[Photo: Tom Prete / Ocean Beach Bulletin]
If your local surf spot is within San Francisco city limits you’re gonna experience some weird things from time to time. Ocean Beach surfers can now add “car in the ocean” to the list.
According to Ocean Beach Bulletin:
A woman drove her Lexus sedan down Stairwell 25 near Golden Gate Park, across the sand and into the surf at Ocean Beach Friday morning.
Check out the Ocean Beach Bulletin’s full story, which has a bunch more pics.
Pro surfer Jamie O’Brien catching a wave with one board and riding it with another.
Surfline posted a series of these photos of Jamie O’Brien making this two-board transfer at Pipeline. I turned them into a radical gif! Here’s what Jamie told Surfline about the trick:
The Wave Storm is 8’0″ and thick. It’s like a boat and it paddles better than any board I’ve ever paddled in my life. For the transfer, I use a Bill Johnson little fish funboard. The reason I like it and the reason it came to mind is because I can lie on the nose when I take off.
[gif created with photos by Paul "Gordinho" Cohen]
Winter really hasn’t come to Long Island. There’s been no significant snowfall and the temperature has been reaching the 50s on a weekly basis. I’m not complaining because all this warm weather is making the winter surf very easy.
Man, I don’t even have to immediately warm up my car in the parking lot to make sure it’s warm when I get in to drive home.
The water is still freezing though, so I’m glad that I recently got a Patagonia R4 wetsuit. I was reading a ton of reviews online that were pretty negative, saying the suit’s not worth the money and the seams ripped really easily. But I’ve used it twice so far this winter and it’s worked great. The Patagonia suit is better then any other winter suits I’ve worn. The rubber is nicer, it’s more flexible, and I won’t say it’s warmer but it is definitely keeping me comfortable in the water.
San Franpsycho posted some sweet shots of their stickers holding prime location in New York City. West meets East. Any east coast readers want to try and find these?
[on Instagram via San Franpsycho]
[on Instagram via San Franpsycho]
These reminded me of an Isurus Wetsuits sticker I saw in rainy San Francisco’s Cole Valley neighborhood this past weekend.
Apocalypse Later, Surf Now, a CGI surf film by keef70.
[via Surf Trip Map]
A nice big swell hit the California coast recently and Mavericks started firing. I happend to fly over the break in perfectly clear skies towards the end of the swell and snapped a few photos from 10,000 feet.
My brother’s 10-foot longboard had seen better days, so he decided to recycle it. The new board is about half its original size and shaped liked the trash can it was most likely headed for.
The below photos document the longboard’s resurrection.
This surfboard was shaped to mirror the “soap” design by Mini Simmons.
We’re ringing in the New Year with a new board! Hope everyone out there has a safe NYE and a happy wave filled start to 2012.
[via ESPN]
Well, technically the 11 time world champion is taking a photo of himself and the other side of the crowd. But hey, someone is taking a photo of him doing that and there we are! I’m on my phone tweeting this, and Chis is cold lamping in a pair of shades. This photo was featured in the Rip Curl Pro Search San Francisco recap gallery on ESPN.
It sounds like we’ll be giving thanks to some clean leftover swell tomorrow morning here in New York. Hope everyone has a chance to catch a few holiday waves. If not, enjoy this rad turkey drawing and have a Happy Thanksgiving!
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