EDiology

Not to be confused with Entomology, the scientific study of insects, Etiology, the study of causation or origination or Etymology, the study of the history of words, Big Ediology is the study of sweet eyes.

Some of his research recently posted on Facebook http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/COB

Represent. DWU!

Logger eyes out Cali -almost

Thank God I was there... It was a beautiful Fall morning. Air temp 60s, water temp 60s and there appeared to be a log alert going on at El Porto in waist-3rd rib surf, unfortunately no photo was taken. After complaining for about 30 minutes consecutively Leon declared that he was not going to Surf in California this winter! I begged him that this was extreme and tried to convince him that people love surfing Cali in the winter and that with some adaptive equipment including a hood, gloves, booties and a 5/4, and Vaseline for his face he may be able to once again enjoy the glory that is California in the Fall! Likely dx FVS
Frozen Vagina Syndrome. Hopefully, he'll recover.

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Opening Night

Hanging Post Game and Pre Rage with Pau

after the Lakers take home an opening night win

and their championship rings

How does this make you feel?

Trestles Alert

Dedicated to the Dipper

Chinese Log Alert!

Keeping on the asian logging theme...

Surfing China 2010 from Glenn Brumage / Wabsono on Vimeo.

A japanese cobb

There is no Bushmill's in Japan, but this guy is drinking the next best thing Tory's Suntory Whisky and his glass was small, until....

Flash Cobb

A flash cobb (or flashcobb) is a small group of cobbs who assemble suddenly in a public place, to perform surfing, working out, eye checking for a brief time, then disperse. The term flash cobb is generally applied only to gatherings organized via telecommunications, social media, or viral emails.The term is generally not applied to events organized by public relations firms, protests, and publicity stunts.

Sano Nelsen/Lougee Log Alert

Sano Surfing 2010 from Chad Nelsen on Vimeo.

On Sunday, September 26th a Nelsen/Lougee family-wide log alert was issued at Sano.

Equipment: 9'8" Harbour Banana & assortment of INTs
Surf: Head high for the groms
Weather: Sunny & hot! pushing 100! Wind: Glass
Water Temp: 69°
Stoke: 9.2

Hello Igor

The name Igor has meant so much to so many. What will it mean for us this week? Perhaps it will mean...

Log Alert!

Dume Alert

I just finished a 4 hour session at Dume with my neighbor. For the first hour we were the only ones out...until Laird paddled out and started dominating! That spot is pretty epic, and according to the guy I was surfing with some of the crotchett is gone, and has been replaced with families and overweight surfing professionals. All and all, A+ session

Buoy, Oh Buoy! This is Swell!

After years of virtual buoys and eye-balled surf sizing, Puerto Rico's North Shore is finally getting a buoy that will provide actual real-time wave data. This info should prove useful not only for forecasting, but also to figure out which spots might work best for a given swell. I guess it's time to dust off the wave log and start recording swell height, period and direction on those epic days.

A big shout out to Dr. Miguel Canals for bringing a surfer's perspective to this effort.

To make things even better, Canals is feng shui-ing a buoy off-shore of Rincón. It should be in place around Halloween. That's some seriously localized swell info on the horizon.

Check the San Juan Buoy

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Say Wha?

Some ridiculous board riding from one of the masters of glide. The video title is a bit mysterious as even a French surf check would be unlikely to cover the distance from Lafiténia to J Bay. Then again...

The decline of western civilization... or at least Point Dume

Native Point Dume surfer and author Katie Arnoldi has watched her beachfront community turn from rural, board-and-batten enclave to haute bourgeois beach club, filled with yoga moms on SUPS. She is not amused.

Her latest novel, Point Dume, is a study of the place she knows like few others. She skewers a variety of Malibu archetypes, but saves much of her venom for the despoliation of the coastal foothills at the hands of Mexican drug cartels and residential developers.



Sounds like this could provide some insight into the step behavior found in and around Malibu. Then again, it could just be sour grapes. Probably worth eyeing.

The Original Cabron

The Original Cabron, pre-jo, doing some old school charging on PR's north shore back in the day.

Interesting Eye

Alive and Well 10 years later!

Just a quick note to commemorate the10 year aniversery of THE Robe
Rage. If anyone is interested Pony and are meeting at my place at
5:30am on Monday to charge No LA solid south. The Mossi In the picture
is EPIC!

Thank You KB

'nuff said




For some reason, the embedded code isn't working, so Click Here to Listen To LCD Soundsystem's show. It's well worth the the time and effort. The show is epic.

Honey, we need to go to the market!

Overstoke

Stoke can fuel the best of fires. Like cobbing, it almost always makes good things happen.


On the rare occasion, however, an overstoke can lead to some wayward eyes. Case in point: Steven Spielberg and George Lucas read John Milius's script for Big Wednesday and got so swept up that they traded points with Milius. They gave Milius points in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Wars for a piece of Big Wednesday.

Big Wednesday was a flop, and Close Encounters and Star Wars each grossed around $600 million."

Sweet eye for Milius who allegedly said that the loot "helped pay for his divorce."

How Things Should Be

Whoever reaches the finish line first needs to facilitate this future form of malogua facilitation.

Who's in?

A Moment of Weakness

Quizzes by Quibblo.com

Church Fish Alert!

Great session at Church with activist representing Hawaii, New Jersey, Oregon & San Clemente. Inside peak to ourselves.

(sans Kaenon)

(with polarization by Kaenon C-12)

Equipment: 5'6" KG Twinzer
Surf: Head high
Weather: Sunny & high high 60's: Light side/off-shore breeze.
Water Temp: 64degrees
Stoke: 7.8

Here Come the Maloguas

Shot posted by Chovy from land o'malogua

and the Surfline assessment of the area's conditions

REGIONAL SUMMARY:
New SSW(195-205) groundswell builds in, peaking through the day. Exposures see solid surf in the head high+ zone, with sets to double overhead for top breaks.

along with the forecast

I knew it!

Abe discovers...

The Joy of Coolers!

Wind & Sea Log Alert issued Saturday, March 28th.

Dry Run

Here you see Chad tuning up the young cobbs on quality mow and the importance of cooler hygiene.

Obviously there is something missing in this photo, but the strength coach still seems stoked.

Abe top-roping his first pitch. Obviously, he'll have some big shoes to fill as a climber following in my footsteps. Check the nonchalance of Sam, he reluctantly climbed with ropes and harness so that Abe would.

Chadrico and I took the boys for some dry land cobbing. Abe's first camping trip was a great success. After hours was chocked full of yucks, magnification, strength, and cold beer. As an aside, 2 days later I surfed overhead Zeroes on the first legitimate South of the summer. I have high hopes for the M2!

Hometown Hero

Check out this footage of the Gundo benevolent alpha dog chargin huge Porto on his log this winter. I think the most impressive part is the paddle out. This is something to aspire to...I think.

What's your tacoshed?

The maloguas love tacos. They are also responsible stewards of our environment and seek to minimize their impact on the planet and waves we so enjoy. As such, it's important to understand your "tacoshed". What is a tacoshed?

The tacoshed, much like a watershed, establishes the geographical boundaries of a taco’s origins—the source of everything from the corn in the tortilla to the tomatoes in the salsa.

Here's a nice example pulled together by some CCA students. The taco the group deconstructed for the illustrations below was from Juan’s Taco Truck in the city’s Mission District





Even a single taco is a window into the complexities of globalization.

You can read more about the project here.

Kiko SUP - glass!

Sano | waist high | air: 80° | water: 65° | ETN | super- tranqui

HTStreet Log Alert

Lines

Log Chamber

Inspirational Cutback

Holy Cutback Cobber! Check the whole sequence here - its worth it.

Malibu's Ten Commandments

Not to be confused with the Ten Cobbmandments (coming soon).

2010 - A Tres Odyssey

New Year's Day - 2010
where were you?

Equipment: 9'8" Harbour Sol
Surf: Overhead.
Weather: Sunny & high 80's Light off-shore breeze.
Water Temp: 81 degrees
Stoke - Schedule 4²

Log Alert Rebus

Looking Forward

A weeklong Schedule Four Log Alert is being issued for Rincón, Puerto Rico.
Effective immediately.

It's worth noting that I cannot recall ever seeing a forecast as favorable for my type of logging in eight years on the Rock. Let's hope it pans out.

Looking Back

The duckdiver forced a bottom turn in the flat which lead to a foam ride, before this logger re-acquired the face to the disgust of the many lurking surfers eyeing the drop-in.

This Log Alert was captured by Angelo Cordero while shooting from Indi's.

Equipment: Cranberry Stick by Scott Henry
Surf: Head high.
Weather: Sunny & high 80's Light off-shore breeze.
Water Temp: 82 degrees
Stoke - Schedule 4

The crotchet speaks

Believe it or not I used to read long novels!

Wave Glider,
This has become a surfboard dumping site which bums me out. I look here about once a week. I am super busy with several projects. I have just been turned loose to get back to shaping after major cervical surgery (nine hours of 2, one anterior and one posterior) in July. I have 3 more balsa/curly redwood boards to finish. I have an art show in February that includes a book. The book has consumed much of my time. More about the book and show when it is appropriate.

Anybody can contact me directly at: rich@harboursurfboards.com. I check it several times a day and (unless I'm out of town) usually am able to get back that same day.
Everyone: Please try to get all of your questions into one email. I just don't have the time to keep answering one question at a time, email after email.

Now to Wave Glider's question:
The 2009 Banana has a slight increase in nose rocker, and very softly rounded corners. Nobody that has ridden one has complained about loss of drive. It simply did not happen. Everybody likes the slight nose lift. Easier drop in's, easier paddling with less face splash, and absolutely no loss in nose riding. In fact, several better surfers have noticed the increased stability with the slight nose width.
If you want last year's design with the corners on the tail, simply specify 2008 Banana. It is still in my files.
Rich Harbour

A Poet and he knows it!

As a literature and history concentrator I feel that I can beg the questions, "What about Rossi? What about sharing a strength with a few Cobbs? What about cold KFC bought the night prior and refrigerated?" All and all another fine piece from the Harbour Website Arts and Literature section.

San Onofre

When you start there

Those waves stay with you

All your days

You'll never be as afraid

As you should be

Of something about to break

As sometimes at Sano

It doesn't break

Not outside and not

A hundred yards more

Toward the shore.

Waves elsewhere break

Hard upon the sand

Or the rocks or scrape you

Along the coral

The length of the reef.

A San Onofre wave

Turns a kid into

An optimist

Take one ten feet tall

It'll never roar or send you

Onto the round smooth

Rocks on the seabed

From Dogpatch to The Point.

At Old Man's you can ride

Those combers all day

They'll never kill you

It's just that at low tide

You'll have to walk atop

Those rocks, the most pain

You'll ever have at San Onofre

Named after a saint

Who lived sixty years in the desert

Whose miracles remain mysterious

As the way you move on a wave.

Malibu Makes Another Surfer's Day

I found this piece on the Harbour Website. It reminds of the classic Dick Vine poem "You never call me, You just call me back...and that's slack,"


Malibu

You'll never catch a wave
If you don't take it
Raise your hand and interrupt
Put yourself in the place
To interrupt, be the guy
Who whistles another off
Instead of being whistled at
By some laird of the lineup
Blowing in from the north.

On the charming point of Malibu
If you are going to make that wave
Don't paddle away from the curl

Turn left into it
Counterintuitive to every beach break
The point break wants you
Not shying away.
Paddle right and you'll paddle
yourself out of the wave
It will never catch you
You'll grow so tired
After all those misses
You'll be dispirited
To be at Malibu
On your longest plank
Not catching any waves

Lakeshow

HTS & Rico, complete with matching LS&S garb, commemorate the Laker's 2009 World Championship in between watching them crush Phoenix to extend their winning streak to 9 games.

Followed by a quick stop here...



The deep german/belgian beer & sausage, frite menu combined with serious pressure to make a hasty order nearly undid us but we came through it with great success.

Oregon Soul Log

Take a beat up mid-60's Dewey Webber and a thrashed mid-60s Jacobs that have been deglassed. Insert some redwood and port orford cedar - mixing in a little high density pink foam.

Add a dose of serious creativity and vision a beautifully hand made fin of the same materials, cover with special volan and inlay and you have a pretty incredible Oregon soul log.



The genius behind this reconstruction is Bryan Bates of sevensurfboards.com. The planshape is a Cort Gion Signature Model outline, Cort helped with the fin and the rails and some other aspects. From Markus Meade the proud new owner, "I have no idea how Bates "saw" a board from the wreckage that was. His creativity and craftmanship is amazing; it's like magic." He continues, "I intend to ride it; just not often. And yes, it's as heavy as it looks. All I need now is a right hand point break."

Amen.

Fwd: 10'4" Rapier for sale in Santa Monica $500

This could be a great cover up for Schedule 4 as well as a great opportunity to put some sheckles in the board schlepping karma bag! Obviously the Rapier is moving on but the Leviathan 2 is in Pearson's shaping bay as we speak.

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Begin forwarded message:

From: "Francisco F. Garcia" <ffgarcia-9658p@adv.oa.pt>
Date: December 3, 2009 9:27:24 AM PST
To: <tspector@smbp.com>
Subject: 10'4" Rapier for sale in Santa Monica $500

Hi!

 

Would you ship the board to Portugal?

Naturally I will pay the freight and package.

 

Kind regards,

Francisco

Guest Log

A succinct but stoked description of the morning session by guest log enthusiast - the "Nigerian Nightmare" who rode his Pride with aplomb at Antonio's in super tropo conditions. Crowd maxed out at 4 - total. Dozens of lined up glassy walls, mostly rights, but with occasional lefts to satisfy the visiting goofyfooter who charged despite the appearance of his alter ego "Johnny Nightlife" the evening before. The first of 3 Antonio's sessions, the last of which, featured Ali's return to logging.

Equipment: Cranberry Stick by Scott Henry
Surf: Shoulder high. Clean. Glassy.
Weather: Sunny & high 80's
Water Temp: 82 degrees
Stoke - Schedule 3