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Thursday, September 15, 2005

A return of the winter crew that strangely didn't show on Thursday, people talking about their new guns for the winter and reminiscing about last year. Waves were very sporadic. Should have been there yesterday.

Today is the 10th Anniversary of Tim Maddux's Santa Barbara Surfing. Tim was actually posting surf reports on usenet much before that, but the report of September 15th, 1995 is the oldest one archived on this site. You can view it in Tim's orginial form here, and it's also been imported into the new scheme here.

For those new to this site since 2002, Tim orginally started this site on the UCSB Engineering servers, where it was well known for gathering weather and bouy data before the slew of sites out there, and providing very detailed first person post session surf reports. Tim finished up his PhD in 2002, handed the site off to pope, and headed out to Woods Hole and then onto Oregon State University where he is currently a Faculty Research Associate in Ocean Engineering. You can still find Tim posting on alt.surfing and surfing in Oregon.

In the days to come we will be highlighting Tim's classic 10 year old surf sessions. Happy 10 years Tim.
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Santa Barbara Surfing. Created by Tim Maddux. Continued by Pope.