
>It brings home the statement loud an clear
>"ONLY A SURFER KNOWS THE FEELING."
>Sounds like a wank but it's true.

Still sounds like a wank to me - but you don't have to be a surfer to
wank :-)

But seriously arn't such sayings common to any group of 
enthusiasts/extremists ? 

>Nigel.
>Peace be unto ye all, with good waves and tubes to stall.

Yeah once I get over the fucking flu.

Jim
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: East Coast report brah?
From: wojciech@nrlvx1.nrl.navy.mil
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:26:11 -0400
Organization: NRL SPACE SYSTEMS DIVISION




	Greetings, and glad to be on usenet with all you hard core surfers
from all over the globe.  It's great to hear what's going on in the surfing
world and the latest in surf action (and right when it happens, I hate getting
SURFER and seeing contest results a month or two behind.)  So keep those
reports and forecasts comin' in.

	Packing up my snowboard to gear up for spring surfing here on the 
east coast USA.  What I haven't seen here are any type of surf forecasts for
the east coast.  Many of us landlocked surfers (I'm three hours from the
nearest beach) can't just drive up and 'check out the surf.'  We're 
forced to call a surf hotline or a surf shop by the beach.  To save us a few
hundred dollars in phone bills this summer, I am hoping someone on the net
has access to an east coast surf forecast/report and could post the info
daily/weekly.  Ocean City MD, Virginia Beach VA, and North Carolina would
benefit me mostly, but any east coast forecast would REALLY be appreciated
by alot of us!  Thanx and hope to hear from ya!

				L8tr,
					Derek

				     	wojciech@nrlvx1.nrl.navy.mil 
				     .
				    ..			
				     ..
				       .  /^^\/
					  \__/\   'gO aGaInSt ThE fLoW'
From: mascdb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (C D Burdorf)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: surf in France
Date: 9 Apr 92 13:22:08 GMT
Organization: School of Mathematics, University of Bath, UK

In article <1992Apr8.162055.4948@leland.Stanford.EDU> wsr@leland.Stanford.EDU writes:
>Anyone out there in Net land ever surfed in France?

Yes many times.


>I will have a chance to catch a few waves there this september and I was
>wondering if I could get a couple of questions answered:
>
>What size board?

The waves are similar in power and size to Ocean Beach in San Francisco
(which looks like is in your area).  Boards are real exspensive in France
(~ $600).  I would think a good board for Ocean Beach would do.
It's Juicy beach breaks mostly.  It can get real big, but that's 
usually later on
in Fall or winter when you'll need a 7-8 foot gun for the reef breaks.

>What type of wetsuit?

In September a spring suit or a light full suit will do.

>Any other info would be appreciated

Better to go in October.  The waves are bigger and not as crowded.
Take lots of money.  France is mega-exspensive compared to the USA.