The BBS crew at The Cove, Great day team, Micro*Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
flipping out
Far from ideal conditions at this months BBS meet at Waipu Cove yesterday but fun was had by all, Great to see everyone there, Don't forget to get your memeberships up to date, Micro* PS I had a great time using my handplane until I lost my flipper in the thick seaweed, If you come across a Tech 2 size 10-11 black flipper at The Cove let me know, Ta much !Sunday, May 16, 2010
a great time
The BBS crew at The Cove today, Fun was had by all, YEW !, Micro* PS from the top, Stiffy, Johnny D and Mr. King !Friday, May 14, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
wooden craft
Johnny Sutcliffe is at it again, He has just finished handcrafting this awesome Chambered Redwood and Balsa longboard, He is a bloody clever bugger, Well done mate, Micro*
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
pizza barn my people !
A quick reminder for this coming Wednesday 5th of May (tonight) Pizza Barn, 7 pm !
From the AGM meeting, Thanks for the BBS who could make it to the AGM at the Pizza Barn and thanks to all of you who sent apologies and feedback to be discussed at the meeting.
The new members elected for 2010/2011 are, President is Grant Kilmore (re-elected), Vice President is Roger Hall (re-elected), Treasurer is Noeline Hall (re-elected), Secretary is Richard Raines (newly elected), Replacing Maggie Blackshaw who wished to stand down, Committee Members re-elected, Richard Langmuir, Chris Hall, John Sutcliffe, New Committee Members elected, Wayne Williams, Tania Whale, Gary Whale. It is the time of the year to renew our Memberships!, The fees remain the same as last year, We would like to get the Memberships paid up to date by the 2nd of June which will be the cut off date, Your membership will laps after 2nd of June, Only paid up members will receive emails after this date, Micro*, PS Image at top is Lozza at the Bay !
From the AGM meeting, Thanks for the BBS who could make it to the AGM at the Pizza Barn and thanks to all of you who sent apologies and feedback to be discussed at the meeting.
The new members elected for 2010/2011 are, President is Grant Kilmore (re-elected), Vice President is Roger Hall (re-elected), Treasurer is Noeline Hall (re-elected), Secretary is Richard Raines (newly elected), Replacing Maggie Blackshaw who wished to stand down, Committee Members re-elected, Richard Langmuir, Chris Hall, John Sutcliffe, New Committee Members elected, Wayne Williams, Tania Whale, Gary Whale. It is the time of the year to renew our Memberships!, The fees remain the same as last year, We would like to get the Memberships paid up to date by the 2nd of June which will be the cut off date, Your membership will laps after 2nd of June, Only paid up members will receive emails after this date, Micro*, PS Image at top is Lozza at the Bay !
Sunday, April 18, 2010
flat
The txt came through, It's flat at the Cove, At least the sun is out so enjoy the day BBSers, Micro*
Friday, April 16, 2010
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AGM BBS at Pizza Barn 21/04/10 7pm
Another year has gone by, The BBS started in 2004!, It’s time for our Annual General Meeting which will be at the Pizza Barn on Wednesday 21st of April at 7 pm sharp, This is your chance to have your say and participate in the future of YOUR Club, Please try to come along on the night, otherwise send us an email lucrenroger@ubernet.co.nz with any item you would like to be brought up, Thanks and hope to see you there !, PS super nice image of the powerstation at dawn by LULU, Micro*
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
BBSer John Sutcliffe in the PLB
Hi Team BBS, I was asked recently to write some words for John Brasen's Pacific Longboarder magazine about the Hyundai Longboard Tour 2010, Thought you may like a sneak peak, Seeing as it has John Sutcliffe and Brendan Young, Two of our members in the article, Cheers Micro*>>>>
Usually when I hear that a surf competition is being held at my local break the first thing that pops into my head is, 'bet it will be pumping and crowded', so where else can I go for a wave.
But this time I packed up the car with the wife, kids, camera gear, buckets and spades - the only thing missing was my longboard, which I promised the wife I would leave at home - and headed off to Sandy Bay for the third and final day of the Hyundai Pro Longboard Tour.
Sandy Bay is popular beach break lined with a few holiday homes and Pohutukawa trees on the East Coast of Northland NZ, 30 minutes north east of Whangarei City, Sandy arguably the most frequented surf spot in the area, where many locals have learnt to surf, myself included, usually at the southern end of the beach in the aptly named 'Kiddies Corner'.
On arrival at Sandys, 'The Bay' or 'Scungies' as it is well known for it's annual seaweed infestation, we find the carpark full to overflowing, sponsors flags flapping in the onshore breeze and a shoulder high swell marching onto the shoreline, after securing the all important child friendly carparking space, the next step is finding 'the spot'.
Luckily friends and fellow Bream Bay Sliders members - a family based group of mainly longboarders from the Waipu Cove area, an hour south of Sandy Bay - had that sorted for us, shaded with an elevated view of the action.....perfect.
In this quiver of surf enthusiasts was shaper, surfer and long time friend Roger Hall from Surfline Surfboards, Ruakaka. Roger, who had taken out the over-40s division at Sandy Bay in 2001 and came second overall after competing in only three legs of that tour, was there to support two of his teamriders, Dr. Michael Burling and Brendan Young, both from Hawkes Bay, an all day roadie away.
As you can imagine the five-leg tour which spreads over both, North and South Islands, starting at Tay Street Mt. Maunganui in early January, Sandy Bay, St. Clair Beach Dunedin, Whangamata, then wraps up at the end of March in Port Waikato, has the competitors racking up a lot of miles.
With a nod from the wife I head for the waters edge, camera in hand as Brendan in a rather fetching competition rashie paddles out for the final of the over-40s.
This coincides with an eruption from his pod of supporters, opting for the northern end of the beach amongst the free surfers, a tactical move. Brendan scores peeling left after left to take out the final, he has been competing over a decade and knows when to have his game face on.
The inclusion of Stand Up Paddle boarding in this years tour gave the spectators another excuse to hoot, gasp and cringe.
Between heats the 'rock stars of longboarding' - as described by the over enthusiastic commentator through the megaphonic speakers bellowed - paddled out for a between heat free surf. A figure appears from the white wash, it was friend and fellow member of the Bream Bay Sliders, John Sutcliffe with a timber wave craft in hand, his grin says it all, a self confessed backyard wooden board builder with his hands on Taylor Jensen's personal handmade Alaia, happy as a clam. Taylor was on a road trip around NZ with Al Ashworth from Slide Magazine and shared his equipment as if he was a 'Bay' local, a great thing to witness.
With the open final well under way the pressure was on, for me that is, to get some nice images of the action before the kids - who were getting very restless in the afternoon heat - impaled themselves on the remains of Kina shells that were in close proximately to our now well secured spot. As for the competitors, Josh Constable from Noosa, Californian Taylor Jensen, Dr. Michael Burling and Dylan Barnfield, they went about their business with a mixture of power and precision for a solid 20 minutes. In the dying moments of the heat, smiles and banter was exchanged between kiwi lads Burling and Barnfield while Constable floated gracefully across white caps and on to open wave faces flashing his fins at the onlookers, amongst them was renowned Sandy Bay surfer John Ayrton, Constable's fin maker from Glide Fins, who is now based in Victoria.
Jensen mixed cutting small waves into smaller pieces with 5 toed tip time, scoring 19.35 out of a possible 20 for the win. Constable clutched the next highest total followed by Burling and then Barnfield.
With the successful completion of this year's tour consisting of open, women's, under-18s men, over-40s, over-50s and SUP divisions, it was overall point scorer Dylan Barnfield who took the trophy home to Ohope.
With my usual family commitments, travelling to Port Waikato for the tour's final leg was unfortunately out of the question but at dawn the day after the Sandy Bay leg of the tour, I was back - this time equipped with my log - to enjoy smaller yet cleaner waves in 'Kiddies Corner' with a few friends, out of towners and some competition left overs. I shot a few rolls of film which gave me time to reflect on what had been another memorable day at my local, family, injury free kids, friends and shared equipment, classic. But as the truck loaded up with port-a-loos made it's way up the hill behind me, I felt like my local had some sense of order restored, at least until next time.
But this time I packed up the car with the wife, kids, camera gear, buckets and spades - the only thing missing was my longboard, which I promised the wife I would leave at home - and headed off to Sandy Bay for the third and final day of the Hyundai Pro Longboard Tour.
Sandy Bay is popular beach break lined with a few holiday homes and Pohutukawa trees on the East Coast of Northland NZ, 30 minutes north east of Whangarei City, Sandy arguably the most frequented surf spot in the area, where many locals have learnt to surf, myself included, usually at the southern end of the beach in the aptly named 'Kiddies Corner'.
On arrival at Sandys, 'The Bay' or 'Scungies' as it is well known for it's annual seaweed infestation, we find the carpark full to overflowing, sponsors flags flapping in the onshore breeze and a shoulder high swell marching onto the shoreline, after securing the all important child friendly carparking space, the next step is finding 'the spot'.
Luckily friends and fellow Bream Bay Sliders members - a family based group of mainly longboarders from the Waipu Cove area, an hour south of Sandy Bay - had that sorted for us, shaded with an elevated view of the action.....perfect.
In this quiver of surf enthusiasts was shaper, surfer and long time friend Roger Hall from Surfline Surfboards, Ruakaka. Roger, who had taken out the over-40s division at Sandy Bay in 2001 and came second overall after competing in only three legs of that tour, was there to support two of his teamriders, Dr. Michael Burling and Brendan Young, both from Hawkes Bay, an all day roadie away.
As you can imagine the five-leg tour which spreads over both, North and South Islands, starting at Tay Street Mt. Maunganui in early January, Sandy Bay, St. Clair Beach Dunedin, Whangamata, then wraps up at the end of March in Port Waikato, has the competitors racking up a lot of miles.
With a nod from the wife I head for the waters edge, camera in hand as Brendan in a rather fetching competition rashie paddles out for the final of the over-40s.
This coincides with an eruption from his pod of supporters, opting for the northern end of the beach amongst the free surfers, a tactical move. Brendan scores peeling left after left to take out the final, he has been competing over a decade and knows when to have his game face on.
The inclusion of Stand Up Paddle boarding in this years tour gave the spectators another excuse to hoot, gasp and cringe.
Between heats the 'rock stars of longboarding' - as described by the over enthusiastic commentator through the megaphonic speakers bellowed - paddled out for a between heat free surf. A figure appears from the white wash, it was friend and fellow member of the Bream Bay Sliders, John Sutcliffe with a timber wave craft in hand, his grin says it all, a self confessed backyard wooden board builder with his hands on Taylor Jensen's personal handmade Alaia, happy as a clam. Taylor was on a road trip around NZ with Al Ashworth from Slide Magazine and shared his equipment as if he was a 'Bay' local, a great thing to witness.
With the open final well under way the pressure was on, for me that is, to get some nice images of the action before the kids - who were getting very restless in the afternoon heat - impaled themselves on the remains of Kina shells that were in close proximately to our now well secured spot. As for the competitors, Josh Constable from Noosa, Californian Taylor Jensen, Dr. Michael Burling and Dylan Barnfield, they went about their business with a mixture of power and precision for a solid 20 minutes. In the dying moments of the heat, smiles and banter was exchanged between kiwi lads Burling and Barnfield while Constable floated gracefully across white caps and on to open wave faces flashing his fins at the onlookers, amongst them was renowned Sandy Bay surfer John Ayrton, Constable's fin maker from Glide Fins, who is now based in Victoria.
Jensen mixed cutting small waves into smaller pieces with 5 toed tip time, scoring 19.35 out of a possible 20 for the win. Constable clutched the next highest total followed by Burling and then Barnfield.
With the successful completion of this year's tour consisting of open, women's, under-18s men, over-40s, over-50s and SUP divisions, it was overall point scorer Dylan Barnfield who took the trophy home to Ohope.
With my usual family commitments, travelling to Port Waikato for the tour's final leg was unfortunately out of the question but at dawn the day after the Sandy Bay leg of the tour, I was back - this time equipped with my log - to enjoy smaller yet cleaner waves in 'Kiddies Corner' with a few friends, out of towners and some competition left overs. I shot a few rolls of film which gave me time to reflect on what had been another memorable day at my local, family, injury free kids, friends and shared equipment, classic. But as the truck loaded up with port-a-loos made it's way up the hill behind me, I felt like my local had some sense of order restored, at least until next time.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
sorry team
Hi Guys and Gals, Roger and I had a wicked time in Aussie, Roger showcased his wooden boards at The AU Fish Fry 2010, They were a big hit, I have been super busy since we came back so sorry I did not make it on Sunday to The Cove, Roger is in Mahia till the end of the week, See you next time, Micro*
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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