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Something Big and Gnarly Might Be Coming

Image October 1, 2018 Raymond Hess

The Navy GFS model seems to think something big and gnarly could be a week away from entering the gulf, that’s next Monday. The National Hurricane Center doesn’t have anything developing in the next 5 days. The Navy GFS is usually a pretty good forecast model for tropical systems. What do you think? Is that system in the carribean that’s being called a ridge by the National Weather Service going to morph into something that’s going to send us pumping head high surf? Check out the image of the ridge from today around 7pm below.
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Surf’s Up Surf Report: 2pm Friday, 07/20/18

July 20, 2018 Raymond Hess

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A little squall just rolled in with hail-like rain pelting the windows on the car. It seems to be clearing at the moment. And in the process of typing this on the phone it just completely stopped. Surf is expected to continue through the evening, and through the weekend. A light rain may also linger for a while. Stepping outside now at 2:26pm the squall has cleared, and another may be following closely behind. The surf is really fun! Probably still worth it!

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Saganaki Bomb Squad Play at the Dunedin Brewery

June 4, 2018 Raymond Hess

This is one musical event you won’t want to miss. One of the greatest surfers/instructors of all time Mr. Greg Rocktoff and his bandmates of the Saganaki Bomb Squad are playing at the Dunedin Brewery the night of Friday, June 15th, 2018. Their set of songs is likely to run around 9:30 pm. It’s something worth going to hear, for sure. There’s sure to be epic tracks.

Here’s the feature article from their performance:Saganaki Bomb Squad Dropping Bombs on a Friday Night

Mr. Rocktoff, another surfer named Yannis, and a couple other surfers used to have a band called Locolism. They wrote awesome lyrics for their songs, lyrics very relevant to surfers. Mr. Rocktoff was the lead singer of Locolism and the sax player. The sound tracks in the videos below are from their band!

You should definitely go hear them play!

The man, the myth, the legend himself, Mr. Rocktoff:

And a quick clip of Mr. Rocktoff and Yannis of Locolism sharing a wave:

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