Surfing

So never bored on a board - got back into surfing and everyone around me got to give it a try too.
At York Beach in Maine back in 2013, I brought a windsurf board hoping for wind but there wasn't any but there were little waves and everyone was asking to ride my big board.  So they did.

 My son Dylan

My son Kilian

Showing the gang how to rig a sail

Anthony

 David - determined to stand

Anthony not to be outdone by his brother David, stands on the short board!

We didn't have enough surfboards so a windsurf board will work in a pinch.  Joel learned from this why you wear a rash guard - but still had fun.

A clean little one
                       


So how did this happen?  Let's go back to the origins of my surfing (not to make it all about me but it is my blog ;-).  I used to surf when I went to high school in California and then college at UC Santa Cruz.  Here's a throw back of me and my brother in Santa Monica (pretty sure that's where we were).

So a friend gave me a homemade cedar surfboard in 2016.  A beautiful board.  I have to be honest, when I moved to the East Coast in 1998 I didn't see any waves so I stopped thinking about surfing until 2013 when I brought windsurf board in the photos above.  But I had this board so I took it to Matunuck, RI.  It was a bit heavy so I had to paddle early to get momentum but like a fly wheel it kept you going through mushy sections.  I forgot how fun this is! 

There is something about the simplicity of nothing but a board.  No sail to rig, harness etc etc.

It wasn't long before I got real board.  A CC rider.  Original design 9'4" from the movie Endless Summer.  Claude designs surfboard in Florida. 

I learned that you can have larger waves on the East if you watch for hurricanes, here's Second Beach RI after hurricane Irma.  Though with a longboard sometimes the small waves are the funnest.

The cedar board became a chair.   I didn't have room to store it and I need a place to sit!

So if your bored - pick up a board and catch a wave (or have seat)!