Can anyone help Don with coding issue?

Sorry to stick this up on the main page, but your webmaster is going spare trying to figure out why the forums have slowed down to a ridiculous extent.

If you have experience debugging and tracking down such issues and can offer me a little advice or help, please get in touch with me at don (at symbol goes here) realsurf.com. Or if you’re into Twitter, I’m mr_realsurf there.

The forum script is phpBB3

And to all our Forum users, I’m doing my level best to sort out the issue, but as just noted, I’m out of my depth on this.

Cheers,

Don

Design for Humanity is next Wednesday – r u going?

With the hottest event of the year, Billabong’s Design for Humanity, ready to kick off on February 18, 2009 at The Forum in Sydney, it’s not to late to get tickets and help raise much-needed funds for SurfAid International. 

Joining the CASSETTE KIDS, Ashleigh Mannix and DJs The Bag Raiders are a host of names from the surfing world including former world champ Mark Occhilupo, Taj Burrow, Joel Parkinson, the face of Billabong Girls Ash Cheadle and new ambassador Skye Bortoli, the founder of Teens Against Whaling.

With tickets only $30 (+ booking fee) this is one event not to be missed! For more information head to www.designforhumanity.com

Wave hunt part 2

This morning on the incoming tide not too amazing at Curl Curl.

Bit of a delay between observation and report. Had to do a meeting. You know how it is. Anyway, after leaving Dee Why, I came over the hill to find Curly was just as fat and marginal. A few bods were in the water, but you wouldn’t say it was all that impressive. Long waits were the order of the morning, and when the waves came they were pretty weak. Only a few folk in the water giving it a go.  

Looking less than fabulous at fabo Freshwater.

Around the next corner at Freshie, the wind was into it and the conditions were only good enough to  attract a couple people on longboards. Even a real fan of the spot wouldn’t feel hard done by to have missed it this morning.    On to Manly then. And there it was also severely affected by the tide and the south swell direction. There were one or two hopeful types bobbing about down at North Steyne. No one was bothering with Queenscliff and a little group was working an extra micro peak just next to the stormwater pipe. Basically looked like a get wet exercise more than anything else.   

Looking for a head dip on a knee high wave near the stormwater outfall.

Dee Why: Where are the waves???

Despite the forecast and the charts, nothing of consequence making its way into Dee Why this morning. Dunno what’s going on.  

Manly

There is nothing left of the swell we’ve see over the last couple of days here at Manly. Just little waves lapping at the shore. Either the swell is going right past us or there is is no swell. It’s high tide at present, perhaps it may improve as the tide drops but I doubt it.

Hunting waves, pt. 1 WWD-DY

Hello Friends

Usually ordinary, but today one of the pick spots.

First stop for me this morning was at Warriewood, which, as it turns out so far in my travels, had the best waves I’ve seen. They aren’t affected by the SSW wind and there are a few okay ones getting in for the quickly growing crew. Best wave I saw was around the shoulder high mark on the take off, but there were others of similar size coming in and it seemed reasonably consistent.

The only question mark where Warriewood’s concerned is the possible effluent issues from the outfall thanks to the rain we had overnight.

Northy all alone and empty for anyone who fancies a solitary sesh.

From there I swung by Turrimetta which had okay size on the sets but was rendered less than attractive by the wind and lowering grey skies. No one was in the water. Around the corner at North Narrabeen the story was similarly dismal. Again, no one in the water because it was just so woeful. Choppy, messy, fat, you name it and Northy was doing it – or not doing it.

Given the dire state of Northy, I didn’t bother to check south Narrabeen. Saw a couple bods in the water at a perfectly calm looking Collaroy (sets maybe?). Around the corner at Long Reef the conditions were similar to yesterday, ie strangely subdued and unstrangely wind affected. Nothing was showing on the bombies nor it seemed out along the south side of Long Reef.

Well up the beach toward Longy there seemed to be a little peak at around 0830.

Dee Why was small too. Nothing doing at the point, but there was a small crew jagging little things up toward the pole. Didn’t seem quite as big as Warriewood, but I’m sure there’d be the odd set for the dedicated crew.

Next stop, Curly…

Mona

Pretty similar to yesterday morning, it’s a bit all over the place but if your in the right spot you could get some sweet ones!

Whassup along the beaches

Hello Friends,

Coffee’s brewing and soon it’ll be in the flask as yours truly sets out for a scan of the surf situation this morning.

Here’s the raw data…

MHL Sydney buoy currently showing S by SSW swell of 3 metres at 8 seconds. Seas are running closer to 5 metres.

Wind is out of the SSW at 15-20 kts. Exposed locations are more like 20-25 kts and steady.

Zee Bureau’s call:

Gale Warning.

Wind: S 20/30 knots reaching 30/35 knots at times. Sea: 2.5 to 3.5 metres. Swell: S/SE 2 to 3 metres.
Thursday: Wind: S 20/30 knots, easing to 15/20 knots in the afternoon. Sea: 2 to 3 metres abating in the afternoon. Swell: SE 2 to 3 metres decreasing.

Forecast:

Strong Wind Warning for Pittwater, Port Jackson and Botany Bay. Refer
to www.bom.gov.au for latest warnings information.

Forecast for Wednesday
A few showers. The chance of a morning thunderstorm. Cloudy. Moderate
to fresh southerly winds, strong near the coast.

Precis: Showers. Windy.

City: Max: 20 Parramatta: Max: 20
Terrey Hills: Max: 19 Penrith: Max: 21
Liverpool Max: 21 Richmond: Max: 20

Gee, sounds nice eh? Okay, I’m out there, more from me soon…

C C

Showers on the Central Coast this Wednesday morning.  The swell is bumpy at 3 – 4 feet from the southeast.  There is a moderate to strong south southeast breeze.  Low tide 0400 and high tide around 1020.  Local barometer 1005 hpa, 98% humidity, 16 degrees C.  Have a good one.