This is a c#nt of place to try and get out when its this...I usually go the loooooooooooooooong way

Tux said..

smh said..
I had a look at that Al. I'll have to hire a 666 I guess. There's a few places around I've heard.

Practice your fighting skills...I saw more punch ups at Kasiers and Ala Moana than I did on the North shore

I Didn't bother with either of them...


Koa board sports or Big Wave Dave were the best hire joints i found, street back from the duke statue, have storage and good to deal with.

Tux said..
This is a c#nt of place to try and get out when its this...I usually go the loooooooooooooooong way

Tux said..

smh said..
I had a look at that Al. I'll have to hire a 666 I guess. There's a few places around I've heard.

Practice your fighting skills...I saw more punch ups at Kasiers and Ala Moana than I did on the North shore

I wont be going out either of those spots.

smh said...

Tux said..
This is a c#nt of place to try and get out when its this...I usually go the loooooooooooooooong way

Tux said..

smh said..
I had a look at that Al. I'll have to hire a 666 I guess. There's a few places around I've heard.

Practice your fighting skills...I saw more punch ups at Kasiers and Ala Moana than I did on the North shore

I wont be going out either of those spots.

I assumed it was the same spot?

smh said..
I'm heading over there next year Mac. A guy I surf with reckons theres a spot called Pops that is also good. I'll just hire out a barge over there.

Yeah both good spots you'll love that place which month are you going?

Agree with SP Kona and Big Wave Dave.

This was before they damned the creek so the bank at the farm epic. A big peak out in the middle of the bay. The lefts were awesome - wally not barrelling like the right and the elk around was the go if you got caught - and the right was every bit of six foot. Super crowded but I was young so I got my unfair share. on a katana 6'6".

And at that stage I didn't even know Busso had a beach. Gero boy with a Busso farmer girlfriend so I just drove through the town from the farm for two years before I saw that part of the bay.

thedrip said...
The outline has been drawn and cut out. These got ordered last March (2015). Hopefully they are completed this year. 9'6" X 21 1/2 X as much as he can get out of the blank (around 3 1/2 Tom reckons - maybe a smidge more) and 8' X 21 1/2 X whatever he can keep (3 1/4 roughly maybe).




But they are babies next to this behemoth 12 footer. I simply can't imagine the waves it is capable of surfing, although I have seen pics of it in action at huge Margies. It gets stored at the factory for space reasons.




The broccoli board on the left, and four more out of frame, are for two Queensland blokes. Keep an eye out for them surfing five fin Precision Equip surfboards.

These two for me are the first boards I will have with The Claw, despite having 7 boards off Tom over the years.

Found a copy of one of pics of the big yellow board in action. Big board for big waves. In the next few pics in the sequence (which I have seen but don't have) the guy floundering around in the base of the wave misses out on being decapitated by a foot or two.

How big do you reckon this wave is? The board make the wave look "not that big", then I zoom in and see the size of the guy compared to the face. He is 6'5" btw.

The pic makes me want to be rocked gently to sleep by my mum.

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smh said...

MickPC said...

thedrip said...


Found a copy of one of pics of the big yellow board in action. Big board for big waves. In the next few pics in the sequence (which I have seen but don't have) the guy floundering around in the base of the wave misses out on being decapitated by a foot or two.

How big do you reckon this wave is? The board make the wave look "not that big", then I zoom in and see the size of the guy compared to the face. He is 6'5" btw.

The pic makes me want to be rocked gently to sleep by my mum.

haha yeah I would not like to be that guy floundering, did the guy go above or around him?

I'd call it 3 to 4 times overhead or about 20 foot face, I tend to round sizes when it gets over double head

i would have said 10 - 12 feet .

Nah...6 foot

Photos from today.






Surf reports from today. Only 6/10 and 3/10.









The Bombie in the first pic is markedly bigger than the wave with the surfer. Only 3-4 apparently.

thedrip said..

smh said...

MickPC said...

thedrip said...


Found a copy of one of pics of the big yellow board in action. Big board for big waves. In the next few pics in the sequence (which I have seen but don't have) the guy floundering around in the base of the wave misses out on being decapitated by a foot or two.

How big do you reckon this wave is? The board make the wave look "not that big", then I zoom in and see the size of the guy compared to the face. He is 6'5" btw.

The pic makes me want to be rocked gently to sleep by my mum.

haha yeah I would not like to be that guy floundering, did the guy go above or around him?

I'd call it 3 to 4 times overhead or about 20 foot face, I tend to round sizes when it gets over double head

i would have said 10 - 12 feet .

Nah...6 foot

Photos from today.






Surf reports from today. Only 6/10 and 3/10.









The Bombie in the first pic is markedly bigger than the wave with the surfer. Only 3-4 apparently.

6foot ? Looking at that guy standing there it looks 4 times overhead. Its got to be bigger than 6 foot . decent size wave nonetheless

thedrip said..

He went above him, caught a nose rail, then fell off. The sequence is seven or eight shots. Bith the boys got demolished. I dunno. Everyone goes on about how when Margies is that big the Masters should move to NP. I personally think a survival in the high seas and surfing that well should be part of the criteria for world champ, not just riding a perfect 6-8 barrel. Gives the Aussies a chance against the Zillas and barrel aficionados like JF.

Above! Geez that guy must have been sh1tting himself, would be cool to see the full sequence mate.

I agree...why hold a contest at a reknown big wave spot if you move the contest when it gets big...although I'd rather surf a big day at margs than an average day at the box

Do you remember that year the Masters was held & it was huge. There was some great footage of Pauline Mencer going over the falls & Tom Curren surfed one into the rivermouth. Something no one could recall anyone ever doing before. Unfortunately they never showed any footage of him doing it on the telly, so dunno if there ever was some. I've tryed to find footage but havn't been able to, was early 90's about '92.

I ended up on a follow up show called "shut up & surf" surfing a couple of waves at South Point. Shown on channel ten, I asked for a copy of the show about 6 years later but they said they didn't keep anything. It was all shot by some guys from Vic on contract who had all the footage & they couldn't release details.. Would love to have got hold of the offcuts. Seems like most stuff from before the digital age has been lost & gravity has blown most vhs recordings.

chrispy said..
Wow I'm getting old....i would not have even put a 12 there and just called it 15 foot....

And at that size how can you call someone floundering....i call them haha hahaha from me being nervous

A bit of a running joke with my mates over the years. Everything on the SW of WA has to have a 12...it is written

Can only be 10-12 or 12-15 either way there must be a 12.

thedrip said..

I agree regarding Margies...personally I always found it super challenging there once it was over 6 foot...the jack on that place is crazy

Nice story