Exciting to be alive for The Age of Global Warming.
And let’s be very honest with each other for a few holiday moments. First, do you wish your BeachGrit was doing more year-in-review-style postings? Even, perhaps, wrapping the entire last ten? I feel we have let you down in this regard. I feel we could have done very many “top ten surfboards of the decade” or “top ten professional surfers of the 2000s. At the very least a “top ten shark stories of the week.”
Well, tomorrow is another day and I will do my damnedest for you. For us.
In the meantime, The Eddie has received a “yellow alert” for a possible early-week run but let’s get the news from Hawaii itself. Let’s not culturally appropriate.
Organizers will make that call within the next 48 hours with an update at noon Saturday. If the contest is held, it would be the 10th run since its inception in 1985.
The National Weather Service said an extra large west-northwest swell is expected on Monday and will peak “well above” warning levels late Monday into Tuesday for north- and west-facing shores.
The swell is expected to be the largest of the season so far.
The “largest swell of the season so far” is saying a lot seeing that we’ve had many large days already.
Exciting.
But before you go, can I ask for a little more honesty? When you are driving and see a “yellow alert” do you ease off the gas like you should or punch it to the floor, instantly becoming a danger to yourself and others?
I thought so.
Maybe a New Year’s resolution?
More as the story develops.
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Word on the street is that men and women will compete in the same division. Finally, the real equality we all wanted.
Thankfully you didn’t spill the beans to Lo Sung Dow about MIT’s marine biotech progress, would you?
Coconut Willie to win
I don’t actually know who coconut willie is but I heard his name mentioned during a webcast & he sounds cool
Though top tens can make us warm with nostalgia you must resist this by busting the door down with unfiltered grit.
At least give us a top-10 interactions with staff writers at Stab of the decade…
Top Ten Surf Contests
Cancelled Because Of Big Surf
Would be prescient
My buddy and I were at Silva Channels (‘94 ish), big sloppy onshore, only ones out. We see a guy by himself further out launching on giant closeouts, eating it and paddling back out and just maniacally laughing the whole time, Brock Little.
That woulda been Brock.
He enjoyed eating shit more than an acre of pigs.
We all know how much you like sailing, sharks and Hong Kong Chas.
How did a shark getting wrapped around the rudder of the Scallywag and ruining it’s chance to podium in the Sydney to Hobart slip by?
I’m on it!
Just trying to do my part fam.
I took my snarky comment off about being ghosted.
That’s Ken Bradshaw kicking his nose in the air as Brock drops into the history books. He called this and that blown barrel, “My $50,000 mistakes.”
For a period there, Bradshaw was often on the edge of history – a little out of position, not going when others were making history.
Surfer Magazine teased him about it – carefully – because back then big-wave surfer egos were as big as the guys.
Or vice versa.
Ken was okay with it, and then he rode that moose at Outside Logs on Condition Black day 1998 and went into the history books.
Cool story BM
It would be nice if they installed egg shooters at intersections. Anyone running a red lights car gets blasted with a dozen eggs.
Same with the super-speedy ones.
use old AA batteries instead!
How bout current invitee list
It’s not the Quicksilver Eddie anymore and a family-run affair now?? So probably a bunch of 3rd Cousins and Uncles twice removed.
Will Eddie Haiku be invited?
What a victory speech that would be eh?
It’s definitely not lacking anything through quicksilver’s non-involvement.
And the invitee list is nothing but the tops in their trade…
lighten up down voter. We’re having fun here.
You can look it up on their site
theEddie.com (or something like that…)
or in stab…
Surfline says angle is too westerly and won’t be big enough.
I sense a letdown especially since the wife won’t let me go.
How about a listicle on “top ten things my wife woot let me do???”
Maybe your wife knows how to read the charts?!?
She does…specifically the mileage award charts and realizes that me flying to Honolulu would burn a lot of miles. She views those miles as hers to use for “nice seats” on longhand flights.
Makaha day.
How about the top ten top ten lists?
Great idea but should we even go further? Top ten top ten Surfers of the Year lists?
At least give us the top ten comments from Wiggs, you lazy bastard!
night need to go with hottest 100.
What about the sharks? No sharks in this story? Seriously? Big waves full of sharks! Mean, viscious… Angry! Look the fuck out!!!