Local Master

I was cruising on Craiglist this morning and found an entry, fish shaped by local Hall of Famer Bill Curry.  It listed his board brand, LocalSol.  Quick google and saaanapp, http://www.localsol.blogspot.com/ .  I first met Bill when he owned Winter Park Schwinn.  It had bikes and surfboards in the store, I was neck deep in playing Ultimate at UNCW at the time and surfing wasn't really on my radar but i thought wow bike and surfboards, sweet store and a great guy.  I bought a Trek 850 from him in 1989, still have it. 

Bill is one of Wrightsville Beaches local legends.  If you get to see him ride a longboard you will know why, oh he kills it on a shortboard too.  AND he builds and rides his own backyard boards.  Gotta LOVE it.

bill getting at it
hijacked off blog hope it's okay

yesterday and today

yesterday

yesterday 2

yesterday 3



today



today 2

yesterday, at Wrightsville Beach, we still had some remaining swell from the weekend.  If you got out early before the tide got it, it was pretty fun.  As the tide rose the swell slowly got buried under the tide for somethings other than a log.  Today a pig would have been best as the tide started to rise.  It's fairly small with a few trying to break outside but its gonna be a low tide thing .  Really slick this morning, should have went fishing.  I bet there are still some drum and trout in the surf somewhere. 

wednesday full moon worm tide

waist high easterly swell this morning.  it was still breaking fairly well even with the wormy full moon tide.  looked like it was pretty good all day at C street according to the daily pic on wblive.  til next time.

jan's the man

I have seen this T-bucket truck around Wrightsville Beach for the past year or so and have always wanted to get a couple shots of it.  I was in the right place the other day and at the right time to talk to the owner.  Jan surprised me when he told me the truck was actually a 1980 Toyota pickup and that he did all of his own fabrication.  Sweet.  I like it the head light buckets are made from 5 gallon metal buckets. 

more today

sunday the swell had changed more to the N and E but still had some stomach high sets coming in.  did not have time for getting wet, had some burgers at an old buddies house near crystal pier and took the remaining frames on the ae-1.  looks like it has a light leakage problem.  half the pics on this roll had that red band striping through it. 

yesterday and today

these first two were yesterday thigh high with four people out

wait for it



got it 

  last nights storm front kicked up the SW and brought us something to do this morning.  lots of people on the south end looking for some waist to stomach high gems.  everyone thank big al for going out of town, so that we could get something to ride.  Thanks Al.

stolen

i rarely repost someones elses pic but this car is just too bad ass.  the piston grille, slung low and chopped.  but mainly i love the pistons.  i hope no one gets mad at the repost without credits but i was not sure who to give credit to.

something to ride

look behind ya

longboard smack or was it a fall



almost got it

Today at Wrightsville Beach was waistish.  Fun even with the wind outta the SW at about 15.  Got a few good drops on the mini.  Man you gotta love the weather, 70 for the high today.  It started getting more crowded when I was leaving but I couldn't stay long.  Mainly because it's March 1st.  If you don't know what that means at Wrightsville Beach here's a couple pictures to remind ya.

I hate march 1st

and these damn machines.

at least the price didn't go up this year