Well… not really. But it’s an inflatable!
the words " Oh F%^&!" come to mind immediately …
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are theytracking te curl line in the next photo.?
does the top guy bail ?
does the bottom guy bail?
is this the ist annual life raft contest?
Did they get a permit for the contest?
do they have a water patrol?
how long are the heats?
are these guys the new army?
air force?
I remember me wife catching micro innerbowl waves in a twelve foot inflateable by doing a paddle wheel hanging her head over the end of the bow…ambrose…
…they were right having the target painted in the middle of the ‘boat’ …‘sitting duck[ies]’ *, all right !!
what a great sequence …I can’t wait to see the shots the guy on the shoulder got …imagine how far out the dumb …s got LAUNCHED !!
CLASSIC …unless of course you were one of the other surfers, paddling out and having THAT launching at you , or dropping in on you .
I’d LOVE to see footage of how they got it into the lineup …? tow-in ??
ben
- those …er… “devices” are called ‘‘rubber duckies’’ here in oz …when they have an outboard motor on the back.
The photographer of this masterpiece / nightmare in ''judgement" , Sean Davey, seems to likes a good laugh …a lot of his shots involve stuff like people diving out of boats at huge Teahupoo !!
[If he’s anything like his brother Mark , who I used to work with in Sydney …I’m not surprised . Mad Tasmanians …say no more !!]
actually , come to think of it …
didn’t the movie "thicker than water " have shane dorian and a few of his ‘mates’ doing a similar thing , during the end credits maybe ?
ben
Quote:
The whole story (with vid) is here :
Merci beaucoup monsieur pour m’aider !!
…haven’t we met before somewhere !!
and now …it’s …
the french national anthem [adapted from an australian "classic "]
once a jolly frenchman camped by a bakery
under the shade of a Kombi van…
and he sang as he watched and waited for his bagel to bake
you’ll come a surfing hossegor with me
surfing hossegor
surfing hossegor
you’ll come a surfing hossegor with me
and he sang as he watched and waited for the tide to drop
you’ll come a surfing hossegor with me .
Hey chip,
Isn’t that ‘baguette’, not bagel! (Or do the real french really eat bagels?)
yeah i think it was shawn brilley or something like that he was on the c.t like 5 years ago. he was really over weight and he take a inflaitable pool raft over the falls at teahupo.
now thats a suicide mission.
there’s also some nice vid of alex knost killin’ at malibu.
and enough of this incessant banter…gotta go surf!
It’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion. All you can do is shake your head and walk away muttering.
Well, he won the Pipe Masters so I guess he can get away with taking a pool toy into the lineup - at least once!
OOOOOOOOOHHHHHH. So that’s what the future of surfing looks like. Dale it looks like you da man!
The Man
with the plan
made em in is van
so that everybody can
from Captain America
to chinese cortisan
the life raft aint a mat
the hat aint a mat
a shoe aint a mat
try for a couple years an
you may get a day like today
with me friend dave an’ I
feeding our souls
on the ripening fruits of our labors
dave said '‘I got more’satisfaction pleasure’
in half the amount of time today…
I surfed for twice as long yesterday
on my favorite board
but I didn’t feel anywhere as good as I do now"
…ambrose…bliss afterglow…
hey ajl dave’s going to Oahu for two days where’s mat central ajl wise… pm me I’ll give ya his cell#
in the seventies my friends dad was a lifeguard in newport.
6 drunk marines + innertube + 8’ cylinders = fun.
guys went over the falls holding onto the innertube backwards and headfirst right into dry sand and all of them luckily made it up the berm without a broken neck.
Ambrose and friend. Feeding their souls on the ripening fruits of their labors…
ajl ,just phoned dave he’s there I told him to call you up I hope its not too late…
dale… today we rode the lefts accross the bay…
…ambrose…