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Board & Waves Expo Featuring Surf Artist Drew Brophy

March 1, 2010

What: The east coast’s only consumer expo for surfers. See and feel the latest in surfboards, fins, foam and surf accessories. Also featuring daily:

Surfboard shaping demos
Surfboard art with Drew Brophy
Travel seminar with Surf Express
Sandsculpting display
Free product giveaways
Raffle for surfboard
DJ and Acoustic Surf Music

When: Saturday, April 17 & Sunday, April 18, 2010
Where: Cocoa, Florida (Cocoa Expo [...]

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How Big is This Wave?

December 10, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
This morning I noticed that I had a new follower on Twitter (@ActiviTourist ). I checked out his ActiviTourist web site and zoomed in on his “World’s Best Surf” category where I found this embedded video called “Biggest Waves Ever Surfed in Australia.”
I thought it fitting to do a completely [...]

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Gulfster’s Surf Trip to Puerto Rico

December 9, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
I just had to post about this. Years ago Ryan Clapper helped start a website that is a mainstay of Florida Gulf Coast surfers: Gulfster.com. Now and then he takes a surf trip to some far-off land and posts lots of great pictures and some video.
Ryan has outdone himself with [...]

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Surfing Hurricane Ida on Florida’s Gulf Coast

November 9, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com.
Today I spent a couple of hours photographing the surfers in the Gulf of Mexico enjoying a southerly swell from Hurricane Ida. This is a classic break– steep shifty peaks and a short wall breaking in shallow water. I’m not going to name the break, but if you’ve ever surfed [...]

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South Florida Surfing Blues

August 26, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
While I was looking at various surf cams on Florida’s Atlantic coast during the passage of Hurricane Bill, I came across the above graphical model of hurricane swells reaching the east coast of Florida. It perfectly illustrates why the Atlantic coast surf is more consistent in central and northeast Florida [...]

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West Coast Surf Shop Supports the Surfing Way of Life on Anna Maria Island

August 19, 2009

Copyright (c) 2009  David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com.
Anyone who lives and surfs on Anna Maria Island knows who Jim Brady is. Owner of the West Coast Surf Shop, he and his family are heavily involved in the surfing scene on the island.  I remember the surf shop far back into my childhood when it was located [...]

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Surfboard Design Goes Back to its Roots

August 1, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com
The ancient Hawaiians surfed on wooden surfboards. Even early California and Florida surfers used heavy wooden boards until fiberglass was invented.
Now we see all kinds of “advanced” surfboard design taking shape with fiberglass, foam, and plastic.
But some surfboard makers are going back to have a closer look at what can [...]

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Jumping Dolphins!

July 10, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com

@sunstreampr ReTweeted this photo posted on TwitPic today by @cityftmyers. It’s always exciting to see dolphins, but when they jump it is doubly exciting. If you click on the photo is should take you to the larger version on TwitPic.
But don’t forget to come back and watch the clip from [...]

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Radio Controlled Surfer-Amazing!

July 8, 2009

Posted by David McRee on BlogTheBeach.com
Spencer Johnson and his incredible radio controlled surfer. American ingenuity at its best.
Find out more and buy the DVD at http://reeseproductions.com/videos.html#RadioWaves
This is one of the coolest and most amazing things I’ve encountered since I bought my iphone;-)

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A Winter Day at the Beach – Cavin Brothers Video

February 23, 2009

Winter at Home – Part 2 from Cavin Brothers on Vimeo.
A few weeks ago I shared a surfing video by Cavin Brothers. It was well-received, so I thought I’d share this great video of a day at the beach, plus a bit of surfing, in the Venice area on the Florida gulf coast. It’s a [...]

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