Yooooorrrrrkk

Ventured up to Maine yesterday with The Bollocks. Much sliding was had.

Admittedly, my backhand game kind of sucks but the first few waves I caught were all lefts and I actually did alright on them. I surfed fairly well yesterday, although was humbled by the presence of a couple folks who knew their way around a longboard better than I. Looking forward to more visits up North.

Dads

Happy Fathers' Day to all those Dads out there! For my first Fathers' Day, my lovely wife bought me a grill which probably won't see action until this crap weather is done with.

I surfed Nantasket Thursday and Saturday and generally stunk up the joint but also managed to do a few things properly as well. Thursday was waist to chest and reinforced the thoughts I've been having about purchasing a shorter board(probably an egg) because the waves were kind of peaky and I took a bit of a beating.

Yesterday was smaller and fairly clean. Good logging waves, although again, I was digging rails and flopping all over the place. Ah well, we've got enough swell on the way to keep on improving.

Heatwave

Bit by bit, the extraneous rubber is disappearing. I'm still in the 4/3 with boots and gloves but I went hoodless last week and again yesterday.

Homeboy, "The Bollocks" and I hit NH yesterday. We skipped the Wall and went out at Jenness. I got a few good rides while "The Bollocks" attempted to dial in his new CI Fishcuit. I gave his board a whirl not too long ago and it's fast but squirrely as hell. Learning curve blues. I'll probably go with a slightly more retro shape when I actually have a job and some money again.

In my early surfing days, I acquired a lot of my gear either cheaply or through a bit of trading.

My original wetsuit was an ill-fitting 3/2 that my buddy gave me and I traded it for a 3/2 that was actually my size. I've worn that suit for the past 7 or 8 years and it got pretty shredded(it's the red and black job on the left , the "punk rock wetsuit") so I spent some of my savings to replace it with the new Escential suit on the right.

Escential is a new company out of Florida and I heard good things about their product so I figured I would be a bit of a test pilot. I'll post the results when I drop down from the 4/3(soon).

Gansett

My older sister used to hang out with some dudes that my Dad referred to as, "The Village Idiots". They were pretty funny, way into rock music like The Who and The Stones and they were very fond of Narragansett beer. They even knew of a certain bar that served it on tap(By this time I think it was being made in Indiana rather than Cranston.). They turned me on to a lot of music, as well as the beer.

I don't get paid to shill for Narragansett and I'm not into product placement. I do like the fact that the brand got resurrected, that it's better than most macros out there...and that it comes in tall boys.

The Plugz

My first real exposure to punk rock growing up in Woonsocket, RI in the 80's came after my older sis introduced me to the movie Repo Man along with said movie's killer soundtrack featuring such luminaries as...The Plugz.

These guys are on my "holy grail" list when it comes to diggin' in the crates.

Unemployment Benefits

After a pretty harsh Winter, today was a glimpse of what(hopefully) Summer has in store for the New England faithful. It was sunny and close to 70 and I spent a couple of hours in balmy 43 degree water catching my share of knee to waist high peelers.

Occasionally, being out of work pays off just lovely.

The Mats

Where are we going?
To the middle!
Which middle?!
The very middle!