Surf Movie Night
| Aug ’08 |
| 16 |
| 7:00 pm |
Don’t miss the next Surf Movie Night this Saturday, August 16, 2008, at Spinnaker in Panama City Beach! A local surf movie is on tap for this event. Raffle prizes, good food, and great folks… see you there!
Stand Up Paddle Race #3
Filed under: Announcements, Events, Stand Up Paddle
| Aug ’08 |
| 14 |
| 6:00 pm |
It’s time to stand up once again for the Yolo Board Paddle board race series.
CALLING ALL WATERMEN AND RACE SPECTATORS!
The four-member teams will compete in three heats as race paddlers vie for the champion title “YOLO Board Cup Series” to be awarded after the final race in September. One time race entry fee is $150 per team. Free signature race series t-shirts for each team member. YOLO boards will be provided for use at each racevevent. Additional race divisions will include individual men’s, individual women’s and parent/child to name a few. Come out and support our local beach community and be a part of the fastest growing recreational water sport in the world!
For event details including race locations, visit www.yoloboard.com or contact Madra McDonald at 850.376.7386 or madra@M-PublicRelations.com. All events are free and open to the public.
July 17 • July 31 • August 14 • August 28 • September 18
Download the flyer here (.pdf).
Race # 3 is scheduled for this Thursday in Watercolors, just off hwy. 30-A.
The map is here. Racers will gather near the boathouse and marina prior to the 6:00 start time. See you there!
Beach Day in Blue Mountain
…another beautiful day at the beach today. Blue Mountain Beach was the birthplace for a dozen new surfers today as we taught lessons all day for several families from Texas. The picture below shows our beach setup early this morning.
Surf Sunset
It turns out that BlueMountain was going off tonight with clean chest to head high swell complements of Edouard. The wind did finally calm down, I didn’t get stung by a jelly even once, and the surf got another push. To top it all off, the sunset from the lineup was one of the most spectacular I’ve seen all summer. We had a brilliant light show and dolphins jumping through the set waves. No kidding, it was that beautiful. Hope you were able to enjoy it too!
Surf Report
Edouard may have come and gone. Dawn session this morning started off pretty well, but after just a couple of hours the big ones were few and far between. By 8:00 a.m. there was an occasional chest high set with a fun drop, but otherwise mostly sitting around itching jellies. I just took another look down at BlueMountain and it’s dropped even more with a strong East wind blowing. I was hoping to see some lines filtering in from the Southwest but it looks like it may not happen. If the wind backs off, there could still be some fun longboard lines left. We’ll see.
Welcome T.S. Edouard!
Well the swell from Edouard did already begin to show today. After building with wind swept chop most of the day, it polished off to some fine glassy lines this evening. I surfed Ed Walline Park with Bobby J. and Paul near sunset. The set waves were lining up nice with head high peaks and consistent chest high waves in between. Super fun drops with a lot of face to play with, then jacking up on the reform inside sections which mostly closed out. The angle was fairly straight on from the South, yielding rights and lefts off the sand bar. The outside was breaking consistently showing the larger sets as they filtered in. The low has strengthened to Tropical storm status very quickly and is expected to reach Cat 1 before landfall Tuesday. Surf will likely be good tomorrow and then diminish Tuesday unless the storm stalls or dips further South.
