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Lost Boys & Co...

From Boomfwappa:
Again you have misled the honorable subscribers to the surf report.  There is no changing of fall colors along the Strand!  In fact, the picture of the truck with the workers that adjust the tide, swell direction, and sand bars is a fake!  Who they really are?  They spray paint fall colors onto dead plants along the Strand!  I've included a REAL picture of the Fall Colors from Casa Boomfwappa, Colorado!!  Stop the Fake News! And your attempt at an art shot? Pitiful Pitiful!

Ed.:  How many times do we have to mislead the "honorable" subscribers to the surf report before they realize that that's basically what we do?  And how many times do we have to put perfectly good words like honorable in quotation marks to make a sarcastic point because almost no one gets sarcasm anymore?  The photograph of the truck and the workers is NOT A FAKE.  It is a real photo taken with a real phone on a real morning.  We don't know who they REALLY are because they were skulking around and wouldn't let us get any closer.  We also aren't quite sure why we capitalized REALLY, and we did it again.  So, if that's a REAL picture of Casa Boomfwappa, why are all the other trees green?  And like Big Daddy said, how come the car is orange too?  We will not stop the fake news because it is most often more entertaining than the real shit.  As for the art shot, you are entitled to your own opinions about art, but you might be right anyway...

Cloudy this morning with 7 miles visibility and onshore winds that were variable at 3 to 5kts.  The sea surface had a bit of texture.  The air temp was 64.3º and the water was 70.2º.  Basically one tide today, a high at 2:28pm +4.6'.  We had a SSW swell out of 215º at 2.3' and it was 2' to almost three as the tide tried to give it a bit of a push... 

By now most people know that Surfer Magazine is ending their print offering.  We still seem to be getting their online mag, but we'll see how long that lasts.  Among the features that we loved to see were first and foremost Murphy (#1) drawn by the incomparable Rick Griffin.  Rick grew up in the South Bay and was friends with Donnie and Bob Souther.  He morphed (or Murphed) into a psychedelic artist in San Fransisco later in the 60's and had some famous Grateful Dead covers...

Another cartoonist sometime later on the Surfer staff was Bob Penuelas who drew Wilbur Kookmeyer (#2).  He had a similar style to Griffin and got into doing Wilbur themed cards and stationary.  Their renditions of waves inspired countless imitations on high school textbook covers and Peachee folders...

Barahona Team rider Dylan Roa (#3) with his new blade.  A great airbrush job by Davey that must've taken multiple days and some crazy stencils...

Even in the dim, dark past, we realized that the ocean was becoming a dumping ground for the world's detritus.  Here (#4) Wilbur wipes out somewhere near the Pacific Gyre...
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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