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From: zakon@hobbes.CWRU.Edu (Robert H. Zakon)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Surf info for coast near Riverside, CA
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:37:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Apr15.193748.19386
Reply-To: zakon@hobbes.CWRU.Edu (Robert H. Zakon)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)

I am heading out to Riverside, CA, USA for a job
interview over the weekend and should be there for
about one week.  I will get a couple of days
free which I would like to spend surfing.

I am not very familiar with the area (being 
originally from Rio, Brazil), and would appreciate
tips on spots which are within a couple of hours
drive from Riverside.  Any other info as to what to
do and places to bunk up would be appreciated.

If possible, please reply directly to my e-mail
account.

Thanks,
  Robert H Zakon, hobbes@hobbes.cwru.edu
From: kiviat@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Brian Kiviat)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: EASTER NET-SURF at BELL'S
Date: 9 Apr 92 11:44:25 GMT
Reply-To: kiviat@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Brian Kiviat)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In alt.surfing, ludwig@cm.deakin.oz.au (Ludwig Omachen) writes:
?G'day Gang,
?
?Here is the current status of the
?
?EASTER NET-SURF at BELLS BEACH
?
?If anyone else can make it down, add yourself to the list and
?repost, email me for more details, how to get there etc.
?
>Cheer's all,
>Lud.

How long is the flight from the USA?
How much does it cost?  Hmmmm.... I guess I'll wait for the east coast
net surf for my continent. I can afford that trip!

In ref to the board size issue:

6'0 did seem pretty short to me too. Most guys I surf with use 6'3-6'6
Unless the waves are really small and the mal's come out.

SSSeee ya,
Brian
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: g9024557@cc.uow.edu.au (nobody)
Subject: Re: EASTER NET-SURF at BELL'S
Organization: University Of Wollongong
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 04:24:05 GMT

ludwig@cm.deakin.oz.au (Ludwig Omachen) writes:

>G'day Gang,

>Here is the current status of the 
>EASTER NET-SURF at BELLS BEACH

>WHO:		ARRIVE:				DEPART:

>Jim Jum		Thursday 16th			?, when they stop
>(James)		Will ring or drop in.		paying the dole to 
>and mate ?	Staying in Geelong		N.Z.lander's :-), or
>						if he can't find any
>						sheep :-).

Why else do you think I am coming to Victoria for Easter? If the 
weather is no good then at at least the wethers are good.

[...]

>Cheer's all, 
>Lud.

Jim
From: u8801863@cs.uow.edu.au (Nigel Brendon Robinson)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Rusty ! and Theresa Breckon(read this)...
Date: 15 Apr 92 00:32:15 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia

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)

Yeah,I surf a 6'3" rusty...does he (or them) only make white
coloured boards ???
I like my trusty rusty, it goes pretty well and sort of has that
gun type of shape.It's good on re-entries and floaters.
It's a pin-tail.
I bought it for $250 second-hand at Byrne surfboards in 
North Wollongong in september 1990.
I've also got deck-grip on the back section only.It makes take-off's
alot easier.  :-)


> To you aussie's :  how much is a rip curl 3'2 summer suit out of 
> the factory in Melbourne?(my friend told me there was a factory outlet
> store or something there and stuff was mega cheap).

Lud, could probably answer that one better than me , but I bought a
Rip Curl 3/2 combo with that elastic panel under the arms for
$180 Australian.I could of waited for the sales and the 
price wars and got one for $120 or $130 ,but I really needed one
at that stage,so I lashed out.
I also got a 2.5m legrope thrown in for free.That was the equivalent
discount this place offered for local students (10%).

There is this place in Warilla that has specials occassionally
for about $130 for a 3/2 steamer.
But you've got to be there when it's on. 

> If that guy in bridgewater, NS is reading this, I tried to mail you
> but got no reply.post a little note with your phone number or something
> if you can't mail to me.


> Later on,


> Tom Gilgan 
> (in the icy waters off Nova Scotia..it snowed saturday..argggg)

Wouldn't you want a 4/3 or even 5/4 for that sort of climate. ????


> gilgan@ug.cs.dal.ca

Hope the info was useful...Ask away for anymore !!!!

Also Theresa if you read this,then I have to inform you that I can't do a 
reply to any of your mail as it always bounces.
I don't know why,but in case you were wondering why I wasn't sending you 
mail that's the reason...


Check ya's all.
Nigel.
PS Only two days to go til the "trip" south to Bells begins...... :-)
From: u8801863@cs.uow.edu.au (Nigel Brendon Robinson)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: A few little tubes,Gong,oz,16/4/92
Date: 16 Apr 92 02:38:19 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia


This morning from about 8:30 am to 9:45 am I scored about
15 little tubes.
Well, I got inside them but stuffed if I could get out.
The maximum length of tube was about 2 seconds.
The surf was about chest high at a maximum.
I was the only one out and had a great time all by
myself.

It was good until about 9:50 am until a sudden souther easter came up
and the wind was then onshore.
Before that the wind was westerly (ie off shore).

All in all it was fun and I even pulled off a 
back-hand floater that felt good.

Check ya,
Nigel.

See ya Saturday Ludwig..... :-)
From: eddy@phakt.usc.edu (George Edmond Eddy)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Surfboard info.
Date: 8 Apr 1992 18:49:57 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu

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

>Is that the typical board length (6'0" or less) for small waves in Southern 
>California ? 

if yer 5'2".  most people i know ride from 6"2' to 6"8'.  i haven't
seen sub 6'0" boards since the twin spin days...  i'm starting to sound
like an old man, heh?

- rusty

north o.c. has been suckin for the last month.

Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: airey@woof.asd.sgi.com (John Airey)
Subject: Surf report Santa Cruz april 10.
Reply-To: airey@woof.asd.sgi.com (John Airey)
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:42:28 GMT

   We had a south swell at about 4-5 feet today. Some overhead
waves. Kind of hard for me to set-up since I'm more used to
the northwest swell; and they tended to close out. 
I was alone or with one guy for an hour, but tide was
kinda high, so I was riding mushballs. When the tide dropped,
a hundred 
jason-priestly-I-got-side-burns-too-high-school-lookalikes came out.
A couple of them are damn good, and I saw one get tubed on 
a good overhead wave.  

   While I was out alone, I actually had to dodge a sea-otter
who was floating on the bowl of the wave. those things get
bolder all the time. I was also sitting out there with some
visiting australian dude, when either a *very* large harbor seal,
or a female elephant seal surfaced about ten feet from us. I don't
know if he knew what it was, cause he moved a bit closer to where
I was floating. power in numbers? who knows. Also a lot of dolphins.
                
john m. airey      airey@asd.sgi.com  (415) 335-7248
                   M/S 7U-550 Silicon Graphics, Advanced Systems Division
                   2011 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mtn. View, CA 94039  
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: c9111192@cc.newcastle.edu.au (THE DOORS ARE OPEN BUT I'M LOCKED INSIDE...)
Subject: Re: I NEED HELP, PLEASE READ....You aksed for it
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 01:55:27 GMT

In article <1992Apr2.134417.332@lrc.edu>, woodcock_bw@lrc.edu writes:
> I usually don't post here at all I just read. But I have decided to ask you guys
> how I might learn to surf (ei: places to go to learn, easy breaks, etc.). I know
> that you could just blow this off but I marvel at what some surfers can do and I
> really would like to try myself. I can imagine it is a lot harder then it seems 
> from the beach or what they show on TV. Plus I go to the Outer Banks every 
> summer, I have seen some good waves there.
> 
> 			Signed, 
> 				Please Help Me!
> 				Bryan Woodcock
> 				Woodcock_bw@alice.lrc.edu

	Try Avca...central coast Australia..fucking good right hander's
Bell's beach,Torquay,Minmi Breakwall ( ? ..does it really exist )

				MILDRED...
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: mattw@picasso.cssc-syd.tansu.oz.au (Matthew Watson)
Subject: Re: Surfboard info and on....
Organization: Telecom Australia
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 22:51:39 GMT

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




>>		Greetings and Salutations dudes and dudettes,
>>			I just wanted to know, what type of board is good for m
>>		Height: ?
>>		Brand:  ?
>>		Type of Wax: Bubble Gum or Sex?
>>		I weigh 150lbs. and I'm 6' feet tall.
>>
>>		Headed down southern Cal. for a swell that's on the way(HEH HEH
>!)
>>
>>								THE PUNISHER
>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

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.

Cheers
	Matt
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From: pad@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Phil Duke)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 09:41:31 GMT
Subject: Good surf at last!
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Distribution: alt.surfing


Hi everyone,

We had some really good waves this Friday and Saturday.  Friday 2-3 foot
but really punchy, clean hollow waves and Saturday 5-6 foot peaks, really
fast take offs.  It was great to be surfing some power again.

I have had some experience of losing fins, two years ago, I was borrowing an
old twin fin and I losed one without knowing it.  I took off on waves and as
I went to bottom the board would slide up, I would end up almost doing 
360's and coming back down backwards, great fun although a bit frustating
after a while.  Then last year I losed the right outer fin on a thruster,
expecting a terrible time I went out anyway but had a great session surfing
a left hand point break. I still had the insde fin so I could still
bottom turn, even cut backs were possible, the board would just slide round
on the last bit. 

I have a friend who is planning a trip to New Zealand for a month in the 
January, if any of you guys over there could give me a description of the 
spots to go, size of swell etc, it would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Phil Duke,
(Bristol, England)


Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: u8801863@cs.uow.edu.au (Nigel Brendon Robinson)
Subject: That universal feeling.
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 01:26:40 GMT

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,
[stuff deleted]
>Hope my TRUE story wasn't boaring.


Guy,
	Your story was grate even with all the spelling errrars.

It's the first post to alt.surfing I've seen from Israel.
Keep sending them in .
One comment I'd like to make is that the emotions
you've described are international/universal to surfing.
It brings home the statement loud an clear
"ONLY A SURFER KNOWS THE FEELING."
Sounds like a wank but it's true.

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

>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.

I'D GO IF I HAD ANY MONEY.


>    ______________   _________________________________________________
>   /              \ /                   Guy Keren, (Technion, Hafia)  \
>  /   _0_         // Internet:           At-Home: Tel 972-51-33857    / 
> /   __|         // s2366196@techst02.technion.ac.il         <--\    /
>/       \       / \ gukeren@nyx.cs.du.edu <--If you can't the outher/
>\______________/   \_______________________________________________/
>Most frequently asked question:
>  Q: WHY SURF? 
>  A: "Because of the incredible sensations surfing gives me.
>     It can never be explained to someone who's not a surfer.
>     We've experienced things other people can't even imagine!."
>							  Shaun.T.
From: woodcock_bw@lrc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: surf report please???
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:55:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: lrc.1992Apr13.105550.363
Organization: Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NC

Hello, could I possibly get a surfing report for eastern NC?
I am going there this weekend and would like it.
Please....

Thanks
Bryan

Woodcock_bw@alice.lrc.edu
From: gilgan@ug.cs.dal.ca (Tommy Gilgan)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Rusty !
Date: 14 Apr 92 12:12:21 GMT
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

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)

 To you aussie's :  how much is a rip curl 3'2 summer suit out of 
 the factory in Melbourne?(my friend told me there was a factory outlet
 store or something there and stuff was mega cheap).

 If that guy in bridgewater, NS is reading this, I tried to mail you
 but got no reply.post a little note with your phone number or something
 if you can't mail to me.


 Later on,


 Tom Gilgan 
 (in the icy waters off Nova Scotia..it snowed saturday..argggg)

 gilgan@ug.cs.dal.ca
From: airey@woof.asd.sgi.com (John Airey)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Surfboard info.
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:50:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: fido.j9rj14s
Reply-To: airey@woof.asd.sgi.com (John Airey)
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA

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 ?
|> 
|> Jim
|> Wollongong
|> NSW

   6'0'' sounded short to me also. 

   This past winter, in Santa Cruz CA, it seems a 150lb rider would be 
riding a 6'4 squashtail thruster, just under 19 inches wide and about 
2.5 inches thick. A 190lber might have a 6'8''.
There are also a number of older longboard riders with every length imaginable.

   Guys riding the Lane during big swells would of course have 7-8 foot guns.

   I weigh 150 and ride a Pierce Arrow 6'5'' roundtail thruster, 
2.5 inches thick and about 19.5 inches wide at widest point, but with a 
fairly narrow nose and pinched rails. 
I've ridden it on waves up to around 8 feet and down to about 2. 
It works pretty well; I'd get another similar board, but maybe a little
narrower 
and stiffer next time. More durable would be nice too. 

                
john m. airey      airey@asd.sgi.com  (415) 335-7248
                   M/S 7U-550 Silicon Graphics, Advanced Systems Division
                   2011 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mtn. View, CA 94039
From: pshepher@loki.une.edu.au (Philip Shepherd)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: surf in France
Date: 11 Apr 92 23:50:52 GMT
Organization: University of New England - Northern Rivers (Lismore)


In their message wsr@leland wrote:-
>Anyone out there in Net land ever surfed in France?
>
   Once upon a time (about 5 years ago)
>
>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?
>

  I used a 6'6'' which was certainly long enough.

>
>What type of wetsuit?
>

  It was August when I was there,  you could survive in a no-armed wetsuit
  during the middle of the day, but a short sleaved wet-suit would be
  preferred!!  The water in the Bay of Biscay gets fairly warm by the
  end of summer.

>
>Any other info would be appreciated
>
  
  If you've got the time, try North Spain ... particularly Mundaca.
  The best source of information I found for trips abroad was a 
  publication called "The Surf Report" available from :-
    P.O. Box 1028, Dana Point, CA 92629 U.S.A. (714) 496-5922, 
        Telex 681-312-SJUC

  Its a monthly magazine which details surf conditions throughout the world.
  Each month includes an in depth description of the surf in a 
  particular country (including map + brief summary of all the decent
  breaks).  Cost is around $6 U.S. .  You can write to the address above,
  or to save time its proberbly easier to tring the number abov, use
  your visa card (or similar), and ask for "The Surf Report" for France.

  Good luck,

  Phil
  

>thanks bill
--- End of message ---

-- 
Philip 	Shepherd                      Internet: pshepher@loki.une.oz.au
University of NewEngland
Northern Rivers
Lismore NSW Australia
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: u8801863@cs.uow.edu.au (Nigel Brendon Robinson)
Subject: A surf repot,East Corrimal,The Gong,Oz,11-12/4/92
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 07:08:43 GMT

G'day crew,
	   Had two really good surf's at East corrimal on
the weekend.One Saturday morning that was "Hell sucky"
but it mellowed out to  a really nice wave at mid tide.
I got early (ie 7:00 am) for both of these surf's.

I scored two good tubes that were overhead inside easy.
They gave me the treatment at the end though.

Sunday I went with a mate at 6:30 am ,and scored 
more filfth waves.
The crowd factor built up by about 8:00 am though.

One guy I remeber got this tube and stayed inside for about five seconds or so
before it closed down on him.
It was a picture book tube for sure....

I was blowing out just watching some of the lips pitching out.
Some were easily like about a foot thick...

Bye now,
Nigel.
PS Virgins is about 250m from East Corrimal...
(It's no secret any longer Jim Jum)
From: eddy@phakt.usc.edu (George Edmond Eddy)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Surfboard info.
Date: 10 Apr 1992 16:12:02 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phakt.usc.edu

duke@valentine.ics.uci.edu (Duke P. Hong) writes:

>In article <ku78m5INNlpb@phakt.usc.edu> eddy@phakt.usc.edu (George Edmond Eddy) writes:

>It also depends a lot on the kinds of waves you ride. I mostly stay away
>from the fast breakers like Blacks and Huntington. Most waves I ride
>are easy to catch so the smaller boards are adequate.

true, considering i live in huntington and most of my friends are still
in the south bay (l. a.) county, where i surf with them.   

--

- rusty

eddy@usc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
From: srcguard@src.dec.com THE PUNISHER
Subject: THE PUNISHER THANKETH
Reply-To: srcguard@src.dec.com THE PUNISHER
Organization: DEC Systems Research Center
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 16:51:45 PDT

		
	Greetings and Salutations,

		I got massive reports all over the world bout the best board.
		Each and every one of you has given me the basic idea  on which
		surfboard to get, based on the waves.   

		Basically, it shows me that there are still soul surfers still
		out there to get that ultimate rush and that makes me feel 
		pretty righteous.

		Thanks again, Surfers Inc.

							THE PUNISHER.
From: scott@edstar.ucsb.edu (Scott Thomas)
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Surf report from Santa Barbara for April 8, 1992
Summary: report
Keywords: report
Date: 9 Apr 92 03:35:43 GMT
Organization: University of California at Rincon


Date:           April 08 1992    
Time:		11:00 am
Area:		Santa Barbara, California, USA        
Weather:        Clear and breezy
Winds:	        West/northwest 5-15kts
Air temp:       73f
Water temp:     65f
Surf:           1 foot and pretty cheesy.

Forecast:       Slim pickings for the next few days

Comments:      Time to start looking back to the beach breaks :(
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