FLASHBACK

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The spot in yesterday's post exactly one year ago yesterday.
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The Master of Ceremonies.
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BRISK WIND

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Felt like Winter arrived in these parts to me today. As friend said to me while looking to the East then West horizon, "Clear as a bell".
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Sequence 1 of unknown:
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Sequence 2 of unknown:

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LAST NIGHT AT SHELTER SURF SHOP...

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...The Growlers playing live to a projection of a trailer for the "The Tyler Warren Experiments" a film by John Smart expected to release Summer 2009.
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WEDNESDAY SWELL 12/05/07 (Part I)

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Pre-dawn Ventura arrival.
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Waited for wave check by light, then kept headin' North...
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to this well known, heavily crowded grinder.
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The kid in the sequence below said it took him three hours to luck into this set wave.
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NINE LIGHTS 5'5" QUAD (In the works #2)

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Got back into the shaping bay with Jeff today:

3/32" balsa panels are vacuum bag adhered to the deck and bottom of the shaped 1 lb. EPS core with epoxy (for deck support/strength there is one layer of 4oz. glass between the EPS and balsa deck panels; no glass between bottom panels and EPS).

Once epoxy has set the board is removed from vacuum bag and the excess balsa hanging off the rail is ground off to reclaim the smooth rail line for scribing tool.

The rails are then cut off along the scribed line and planed.

(Video camera running in these shots— I'm working on video documentation of Jeff's shaping process. It will post on the Nine Lights blog in a month or so)

The board is now ready to have balsa added to the rails, the rails turned, all foiling fine tuned, and then epoxy glass job.

I'll update with next session.
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GOOD DAY RAIN

Puddle and clover(?) close-ups from empty beach parking lot today:
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Favorable light wind, only two other surfers to the north and two to the south as far as I could see into the gray, watched rain drops land like silver sparks on emerald green water that tempered the wait for inconsistent fun sized sets... lucky.
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