No Bad Tides: hybrid

Thursday, October 4, 2012

I remember surfing Cabrillo on 1/6/2012 with allot of Heart & Soule ... By Eric Cedeno

I just found these pictures of me surfing Cabrillo beach in San Pedro back on January 6th 2012. My friends Dave and Erin Soule invited me to a beach day at Cabrillo. I figured at the time that since a big west / north west swell was pushing through that Cabrillo would be a safer place to surf since it faces south and would be a little smaller there. It was over head everywhere else and when we showed up for a quick surf check at Cabrillo I was happy to see smaller shoulder to head high waves that didn't look life threatening. I brought two boards with me and paddled on on my 7'4" hybrid because that's the board that I'm most comfortable riding in larger surf. I later traded in my hybrid for one of my 6'9" mini guns, but the waves worked best on my 7'4" hybrid so I think I changed back one last time before calling it a day.

Eric Cedeno Surfing Cabrillo, San Pedro, CA
Photo By Erin Soule 1-6-12

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

a shorter longboard

Lately I’ve been inspired by Chris Wach and his canvas surfboards. I haven’t met him yet but he seems like cool kid from what I’ve read about him. I like the longboard style boards of all sizes that he’s been playing on. This past weekend I traded in my 6’10” Wayne Lynch gunny shortboard for a custom 6’10” longboard. I can only call it a longboard by the thickness and shape (17” nose 14” squash tail about 21.5” wide, tri-fin). I guess you could call it a shorter longboard. It should be done around 3-14-12 (ordered on 3-3-12). I’m looking forward to giving it a test drive real soon. Plus it’ll give me more surface area to draw on….

I think my new board will look something like this:

Surfer: Harrison Roach photo by Keith Novosel from the Noosa Festival march 2010