That's What We're Talking About Thursday Surf & Culture Report

Lost Boys & Co...

It's a bird!  No, it's a plane!  No! It's a flaming surfboard flying high above Brother's Burritos dining room!  It's going so fast that it's got flames comin' out of the sides and everything!  Actually, it's an art installation featuring the work of a number of South Bay artists and sponsors including:  Ché Barahona on airbrush, the laminating virtuosity of Steve "Birdie" Burdette and Oscar Barahona (who also sanded the hell out of it), glossing by Jimmy "MPR" Barahona, polishing by Mr. Slick himself, Fred Williams, some whacky shaping and lettering by the Professor and generous support from the Danger Boy Foundation for the Arts and the Mangiagli "Better Living Through Chemistry" Glassing Company.  Thanks to Brother's Burritos for giving us a reason to do something special like this!  Especially, Ronnie, Ivan, Lance, Juan, Oscar, José (Yoshi), Christian, Nathan, Maddy and Marco.  Not too mention the stellar cast of regulars, so we won't...

Unlimited visibility this morning and a relatively cloudless sky for most of the day, since most self respecting clouds wouldn't be able to withstand such violent winds.  Winds, yeah.  Started out around 15.0kts at daybreak and just kept ramping up all day long.  Around noon it was over 20kts and the sea surface was one long slash of whitewater.  The air temp was 53.1˚, not too mention the wind-chill factor and the water was 57.9˚.  High tide was at 7:23am +6.9' and low tide will follow at 2:33pm -1.7'.  At checkout we had a west swell out of 279˚ at 5.9' and the surf was 6' to 8'.  At mid-day it was close to 9', but it was so windy all you could do was watch...  Mañana will give us an entirely new set of coordinates and we'll have to find a corner that might work with the leftovers from the gale...  Stay tuned...  

May those who love us, love us. And for those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts. And if He doesn't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles, so we will know them by their limping. - Irish blessing

 Donnie, Yoshi, the Professor, Danger Boy, Ivan and Juan mugging for the camera.  
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
 The Professor!!

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