21-12-2008 — Hawaii and Chopes, and maybe other places too under the one name of “Hawaii Surfing”, this video is still 4:21 minutes of great waves, some of Laird’s momentus waves at Chopes, some of Flea in Hawaii, others. With nearly 2 million views and a ranking of 4.5, this editor agrees it’s worth the [...]

21-12-2008 — Interesting story in the Sunday Telegraph this morning in Sydney. What do RealSurfers think about this?
 
“A VOLATILE turf war has broken out between the Bra Boys and two outlaw motorcycle gangs that have begun moving into the surfers’ territory in the Sydney suburb of Maroubra.”
 
Here’s a link to the story: Bra Boys story [...]

Your correspondent has been spending too much time below decks tinkering with the engine, so it was about time he put in appearance on the bridge. We have a bit of a backlog in the way of suggested links, so I’m calling this round ‘from the mailbag’.
Cardboard boards? Sounds mad doesn’t it? Rod D. sent [...]

Thanks to the NE windswell, the most interesting cams on the east coast are those at beaches with good exposure to that direction - funny that.
Swellnet’s Manly cam shows surprisingly uncrowded little things coming in, but I reckon it looks a bit nicer for the early at Coffs Harbour.
The tide’ll probably be an issue later, [...]

21-12-2008 — It’s 1pm here and 4pm yesterday at Pipeline. They’re having a fun surf with nice overhead peaks, and it doesn’t look hugely crowded. Some great surfing going on as usual - right now.
 
Here’s a link to the cam LiveSurfCamHawaii.com: Pipeline Camera - and you can control the cam.