surfing and wave sailing
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Olaf Mitchell wrote:Hay mobley,Thanks for posting this exciting little film clip! Each of those craft takes a lot of skill and massive balls to perform at the level of those competitors! It's interesting that an old friend of mine Kent Marinkovic was in on the production of the race and documentary. Kent and I go back many years. The last time I saw him we were down in southern Baja at Los Barriles together with a bunch of other friends. He was just getting into kiting at the time. Kent was on the US Olympic wind surf team and is hands down the best freestyle longboard windsurfer that I have ever known or even seen. I remember watching Kent and Andy Brant of ABK windsurfing put on a freestyle demonstration. They each were both awesome but Kent ruled that day. Damn it's a small world. Kite racing is getting very popular here on Maui. I have many friends that are designing and building race boards. Alix Aguera for one and my friends Wess and Peter as well. My girl friend Karen raced in the last Nash race series.I dont know about the massive balls thing, especially coming from a climbing background but this is an impressive vid of three of the fastest and most simple sailing rigs in the world. Its funny that it takes millions of dollars to make a boat that can go as fast as a kiteboarder you have to admit. I'm more of a sail until I cant drink anymore and race/try to race someone along the way kind of sailor myself. I'm looking for someone to strap in to my mast while holding a trainer kite(at first) on my Laser next summer in the LI sound if anyone is interested. We could set some local records, that 49er at Yale really pisses me off sometimes... |
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Hey guys, here is an update from the North East. I did not get the best photographs, so ill just have to use my words. Enjoy |
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PTZ wrote:Why would you want to go into the ocean? It is full of fish crap and toxic waste.I think PTZ that if you keep reading this thread you might get a clue. |
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Here is a good reason to paddle out.... |
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How old were you when you first caught a wave? |
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EdAsh wrote:Aloha Olaf, I was looking at an old P Hubbel guide book and I noticed "Olaf's Roof".Hi Ed, It's good to here from you. I really don't know the roof that Peter is referring to. Was it in "The Brown Book Of Lies"? Where in the Platte is "Olaf's Roof" I put up a lot of routes down in the Platte back in the day. Peter also named a lot of things off the top of his head back in the day. Cheers Olaf |
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mobley wrote: I dont know about the massive balls thing, especially coming from a climbing background but this is an impressive vid of three of the fastest and most simple sailing rigs in the world. Its funny that it takes millions of dollars to make a boat that can go as fast as a kiteboarder you have to admit. I'm more of a sail until I cant drink anymore and race/try to race someone along the way kind of sailor myself. I'm looking for someone to strap in to my mast while holding a trainer kite(at first) on my Laser next summer in the LI sound if anyone is interested. We could set some local records, that 49er at Yale really pisses me off sometimes...Hi mobley, You have a point when you compare sailing to climbing at least trad climbing. That is an interesting idea about using a kite in addition to your sail to super charge your Laser. Keep us posted! |
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Hayne von Kolnitz wrote:Here is a good reason to paddle out.... Strictly from a gentleman's perspective, of course!I agree that there is NO better scenery than I have found in the line up! Thanks for posting the images! |
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Yea, to bad they go away in the winter. |
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Thank you Olaf for the images. |
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Ed Ash wrote: "Rufus Miller? Did you know him? I never met him but I heard some stories." |
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Kai Lenny is a young man that I have known since he was just a child. |
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I would like to add this article to my coverage of Kai Lenny and his great achievement. |
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Olaf Mitchell wrote:At first I thought,Well ? This is sorta close to home. Then I thought,No, That's my front yard! Man possibly bitten by shark Posted: Dec 12, 2010 5:26 PM HST Updated: Dec 12, 2010 8:32 PM HST PAIA (HawaiiNewsNow) - On Maui a man is counting his blessings after reportedly being bitten by what sounds like a shark or barracuda.ever find out who bite 'em eh..? one would think the bite-marks between those 2 species are substantially different |
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kirra wrote: ever find out who bite 'em eh..? one would think the bite-marks between those 2 species are quite substantialKirra,I haven't heard a thing more about that incident. Although, I heard another landlord story yesterday from my friend Brent. He says that a friend of his was towing in at Noriega and he had a 6' tiger shark swim right at him last week with his dorsal fin out of the water and mouth open. (Now that is a personal account from a friend of a friend that has never given me any reason to doubt a single thing he said.) Noriega is the wave that I surf and wave sail on probably 75% of the time. We surfed that wave yesterday with just my friend Dale and two other guys. The sesh started out with Some delightful waves in the over head range and grew bigger as the day went on. By the end of our sesh we had dropped in on some real bombs! We were also getting clobbered if we were caught on the inside. The larger sets were closing out the right channel and there was nowhere to go. Noris on a rising swell can be really serious! All four of us called it a day when the sets were coming in consistently around triple over head range. That is way past my comfort zone. Dales new board was snapped in two . He had to swim in with half a surfboard. Today the waves are bigger than yesterday. I think that I am going to look further down the coast. Probably Kanaha will be somewhat shadowed and more manageable. It will probably be more crowded being a weekend. Game ON! Dale's surfboard after yesterdays surf session at Noreaga's |
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Just as I thought Nori's was just not where I needed to be yesterday. I got there just as Dale and two other guys were about to paddle out. I decided to watch their first few waves and I wasn't stoked by what I saw. |