<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style>  </head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>Hi Fenton:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>Interesting to hear of your surfing tales.  I too followed the long board rise, fall, and rise again too.  I started surfing in Ocean City, Maryland in 1964 in the early days of East Coast surfing, riding a 9’6” Yater.  Fun waves, fast folding beach break walls when it was good, and hollow too.  I surfed Bethany Towers, where my late friend Bill Wise broke his neck in 1965 and became a quadriplegic for the rest of his life.  (He wrote an article for Surfer Magazine about that in the early 90’s).  I surfed on the West Coast for about a year in the late sixties, mostly North of San Francisco in Bolinas and Stinson Beach, although I surfed in San Diego some as well (Blacks never broke when I was there)  I can still remember watching the Potato Patch breaking outside San Francisco during the Mother of All Swells in December, 1969. (50, 60, 70? Feet)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>When I moved to New Hampshire in 1981, I started surfing here and in Maine.  Summers can be characterized by long, soul killing flat spells, but spring, fall, and winter has consistent, and occasionally large surf.  The biggest surf I rode in my life was about 15 foot at Rye on the Rocks ( a point break), coming from Gabriel, the largest East Coast hurricane ever.  It stalled out in the shipping lanes 1000 miles away and sent 9 days of overhead, deep water groundswell at New England.  Mostly I surfed with a crew of older guys whose company I really enjoyed and we had lots of fun together.  My favorite size is chest to head high too.  <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>I stopped a few years ago.  It finally got too crowded up here and I can’t say I miss the two hour drive each way, which I would do several times a week.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>I have had two Grand Passions in my life.  Surfing and Pianos.  I am doubly blessed to have two things to be  so enthused about.  <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>Will Truitt<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div> <div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Fenton Murray<br> <b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 12, 2008 11:54 AM<br> <b>To:</b> Pianotech List<br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: waves<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A wave thread!? David Love and I just finished some reminiscing off list about this. Santa Cruz is home break for me for most of my 54 years. Pleasure Point for the last 25, I followed the long board rise and fall and rise again. Lot's of mat surfing back in the 60's. I used to go down to Rincon, and a little place called Refugio above Santa Barbara, Swami's, Blacks by S.D., San O. (love San Onofre) and wonderful Malibu. Southern Cal has a wonderful feel to it, but I think Santa Cruz has got so many breaks it might just be Surf City, and I live here! There a beach break (Manresa) 5 miles from my house I go to sometimes, great work out with occasional sand bars producing some perfect peelers. I surfed a little in Hawaii on the North Shore of Oahu, but in the summer, got great waves in Maui at Honolua Bay. I'm basically scared of big waves, but love chest to head high. I played in rock bands in Colorado all through the '70's and learned to ski there, skiing's a little rough for me now, but surfing is so fluid, I'm virtually never injured. If the water becomes so polluted it's burning out there, I'll still surf. I'm careful after the rains by the river mouths, that's about all you can do.</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Fenton</span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt; margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>----- Original Message ----- <o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E4E4E4'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:atuneforyou@gmail.com" title="atuneforyou@gmail.com">Steve Blasyak</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title="pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Saturday, October 11, 2008 8:31 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> waves<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>Fenton were do you reside/surf???<br> <br> Rick B the water is not as polluted as you may think. I've been surfing the same waters for about 35 years and it hasn't killed me yet. There are much more pollutants in the air we breath.<br> <br> All I know is the other day Wednesday I think, Anaheim was the hottest spot in the nation at 104. I drove down to the beach at about 1:00pm. It was one of the most beautiful days of the year. Glassy all afternoon, after a two hour surf I sat on the beach reading a magazine and eating a late lunch. Almost no one was there because the summer is over. I thought to myself, I love Southern California in the fall.<br> <br> Steve Blasyak<br> Orange County Ca<br> <br> Pura Vida<o:p></o:p></p> </div> </blockquote> </div> </body> </html>