[fatdoc]

what about here for my grandes vacances en famille holiday in august?

http://www.beachwizard.com/beach.asp?country=France&beachid=6980

I'm considering the smaller drive as being helpful... need to balance this up with wave quality / driving / logistics etc.. 

[fatdoc]

answered my own question, in a fairly scary way...

by using magucseaweeds historical data set.

I reckon I  could end up at La Torche. Stats wise it has the better waves in august. travelling wise it was £!,400 for the bilbao ferry.... the 8 hr drive instead would necessate an extra day travelling there and probably back ( kids can only watch so many DVDs in a row!)

in any event, it will be a great trip!!

[granticus]

While you lot have all been freezing we've all been baking in 40 degree heat for the past week. Thankfully yesterday brought a small but clean swell to keep everyone cool (all the shots from Manly)

Lived in Fairlight for 6 months so miss good old Manly, sweet to see photos from there...   

However, whilst you lot have been baking in 40 degree heat and surfing small but clean swells, we have been getting togged up in our gimp suits and surfing pumping waves of the large/clean variety minus the crowds.  I'm a 'ranga', so hate the heat and love the cold, so I know which I'd prefer

[Control freak]

so why werent you in the water?

Id have got my camera wet 

[ben]

what about here for my grandes vacances en famille holiday in august?

http://www.beachwizard.com/beach.asp?country=France&beachid=6980

Don't do it..   we stopped for a couple of days round there enroute South.  Waves are ok but the coast is grim, really built up the whole way along there in that naff seaside apartmenty kinda way.  Surfed that reef Sauzaie which was good though 

[fatdoc]

cheers....

Lookin at brittany this year, then further south next when the youngest will be easier to keep in the van for such a long time.

thanks for all help guys

[SA Chris]

http://www.driftmagazine.co.uk/index.php/archives/7301

LeRoy Grannis has died. End of an era, thanks for the photos. RIP.

[Idol eyes]

NEV... R.I.P!

[granticus]

NEV... R.I.P!

As in Nev future shapes??   

[ben]

has it been confirmed then?  I thought he was still missing?  lifeboats had a bumpy time out looking over the weekend

[Idol eyes]

They were looking for two bodys, a kiteboarder was missing too! The details are a little raw to just put up here... If any one knew Mark, and wants the to know the deal so to speak, PM me...

[chris05]

Nice short vid of Reubyn Ash on msw:

http://magicseaweed.com/A-Question-of-Style-Content/3055/

[gme]

Nice vid. Its great to see flow between airs and multiple manovers on a wave. It used to be a case of pumping as fast as you can along a face then pop one air at the end.
He still has a way to go to get a part in the new Modern collective but he is good.

I have now not been in the water for 4 weeks which is the longest period in a good four years, i have no idea whats happend to the winter but something has.

I am now saving up for one of these to make sure this does not happen again.



It is rumoured to be completely portable, all you need is a suitable body of water. The one in the video looks like a hole in a field with a big pond liner covering it.
Now wheres my spade!

[Falling Down]

I saw that trailer the other day - looks mental.  Apparently that one is in Northern Spain somewhere.  What 'it' is I have no idea though.

[gme]

There going to tell us all about it when the website is released next week on the 15th. I am told that it is going to be a commercial venture not just a one off.

If its 10s rather than 100s of thousands ones going on my christmas list.

[chris05]

Wow, I want one. Even my learning curve would have to improve with one of those!

[SA Chris]

Starting looking for a plot of cheap land less than an hour away. now.

[chris05]

A ukb syndicate wave pool 

[philo]

sounds good      the wave on that video looks so clean.

Did you not sneak any of the clean swell that passed through this morning?  got a nice couple of hours this morning at a point break near mine then FINALLY a reef working that gave small clean lefts on the turn of tide.


Oh also, bargain of the day?

http://store.magicseaweed.com/Xcel-Mens-5mm-X-Flex-2010/Item/7735/

[gme]

I must have been tiny, unless you really have some kind of wave machine going on. I spoke to everyone i know up and down the coast from Scarborough through redcar, tynemouth, newbiggin, bamburgh and pease and no one got in the water. It was waist high at best.

I am desperate to go for a surf and even thought about heading down to that well know secret spot in Yorkshire that was probably shoulder high today but couldnt face the drive as i have already done over a thousand miles this week.

[philo]

aye like I say it was pretty small and shallow, about waist high but still worth getting in for IMO. was in with a lad called tomma? if you know him.  Was still fine on a shortboard and some decent long lefts on the set.  It only worked when the wind changed - blades and the peak down my end


edit: I realise my english is terrible.  Have you not tried some of the hartlepool areas?  Couple of my mates said that they have had some pleasant sessions during the day there on days like tuesday morning.  Defo not worth driving to yorkshire for though, if I had to travel more than 5 minutes to the place i was today I wouldnt have bothered.

[gme]

If it's the tomma who owns secret spot in Scarborough yes I know him.
I know a lad (danny) who surfs Hartlepool a fair bit.
I tend not to travel more than fifteen mins in general other than to goto that reef in yorks. Or sometimes the points.
Good effort getting in I really can't be fussed unless it is a least shoulder high.

[philo]

different toma but now you mention it, I ordered a set of fins last friday from secret spot and still nowt, no email or anything and the website is down.  Ill give em a ring tomorrow about it

[SA Chris]

Oh also, bargain of the day?

http://store.magicseaweed.com/Xcel-Mens-5mm-X-Flex-2010/Item/7735/

Aargh don't tempt me. I might just wait a while until the LTs go out of stock.

[Falling Down]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgWYCN1-aqI&feature=player_embedded#at=15

Ballsy paddle in at Jaws.  The white water looks horrific....