Thursday, May 29, 2008
The Surfrider's showing of 
' Out There' along with the Wayne Rich benefit was a smashing success last night. We've written a column over on Edhat.com with a few photos as well.
Contest Surfing
- Bobby Martinez has advanced into Round 4 at the WCT event in Fiji by beating Yadin Nicol and Heitor Alves. He faces Adrian Buchan when the next swell arrives down there.
- Demi Boelsterli is surfing well at the ISA World Juniors in France. She placed first in Round 1 and Round 2, 2nd in Round 3, and is awaiting her Round 4 heat.
- Conner Coffin is also at ISA World Juniors, and placed 1st in his 1st round heat, but got knocked out with a 3rd in his 2nd round heat.
Local Surf Links
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Don't forget about tonight's bustin' at the seams surf evening put on by the folks at Surfrider Foundation. For a mere $10.50 this evening will feature none other than the surf film 'Out There', a live auction to benefit the Wayne Rich Medical Fund, a raffle, giveaways, Pro's in attendance, and a VIP (that means you if you pay an extra $10 and are 21 and over) after party that is sponsored by the folks who brew Fat Tire and some crazy sounding Vodka company.
You have time to eat a good home cooked meal beforehand, this baby doesn't kick off until 8:00pm and looks like it could be the best $10.50 you paid for a surf movie. It's all going down at the Lobero Theatre and you can buy tickets online (for an extra $7) at the Lobero website.
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Friday, May 23, 2008
There has been a lot of news lately pertaining to local beach access and environmental issues, which we'll try to condense here.
Bacara and Beach Access
The Bacara and the City of Goleta continue to anger many surfers and beachgoers, including Santa Barbara Surfing. The Bacara has proposed over two dozen changes to the City's General Plan. Included among them is the ability for the Bacara to build 62 timeshares in a sensitive area, to limit beach access hours, and to move the beach access parking lot and trail. You can read the latests Independent and Daily Sound articles for the full story. As a refresher, the Bacara has already moved where beachgoers can park, closed off the old parking area, installed cactus to deter walking on pre-Bacara paths, and generally made going to this low key, non touristy, family friendly beach more of a hassle. Interested parties can check out the Surfrider Foundation for ways to oppose Bacarafest Destiny.
Water Quality
Heal The Bay released their annual water quality report, and Santa Barbara County had it's best results in years. Good news doesn't sell papers, so you haven't heard much about the improved water quality this year, but 19 out of 20 of our beaches got an A during the dry months. Not surprisingly, Arroyo Burro (Hendry's, The Pit) got a B. Wet conditions showed problems at the usual suspects. One thing to note: Rincon got an A+ during dry conditions and an A during wet conditions, septic tanks and all.
- Beach | April-Oct | Dry Year Round | Wet Year Round
- Guadalupe Dunes A A C
- Ocean Beach A+ A+ F
- Jalama Beach A A B
- Gaviota State Beach A+ A B
- Refugio State Beach A A B
- El Capitan State Beach A A A
- Haskell’s Beach A+ A A
- Sands @ Coal Oil Point A A B
- Goleta Beach A A C
- Hope Ranch Beach A A B
- Arroyo Burro Beach B A C
- Leadbetter Beach A B A
- East Beach @ Mission Creek A A F
- East Beach @ Sycamore Creek A+ A+ C
- Butterfly Beach A A B
- Hammond’s Beach A A A
- Summerland Beach A A A
- Carpinteria City Beach A+ A B
- Carpinteria State Beach A A C
- Rincon Beach@ creek mouth A+ A+ A
Rincon Sewer
The Rincon sewer project is still full steam ahead, although an appeal is expected by the opponents of the project. It is estimated to cost every homeowner $35,000 to $80,000 to put their home on the sewer. Although Rincon is mentioned most, other nearby communities that will get on the sewer is Sandyland Cove, Sand Point Road and Padaro Lane. Since Rincon straddles both Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, it has made the process a bit more difficult.
Parking Fees
Santa Barbara Blog has a snidbit about the County trying to quietly pass a proposal to start charging parking fees at county parks. Of interest to beachgoers is Goleta Beach, Arroyo Burro Beach, Rincon Beach, Lookout Beach, Ocean Beach, and Rancho Guadalupe Dunes County Park.
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
The NSSA West Coast Regionals wrapped up on Sunday with some strong showings from the locals. The Coffin Brothers continued to place well, even against big names like Kolohe Andino and Nat Young. Conner Coffin placed 1st in Explorer Juniors, 1st in Explorer Boys, 2nd in Open Juniors, and 3rd in Open Mens. His younger brother Parker placed 2nd in Open Boys, 3rd in Explorer Menehuene, and 6th in Explorer Boys. Demi Boelsterli placed 2nd in Explorer Womens and 3rd in Open Womens, while Lakey Peterson placed 1st in Explorer Girls and 6th in Explorer Women. Kokoro Tomatsuri placed 1st and Adam Lambert 4th in Explorer Mens. Robert Curtis of Buellton placed 2nd in the Airshow Championships and Samson Anderson-Magazino placed 3rd in Open Longboard. Congratulations to all surfers. Next up for these surfers is Nationals on June 24th. Results of local surfers below.
OPEN MENS
3. Conner Coffin
OPEN JUNIORS
2. Conner Coffin
OPEN BOYS
2. Parker Coffin
OPEN WOMENS
3. Demi Boelsterli
OPEN LONGBOARD
3. Samson Anderson-Magazino
EXPLORER MENS
1. Kokoro Tomatsuri
4. Adam Lambert
EXPLORER JUNIORS
1. Conner Coffin
EXPLORER BOYS
1. Conner Coffin
6. Parker Coffin
EXPLORER MENEHUENE
3. Parker Coffin
EXPLORER WOMENS
2. Demi Boelsterli
6. Lakey Peterson
EXPLORER GIRLS
1. Lakey Peterson
Airshow Division:
2. Robert Curtis (Buellton)
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
There are a couple fundraisers in the next few weeks to help with the medical expenses for 
Wayne Rich. To read all about the situation Wayne is in, check out Ethan Stewart's in depth story at the Independent. Here is the lowdown on how you can help out Wayne:
May 28, 8pm:
"Out There" surf film screening at Lobero Theatre by Surfrider Foundation. Tickets are $10.50. Auction to follow. Info | Trailer
June 7, 1-5pm:
Ventura Surf Club part at Marina Park in Ventura, $15 Donation. Music, Raffles, Auctions. Info | Donations | Raffle
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Chances are high that Bobby Martinez's Round 3 heat in Teahupoo will take place at 9:30 Pacific on Thursday morning and is streamable at the Billabong Pro site. With five of the seven surfers ahead of Bobby in the overall standings eliminated from the event, Bobby can really improve on his current 8th in the world standing with a good showing. In Wednesday action Ventura's Dane Reynolds surfed two excellent heats, the second of which was an insane showing against fellow rookie Jordy Smith.
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Monday, May 12, 2008
NSSA Update
The Coffin kids have racked up another big accomplishment. The surfers from Santa Barbara just wrapped up their 2008 SouthWest Open season and Conner Coffin claims the 2008 Championship for Juniors and Parker Coffin claims the 2008 Championship for Boys. This Wednesday begins the West Coast Regionals for the Coffin Bro's as well as other local standouts. Patrick and Francis Curren finished 15th and 17th, amazing considering they only surfed 3 of the 10 contests.
Local Results from the 10th and Final SouthWest Open Contest:
OPEN JUNIORS
2. Conner Coffin-Santa Barbara
4. Parker Coffin-Santa Barbara
OPEN BOYS
1. Parker Coffin-Santa Barbara
OPEN WOMENS
3. Rachel Harris-Carpinteria
Local Surf News Roundup
Kleiner Brothers Glased Out
Some of the creative minds behind surf apparel company The Glas, which has a strong local presence, have left the company. Justin and Matt Keiner have moved on citing differences with the other partners. Local talent Bobby Morris is sponsored by The Glas.
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Some Mostly Local Surf News Bits
4th Annual Brandon Yates Memorial Contest
Its time again to honor our friend Brandon with the 4th Annual Brandon Yates Memorial Surf Benefit. This years format will feature a regular contest format with divisions for Groms, Juniors, Mens, a Pro-Am and a team event. The Pro-Am is 4 man heats and the purse has been kick started by Surf One with First Place purse guaranteed with at least $500.00. Other individual events are 6 man heats and the team event is limited to 6, 6 person teams. Team event scores are based on surfing abilities as well as fun for all tasks. The 4th annual Brandon Yates Memorial. Sunday, June 4th at Emma Wood State Beach. Entry forms will be hitting your local surf shops by this weekend.
Local Results From Lowers Contest
SB County surfers could not make it past Round 5 in the 6 Star Lowers Pro but it seemed like a good showing overall. The final results of locals:
Cory Arrambide knocked out in Round 5
Tyler Anderson knocked out in Round 5
Colin Schildhauer knocked out in Round 3
Bobby Morris knocked out in Round 3
Peter Mussio knocked out in Round 3
Adam Lambert knocked out in Rd 2
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Thursday, May 01, 2008
Goleta Surfing
Tom keeps up the heat with some photos of April Windswell. Good to see that the scrappy can still get some action if they are diligent.
Locals at Lowers Pro
Round 3 was tough on Santa Barbara County surfers, with Peter Mussio of Lompoc, Bobby Morris of Goleta, and Colin Schildhauer of Goleta all getting knocked out. In Round 4 we had only Goleta surfer Tyler Anderson and Ventura surfer Cory Arrambide, who both advanced. However Cory lost in Round 4 and Tyler was due to surf on Friday.
Round 3 Heats
Cory Arrambide placed 1st to advance
Colin Schildhauer placed 4th and knocked out
Bobby Morris placed 3rd and knocked out
Peter Mussio placed 3rd and knocked out
Round 4 Heats
Cory Arrambide placed 2nd to advance
Tyler Anderson placed 1st to advance
Round 5 Heats
Cory Arrambide placed 3rd and knocked out
Tyler Anderson due to surf
Previous surfers knocked out:
Adam Lambert knocked out in Rd 2
Gerry Lopez at UCSB May 6th
Gerry Lopez will be speaking at UCSB with an intro by Patagonian Yvon Choinard. This all takes place Tuesday, May 6 at UCSB Campbell Hall at 8 pm. Tickets are $10 general admission & $8 for UCSB students/youth 18 & under. Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling the Arts & Lectures Ticket Office (893-3535) or Order Online.
Entire books could be written about Gerry Lopez. Suffice it to say Gerry made his surfing reputation at Pipeline, riding it like nobody else before him, or since. He was among a crew of Indonesian adventure pioneers who first surfed Garajagan, or “G-Land”, long considered one of the best lefts in the world. Lopez starred as himself in the surf-cult classic film “Big Wednesday”, and was noted as “shaper of the year” in Surfing Magazine’s annual surfboard design issue, 2003. Gerry Lopez is as charismatic, intelligent and intuitive on land as he is in the waves. He’ll be talking about and presenting images from his just released book “Surf Is Where You Find It”. Don’t miss this extraordinary special event. Introduction by Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia’s distinguished founder.
Grover Anderson at Albertsons May 3rd
Isla Vista musician Grover Anderson will be playing in the Albertson's parking lot (sort of like U2) in Goleta on May 3rd. It is a battle of the bands called "Will Play For Food" featuring Grover, The VelTexans, and Hero & the Victor. The event takes place from 2-5pm so you have plenty of time to pick up some groceries in between sets.
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Santa Barbara Surfing. Created by Tim Maddux. Continued by Pope.
' Out There' along with the Wayne Rich benefit was a smashing success last night. We've written a column over on Edhat.com with a few photos as well.
