Grey start but waves still

Hello Friends,

1020ish and a set comes through the inside at Longy...

Just ducked out to run an errand and had a look at the situation mid-morning. Pick spot seemed to be an inconsistent Longy. But there would be waves for desperates along the entire Dee Why stretch and ditto north from about Marquesas to Northy.

0800: lines stacking in at Dee Why.

Skies are grey and our swell has weakened overnight from around four metres on average yesterday to around 2.5 metres this morning. The period is still sitting on 10 seconds and it’s still dead south. Wind at around 0800 was out of the ESE but only lightly so. What this meant for Dee Why was somewhat junky and inconsistent conditions. Set waves along the beach are head high plus, but they’re shutting down with great regularity. The point is less consistent and smaller and as usual, it really wants a touch of east in the swell to get working. There are some chest high sets coming through for the crew, but overall it’s definitely smaller than the beach.

The Bureau expects the wind to swing around through the eastern quarters and to pick up from the NE and get to 13-18 kts. The swell should hang in there through the day, and I’m hopeful that it’ll be around for us again tomorrow. The NE wind should, one hopes, offer improvement for the north corners.

(Should have pics up later when Ross gets a chance to take a spanner to the gallery…)

How to Get Sponsored for Surfing

FirstStoke.com has written this great article:

Aspiring pro surfers are always looking for that little edge to help them to get sponsored. To help out with this, First Stoke talked to pro surfers, team managers, and other surf industry veterans from around the world to get their perspectives on getting sponsored.

Here’s a link to the full story:

http://firststoke.com/news-events/articles/how-to-get-sponsored-for-surfing/

Here’s a link to another good site called Surf Spono:

http://www.surfspono.com/modules/xt_conteudo/?id=2

Interesting reading even if, like me, you don’t have a hope.

Shari

GOVERNMENT EXTENDS RIP CURL PRO SUPPORT UNTIL 2011

The Rip Curl Pro Surf & Music Festival has been granted funding for a further three years by the Victorian Government leading up to the 50^thanniversary in 2011 the Premier John Brumby announced yesterday at Bells Beach.

Mr Brumby and the Sports and Recreation Minister, James Merlino met with two-time World Champion and Rip Curl Pro Contest Director Damien Hardman at Bells Beach today to make the announcement.

“The Rip Curl Pro is a major draw card on a dynamic calendar of major events including the Melbourne Grand Prix, Australian Open and the AFL Grand Final,” Mr Brumby said.

“That’s why I am delighted to announce that the Victorian Government will support the Rip Curl Pro for a further three years, delivering on our commitment to building on Victoria’s world-class major events.”

Mr Merlino congratulated event organisers for supporting both men’s and women’s surfing at the annual Rip Curl Pro Surf & Music Festival. 

“It creates an exciting platform to celebrate excellence in sport and attracts strong tourism to the region,” Merlino said.

Rip Curl Group Advertising and Marketing Chairman Neil Ridgway said Rip Curl was excited to extend its relationship with Victoria for a further three years and to have the world’s most prestigious surfing contest sit in the Victorian ‘Hallmark Events’ program sanctioned the Rip Curl Pro as elite. 

“This partnership helps to cement both men’s and women’s professional surfing for the next three years and that is very important for both ASP world tours. Rip Curl sees surfers as equal no matter what their gender and that attitude is epitomized in the Rip Curl Pro.”

Surfing Victoria Rip Curl Pro Event Director Max Wells welcomed the announcement. 

“The Rip Curl Pro is an amazing event that is held in very high regard by our surfers worldwide, so on behalf of Surfing Victoria, I wish to express our appreciation of the long term and continuing support of our iconic event by the Victorian Government,” Mr Wells said.

Cronulla – Aquasea wetsuit repairs

Cloudy, Easterly onshore breeze, a bumpy lumpy 3foot+ southerly swell hitting most beaches this morning. Not pretty but surfable if your keen. Best breaks Elouera – The Wall.
WIND: E at 14kph. WATER TEMP: 19 degrees.
SWELL: Southly 2.5-4 metres at 10 seconds.
FORECAST: Mostly fine, although cloudy. Chance of a late shower or two. Light to moderate southeast winds turning northeasterly during the day.
MAX AIR TEMP TODAY: 20-23 degrees.
TIDES: HIGH: 06:58 LOW: 13:36
WINDSURFERS: OK for experienced riders today.
BOAT DIVING: Excellent sea conditions outside, vis around 10m+ on the TUGGERAH and Kelloe, 8m+ at Barons Hut, thanks to www.seatamerdive.com Sydney Scuba Diving Boat Charter and Ian Griffiths “Griffiti”.
SHORE DIVING: 4 metres vis at Oak Park. 4 metres at Shiprock.
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Fading Fast

Swell is dropping off rapidly in the past few hours.  Point was head high around 0630 and barely breaking now. Still a few sizeable ones up Longy way though. Cheers, Rob

Mona Vale

It’s junk out MV this morning, messy, closing out, windy, cold, and very uninviting!

Samoan surf report for week 47 of 2008

WEEKLY   REPORTS  for    2008

Report No:    47-08

Period:            Monday 17^th to Sunday 23^rd November 2008  

Monday.  High tide 10:37am. After a hot breakfast out front at Resorts was the spot in really clean, sunny shoulder high conditions. There were a few lefts and rights to be had, but the swell was pretty straight with a few closing out. Only 3 crew in the water so it was still good fun.

Tuesday.  High tide 11:48am. All our surfing guests left today so no surf trip. Conditions were similar to yesterday.

Wednesday.  High tide 12:55pm.  Our new guests were pretty pumped about a boat trip and with a SE wind blowing they hit Pebbles. It was waist to shoulder high and very surfable with a few little barrels on the inside wedge section and walls for turns out the back.

Thursday. High tide 1:52pm.  Due to poor conditions on the southern side they hit the north side of Upolu ending up at The Rock and it was reasonably good. There was a bit of swell with waves ranging between head to head +1/2 pounding in with steep rights that you could do a few turns on, but the pick of it was the occasional short punchy left. Bit windy at the start but the wind backed of during the 4 hr session till it was glassy.

Friday.  High Tide 2:43pm.  After a heavy tropical downpour after lunch they headed out on the boat to Pebbles. The wind was light offshore and the waves were clean as a whistle with head high sets, barrel, no crowd and sunny skies, saw the guests having a great session.

Saturday.   High tide 3:27pm. With the wind blowing from the SE it was back to Pebbles. The inside section was again offering barrels just about every wave and lots of steep take offs, blow outs and hoots from the guys in the water. Another 4 hour session        

Sunday.  High tide 4:07pm.  Some of our new guests got up super early for a quick paddle out at Resort to get rid of the last of the jet lag, in small peaky conditions. Due to surfer numbers they took two boats in the arvo, one went to Special K which was a little bit weak for Samoan standards, but still a lot of fun with waist to shoulder high rights. The conditions were glassy and it seemed to improve towards the end of the session.  The other boat went to Coco’s and with the swell mainly SE it was closing out a bit but there were still some surfable waves in clean conditions.

Photos   47a-08 Andy (going left) at Pebbles, 47b-08 Rene paddling back through one at Pebbles

Cheers….George

C C

Very light showers and mild on the Central Coast this Wednesday morning.  The swell is smooth at 3 – 4 feet  from the southeast.  There is a light southwest breeze then northeast later.  High tide 0800 and low tide around 1435.  Local barometer 1010 hpa, 82% humidity, 16 degrees C.  Have a good one.