Something more personal
Ok, I’m a beach bum. I grew up surfing at 2nd Ave, Hermosa Beach (Calif.) when I was around 15 years old. I made a few boards, surfed all over California, lived in Hawaii (thanks to the U.S. Navy), and then gave it up for forty years to have a family. Only recently have I had time to get back into it.
Here’s my old XC70 (beach car – full of wetsuit parts, sand, dog hair). It used to be my company car, and then we gave it to our daughter who gave it back to us with 160,000 miles on it. Still works great though and gets decent mileage: 21 mpg around town and 26 mpg on the highway. This video is from December 20 when that Nor’easter storm came through. Waves were about 4-6 feet then died as the morning went on. This board I’m using is wood; built like an airplane wing. Much nicer than a foam board, IMHO.
You have a great holiday and talk next year.
dan
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Happy New Year, Dan! Unfortunately your video isn’t coming through… can you re-post it?
Cheers!
Hi Mark,
Works ok on my two old pc and non-business laptop. I’ll ask our web guy to check it out.
thanks,
dan
That is SO cool!! Do you give lessons? And does the Cross Country have room for two boards inside?
no lessons, there are professionals that are more even tempered than I. Last summer, Tom and I stuffed seven boards plus one of those 10′x10′ pop up tents/sunshade, an ice chest, and bunch of stuff we really didn’t need. Of the seven boards, four were on top. Guess if we’d have been blasting some Grateful Dead road music, we could have flashed back some years. This wood board is 9’10″ and fits inside.