Coquí

Catch this wave, like this, and you too will be singing all night long.

Egg Hunt

6′5″ Brian Wynn single fin / Found on NYS

6′6 Hanel Speed Egg / Found on S&G

Egg Prep / Found on Surfy Surfy

“Seguem-se uma Quadriga, uma Pentamorphos e outra tb de cinco fins mas em formato egg/disc.” / Found on Nereukinesis

Hanel 5-fin Egg / Found on Surfy Surfy

6′6″ wayne lynch double-ender / Found on NYS

6′4″ MC Bonzer Speed Egg / Found on Cabinessence

Winds Against The Windows

Crackberry Reminder

The NY Surf Film Festival posted a few dates you may want mark on your calendar, especially if you’re planning on booking a trip to NYC for the event. The festival is scheduled to run on September 26-28th.

For the filmakers: The deadline for submissions has been bumped up to June 25th, so it’s time to start wrapping it up there, Francis.

For more info, check their website at nysurffilm.com.

This Water Tastes Like Piss

We’ve all heard and said it before. Once you leave the 5-boros and take a swig of your in-law’s tap water, the first words out of your mouth are almost guranteed to be This water tastes like piss!

It turns out there may be some truth to that statement, and according to an AP report released today, it may also taste like a “A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones..”

Of course, the amounts in the water are too small to taste, but there’s a growing concern about the long term health risks posed by the consumption of trace elements of pharmaceuticals.

But you ask, just how do these drugs get in the water?

“People take pills. Their bodies absorb some of the medication, but the rest of it passes through and is flushed down the toilet. The wastewater is treated before it is discharged into reservoirs, rivers or lakes. Then, some of the water is cleansed again at drinking water treatment plants and piped to consumers. But most treatments do not remove all drug residue.”

It’s stories like these that make me yearn for the days when the drinking water just smelled like rotten eggs.

Drink up.

1,000 Times Better Without a Fin

“I was shaping the Jeff Kramer model and the Hydro Hull and in between I shaped a board for Mickey Dora. He said it worked 1,000 times better than the one he had. So then he went out at Swamis and I was on the top of the hill watching him and I said, ‘1,000 times better without a fin’ and he said, ‘Oh yeah, I hit some guy out there’ (laughs).”

- Bill Shrosbree, “Some time with Bill Shrosbree”, Surfboardbuilders.com

Hillbilly Shuttle

photo poached from The Ebony Hillbillies Blog

241 Days 11 Hours and 26 minutes

Until this three time lottery loser passes out at the finish line after going 26.2. The first and only time I ever did the NYC Marathon, some guy lit up a cigarette next to me right after we crossed the finish line together. It made me wonder why I ever bothered to quit smoking in the first place. That was when everone started throwing up, so I took an involuntary nap in the grass (luckily), and then spent the next 20 minutes trying to find a bananna.

I don’t know why I feel the need to go through the punishment again, but I do. Anyway, the last time I ran it, we had a nice run of surf. You can thank me later.