Snow Sports and/or Surfing

herzalot said:
Nice to get out in some stronger surf. I have been tentative since my back surgery last January, so pretty much only surfing stuff from about chest high or lower. There is a pumping swell this weekend that pushed the surf in my go-to spot to the chest high to maybe a foot overhead zone. I was apprehensive to be out in the bigger surf yesterday, so I was a little cautious and didn't catch much, but I did learn a lot about where I needed to be and to not be.

Much better luck today. I was still a little selective as the biggest ones were mostly closeouts, but caught a few gems and had my single best wave of the season. Yay me! The new Stewart fish is the board I needed at this point in my surfing - at 6'8" it's small enough to duck dive, but big enough to catch waves easily and very forgiving of poor foot placement, bad take offs and choppy water.

Random goofy-footer on a medium wave today... Good shape, glassy.

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Went out to Luanda Bay yesterday, it was firing 4-6 with just perfect swells. I caught 4 waves, just because it was so crowded. I should have went today also but have things to do around the house.
 
Danmtchl said:
Went out to Luanda Bay yesterday, it was firing 4-6 with just perfect swells. I caught 4 waves, just because it was so crowded. I should have went today also but have things to do around the house.
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How are you enjoying your green Red Dingo?

And where is Luanda Bay?
 
I absolutely love this board, the best one I’ve ever owned by far. Running it as a quad right now also.

Lunada Bay is in Palos Verdes, a well known place for its localism and beating up of outsiders. This is a picture from there a few years ago.

https://www.surfertoday.com/surfing...car windows broken, and their tires slashed."


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As I mentioned in another thread (the Chain Lube thread of all places) I ordered yet another board. I don't suffer from N+1 at all with bikes, but I have it BAD with surfboards!

Those keeping score at home recall that I just recently purchased a 6'8" Stewart fish (quad). This was to bridge the gap from my 7'8" board and my 6'4" that I almost never ride - but really really want to.

Well the new Stewart catches waves very easily, but it's kind of dead once riding it. Not real fast. Not very lively. My last quad fish was a 6'2" Merrick Fishcuit which was absolutely one of my favorite boards ever. It caught waves easily and once up it was fast - I could catch up to sections on the wave and it would turn simply by thinking about turning. Yet somehow it was also stable in a straight line. I offloaded it last year when I realized I am not the surfer I once was (which was never very good) in that I struggle to get to my feet quickly and accurately enough for a board that short.

But my success riding the 6'8" Stewart combined with my lust for the Fishcuit led me to order a 6'6" Bobby Quad from Channel Islands Surfboards (aka Al Merrick). Sky blue. I almost went with aquamarine to match my Stewart and my bike, but thought that might be too much. 6-8 weeks for standard, 2 weeks more for color. So that puts delivery around Thanksgiving. I have that week off, so I'm hoping it gets here before that. Otherwise I will sit and stare at it until March.

The Bobby Quad was designed by Bobby Martinez to be his small wave board. But he and other CIS riders discovered that it didn't really have a wave size or wave shape limit.


Here's a sneak peek at mine:
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herzalot said:
As I mentioned in another thread (the Chain Lube thread of all places) I ordered yet another board. I don't suffer from N+1 at all with bikes, but I have it BAD with surfboards!

Those keeping score at home recall that I just recently purchased a 6'8" Stewart fish (quad). This was to bridge the gap from my 7'8" board and my 6'4" that I almost never ride - but really really want to.

Well the new Stewart catches waves very easily, but it's kind of dead once riding it. Not real fast. Not very lively. My last quad fish was a 6'2" Merrick Fishcuit which was absolutely one of my favorite boards ever. It caught waves easily and once up it was fast - I could catch up to sections on the wave and it would turn simply by thinking about turning. Yet somehow it was also stable in a straight line. I offloaded it last year when I realized I am not the surfer I once was (which was never very good) in that I struggle to get to my feet quickly and accurately enough for a board that short.

But my success riding the 6'8" Stewart combined with my lust for the Fishcuit led me to order a 6'6" Bobby Quad from Channel Islands Surfboards (aka Al Merrick). Sky blue. I almost went with aquamarine to match my Stewart and my bike, but thought that might be too much. 6-8 weeks for standard, 2 weeks more for color. So that puts delivery around Thanksgiving. I have that week off, so I'm hoping it gets here before that. Otherwise I will sit and stare at it until March.

The Bobby Quad was designed by Bobby Martinez to be his small wave board. But he and other CIS riders discovered that it didn't really have a wave size or wave shape limit.


Here's a sneak peek at mine:
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That’s a nice ride, what type of fins will you be riding? Medium or large? Can you run it as a twin with the small stabilizers? I thought about getting these for my Dingo.

https://www.pacificvibrations.com/product-page/keel-quad
 
Danmtchl said:
That’s a nice ride, what type of fins will you be riding? Medium or large? Can you run it as a twin with the small stabilizers? I thought about getting these for my Dingo.

https://www.pacificvibrations.com/product-page/keel-quad
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I am going to run some standard large quad fins. Erik Arakawa or Vector. I'm 6'4" 210 lbs. I don't think I will need to "loosen" it up by making it a twin with stabilizers. Frankly, I am not good enough to really notice a difference. Those fins you linked look quite interesting. Let me know how they go!
 
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New boards are like new bikes- awesome!!! That quad looks like it will be fast, I like that nose and tail fullness. Good for float and wave catchability. Epoxy? No n+1 sickness, I’ve got 8 or 9.

^ Great Santa Barbara pic! Santa Cruz offshore, what beach? My son just graduated from UCSB and surfed lots of spots up there (when they were working-it’s a very fickle area)
 
MolarM said:
New boards are like new bikes- awesome!!! That quad looks like it will be fast, I like that nose and tail fullness. Good for float and wave catchability. Epoxy? No n+1 sickness, I’ve got 8 or 9.

^ Great Santa Barbara pic! Santa Cruz offshore, what beach? My son just graduated from UCSB and surfed lots of spots up there (when they were working-it’s a very fickle area)
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That is Sands beach/Coil oil point.
 
Just got this from Channel Islands...

Your Board was sent to the Glasser at the end of last month (September), boards take around a month to glass with color.

Should be done any day now!!

Check back in next Wednesday!

So if I am following what they said, it should be done by the end of October. Woot Woot! Christmas before Thanksgiving!!!!




Of course I also got a prognosis from a neurosurgeon yesterday that confirmed my back is a mess and I am on borrowed time. So there's that. :( :bang:
 
tick said:
Soelden GS is tomorrow, A Basin opens Sunday.

The NWS is now showing a >50% chance of La Niña waning in January, even a chance of flipping to El Niño before spring….:thumbsup:
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A-Basin? They were never known for their snowmaking. It was usually Keystone, Loveland and Copper in a race to see who could open by Halloween. Usually Keystone.

Why people want to take out their new equipment and share a strip of bad snow with 1000 others always mystified me. Then, in mid March, when the snow is glorious and the days are long, the slopes empty out. :facepalm:
 
herzalot said:
A-Basin? They were never known for their snowmaking. It was usually Keystone, Loveland and Copper in a race to see who could open by Halloween. Usually Keystone.

Why people want to take out their new equipment and share a strip of bad snow with 1000 others always mystified me. Then, in mid March, when the snow is glorious and the days are long, the slopes empty out. :facepalm:
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The wife & I did opening weekend at Mammoth a few years back. It’s more of an opening ceremony than a real ski day. We made a few scary icy turns and went for a bike ride.
 
herzalot said:
A-Basin? They were never known for their snowmaking. It was usually Keystone, Loveland and Copper in a race to see who could open by Halloween. Usually Keystone.

Why people want to take out their new equipment and share a strip of bad snow with 1000 others always mystified me. Then, in mid March, when the snow is glorious and the days are long, the slopes empty out. :facepalm:
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I think I saw some MidWest "hill" was the first to open this year. Michigan maybe?
I had cousins in Michigan, their local ski area was a quarry. Every year it got about 20 more feet of vertical. The hole would get deeper and the tailings would get taller.
Total elevation was like 600 feet.
Back when I was much more active skiing, always rent skis for a month or two for rock season. Then use my good skis.
 
Rumpled said:
I think I saw some MidWest "hill" was the first to open this year. Michigan maybe?
I had cousins in Michigan, their local ski area was a quarry. Every year it got about 20 more feet of vertical. The hole would get deeper and the tailings would get taller.
Total elevation was like 600 feet.
Back when I was much more active skiing, always rent skis for a month or two for rock season. Then use my good skis.
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Fun facts:
Michigan has the second most ski areas of any state. New York has most.

Buck Hill Minnesota has turned out more Olympians than Aspen.
 
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herzalot said:
Fun facts:
Michigan has more ski areas than any other state.

Buck Hill Minnesota has turned out more Olympians than Aspen.
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I visited Minneapolis a few Februarys ago, there are several of those little ski hills right in the suburbs, so the groms do tow rope laps under the lights for less money than joining a hockey team. And judging by all the YouTube edits, they’ve got quite the street riding scene too.

The hill that I went by on the way to my supplier visit was bought by Vail with the intention of selling Epic passes and funneling the locals ski trip dollars into Eagle County.
 
Oh and in keeping with the one in, one out balance - I sold off a board I bought last year to a guy with an Ibis sweatshirt and a brand new Ripmo in the van. He was out riding some of Aaron Gwin's boards that he left behind when Aaron moved to TN. Dude is an MtB photographer. He was at Rampage and did some of the website photos for Ibis. Hanging with Paris Gore. He gave me a fair price for the ...Lost Crowd Killer.

Demoing boards by buying them and re-selling them is a horribly expensive proposition, however. $400 loss. Oh well - at least it's not like buying then selling off a 1 year old mountain bike!
 
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