HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: guest@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au) (Baby I'm the one! :-)
Newsgroups: alt.newbie,misc.test
Subject: testing.....
Date: 26 Sep 92 05:32:30 GMT
Organization: K&K

testing ........
From: mike_r@nic.cerf.net (Mike Roberts)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Surf Report, San Diego North County, 10/6/92
Date: 6 Oct 92 16:16:27 GMT
Organization: CERFnet

3 ft yesterday out of the south, looks the same today. I had
a classic surf yesterday with a bunch of small pull in barrels
which were easy to get in and out of, at one of my fave spots.

I'm there at lunchtime (low tide).

Gotta run,

Mike
"A brit in yank land"
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: u8801863@cs.uow.edu.au (Nigel Brendon Robinson)
Subject: Re: Hurricane Update From Las Isles'
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 09:05:14 GMT

johnlake@microsoft.com (John Lake) writes:

[shit about  back/front/sideways measurements deleted cause I thought that 
arguement died a natural death a year ago ]


>clean lines to all (not the white kind Nigel)

I wouldn't touch those white lines....

I'm much more interested in round green balls.... :-)

I'm a vegetarian so un-naturally manufactured chemicals don't interest me.
Except for nitrous oxide that is.
Anyone ever had nitrous at the dentist.... :-) ???
If so follow on up or email me.

The only lines I know are the ones that wrap around your favourite spot when
the wind blows off-shore and the lip's form ruler straight edges that
you can see for miles... regardless of the size.

Ludwig is the man who knows all about clean straight lines.
He's had them for the last 20 or so years... or more.... :-)
 

>John H. Lake



Nigel.
-- 
Life goes on...and on....
From: airey@woof.asd.sgi.com (John Airey)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: small south today (and forecast)
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:25:00 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: woof.asd.sgi.com


    I surfed chest to head+ high south swell at low tide today. 

    lots of fun. just me and two other guys.

    I was doing little off the lip, catch some air on
    the way down things as the wave was a speed zipper.
    No time for much else. Saw a local kid get
    a huge aerial off the lip at the next break west
    and actually land the thing. Fucking amazing.
    I caught air on the way down, but my board never got above the lip
    in height, so I don't think it can be called an aerial.

    I also tried popping the fins over the back and sliding
    along the lip sideways. That doesn't appear to be anything I'll
    be learning this century.

    I saw another guy aerial off the lip, and just get flushed
    to the bottom by the plunging lip. I saw his feet hitting
    the white water, and in a nanosecond, he got sucked to the
    bottom. He was okay, the wave was only chest high by then.

    And between you, me and the fencepost over there,
    there is a Mongo northwest forecast for thursday.

    ciao!
From: mike_r@nic.cerf.net (Mike Roberts)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Buying a longboard
Date: 6 Oct 92 16:09:47 GMT
Organization: CERFnet

In article <1apn0pINN824@overload.lbl.gov> none@nowhere (Ted Cox) writes:
>In article <1992Oct2.182018.25474@samba.oit.unc.edu> Danny Clark,
>Danny.Clark@bbs.oit.unc.edu writes:
>>  It is a late 60's Gordon&Smith 10 ft board.
>>I have not seen it yet, but he says it's in
>>fairly good condition (no serious dings)
>>He wants $50 for it.  He purchased it new
>>in Santa Barbara.
>
I will give your friend $100 for it. 
>P.S. I would really like to buy that board if you don't!

It is probably worth quite a bit more that than ! It depends
on the condition it is in.

Primo condition boards fetch a premium, while a dinged one
(even a few small dings) will be a lot less. But a dinged 
board can be restored. The restoration cost is approx 
$250-$350 dependent on what has to be done.

BTW, I'm always on the lookout for old longboards, especially those
with the square style wooden fins. Anyone who has such stuff in
south Ca is welcoeme to mail me and I'll come and offer you  a
wad of cash for it ...

Mike
From: tcritchl@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Tod Critchlow)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: SURF REPORT - CARDIFF to SIO
Keywords: LOOKS FUN
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:27:23 GMT

I was back on the bus today so here's the
taveling surf report as seen from good ol' 301.

General conditions at 9 am.
Cool, Sunny morning until reaching la Jolla.
La Jolla is fogged in.
Glassy.
Small to medium waves, probably maxing at
5 foot faces.
High tide 6.9 at 10:50.
Not many surfers out anywhere.

San Elijo - looked like a pretty good outside peak.
(Can anybody give me an official name for the peak that
breaks out from the lagoon outlet.)

Sea Side - Nobody outside, three to four surfers on the beach break.

River Mouth(DelMar) - Five to six people, looked like
high tide was being good to this place.

Torrey Pines(North and South) - Looked fun, but nothing spectacular.

SIO - Fogged in at 9:00. I couldn't even see the water.
      Cleared out at 10:00, but the wind is starting to
	pick up.  Seven guys sitting just north of the
	pier, although I have no idea why.  A few others scattered
	about.  Tide looks to high right now.  Maybe better by noon,
	but don't hold your breath.
tod
	
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_____________________________________________________________________
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Univ of Calif, San Diego              |  Signature anyways??
Scripps Institution of Oceanography   |
From: mike_r@nic.cerf.net (Mike Roberts)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: (love that VEGEMITE!)
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:25:39 GMT
Organization: CERFnet

In article <1992Sep28.173641.1@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au> g_elliott@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au writes:
>I wouldnt even touch Maramite with my 6'5 squaretail even if it was forming
>a gnarly 5-7 foot hell tube. 
>
>VEGEMITE is the one and only "disgusting brown stuff" that I would spread on my 
>toast and that is from a 5th generation true blue Aussie from the West.
>
>Bundy. 

When vegemite was introduced into the UK a few years ago, I saw an 
interview with a guy from the Marmite factory. He made the comment 
that vegemite was a much less refined product (i.e. that it was
more "gritty") and was therefore never likely to take a big share
of the British market for disgusting brown stuff.

Hm, less refined ??

Mike
"A brit in yank land"
Don't forget those gnarly locals in Wales who pin live sheep 
on you car when you granny isn't about !


Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: johnlake@microsoft.com (John Lake)
Subject: Swell in Washington
Date: 29 Sep 92 05:00:12 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

howdy all,

well, like the rest of the Pacific Coast, Washington had some swell also
and pretty good from what I hear.  Saturday the offshore bouys were calling
west swell to 11 feet.  I was home all week and weekend with a very nasty
case of the FLU.  It really sucks.  I could barely get out of bed all
weekend.  I still feel like major SHIT today.  But I gotta save those 
precious days of sick leave for when the surf gets really good.  Oh well
maybe the swell will stick around till the coming weekend and hopefully 
I will feel better.

well back to wheezing and coughing I go.

good surf to all.


hey Chrispy Chris did ya get anything this weekend.


johnny filled with drugs (the legal type)
From: dehaller@eldpa.epfl.ch
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Surf in SW France!
Date: 28 Sep 92 13:36:41 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

The swell was on on south-west France, in Vieux-Boucau, the
break worked from 1m to 3m hollow and speedy, real fun and some
scary experiences.
In Lacanau the swell was less impressive, 1m to sometimes 2.5m
with off-shore wind on the morning turning to on-shore conditions
around noon, smooth conditions for cruising and promising for the
World Amateur Contest '92 held in Lacanau-Ocean. Competitors arrived
on monday 21th or thursday 22th, crowding the peak in an incredible
perspective (normally we used to be five to ten surfers at the line-up...),
lot of crashed boards (aerials and floaters as well as sandy landings!) and
some injuries (I saw an Aussie with a slammed nose and a Peru teammate with
a scary face). So things started to move and as we could judge, the Japanese
as well as the Brazilians were in a good condition, very professional and
radical, and for the first time in round ten years, the South-African team
was again in the competition (as well as the Swiss team... Stop laughing!).
30 nations are now competing for the best amateur surfer (round 400
competitors)
and for the team contest.

I think Chris left for Lacanau beginning october, I wish you will enjoy
some empty spots, try to go to the Plage des Ecureuil or le Lyon, they were
relatively uncrowded.

Hi to all of you,
                    Emmanuel.

PS: the Balinese are the most polite and smiling surfers I ever met.
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: johnlake@microsoft.com (John Lake)
Subject: Re: Buying a longboard
Date: 06 Oct 92 00:50:04 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1apn0pINN824@overload.lbl.gov> none@nowhere (Ted Cox) writes:
>In article <1992Oct2.182018.25474@samba.oit.unc.edu> Danny Clark,
>Danny.Clark@bbs.oit.unc.edu writes:
>>  It is a late 60's Gordon&Smith 10 ft board.
>>I have not seen it yet, but he says it's in
>>fairly good condition (no serious dings)
>>He wants $50 for it.  He purchased it new
>>in Santa Barbara.
>the prices are premium for the 10 footers. Used boards are hard to find
>and
>vintage boards like the G&S your friend has hang on display with "Not for
>Sale" signs posted.  I will give your friend $100 for it. Don't think you
>
>=B-0  Go for it!!!
>P.S. I would really like to buy that board if you don't!

AMEN.  That's a deal and a half.  I would love to run into a deal like
that.  They are very hard to find.  Buy It, Buy It, Buy It.  If either
one of you decide not to buy it, I want it for sure.  I have a couple of 
old boards that just hang around, except when I feel like really cruisin'.

So I say score it and quick.  Another cool old board to score is a balsa.
A couple of my friends have some of those and I am very envious.


Remember, if either one you decide not to get it send your friend my
way.


If you do get it, have fun with it and remember you'll need to get way 
back on the tail turn it, and practice cross-stepping, it'll actually 
make all your surfing improve.



Have fun,


John H. Lake

johnlake@microsoft.com
From: ce425@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Danny Z. Clark)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Surf Report, Oxnard
Date: 28 Sep 1992 23:16:18 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Crime Report, er I mean Surf Report for 
Silver Strand, Oxnard CA. Saturday, 26th.
West swell 1 to 1.5 head high. Glassy, no
wind, 65 deg. water, 80 air.  About 50-60
surfers stung out along the 3/4 mile between
the harbors.  Only 5 surfers near the peak I
was on.  I had one tube ride, and saw a surfer
get a good tube.   No shootings,  muggings
or otherwise observed.  

Danny
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        Secondary: Danny.Clark@bbs.oit.unc.edu
                   ce425@cleveland.freenet.edu
From: p-kun@blacklabel.Japan.Sun.COM (Kevin Parrington - Nihon Sun Logistics)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Cut Japan a braek...
Date: 4 Oct 92 19:58:08 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: blacklabel.japan.sun.com

>
>    You know, kevin never says anything good about Japan, but in a recent
>    Surfer Magazine, the "travel issue", they had some pictures of Japan
>    and it looked pretty good to me. Like the N-something river mouth.
>
>    Check it out. Then again, maybe they are clever forgeries. 
>    I've recently been informed that waves only break in hawaii, so be
>    careful.



	John,

	Oh, okay...make me out to be some kind of Japan basher,
	gee thanks !!!  It's not that I never say anything
	"good" about Japan, it's that I never say anything
	"big" about Japan.  Lets face it, look at a map.  I
	surf in the Shonan area, S. Kanagawa, to include
	Chigasaki City to Enoshima City.  Occasionally I get
	over to Kuganuma, Kamakura, and Inamura's (Zushi City).
	These locations are not know for their big wave...Inamura
	outside can handle a large swell, so I've been told.

	To set the record straight, Japan gets big waves...during
	typhoon season and still even now.  The ideal location for
	these waves is Shizuoka, Ibaraki, and Izu.  Find them on the
	map and you'll see the fast difference between these locations
	and my "home beach".  I don't mean to rag on Japanese waves
	but they're never on when I'd like them to be and always are
	when I can't get to them...basic whinning, I know, and it's
	not fair to blame the Japanese waves for my work schedule....
	AND BESIDES, this is Japan not Hawaii and we all know know
	that only Hawaii gets good waves. ;^)

	Chris,

	I'll answer your posting to you via e-mail.

	

	Peace !

kp
From: COHBSC@Cognac.nsc.com (Oliver Baltuch)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Pleasure Point
Keywords: Surf
Date: 1 Oct 92 00:49:21 GMT
Reply-To: ()
Distribution: alt.surfing
Organization: alt.surfing

Hi,
    I'm a longboarder (9.0 Stewart) surfing at Pleasure Point (2nd Peak).
How do I get a clean takeoff now that the shortboarders have started coming
over from 1st Peak and Sewers. It takes me about 15 to 20 ft of paddling to
get up to speed and they just drop right in.
                                             Oliver
From: jackson@cc.und.ac.za (Clive Jackson)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Fatal Shark attack in NE Australia
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 14:09:39 GMT
Organization: University Of Natal (Durban)
NNTP-Posting-Host: pc31.cc.und.ac.za

In article <1992Oct2.094925.1@eldpa.epfl.ch> dehaller@eldpa.epfl.ch writes:
>From: dehaller@eldpa.epfl.ch
>Subject: Re: Fatal Shark attack in NE Australia
>Date: 2 Oct 92 08:49:25 GMT
>In article <1992Oct2.090421.1@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au>, g_elliott@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au writes:
>> Ive just heard on the Radio that there was a Shark attack in Queensland
>> Australia which resulted in a fatality of a surfer.
>> 
>> Bundy.
>
>Well,
>on the island of La Reunion, in July or August, a body border lost his leg
>and died soon after from haemorrhage. That is fatality, sharks remain a 
>constant danger for watermen and surfers or body borders will always be
>a possible pray for sharks.
>
>And what about this gismo from South Africa known as shark repellent?
>Everybody has heard about it?
>
>Emmanuel.

As far as I know the device produces some form of electric field which 
interferes with the Sharks nervous system. I have some contact with the guy 
whose company is producing the device and once I've spoken to him I'll 
post more details. The research into the product was initiated as a 
result of the high Dolphin fatalities caused by conventional 
offshore shark nets used at most of our warm water bathing beaches.

I'll post more information in a week's time. 
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: johnlake@microsoft.com (John Lake)
Subject: Re: Surf .gif Files
Date: 03 Oct 92 07:24:30 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1aglt2INNoi3@sol.deakin.OZ.AU> ludwig@cm.deakin.OZ.AU (Ludwig Omachen) writes:
>In article <25771@oasys.dt.navy.mil> kiviat@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Brian Kiviat) writes:
>>Being that there are no real waves within 140 miles.......Does anyone
>>have any .gif files of waves......or maybe some with Nigel in a compromising
>>position to use as blackmail.....On another thought, the discussion
>
>Yes, I have a few, even a couple of Nigel, but only on a wave, no
>compromising shots :-(, I'll email them to you next week.
>
>Cheer's, keep surfing,
>Lud.
>

Hey Lud,

Can you post those to alt.binaries.pictures.misc so we all can have some
good surf pics for our screen savers.  If ya could that would be really
cool and nice of you.


Still sick.  Flu turned into a nasty week long cold.  But I think I might
risk it this weekend.  Surf has been "MACKIN" according to my friend that
lives in northern Oregon.  He says it's been easily Double to Triple Overhead
all week long and clean as can get (oops.........I guess all those guys
down there in Oregon must be only 3 or 4 feet tall).

Isn't it the face of the wave that we ride?  I guess I'll have to try and
ride the BACK like they do in Hawaii one of these days.  Yeah and gee we
don't get those same swells up here in the Pacific Northwest that coem out 
of the Gulf of Alaska a couple days before the North Shore does I guess.

You guys in Northern Cal. remember that you don't get anything bigger than
overhead surf and we up North will remember that we have no waves what-so-
ever.  REMEMBER: only the Hawaiian Islands have waves in the Pacific Ocean
that are BIG!!!!

HMMMMMM..........ALASKA?..................NAH!!!  it's flat year round.


Speaking of Alaska, check out the article that gonna be in the new Surfer or
Surfing magazine.


well I am off to surf perfect Double Overhead point break surf in Oregon
that doesn't exist!!!



good surf to all!!!!!


John H. Lake
From: ludwig@cm.deakin.OZ.AU (Ludwig Omachen)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: surfin OZ
Date: 7 Oct 1992 03:17:56 GMT
Organization: Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: aragorn.cm.deakin.oz.au

In article <1992Oct6.092911.26550@cs.uow.edu.au> u8801863@cs.uow.edu.au (Nigel Brendon Robinson) writes:

Lines Deleted...

>The best thing to do is buy a surf atlas.
>Lud usually carries a compass and reef topology reports with him.
>Plus atlas,techno blah blah, and the ever present daily paper with synoptic
>chart so he can analyse it to the bone.
>
>Nigel.

I've found another source of  information, the weather dept. transmits
weather fax's for ships etc, on a number of frequencies on the short
wave radio bands.
With the help of a short wave receiver, a simple decoder, and a PC/suitable
software, (software and decoder available in kit form) you can receive
and display the weather maps on  your PC screen and print them out.

I've come across 3 maps of interest, one is a wind wave height chart
for all of the australian region, the second is a swell wave height for
australia again, which gives contours of swell height, and also arrows
showing the swell direction, and the third is of "total wave height"
and is a view from the south pole, giving a picture of wave conditions
right around the circumference of the globe, the "down under" portion
of the globe that is :-).

Have not had a chance yet to see if there is a decent correlation
between the maps and actual surf conditions as yet .

Cheer's, keep surfing,
Lud.
From: eehaigh@cybaswan.UUCP (j a haigh)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Surf .gif Files
Date: 5 Oct 92 11:05:00 GMT
Reply-To: eehaigh@cybaswan.swan.ac.uk (j a haigh)

In article <1aglt2INNoi3@sol.deakin.OZ.AU> ludwig@cm.deakin.OZ.AU (Ludwig Omachen) writes:
>In article <25771@oasys.dt.navy.mil> kiviat@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Brian Kiviat) writes:
>>Being that there are no real waves within 140 miles.......Does anyone
>>have any .gif files of waves......or maybe some with Nigel in a compromising
>>position to use as blackmail.....On another thought, the discussion
>
>Yes, I have a few, even a couple of Nigel, but only on a wave, no
>compromising shots :-(, I'll email them to you next week.
>
>Cheer's, keep surfing,
>Lud.

Any chance of posting them to the net Lud, as I would'nt mine some for
background pictures on the work station

Thank's
	John
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: Danny.Clark@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Danny Clark)
Subject: Buying a longboard
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 18:20:18 GMT

 I have a friend that is cleaning out his garage
and has an old longboard he wants so sell.  I was
thinking about buying it, but I want your 
opinions.  
  It is a late 60's Gordon&Smith 10 ft board.
I have not seen it yet, but he says it's in
fairly good condition (no serious dings)
He wants $50 for it.  He purchased it new
in Santa Barbara.
  I would not use it for any serious surfing,
just goofing around when the surf was to 
small to bodyboard.  
  So, is this a good buy for a goof around board?
Is there any collectors value in a board like this?
Or should I save some more money and get
one of the newer "fun shaped" boards?

What do you all think?

Danny

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From: rmo@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Robert M. Opalko)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Fatal Shark attack in NE Australia
Date: 2 Oct 92 16:06:28 GMT
Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science

In article <1992Oct2.090421.1@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au> g_elliott@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au writes:
>Ive just heard on the Radio that there was a Shark attack in Queensland
>Australia which resulted in a fatality of a surfer.
>
>I think people who say Shark hunters like Vic Hislop who hunt Great Whites
>every year, are killers, should go and have a chat with that poor surfers
>family. Sharks may be natural hunters but the ones which interfere with humans
>should be hunted out and destroyed.
>
>A day which a fellow surfer dies from a shark attack is a very sad day.
>
>Bundy.
>

It is a terrible tragedy to lose anyone to the ocean; much less a surfer.
But the ocean happens to be the home of sharks.  Unrestrained destruction on
a species is not the answer; nor will it make the passing of a friend any 
easier.  The shark population is currently under a severe attack by people
who are misinformed about the importance of the shark in the sea's ecological
balance.  Any time a person ventures out onto or into the sea they are taking
a risk of never coming back; should we wipe out the jellyfish and man o'war
population for every sting a surfer has gotten from one?  

Think about it.
Bob.
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: u8801863@cs.uow.edu.au (Nigel Brendon Robinson)
Subject: Re: Sept alt.surfing stats
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 02:39:11 GMT

Danny.Clark@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Danny Clark) writes:

>We are now the 1218th most popular group on USENET' (we were 
>979 in Aug).  We were even behind alt.butt.harp. 

It's quality post's that count not quantity !!!!
Same goes for women,wine,food,sex,drugs,surf,....but not necessarily in that
order.

>I guess this can be explained by good surf,  (no time to post or read)
>and the warped minds of everybody else on Usenet.

Maybe...
Nigel.
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Life goes on...and on....