If it makes Mark feel better: I went out Saturday morning, at the river jetties in Newport beach. I was paddling my Mega Impulse ( super fun little surf boat. I keep a boat in Southern California, at my Mother in law's house.) Some nice steep set waves, not huge but big enough and with plenty of power. Surfed for an hour or so, getting some fast wall rides over a shallow sandbar. There was peak nearby with small, but honest to god tubes. About 25 surfers all jostling for the same takeoff, so I avoided it. Catch a big wave, drop in, cut down the line, go for a big tail slash at the lip, pearl through the bottom of the wave and bounce the nose of my boat off the bottom. Doh! A little smashed up. Repairable, but not surfable without repair. No swims, but a busted up Kevlar boat. Bummer too, since Sunday was supposed to be better than saturday.... Luckily it was my old, already been broken boat, so it wasn't as sad as I would have been if it was my *new* Kevlar boat. Geoff ____________________________________ Geoff Jennings (530) 852-4754 - geoff_at_texaskilonewton.com http://www.kimandgeoff.com/ "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Teddy Roosevelt > I had had enough for the day, but couldn't leave on such a sour note, so I > headed out for one more sortie. I felt better paddling out the second > time; > as if I'd washed out all the jitters on my swim.. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Sep 19 2007 - 08:58:55 PDT
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