Longest continuous surf sesh?
That's an epic session mate! I think the longest surf iv ever had was in the Philippines, and that was about 6 hours. I came in looking like an over ripe tomato with bad nipple rash... The next few days in the water wern't real enjoyable after that
Interesting little blog you have their 411, bit of a passion of mine having worked on cars and caravans all of my life. Anyway, had a surf at jbay a while ago, paddled out at dawn Sunday morning, 4ft and as good as it gets at that size. Just me and another bloke waiting for the local onslaught, never happened, surfed about 6hr, no more than 4 out, geez I was hungry.
Love the blog 411, definitely given me some inspiration to do my own van. My other non surfing bro' is a qualified mechanic, auto trimmer and cabinet maker. Nephew is a sparky. Got plenty of help to call upon. Your van is sweet, home away from home.
Cheers guys. I'm traveling in the van right now, cruising up the nsw coast. Sounds like you have no excuses zen? Tell ya what, I wouldn't mind some uncrowded jbay right now! Sounds like you got pretty lucky there crustt
411, I have a similar set up, Toyota Hiace, but no cupboards, just storage tubs under the bed. Kept it simple, aux. battery, Engel, awning, windows and crim-safe screens (must have ventilation, especially in the tropics). ** Had a program in me laptop that I could attach a set of rabbit ears, put 'em on the roof, tune into TV so I could watch the footy. Plus good stezza.
Went nomadic for about 5 years in it, north to Cooktown in winter, southern states in summer. White van, black dog, few boards n fishin' poles. Awesome.
The Hiace is just about to clock 430,000 klms. Safe travels & good times.
Should have re-named this thread campervans. I've already convinced the missus that we're going to set up a van when we get home.
What's your longest straight sesh STF?
Zen, it woulda been grommy days ... can't remember.
Chap surfed Kirra for 8.5 hours straight one swell, can't remember which swell - huge effort, rip 'n that, ay.
To be honest, I can't even hang in the sun for 8 hours these days, let alone the water. Got TOO sunfucked, TOO many times in my reckless yoof.
I'm feeling like a woos (is that how you spell it?) with only a 4 hr session as my longest
I'll have to work on that....
Pointy, no wusses, no judgement. Just interested to hear how long people have spent in the water in the past.
For the record, the record is 29 1/2 hours straight by some bloke in California.
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Had a Noah off
zenagain wrote:Pointy, no wusses, no judgement. Just interested to hear how long people have spent in the water in the past.
For the record, the record is 29 1/2 hours straight by some bloke in California.
that's insane. was he catching waves the whole time or just floating out the back for some of it?
Had about a six hour session recently somewhere in Sumatra a few months ago just me and a mate for most of the time, well technically i had a few water and sunscreen breaks and a half hour meal of fish sambal vegetables and rice to refuel.
Then had about two hours session at another wave nearby.
Easily the longest session ive had since i was a grom, it was our last day so made the most of it.
Never gets very big this wave, but this wave breaks like this for about 150-200m like a mini gold coast point on reef.
I could see how you could spend 6 hrs surfing that Indo.
Doesn't get much more fun looking in my books. Sweet!
On the west coast of Tasmania (right down in the sw wilderness, there's a certain spot that when a huge direct south swell comes in, it breaks for ages....and ages...and ages... You need to pack a swag... A swiss army knife and a small telescopic fishing rod is handy ( I'll get to that later)...
Anyway, it was solid.... real solid.... That oily heavy shark coloured water only the west coast Tassie can deliver.....
I paddled out at 5.00pm.... Was riding a 8'4 rhino chaser..... I took off... So clean... So fuckn huge... I bottomed turned and set my line for port fairy.......
About 2 hours of fun surfing went by... I was approaching Strahan, where the wave backs off into a fat section from there to past trial harbour..... At the takeoff, it was a solid 40 foot, but now had backed off to about 30..... So I threw a big poo stance cutty, sweeped off the foamball and stayed out on the shoulder.... It was getting dark, and I was hungry... I walked up to the back of the rhino chaser, took my backpack off and pulled out the telescopic fishing rod and lure... On my third cast, I landed a nice stripy trumpeter, probably 7lb...... I packed a round disposable chinese takeaway container with pickled ginger, wasabi and aoli... The swiss army knife made easy work of the unfortunate pelagic.... I was losing a bit of speed, so I walked up to the nose of the board, sat down, and enjoyed fresh sushi under a splendid sunset........ Due to digestion, all my blood rushed into my stomach... I felt sleepy.... I knew the wave would be slow and fat (very predictable section) for at least another 5 hours.... So I layed in the coffin position and caught a few zzzz's.....
I awoke under a full moon in the early hours.... Just as well... I was approaching Marrawah.... Now even though the arthur river to Marrawah section backs off to only 20 - 25 foot at best, it is the hardest section of the wave.... top to bottom.... Quite fun...... I was a bit stiff, did some pilates, had a dump, rolled a ciggy, but was quite irate cos I forgot to pack a dare double expresso.....
The sun was coming up and I could see Marrawah.... I could've kept riding as the wave wraps around the nw corner to Stanley, but It's just a 15 foot horseshoe bowl.....
So I straightened out, caught up with a few friends...stayed overnight... I phoned up uplift, and he assured me a psycho low had just moved off Eyre P....... Quite rare..... A big nw swell..... The same break down here turns into a right in that swell angle....
Next morning, I could see uplift was right....... So I caught a bomb off Marrawah, and rode back to my car... Shame it turned onshore 1/2 way back....
Oh well....
You should have floated the end section Sheepy;)
Sheepdog wrote:On the west coast of Tasmania (right down in the sw wilderness, there's a certain spot that when a huge direct south swell comes in, it breaks for ages....and ages...and ages... You need to pack a swag... A swiss army knife and a small telescopic fishing rod is handy ( I'll get to that later)...
Anyway, it was solid.... real solid.... That oily heavy shark coloured water only the west coast Tassie can deliver.....
I paddled out at 5.00pm.... Was riding a 8'4 rhino chaser..... I took off... So clean... So fuckn huge... I bottomed turned and set my line for port fairy.......
About 2 hours of fun surfing went by... I was approaching Strahan, where the wave backs off into a fat section from there to past trial harbour..... At the takeoff, it was a solid 40 foot, but now had backed off to about 30..... So I threw a big poo stance cutty, sweeped off the foamball and stayed out on the shoulder.... It was getting dark, and I was hungry... I walked up to the back of the rhino chaser, took my backpack off and pulled out the telescopic fishing rod and lure... On my third cast, I landed a nice stripy trumpeter, probably 7lb...... I packed a round disposable chinese takeaway container with pickled ginger, wasabi and aoli... The swiss army knife made easy work of the unfortunate pelagic.... I was losing a bit of speed, so I walked up to the nose of the board, sat down, and enjoyed fresh sushi under a splendid sunset........ Due to digestion, all my blood rushed into my stomach... I felt sleepy.... I knew the wave would be slow and fat (very predictable section) for at least another 5 hours.... So I layed in the coffin position and caught a few zzzz's.....
I awoke under a full moon in the early hours.... Just as well... I was approaching Marrawah.... Now even though the arthur river to Marrawah section backs off to only 20 - 25 foot at best, it is the hardest section of the wave.... top to bottom.... Quite fun...... I was a bit stiff, did some pilates, had a dump, rolled a ciggy, but was quite irate cos I forgot to pack a dare double expresso.....
The sun was coming up and I could see Marrawah.... I could've kept riding as the wave wraps around the nw corner to Stanley, but It's just a 15 foot horseshoe bowl.....
So I straightened out, caught up with a few friends...stayed overnight... I phoned up uplift, and he assured me a psycho low had just moved off Eyre P....... Quite rare..... A big nw swell..... The same break down here turns into a right in that swell angle....
Next morning, I could see uplift was right....... So I caught a bomb off Marrawah, and rode back to my car... Shame it turned onshore 1/2 way back....
Oh well....
yeah, jimmy biscuit told me about that, but he reckons you had your i phone out there and was tweeting to liz hurley who was dumping warney to go doggystyle but you barred here because you had a tweet from dame edna everidge who said she could make you howl like a possum. wonder what rocket rodney's up to?
Luv ya work, Davo...... Dame Edna... Now there's a handsome woman.... :)
Mate.... Got some bad news.........Rodneys gone..... No longer with us..... Surfed and raged with him for 2 decades.... He lived on the sunny coast too...... Horrific what happened...... Shattered... Still think about him.... Miss him heaps..... Will email you later........
Any of you guys remember a bloke called Shark Bait, from 'Gong if I recall correct. He'd stay out all day, hence the nick, called 'Bait for short. Buggered if I can 'memeber his real name, mate of Keaney's I think. Nice bloke, v.good surfer.
Sheepo, you forgot to stop to milk the cows at Marrawah, and striped trumpeter aren't pelagics.
Play on...
Gday, Sidney fishous!!!!!! Good to see you got your internet sorted ;)
I used to have tons of 4/5 hour surfs with bricky for years and years. So we were pretty conditioned to it. Not very good for you hydration wise, and eyes though, but good wetties make it easier on skin etc. I have had a handfull of dawn to dusk surfs at pumping blacks, just too good to go in.
But my best/longest was in a remote part of the pacific. I surfed an outside reef right, around double overhead on my own at low tide which it really likes in the right swell direction, pretty early, and as the tide filled in after a few hours was heading in. I noticed one of the local boys surfing a weird angle inside the reef reform thing from behind. He used to tell me about it, but I hadn't really looked at it properly before, its hard to see, and I like the outside one. I was stirring him up about not coming out to the right (the local boys don't like risking a broken board, as they can't get them very easy). From behind I saw him dissappear, then saw him surfing down the line, so went in there and had a look. It was sick, only a bit above head high, but the rip ran into it, and the swell angle made it really sucky the whole way. It was endless, no lulls, I've never seen anything like it, just wave after wave as you paddled out. We surfed our brains out, and when it filled right up, we started to paddle across the big channel to get in, and couldnt help noticing the A frame wave, the inside wave that the locals love, on the other side of the channel was pumping, and it loves high tide. So over we went. It was perfect lefts and rights, so we had to surf. When I finally grovelled in, I was fried, my eyes were killing me, and I couldn't sleep, felt a bit sick all night. No water in the heat/sunstroke isn't good. But, I got to surf 3 sick waves in one session, the best waves I've ever had are around there.
Brief interlude online for me Sheeps, down from the Ozarks in the big smoke for a few days. Into hospical tomoz for some keyhole surgery, nuthin too serious, just a bit of wear 'n tear, be out on Friday.
But 4 weeks off from the wood chop, I'm on hols, doctors orders.
not technically one session ... but one swell .
Pre dawn 5k bike ride to stashed board , 500m paddle , solid lefts 1.5 hrs .
Bike back to work . 7hrs .
Ferry , train to rig ... Rig to Airport . Pickup FIFOFOMOMOFO's ( x2) at Airport .
1 hr shop for supplies Supamarket .
13 hr drive ( sole driver) ,early- mid morning paddle out at long left >6ft . Surfed 6+ hours .
Setup tent , All carried out " naturally aspirated " , didn't leave tent for 2 days .....
sidthefish wrote:Brief interlude online for me Sheeps, down from the Ozarks in the big smoke for a few days. Into hospical tomoz for some keyhole surgery, nuthin too serious, just a bit of wear 'n tear, be out on Friday.
But 4 weeks off from the wood chop, I'm on hols, doctors orders.
Good to hear your finally getting the lobotomy Sid.:-))) You'll be better for it
There's hope for you yet siddler. Remember, big is beautiful.
Of course it helps to have a big, strong, raw boned lad, like Lifty, to chuck the fucker around.
Not impressed, lift..... Now, if he was to pick it up and use it..... well...... ;)
No problem. Bigger is beautiful.
Again, and of course, it helps to have a big, strong, raw boned, injury free, trained lad, like Lifty, to chuck that fucker around.
Hang on..... hang on..... 2 blokes? Nah mate...... Thought you were old school ......
uplift wrote:There's hope for you yet siddler. Remember, big is beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5WO9nulOXc
Of course it helps to have a big, strong, raw boned lad, like Lifty, to chuck the fucker around.
Ahhh, so that's where the donk outta me 'wood went!
I know this is a bit of mid-week fluff but on the weekend we scored a nice head high day at a local breakwall. Normally I surf on average 2-3 hours at one time and a 4 hour surf is considered long. Sunday, a mate and I got in the water at 930am and as lunchtime rolled around the hours kept getting ticked off. Just after 4 pm and with total spaghetti arms caught one last wave and called it a day. Over 6 1/2 hours straight and still the waves were pouring in. We had a couple of 5 hours seshs a few weeks ago but this was crazy. My armpits were raw, my ball sack was raw and my nipples aren't too flash either. But fully stoked. Surfed for 90 mins yesterday but the waves weren't the same and it was painful.
Years ago I had a surf up at A-Bay, Noosa. Got in the water at 0500 and dragged myself out at 1300. 8 hours would have to be my longest straight sesh- how about yours?