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Poobah Dolphin Glider
Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 696 Location: California, San Diego
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Poobah Dolphin Glider
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Poobah Dolphin Glider
Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 696 Location: California, San Diego
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Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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I brought 3 foam & glass boards, 1 plastic board, 1 modified skimboard and a waiters tray. No test riders. Never met up with Paipo Jim. Must have had a change of plans. Halcyon was there with an HPD, but not enough juice to make a smoothie. At least not on the Saturday morning that he was there. Proneman was there with El Paipo Grande, but I think he mostly rode one of his newer Paul Gross boards. Here's my offering: |
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AM_Glass
Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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Nice Quiver. Belive it or not I was not more than 2 hours away from SA2004 with no chance of going. I was in La Honda (just North of Santa Cruz) for a wedding. I didn't rent a car and there wasn't one to borrow. I'll do everything I can to make it next year. If things go as planed I'll be living in Santa Cruz anyway.
What is that blue board in the foreground called? I've been asking about those at a bodyboard forum and they kept telling me I was looking for a Turbo, a foam and glass bodyboard made in the 80's. I'm pretty sure that thing is hollow plastic and is what I was remembering. |
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Poobah Dolphin Glider
Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 696 Location: California, San Diego
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tumak Dolphin Glider
Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 131 Location: FL, Indian Harbour Beach
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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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I like that little Parmenter board. It looks a lot like the two paipos George Robinson made for my wife and me a couple years ago...especially the tail view. Those have boxed Futures fins, though. I hope someday there can be a national paipo gathering and we can attend; I'd love to see all these paipos and be around a lot of paipo energy! |
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Jon Davey
Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: Location: Cornwall, U.K
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Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:04 am Post subject: |
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Or, indeed, an international gathering! |
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Poobah Dolphin Glider
Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 696 Location: California, San Diego
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 11:51 am Post subject: |
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Tumak,
I just saw some AP photos of the beach at Indialantic, Florida. I should say what's left of the beach. All that sand has to go somewhere. Does it make useful sandbars, or does most of the sand go offshore beyond the waveline? |
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kage Dolphin Glider
Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 286 Location: Santa Cruz
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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why stop there? interplanetary. but it would be nice if it was located on the west coast. |
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tumak Dolphin Glider
Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 131 Location: FL, Indian Harbour Beach
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Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:47 am Post subject: |
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Hey Poobah - It's really pretty sad here. Lots of debris..lumber, tree trunks, parts of houses and swimming pools...in the shorebreak. Boardwalks are truncated and gutted out underneath; beach access is difficult...parks closed...police lines in place.
The surf was never really any good from any of these hurricanes, except on the Gulf side...and very briefly. The effect in terms of shifting sand bars varies from place to place. Rocky areas, say from Patrick Shores south through my town, Indian Harbour Beach, have been broken up, compressed, and exposed more radically. Rocks ("wormrock") have been broken and now have really sharp edges. The dunes were increased by Frances, and then radically eaten by Jeanne, along with the oceanfront properties, which were stupidly built ON THE DUNES.
As is typical in FL beachbreaks, when one place is ruined, another place improves. There are areas of Melbourne Beach that are now breaking really well...low tide spots becoming high tide spots, and vice versa. Areas known as rock/reef breaks may be temporarily sandy, to be exposed again in due time.
My favorite zone, Patrick AFB, is closed, and south Cocoa Beach was essentially washed over by Jeanne. That's the core of Brevard's surfing soul. Much loss of property...dampened spirits.
A NE wind swell will be arriving this weekend, allowing surfers to get back out there and start living the life again...our first cold front of the season, with perhaps a head-high swell...STOKED! |
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PaipoJim Director of CTU
Joined: 31 May 2004 Posts: Location: Oregon
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 12:44 am Post subject: |
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Poobah wrote: | I brought 3 foam & glass boards, 1 plastic board, 1 modified skimboard and a waiters tray. No test riders. Never met up with Paipo Jim. |
Sorry I missed you. I had 4 boards along myself but never made it south of San Fran due to my daughters social whirl. |
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