Select to expand quoteMickPC said...Tux said..MickPC said..
How much fun does that a frame look
Heaps eh, I'd never considered surfing Jamaica before...they're bloody good surfers too 
Love to go to the Caribbean, soup bowls is s'posedly slaters favorite wave
Thanks Mick, I saw that the other day but didn't watch it..
The LFT is by far the softest board I have ever owned. After only 12 months it looks tied..
I like the idea of the same board in a TT.. 
NP JB
....SP that place looks heaps fun...on days smaller than this lol. THis day reminds me of North Point Cowaramup Bay. When you paddle for a wave you have to be fully commited or you will go over the falls. I surfed it for the first time when I was 18 & on a 6'2, first 3 waves I went over the falls. Have to paddle as hard as possible & go no matter what. But then you should really be on a bigger board anyway
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Thanks Mick, I saw that the other day but didn't watch it..
The LFT is by far the softest board I have ever owned. After only 12 months it looks tied..
I like the idea of the same board in a TT..
I think the reason they don't make them in FST as much anymore is that they were too resilient so you did not need to buy a new one as often 
FST leaves the other construction methods for dead from my personal experience
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NP JB
....SP that place looks heaps fun...on days smaller than this lol. THis day reminds me of North Point Cowaramup Bay. When you paddle for a wave you have to be fully commited or you will go over the falls. I surfed it for the first time when I was 18 & on a 6'2, first 3 waves I went over the falls. Have to paddle as hard as possible & go no matter what. But then you should really be on a bigger board anyway
I can see the resemblance Mick. Some unbelievable surfing there from the king. He is incredible.
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NP JB
....SP that place looks heaps fun...on days smaller than this lol. THis day reminds me of North Point Cowaramup Bay. When you paddle for a wave you have to be fully commited or you will go over the falls. I surfed it for the first time when I was 18 & on a 6'2, first 3 waves I went over the falls. Have to paddle as hard as possible & go no matter what. But then you should really be on a bigger board anyway
North Point - in a bay - works best is a solid swells and easterlies. It's for those too scared to surf the open ocean breaks that are going off at the same time but 50% bigger. ??
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NP JB
....SP that place looks heaps fun...on days smaller than this lol. THis day reminds me of North Point Cowaramup Bay. When you paddle for a wave you have to be fully commited or you will go over the falls. I surfed it for the first time when I was 18 & on a 6'2, first 3 waves I went over the falls. Have to paddle as hard as possible & go no matter what. But then you should really be on a bigger board anyway
North Point - in a bay - works best is a solid swells and easterlies. It's for those too scared to surf the open ocean breaks that are going off at the same time but 50% bigger. ??
I can't speak for others...but yeah, I guess so lol....pussy spot on big days you reckon 
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Yeah.
Did I mention I surf neither?
Nope I get the feeling you surf bears a lot
Speaking of going off. 2.5m swell, offshore all day, winds dropped to nothing and I have been home crook. Mate sent me these to rub it in from this morning. It'd be even better now.
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Yeah.
Did I mention I surf neither?
Nope I get the feeling you surf bears a lot
The Brook more than anywhere, but, yeah, big bears is fun too (yesterday for instance).
My main spots when I lived down there were Gas, Grunters, Margs Main (Rights) Ellenbrook, Conto's & South Point. Occasionally Pee break, but didn't venture north of South point much coz of distance from town. Other wise a few spots in between but not so often.
Great pics, heard people scored over the weekend...unfortunately or fortunately I work most weekends....gonna havta do a trip South soon, way past due
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Great pics, heard people scored over the weekend...unfortunately or fortunately I work most weekends....gonna havta do a trip South soon, way past due
Grunters!
I only surfed it once years ago. You charger you. Pretty hard on my backhand at the time. Super heavy. I'm a much better surfer now, so surfing it would be easier, but I'm 20 years older and less willing to get flogged. We tow out the back of Grunters a bit. The Gas Bombie too. That's probably the heaviest wave I have surfed.
And yesterday was pretty nice.
I've literally never made a drop on proper Peas too. Surfed it at 6' about ten times and just been flogged.
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Great pics, heard people scored over the weekend...unfortunately or fortunately I work most weekends....gonna havta do a trip South soon, way past due
Grunters!
I only surfed it once years ago. You charger you. Pretty hard on my backhand at the time. Super heavy. I'm a much better surfer now, so surfing it would be easier, but I'm 20 years older and less willing to get flogged. We tow out the back of Grunters a bit. The Gas Bombie too. That's probably the heaviest wave I have surfed.
And yesterday was pretty nice.
I've literally never made a drop on proper Peas too. Surfed it at 6' about ten times and just been flogged.
lol its got some punch & its punched me plenty of times. I reckon you surf places pretty similar in power on the open stretches. Ellenbrook is generally heavier I reckon coz it can be a bit shiftier. I've only towed a 2 foot reefie on the way to your hometown
Yeah Pea break can get sucky, I love that place...we camped there for 3 days about 1990 when there used to be a camp ground you pad $2 each to the ranger & they supplied fire wood. First 2 days were out of control, the bay at Gracetown was fully closing out between the points. Massive swell, full on Westerly. We kept ourselves amused by driving fast over the woop de do's down to peas carpark & sliding down the dunes along the beach sitting on the front of our boards holding the leggy as the reigns. Got some great pressure ding channels from running over vegetation trying to do jumps on our surfboards come sand boards.
Day before we left the wind dropped right out in the arvo. We paddled out a little West of the big sand dune on the Southern end with no vegetation at all. It was non stop out at Pea break, so you couldn't paddle out from there. We got fat mushy lefts towards Peabreak & then paddled into position. Most of the time you would have one chance. Catch a wave & then have to walk back around, rinse/repeat. Probably not even Peas but on the shoulder of it, but it was still barreling. We got some good barrels that arvo, I had a couple I can still recall. A mate got barreled pretty much all the way to the beach.
Funny thing was we only saw 1 person the day before the whole time we were there. Shame that camp ground got canned. Its looked like virgin bush for the last 15 years. Really was about the best location on the coast to stay in winter. Now there's that place 1/2 way down the road that costs an armnleg.
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Speaking of going off. 2.5m swell, offshore all day, winds dropped to nothing and I have been home crook. Mate sent me these to rub it in from this morning. It'd be even better now.
Thats what I call the super fun size. Love days like that. Can not wait for the next one - its been a long while !!! That does look pretty windy though - would need some good commitment to get down into them or heaps of volume. Not a big fan of the blind spot when that wind is that stiff and offshore as you take off. Better than nothing though
Harden up, Ted.
Stiff offshore is better than an onshore any day of the week. The wind also dropped out to nothing in the arvo and the water was just oil with the same swell. I couldn't see the horizon. Another mate hit a different wave in the arvo and said it was smoking. The missus was teasing me about how good the conditions were and me not surfing.
I filed for divorce today.
Mick, biggest barrel I have seen in real life was at Carparks. Two guys paddled out from the corner of the dunes into the middle of the bay. One guy got a 12 foot (yes, true story) pit, came out, then pulled in again and was almost into the corner of the bay before it ate him. The other guy paddled over that set, sat out the back in his lonesome then got annihilated by the next set and washed into the Shorey of Death in front of the stairs. Nobody else hit the water in the hour I was there and the carpark was full. You can imagine how big it was with that. Not one other local paddled out. Me? I went and surfed The Farm.
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Mick, biggest barrel I have seen in real life was at Carparks. Two guys paddled out from the corner of the dunes into the middle of the bay. One guy got a 12 foot (yes, true story) pit, came out, then pulled in again and was almost into the corner of the bay before it ate him. The other guy paddled over that set, sat out the back in his lonesome then got annihilated by the next set and washed into the Shorey of Death in front of the stairs. Nobody else hit the water in the hour I was there and the carpark was full. You can imagine how big it was with that. Not one other local paddled out. Me? I went and surfed The Farm.
Biggest barrels I've seen were at Easter Reef, Port Campbell Vic. Basically about as big as you see waves at Jaws, no one out to fully gauge the size but clearly huge. I'll post a vid of a similar say below.
The day you describe is like when we surfed it...only bigger Whats 12 foot 
I always talk face, coz there are so many varying outlooks on what a 12 foot wave is....is it 20 foot face for you or a bit bigger
The waves we were catching that day would have been about 15 to 18 foot face with the occasional hell sets breaking further out we were trying to dodge. We all got caught once or twice & had to do the walk & paddle all the way around again after getting washed into the impact zone.
Unfortunately we didn't know about the waves around farm back then, they would have been the go. Rockies or West of the bunker
It was alot bigger than this when we saw it & with cleaner lines. Absolutely no wind at all & a little winter mist
Port Campbell pics taken with a crappy little 80's instamatic I'd had since a teen. About August '96
Wish I had a digital camera back then. I took like 24 photo's Between Cactus & Apollo Bay on a 3 month trip following the coast.
& out front of the Port, waves were breaking into the jetty where boats were moored.
Channels must be cool again CI are selling them
beachgrit.com/2016/11/learn-matt-biolos-explains-channel-bottoms/
Yep they are SP - my new stick has them. In fact most of the boards I have had the last few years have had them.
Yes i bet you are thankful CI have now validated the design just like the bonzer so we know it works.
The reply in the comment section is spot on.
Also got a run on Swellnet.
www.swellnet.com/news/design-outline/2015/04/23/channel-revival-modern-takes-classic-design
And
This is also a interesting article more so for the reply..
http://www.coastalwatch.com/surfing/20765/nick-carroll-on-on-or-off-the-eco-train
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<div class="post-message " data-role="message">yeah DHD , WTF have you ever done that is original , a bull**** epoxicore that was the laughing stock of the industry , a "game changer" , and Marcio , what designs have you actually been responsible for , anything??
Soon the market will reject the continuing marketing blah blah , as per the elections and you will see the BIG brands , go into a tail spin as they reject what the market wants , and keep dictating to the market what they should have which is 15 year old designs with toxic technology , what about their workers?
http://www.coastalwatch.com/surfing/20765/nick-carroll-on-on-or-off-the-eco-train
I'm heading over there next year Mac. A guy I surf with reckons theres a spot called Pops that is also good. I'll just hire out a barge over there.
