Archive for: Surfing

It certainly has been a wet and windy past few weeks here in Blighty/Ireland. With record waves reaching in the region of 57ft (yep someone did have the balls to ride it – no not me), the UK/Ireland has been getting a battering.

Below are a few pictures that were taken by folks on the Magicseaweed website that illustrate just how serious the situation has been over the past few weeks.

This weekend looks to be another pumping weekend, although the wind might be a bit of a problem, so find a sheltered spot and get yourself some time in the green room! And who says Christmas can’t come early huh!

Photo source: Magicseaweed

There is a major low pressure storm coming in this weekend, unfortunately the winds look to be completely in the wrong direction, but the swell looks to be crazy, check the charts below for Newquay for example. If you can find shelter from the wind, then you should get some pretty large rides I would have thought!

Yep we came, we surfed and we conquered. Surfing in Fuerte’ was awesome, check out the pics on Flickr, there’s a little taster below for starters.

Yep we’ve got 2 hours left of work and we are off. Fuerte’ here we come, surf, sand, sun and well for the other two boys, maybe some action, but I am on best behaviour, all good!

Boas ondas!

Just doing the final pre-holiday weather check and yep I can confirm its looking good, but don’t take my word for it, check out the forecast! Yep I predict surfing in the sun in board shorts, relaxing with a few beers and eating some nice tucker, oh yeah, 60% of the time it works all the time!

Yep it is also official that Team Crayon are going to be hitting up the beach and reef breaks of Fuerte’ in 5 days. The water’s about 23 degrees and the air temp is 24, can’t complain with that as it is about 11 degrees here right now!

All that needs to be decided is which boards to take, can’t wait! Hope my cold shifts before I head off!

So me and The Deano are hopefully heading off to Newquay to surf this weekend. The charts are predicting a solid 7ft swell @ 12 seconds for Saturday, with the winds coming from the right direction, so hopefully we’ll be getting wet round about Saturday lunchtime. Hoping to take a few snaps and will report back next week on how it goes.

British Airways have decided to ban the carriage of surfboards on all flights as of the 6th November 2007. This move is absolutely outrageous and means that surfers (including professionals) cannot carry their boards with them when they travel. A Facebook Group: British Airways Surfboard Ban has been set-up and I would urge fellow surfers to join and lobby them. Even if you don’t fly BA, this move will more than likely have a knock-on effect and other airlines will follow suit.

It is like saying to Golfers or cyclists that they can’t take their equipment with them when they travel, absolute bulls*it, unless they change their policy, my last trip to Brazil will be the final time I deal with BA.

Fuerteventura here we come (for the 4th time). Yes me, Simon and Gustavo are going to hit the northern shores of the volcanic islands in just over a month’s time, can’t wait, it should prove to be a quality trip: still warm, plenty of swell, less crowded and a break from the British winter.

So my buddy Simon and I might be hitting up South Africa next month for a little surf travel. Full of anticipation I checked out the charts on Magic Seaweed and low and behold it is going crazy down there this week. If you look at next Saturday you will see what I mean, a 19ft swell at 14 seconds is pretty damn solid. I have surfed Cape Town before and didn’t get munched, but am quite aware of the shark-factor down there, but I guess if its your time, then its your time, fingers crossed if we do make it, the only munching that we will be doing will be of the local seafood, be that from the ocean or the girls in the bars!