Torch It Off Tuesday Surf & Culture Report


Lost Boys & Co...

You get some idea how the ghastly wet foggies have crept in, from this photo of a trio of palm trees above Hennessey's. We're calling it a hundred yards visibility, but in some corners it looks about half that. Winds are gentle out of the NW by 1.9kts and the sea surface is obscured (although we did walk out onto the Hermosa pier and can pretty much vouch for glassiness.) The air temperature is 57.9° and the water is 63.9°. High tide is at 8:26am +6.6' and low tide will be at 3:36pm -0.7'. If the fog lifts by this afternoon it'll be a great time to do some beachcombing along the super low-tide line. The buoy is reading a WSW swell out of 251° at 2.0'. We're calling it pretty much flat...

Some of you will be able to see our second photo of the Professor, the Maharishi and Buck. (We don't exactly know why some of you won't, but that's the way it is...) This is them looking fairly chipper and be-suited as they await arraignment in a temporary building in San Ysidro. We were marveling at the fact that between the three of them there are better than 20 aliases. Among our faves: Rollo Brawley, Mahatma Caine-Jeeves, Bernie Splevins, Buck N. (Naked) Splevins, Bart Splevins, Eric Starvo-Galt, Barry Santos, Buck & Barry Box (the Box Bros.), Curly Podoloris, Max, Norm & Min Hotpoint (taken from an air conditioning unit in a motel in Little Rock, Ark. - Think FAST...), Micky Dora, Hap Jacobs and Corky Carroll. Although we're not at liberty to discuss the exact nature of the charges, they have assured us that renting expensive foreign cars and driving them north across the border is NOT a crime. However, California authorities insist that just because the speedometer says 160, doesn't mean you can go that fast. Bernie: "I had lots of pedal left." Buck: "Barry said they wouldn't shoot!" Barry: "Hell, there was nothing but desert out there - oh yeah and cops..." Good news: They were all wearing seat belts. Bad news: Ferrari's don't have rain gutters in which to attach surfboard racks and you can't go as fast as you'd like with them sticking out of the window like that... Dredging the southern end of the Salton Sea has not produced an alleged third automobile.

"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
The Professor!!

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