Lost Boys & Co.

Lost Boys & Co... M eeting with the boys before the El Salvador tour... (#1)  Two weeks of surfing and goofing off before anyone suspected we'd be wearing masks... H azy sun this morning with 10 miles visibility and offshore winds at 3.3kts.  The sea surface was smooth.  The air temp was 64.9º and the water is 71.4º.  High tide is at 10:06am +5.4' and low tide follows at 4:18pm +0.8'.   We have a SSW swell out of 202º at 2.6' and it was a thumping 3' with no breaks in the sand bars.  Interesting drops, if you call interesting going straight down and sticking in the sand... D inner at Beto's (#2) where the back-up singers bought us dinner....  Followed by a Mexican Train game that lasted well into the night... O ur intrepid leader and conga player, Oscar, took us into the jungle and scared the shit out of us for the better part of half a day.  At one point we took a zip line ride that was over a quarter of a mile and the canyon we went ove...

Lost Boys & Co... H azy this morning (#1), but the sun broke through and the wind remained offshore all morning.  The sea surface was smooth and the air temp was 64.3º and the water is 70.5º.  High tide was at 9:46am +5.3' and low tide follows at 3:48pm +1.0'.  There was a challenging SSW swell out of 204º that had some ledging rights and tubing lefts at 3' to 4' that broke hard on the middle sand bar.  The rising tide didn't seem to help matters that much, but Tarsan had things figured out and he was taking some late drops and grabbing the rail on every other left.  Ronnie was working the lefts at will and both he and Tarsan got ten or  twelve good ones... L uau at the Professor's (#2) with the Sensei Joey, Mr. Christian, LadySpaine, Ivan, Finn and Buck on the button box...  Some good old fashion porch music... O n the road in Nashville (#3) with Mike Freid (slide guitar player), Ray Doyle (guitar and baritone guitar) and Boomfwappa (drums) after ...

Lost Boys & Co... A memorable first presidential debate of this election cycle.  A bit chaotic (to say the least), but we have an idea.  Let's have both President Trump and Vice President Biden debate naked.  No podiums.  Hand held mics and an audience in the round.  We're thinking it would take on a gladiatorial aspect as they circled the stage and unleashed their barbs at their opponent.  Also coming out at the bell they could jump right in on body shaming and thinly veiled or obvious sexual inadequacies.   Ratings through the roof on that one... M eanwhile, Ché and the Professor got into the shaping bay and mowed out a bullet for Mexico (#1).  23½ wide, 3¼ thick and 9'6" long, it's a log for all seasons.  Includes a fair amount of magic as well... C lear as a bell this morning and the winds were offshore by 3.7kts for a beautiful fall morning.  The air was 67.1º and the water is holding at 70.7º.  High tide was at 9:25a...

Lost Boys & Co... T he tour started in Geezer Lake Minnesota (#1) the week before Halloween.  They had an early snow and some places didn't have the heat adjusted yet.  At the "Ballroom Ballroom" they cranked up the heat and strings started popping.  It sounded like a Yoko Ono film soundtrack.  Even the congas were flat and Chelé used a bottle opener to tune them when he couldn't find his drum key... H ermosa has been so deceptive lately.  Photo #2 is a good example.  If you stood there, you actually saw some good waves.  But if you tried to photograph them they would hide until you put the camera down.  There was 2 miles visibility this morning and it kept trying to get legitimately foggy.  Winds were out of the NW up to 2kts and the sea surface was smooth.  The air temperature was 66.3º and the water is holding at 71.1º.  High tide was at 9:05am +5.0' and low tide was at 2:47pm +1.4'.  There is a SSW swell out of 197º at ...

Lost Boys & Co... #1)  T his would be from the first album "Electric Palm Tree."  Now it's a collectors item, but to be honest, it didn't sell worth a darn and haunted the band for years.  This was the painting on the side of the tour bus... #2)  J etski checking out the surf on Larry Dairy's side hack rig.  There must've been something to it since the surf was really fun and everyone had a good time.  It was overcast and we had 10 miles visibility.  Winds were light to non-existent out of the north.  The air was 65.5º and the water was a delightful 71.1º.  High tide was at 8:41am +4.9' and low tide was at 2:14pm +1.8'.  We have a SW swell out of 225º at 2.3' and it was 2' to 3' and if you were patient you could find a corner and get some traction through the flat spots in the middle...  A fter a couple of sessions at Cardon, the band headed south to Mazatlán for a night on the town (#3).  Yes, this is the night that Capita...

Lost Boys & Co... #1)  W hat is this?  (Yes, we're going to tell you...) T he famous and fabu lead singer and guitar player of the Hollow Legs, Kira "Duck Lips" Lingman.  This is the worst photo she has ever taken, but we couldn't resist... P artly cloudy this morning with 7 miles visibility.  Winds were consistent offshore and the sea surface was smooth. The air temp was 63.3º and the water was 68.9º.  High tide was at 7:03am +4.1' and low tide was barely low at 11:41am +3.0'.  We have a west swell out of 268º at 3.3' and it was 3' to 4' with some good waves breaking through all the tidal iterations... T his is the album cover (#3) from "Coco and the Coconuts:  Live at Brother's Burritos."  Going back through some of our photos we realized we had a number of images that qualified as cover art!  So next week, if we get our act together or if we put the band back together, we'll run some of our favorites... #1)   I t's a sp...

Lost Boys & Co... L adies and Germs (Covid no doubt...) please welcome, our hero, a genuine surfing legend and and all around right guy, Donnie Souther...  Undoubtedly one of our favorite travel partners and Mexico denizen, Don has probably spent  a third of his life below the border... and off the radar... O vercast this morning, clearing early with winds out of the NE by 2.1kts.  The sea surface was glassy.  The air temp was an extremely damp 59.1º and the water was even damper at 70.2º.  High tide was at 5:55am +3.7' and low tide follows early at 9:52am +3.2'.  We have a SSW swell out of 194º at 2.3', but it was half that and looked like a sure recipe for twisting ankles, dragging fins and planting noses... W hat are those guys pointing at?  (#2)  The Professor asked Sal, Tarsan and Ronnie to pose for a photo and when he looked at the result he couldn't figure out at what they were pointing.  Well, if you blow this photo up (at your ow...