Watch: Andrew Mooney's endless Canadian lefthander
Like many before and many after, the Central Coast's Andrew Mooney has clocked his hours of QS, tapped out and found fulfilment elsewhere.
Widely recognised for his proficiency in holding rail in heavy wave environments (Exhibit A: Cape Fear 2016), Mooney's also a gun in the high performance department. It's this kind of combo that provided him with a real edge in the foam sculpting trade.
Mooney's enterprise, Serpent Sleds, has gone from strength to strength with a reputation for delivering in conditions from summer slop to throating cavern.
A few years back, Mooney hopped a plane with filmmaker pal, Owen Milne and cast off into the Canadian wilderness. The pair wandered their way into the lap of a delicious lefthand pointbreak that just so happened to thrive in the aftermath of an Atlantic hurricane.
Mooney brought with him a curious silhouette, wide set with a crazy hip leading into a tight tail. The thing looks strange, but our protagonist makes good use of its speed and snappy release on his cold water canvass.
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Comments
How good is that feeling when you stumble across legitimate pumping surf at a new place. Great clip.
Imagine the feeling of riding that old design made by mistake by a mate, in perfection like that! Then the board goes off. He was so deep in some of those barrels. Driving out with so much speed, then doing serious turns to shave off the speed. WOW.
Love it. Thanks.
More good stories on SN today, and on YouTube so none of the usual buffering. I love sort of thing, can watch it all day as opposed to the T40 circus, no interest whatsoever. Keep it up boys.
Really nice surfing, like it!!
Enjoyed that
Any one know what the water temp would have been?
Taking a wild stab but looked like Canadian late summer early autumn, Atlantic side. I'm guessing water temps around 16-18 deg, air temp, low 20's. 3/2 at that time of the year no worries.
Well Zen, I've only been on the westcoast and it's was soooo friggen cold, even in the height of summer. 10deg c water temp in the ocean if I recall correctly, that'll keep the crowd down.
Looks like a super fun point though and I'd have a crack in head to toe rubber for sure.
I got a mate that surfs Tofino and even at the height of summer, min 4/3 and booties. Winter 6/5, gloves, booties, hood and a total disregard for testicles.
Locals must be stoked with the exposure.
Anyone who knows where this is would not be happy. Live though, goes on.
Locals could be grizzly bears!
Looked like that board would’ve loved to be a Twinnie. What a wave hey? Stuff dreams are made of
"hopped a plane"
Is that some sort of Aussie kangaroo slang for 'boarded the plane'?
"Boarded the plane" nows there's a surfing pun. :)
In all seriousness though, loved the clip. I don't usually have much patience for the dialogue but really appreciated it in this vid. I really enjoyed the instrumental tunes. Surely birthdays are meant to be surfing.
To paraphrase, been searching for days, so many perfect places but no swell, travel further and finally come over the Hill to see perfect waves peeling down the point, Now I will go and surf my new board that I just shaped.
How could you not feel their stoke.
Agree. If you squint hard enough you can see Mooney seated in an untreated room (back home) reading his script into a laptop microphone.
Either way, I felt the vibe on this. Good bloke, waves and a novel spin with that alt shape.
Yeah it must feel really great when you have a sponsor buffing you out and a team of photo hogs that tell you where and when to go and you just happen to "stumble" upon a great local secret wave that definitely already has a dedicated crew that chase it and have been trying to keep it quiet?
Then you go and plaster it all over the world.
Yeah that would feel great and I could definitely sleep well at night after that.
Correct. I have direct experience to what happens to a little known wave when exposed. I know this might seem like hyperbole', but it is heartbreaking.
Great surfing, seems like a normal bloke, but totally agree with the exposure issue. Bad enough showing it at all, but there were far too many gratuitous drone and landscape pans for the google earth set (me included) to go find it and then it's one more step down the slippery slope of exposure. Don;t often see people who live in these places blowing em open.
That's my kind of clip. Loved it. Didn't know David Warner surfed though. Ha Ha.
that was fken beautiful...
The cold will keep that a treasure till a big meteor hits us ..
What wave pool is this?
There was an article in an issue of Surfing World, maybe late 80's, where Terry Fitzgerald was experimenting with the same type of cut away tail shape as the 4' 11'' board the bloke was riding at the end of the clip, Terry Fitz called them ''Screwdrivers''.
Can't find any examples on the net.
An assymetricalised version of the 4' 11'' would be an interesting experiment, square tail one side and cutaway the other side.
Rick keeps the crew happy then basherz are happy!
Prized Southpaw sits upright smiling back at ya...just beggin' for a right old bashin'.
tbb will gladly oblige, soon as the unfathomobile gets a seaworthy certificate.(Dreamer!)