Well stated. I hope the memorial was a cathartic and good turnout for everyone who knew Ellen.

Ahi's...

That was my first time being tuned into the Eddie and it was truly an amazing event. I guess technically it was a contest but that was just a backdrop for a much more dominant force. It sure got...

I scored ok in the Strait on Saturday. I shared a spot with 15+ other people at a break that should really only hold 5 people (people were stoked and positive but there were lots of collisions). It...

Even our local weather guru is talking this one up:

http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2009/11/big-storm.html

I've been watching it too. Earlier this week stormsurf was predicting a 52-foot surf height from primary swell at the Cape Elizabeth buoy. They've since downgraded it to only 45 feet. I hope it has...

Bud,
Hopefully the crowds weren't too thick at Westport for you. I'm still discouraged by that place after an incident I had there earlier this year.

It looks as if there may be a straits...

Try surfing on the north end of the beach in La Push for smaller, more forgiving waves. 2nd beach (or is it 3rd?) can also be fun. Especially if your friend has a house right in the area. Also,...

From the days when surfers walked 3 miles barefoot over hot sand to get to their breaks.

A porn analogy if I may:
"Morning Of The Earth" is to "Bra Boys" as
"Lady Chatterly's Lover" is to...

North Vancouver Island is pulling me hard, too. I've found very little online info on the area and that only makes me want to go more. I thought about buying into a trip with Tatchu Adventures to get...

Thanks for holding my hand through the cool down, online surf folks. After sleeping on it, I've swallowed my pride and realized that even though I've been surfing the spot longer in time than that...

A kook is clueless and reckless. A barney is clueless but relatively harmless.

Thanks, that was very thorough and helpful. I don't think the local scene in other places translates very well to WA. IMO, Westport has always had more of a transient local scene- it's a tough town...

I was at Westport right next to the jetty where there were about 10 people sharing that peak. I got there, waited out about 10 waves, then started to paddle for a wave after seeing that nobody else...

We needed a referee in the water today, it got ugly. I know there are lots of nuances with who gets the wave, but it's mostly about placement, right? The person closest to the peak or tube gets the...

I'm of similar weight/height to you and have been going through the same love/hate relationship with 9'+ surfboards. My opinion is that the pros of a longer board are that wave count is higher,...

To get numerical swell direction forecast numbers-- visit Wavewatch, Magic Seaweed, Stormsurf, and others(?). It seems that the accuracy goes up when more of the forecast websites agree on the...