Friday, April 28, 2006
Surf Reports
Wednesday March 29: Campus Point
Thursday April 6: Montecito Coast
Saturday April 8: Santa Claus Lane
Sunday April 9: Rincon
Wednesday April 12: Sands and Deveraux
Thursday April 13: Sands
Saturday April 15: Rincon
Sunday April 16: Rincon
Wednesday April 19: Sands
Thursday April 20 Sands
Sunday April 23: Rincon
Thursday April 27: Goleta Beachbreaks
FCS Replacement Screws
We were frustrated with our stripping FCS replacement screws and couldn't find any info online about the specs or how to purchase them so we wrote something, the FCS Replacement Screw Review.
Classifieds
Doug has two more boards for sale in the classifieds, this time two Becker longboards for $625 each.
Jeff is selling his 1999 GMC Denali for a Santa Barbara Surfing special price of $15,000.
Bobby Morris at Trestles Surf Bout
Bobby surfed in Heat #2 of Round 6 today at 11:15am against Anthony Petruso, Dustin Cuizon, and Austin Ware in four foot clean conditions. Rob Machado was announcing the heat online and said, "Bobby Morris.... hmm never heard of Bobby Morris, but he is ripping." We are wondering why Bobby is not on his yellow board, but off the bat Bobby got a 7.00 for 2nd place and then his 2nd wave he got an underscored (as Machado described it) 4.77 to keep in 2nd place. He fell into 3rd place and neither of his next 2 waves improved his score. Then on his 5th wave he threw some crazy tail for a 6.43 to eake himself into 1st place with 6 minutes left. With one minute left Bobby got knocked back into 3rd after Dustin and Austin were given scores in the 8's. It appeared Bobby was surfing the most advanced but his wave selection had some troubles towards end. Good show anyway for the lad.
Bobby Martinez at Bells Beach
Bobby Martinez lost to Andy Irons in Round 4 of the Bells Beach WCT contest. It was a cruddy heat where the waves just dissapeared. Both surfers got some mediocre rides but the judges thought Andy's were better by a combined 2 points. Andy went on to lose against Occy in the Quarterfinals. As one reader noted, the only WCT heats Bobby has lost are to once and current world champions. Bobby is now ranked #4 in the world, behind Kelly Slater, Taj Burrow, and Joel Parkinson. Andy Irons is in 5th. Here's to hoping that Bobby's #4 seeding will keep him from drawing a heavyweight until the Quarterfinals, unlike the bogus draw against Irons in Round 4 this time.
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