Ja Ja Ding Dong Thursday Surf & Culture Report



Lost Boys & Co...

Here we have LoLa (#1) checking out the double-competition stripe Barahona that they're getting ready to ship out.  You gotta love those classic lines!  Thinking that would be a good look on our next blade...

Overcast this morning and 9 miles visibility.  Winds were fluky and started out from the southeast and wound up straight out of the west at 3 to 5kts.  The air temp was 60.0º and the water is 62.2º.  Low tide was at 11:34am +0.6' and high tide follows at 6:26pm +4.8'.  We have a SSW swell out of 193º at 3.9' and it was 3' to an occasional 4' sneaker.  Cool and a bit walled, but still fun...

Then there's this three-stringer Rick (#2) that's been hanging in the polishing bay for years.  Who knows if Mangiagli would ever part with it.  Fred is pointing to the nose that had been painted with Slip-Check™ (as was popular in that era) and took some effort to get it removed.  This could be a real beauty with a little attention...

José and the Professor shaking over a new Jacobs 422 (#3).  We asked Hap how he came up with the idea and he said it wasn't him at all, but Velzy!  We though the 422 had come along after the Velzy-Jacobs partnership had dissolved, but maybe Jacobs had that design in his head and only brought it to fruition at a later date...
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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