HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: airey@woof.asd.sgi.com (John Airey)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: got some stinky rincon windswell.
Date: 11 Jan 93 19:42:26 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: woof.asd.sgi.com


  Basically life sucks this year. No groundswells to speak of.
  I was in Santa Barbara for an inlaw's wedding. 
  The house was just north of rincon. So I surfed it on friday the 8th.

  As a friend who used to live there, but now lives in Big Sur said,
  "junky, brown, and small, right? Fun anyway, right?" 

  pretty true. poor conditions, but I had a good time. 
  Actually had some of my funnest moments came surfing waist high 
  waves as they broke at minus tide over the
  sandbar down the point aways, because they really sucked out. As I 
  paddled back, I saw a couple grommets get the same waves which were
  chest high to them. Made me laugh so hard I couldn't paddle.

  I also got a few good chest-to-head high waves on the first peak. 
  On one, I just rode it straight for a couple seconds to appreciate it. 
  Then feeling like I was wasting it, started to move on it a bit. 
  I came off the lip twice, not with a hard snap, but with a slow side slip 
  followed by a pivot off the tail which drops you straigh down the face again,
  kind of a poor man's floater, then I got out ahead a little and cut back, 
  then went out ahead again and cut back, only to sink the rail too much 
  and munch it. 
  I surfaced to watch a perfect wave continue down the point unridden. sigh. 

  I think the last few times I've surfed, it's been el cap, rincon,
  point sur, pfeiffer beach, and rincon. I haven't even surfed the
  break I call my homebreak due to shitty conditions.

  forecast says no groundswells in the next week, just more windswell.

john m. airey      airey@asd.sgi.com  (415) 390-5248
                   M/S 7U-553 Silicon Graphics, Advanced Graphics Division
                   2011 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mtn. View, CA 94039
From: jmeacham@world.std.com (James Meacham)
Subject: LA Spots for east-cost visitor?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:37:40 GMT

Hola from the Great White North (or at least Mass. seems that way to me)! 
Next month I'm going to be embarking on a trip which I must admit I'm both
looking foreward to and I'm reticient about. An east-coast
surfer/bodyboarder (depending on the waves), I'm heading out to LA for a
friends wedding on 20 Feb for about a week.  On the one hand, after
surfing mini-waves in MD and MA for a few years, I'm excited about the
possibility of surfing *real* waves.  On the other, however, I'd like to
go somewhere where I can surf without fear of having my longboard and my
visitor status make me the object of unwanted negative attention (read:
nasty locals).  ANy suggestion for reasonably peopled, waved breaks?  I
know no-one in the west-coast surfing community, so any help would be
enthusiastically appreciated
James Meacham                                                              
   
   
   
     
 
   
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
     
 
   

Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: g9024557@cc.uow.edu.au (James Phillip ANDREW)
Subject: Wannabe
Organization: University Of Wollongong
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 06:30:44 GMT


I wannabe a Wannabe; 
where do I start (Wannabe) ?
I wannabe a Wannabe 
cause I wannababe.
I wannabe a Wannabe
cause I wannabe.

Jim Wannabe Surfing

Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: kieffer@spf.trw.com (Robert Kieffer)
Subject: Re: Polluted Surfing Stories Wanted
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 17:43:57 GMT

In article <1i9qg5INN5g8@news.cerf.net> mike_r@nic.cerf.net (Mike Roberts)  
writes:
> He continues the ride and paddles back out to his brother. As he's
> paddling throught the foam this bloated womans boday (remember this
> has been in the water for a month) pops up right in front of him.
> 


AAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHH!!!
From: jrichard@sol.lssec.bt.co.uk (Jem Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Wave List info, please?
Date: 8 Jan 93 10:33:03 GMT
Organization: BT D+P, London Engineering Centre

Yes, at last, I (apparently) now have the technology to post out!

Here I am in the surf mecca of London, reading about all your
surfing exploits in warmer lands. Seeing as how I only get any
waves every three weeks or so, can someone please supply info on
the Wave List thing, so I can at least dream in peace at work.

Hope everyone had a good surf at Christmas. I managed a few days in
Devon and Cornwall where it was offshore for the whole weekend!
This is luxury compared to the howling westerly that normally
bombard the coast down there (at least when ever I go). Anyway, I
caught some great 3-5ft faces, with long rights on Christmas day
(I'm only a relative beginner, so they were great for me!) with
relatively uncrowded conditions. Damn, it's starting to get cold
now, hoods are the order of the day. Trying to turn the key in the
lock of the van afterwards is a challenge!

Anyway, I'm looking forward to my next weekend (one week to go!)
when I'll be out on my new board (a 7-4 mini-mal) in the Croyde
area. Lets hope Uncle Huey delivers a fair swell and offshore
wind. Ah, I can smell the spray calling me ......

Jem.

"Surf is life,
 Everything else is just details."
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: jjh@cs.adfa.oz.au (Joe Holloway)
Subject: South Coast 9-11th Jan.
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:38:51 GMT

G'day gang. Yes Im still alive and surfing. Hope you all had an enjoyable
Xmas.

Hey! every surf is a safari for me.

-- Congo -- Just south of Moruya Heads.

Winds were mild from N NE mostly cross shore.
Swell 1 - 1.5 meters.

9th..
Arived about 10am to reasonable conditions.
Not a bad first session.

Wind chopped it up in the afternoon so I didn't go out.

10th..

Planned a Dawn Patrol. Managed to get out of bed but the surf wasn't worth
the effort. Waves remained small and shapeless until later in the afternoon.

Had some competition for waves from a couple of dolphins that were on the way
through, but the waves deteriorated into wind chopped slop.

11th..

Didn't want to get up to the dissapointment but went for a look anyway, only
to find small but really clean waves breaking on two peaks.
Had a good couple of hours on really good clean waves. Unfortunately 
deteriorating into slop again by lunch.

Got my first barrel of 93 ! OK I guess...

Didn't get any better so I left.

Hope to see some of you dudes soon...

					-Joe- B^)

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From: andy@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Andy Michael USGS Guest)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: How's Cocoa Beach these days?
Date: 11 Jan 1993 21:04:38 GMT
Organization: Stanford Univ. Earth Sciences
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: pangea.stanford.edu

At the end of the week we'll be spending a few days at a friends
wedding in Cocoa Beach, Florida.  I was wondering how the surfs been
lately and if there is anywhere to rent boogie boards near there.
Also, what's the water temp like?  I lent my dad my wetsuit for a
couple of weeks so it'll have to be doable in just a bathng suit (and I
am used to fairly cold water, Long Island in the summer for instance).

We'll be staying at the Wakulla Motel or Suites Hotel or something right
on the water.  Any decent breaks near there or do I have to go somewhere
else.

Andy
From: kiviat@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Brian Kiviat)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: how to predict swells around Santa Cruz area?
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:51:32 GMT
Reply-To: kiviat@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Brian Kiviat)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In alt.surfing, andy@elviss.Eng.Sun.COM (Andrew Davidson) writes:
>Hi All
>    I am thinking about getting a weather radio so I can better
>pridict when and where to surf around the Santa Cruz area. does any
>one know what to look for in a weather radio? Is there a better way to
>predict conditions (other than calling santa cruz surf shop)? asumming

Try logging in to the "Weather Underground" from the U. of Michigan. It
gives offshore and nearshore weather forecasts. Included in this info
is wind direction, wave size(3-4ft seas...etc), and swell size and direction.
To get to this service I use the command:

telnet downwind.sprl.umich.edu 3000

Good luck and good waves to you.

   O
   I\   Brian Kiviat (301)227-1833
   I \  kiviat@oasys.dt.navy.mil
  /     David Taylor Model Basin
   \___________________________
			     \\
From: mascdb@gdr.bath.ac.uk (C D Burdorf)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Nasty Locals?
Date: 11 Jan 93 10:00:33 GMT
Organization: School of Mathematics, University of Bath, UK

In the referenced article, danny@suned1.Nswses.Navy.Mil (Danny Z Clark) writes:
>Chris writes:
>
>>fun waves there and managed to avoid the nasty locals.  I meant
>>to give Danny Clark a ring, but just had too much going on to
>>carry it out.
>
>How come my name and "nasty locals" get mentioned
>in the same breath?   
>

I guess I have this picture in my head that you are this big
gnarly mugger military dude :)   

>Did you catch the new eating place at Silver Strand?  It's called
>Big Daddy-Os, and they got the best Tri-Tip sandwich around.
>The owner is a surfer, and its become the new hang-out.

Does that mean that Pepe's is no longer hip?  I think it's still  the
best taco stand around.  They even sell beer.  

I checked out sport port and was sad to see that they don't make
Vector Vehicles any more (my board).  Do you know what the inside
word is on what those Total Commitment boards are like that they are selling
now?  

By the way, what's the job situation there at the base?  Is there
any chance you guys might have an opening for someone with a Phd in
Computing in about a year's time?  It seems like a pretty ideal
place.

Chris
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: bud@paradise.pegasus.com (Bud Carlson)
Subject: Trouble with some Addresses
Organization: Quantum Reef Project (Big Island of Hawaii)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 09:24:00 GMT

The wave-list is having trouble with some addresses. Could the three of you
listed below check send me the site name with your addresses and leave off
the host. In the future all addresses should be resolved via the site and
not the host that you use to read mail. This will prevent the Mailer from 
mailing back the GIF[s] if the host in unreachable or down. If your not sure
how to do this, ask someone at your site !! Until I hear from you I'll hold
off sending out any more flicks. If I don't hear from you by this Friday
I'll temporarily take you off of the list. The last two tranmissions had 
problems with the hosts listed below.


suned1.nswses.navy.mil!danny... Host unknown

erfsys01.boeing.com!crp5754... User unknown

unixhub.slac.stanford.edu... Host unknown


....Bud
-- 
Bud Carlson * System Manager * Paradise Isle Computing * bud@isle.pegasus.com


 LSD melts in your mind, not in your hand.
From: smith@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au (Scott Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Polluted Beaches in Australia
Followup-To: alt.surfing
Date: 6 Jan 1993 17:28:57 GMT
Organization: External Studies Unit
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: esumac21.csu.murdoch.edu.au

I have just got back on the net and have read the stories regarding poluted
beaches.  Lud may be able to shed some light on the following, but at least
its a start.

Around Lud's neck of the woods is a beach known as 13th Beach which wasn't
a bad surf beach albeit is fairly dangerous for the inexperienced.  A
certain organization decided a sewerage plant would look nice along the
coastline and established the formentioned facility just west of the main
surfing area at 13th.  The rest is one murky battle between the surf
riders, the surf lifesavers, the Australian Environmental Security Force
and of course environmentalists in general.

They started a campaign known as Stop the Crap - Save 13th Beach.  It ran
for a number of years.  Maybe Lud could share his views on this,
particularly about the state of the beach and its environs.

Keep ridin'

Scott Smith
External Studies Unit
Murdoch University
MURDOCH  WA  6150
Tel: (09) 360 6016
Fax: (09) 310 4929

International Fax: + 61-9-3104929
From: mike_r@nic.cerf.net (Mike Roberts)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: how to predict swells around Santa Cruz area?
Date: 8 Jan 1993 00:45:05 GMT
Organization: CERFnet Dial n' CERF Customer Group
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: nic.cerf.net

In article <1993Jan5.130745.2056@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> squier@cs.cosc.georgetown.edu (Richard Squier) writes:
>
>PS. Anybody been out in Del/Mar lately?  How cold
>is it?

Cold, boots required. I'm wearing a skull cap if I go in the mornings.

Mike
"A brit in yankland"
From: danny@suned1.Nswses.Navy.Mil (Danny Z Clark)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Dec Stats
Date: 5 Jan 93 23:38:55 GMT
Organization: NSWSES Code 4g13 - Opinions: None
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Well, December was an odd month.  Alt.Surfing's estimated
readership was up 17% in December (8800 readers), but 
posts were down about 5% (146) to the lowest levels
since I have been watching.

So, I guess a lot of wannabes checked out alt.surfing during
the holiday break.  As far as less post, we were either
to busy surfing, or it has been cold and flat (my situation)
so there has been nothing to write about.

I'm reading a great book about surfing and will give a full
report next week.

Danny

-- 
                    Danny Clark, PHD NSWC, Port Hueneme CA
                         danny@suned1.nswses.navy.mil
       The Navy and I share some views, but the ones above are all mine.
From: p-kun@blacklabel.Japan.Sun.COM (Kevin Parrington - Nihon Sun Logistics)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Post-holiday greetings....
Date: 6 Jan 93 03:59:57 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: blacklabel.japan.sun.com



	Dear all,

	The very best to you and yours in this new year !!!!

	I just got back from Christmas at home, absolutely
	NO surf in OKC !!!

	Did any of you folks in the SC area get out on Sunday,
	12/20 ???  I spent the day driving down from SF to SC
	and saw a few brave soles in the water... 

	Looking forward to warmer days and some surf...

later,
kp
From: gch@springs.cis.ufl.edu (Greg Hartman)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Surf Report for St. Augustine, FL (after a long abstance)
Date: 5 Jan 93 14:46:47 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.

waves 2-3 ft. backside (about head high).
Choppy with onshore winds.
water temp around 60F and falling
and it's raining.

not much fun.

anyway, I took a nice break last semester from the net. Surfed a few
good swells, surfed Typhoon Lagoon (in Walt Disney World...not that good,
but will elaborate if wanted), and got married (even surfed a small 1 ft.
swell on my honeymoon...)

but the reports from Florida should now continue since i didn't see them
from anyone else (are you still around Rodger?)

and how do you get on the mailing list?

greg
gch@reef.cis.ufl.edu
From: dleslie@phakt.usc.edu (David Leslie)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Gross! (was: Polluted Surfing Stories Wanted)
Date: 5 Jan 1993 01:42:15 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu

>In article <1i9qg5INN5g8@news.cerf.net> mike_r@nic.cerf.net (Mike Roberts)  
>writes:
> He continues the ride and paddles back out to his brother. As he's
> paddling throught the foam this bloated womans boday (remember this
> has been in the water for a month) pops up right in front of him.

	Yuck. That is pretty gross. This doesn't really come close,
but it reminds of something that happened when I was just learning
to surf. I was about 12 and out with a friend up a bit past Santa
Barbara. We saw something floating about 100 yards out. A child's
imagination being what it is, we theorized that it might be a chest
of loot that fallen off a passing cruise ship. We paddled out to
find approx. half a sea-lion(or something along those lines). A childs
imagination being what it is, we thought a shark must have bitten it
in half(actually, that may have been right) and paddled screaming
to shore, and didn't go out for the rest of the weekend. haha :)

	The worst smell was a whale that washed up on the beach
in Bluff Cove (PV). The tide kinda ground it up on the rocks. It
was pretty sad to see. 

 /  Amiga  ///    |  U.S.C. Trojans  | O Bar  | David Leslie        \
|         ///     |     Fight On!    | E O    |                      |
|     \\\///      |        --        | Meu    | dleslie@usc.edu      |
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From: njtravis@ux5.lbl.gov (Nancy Jean Travis)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Dewey Weber Dead at 54
Date: 11 Jan 1993 17:16:17 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Distribution: world
Reply-To: njtravis@lbl.gov (Nancy Jean Travis)
NNTP-Posting-Host: ux5.lbl.gov

In article <9301081932.AA25140@suned1.Nswses.Navy.Mil> danny@suned1.Nswses.Navy.Mil (Danny Z Clark) writes:
>   Surfing great Dewey Weber died Wednesday (1/6/92) of 
>cardiac failure brought on by alcohol abuse. He was 54.
>   He was one of surfing's first millionaires,  the first to
>assume the arch-backed "hang-10" position, and the first
>to surf J-Bay (yep, that was him in 'Endless Summer').
>He also appeared in 'Slippery When Wet', the Ed Sullivan
>Show as 3 time national Yo-Yo champion, and was the
>Buster Brown Boy on TV commercials.
>   About 5 years ago he injured his back surfing in Baja,
>which ended his surfing career. Friends say that is when 
>he started drinking.
> 
>   (the above is heavily paraphrased from an article
>in the LA Times)
>
>
>Danny
>

I was stoked to see old surf clips on the networks Friday
and Saturday, then bummed to find out it was due to Weber's death.
Anyways, it prompted me to find a copy of Slippery when Wet which
I hadn't seen since I was a kid.
The local surf shop had broken open the Bruce Brown collector's
video set (costs $275!!! =-( ) so I rented half of them
and spent the weekend watching that one (1958), Surf Crazy (1959),
and Barefoot Adventure (1960). 
Lots of Weber footage, lots of longboards, NOBODY wears wetsuits,
old California and Hawaii scenery, (ok some dumb jokes, Bruce!)
but I really got a kick of the films. 
Rest in Peace, Dewey!!

Nancy Jean Travis
=)B-)
yeah that's a new hat...
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: carrie@wam.umd.edu (Carrie Lynn Leonard)
Subject: Homeless Surfer
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: dc
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:06:49 GMT

Howzit -

Newly displaced kamaaina-CA surfer is looking for a place to live somewhere
between
the beach and the Univ of MD.  Oceanographer now, no longer a student, so
close to campus is not a priority. 31 year-old male, looking for something
under $300 a month.  Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

You can contact me at (301) 314-3191 or send email to carrie@wam.umd.edu

Aloha 

David Kimball

Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: kieffer@spf.trw.com (Robert Kieffer)
Subject: Found satellite imagery for Australia!
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 18:57:56 GMT

Hey Oz' gang...

As I recall, many of you were hankering for on-line weather satellite  
imagery available for australia. I just found the following in the weather  
underground ("telnet downwind.sprl.umich.edu 3000") help system.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
marlin.jcu.edu.au       [137.219.16.14]                 (FTP)
- Change directory to "JCUMetSat". GMS-4 images updated regularly for  
various Australian states, Australia as a whole, the globe, the TOGA/COARE  
area, and events of interest such as cyclones. The images are in a format  
designed for the package JCUMetSat on Amiga computers, but can be  
converted  to GIF format using the ALCHEMY software (shareware) available  
at this site.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

I don't know if you Oz folks already knew about this or not, but I looked  
at one of the images and it was a great looking color weather map of Aus.  
taken from over the equator (geo-stationary I assume).  The image includes  
the date it was taken and it looks as though the images are updated  
hourly.

A couple of IMPORTANT DETAILS:
- The images are in "iff" format (Amiga).
- I used the "pbmplus" software to convert this without any problem.  It's  
an excellant package for image buffs, and I highly recomend picking it up  
at an FTP site near you.

and most importantly...

- This is all I know about the site, so please don't grill me for  
information and...
- Image format conversion and image display is a topic thoroughly  
discussed in the alt.binaries.images FAQ and various other places, so 
I'll also be reluctant to go into any more detail on this stuff.

and lastly...

- Use proper netiguette when accessing this site!  This looks like a  
really cool resource and it'd be a shame to lose it because ten bijillion  
people started hammering away at it (or one asshole hammering away for ten  
bijillion images :^).

Anyway, hope this helps!

I'll post one of these to the mailing list just for shits and grins.

Robert Kieffer
kieffer@spf.trw.com
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: danny@suned1.Nswses.Navy.Mil (Danny Z Clark)
Organization: NSWSES Code 4g13 - Opinions: None
Subject: Nasty Locals?
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:56:51 -0800
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Chris writes:

>Ventura ranged from waist-high to head high. I had lots of
>fun waves there and managed to avoid the nasty locals.  I meant
>to give Danny Clark a ring, but just had too much going on to
>carry it out.

How come my name and "nasty locals" get mentioned
in the same breath?   

Did you catch the new eating place at Silver Strand?  It's called
Big Daddy-Os, and they got the best Tri-Tip sandwich around.
The owner is a surfer, and its become the new hang-out.

Danny

-- 
                    Danny Clark, PHD NSWC, Port Hueneme CA
                         danny@suned1.nswses.navy.mil
       The Navy and I share some views, but the ones above are all mine.
From: p-kun@blacklabel.Japan.Sun.COM (Kevin Parrington - Nihon Sun Logistics)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Wannabe..add on
Date: 13 Jan 93 03:49:53 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: blacklabel.japan.sun.com

In article <1993Jan12.063044.26942@cc.uow.edu.au> g9024557@cc.uow.edu.au (James Phillip ANDREW) writes:
>
>I wannabe a Wannabe; 
>where do I start (Wannabe) ?
>I wannabe a Wannabe 
>cause I wannababe.
>I wannabe a Wannabe
>cause I wannabe.
>
>Jim Wannabe Surfing
>


I can't deny I try to be, I'm a Wannabe.
It's inside of me, can't you see, I Wannabe.
I buy the clothes, oh, how I pose, it's my destiny.

kp

ps: somebody else add on, keep it goin'...!