Marathon man.
When I was a younger boy, in school, I would spend library time with nose buried in either Jack London or Guinness. Oh that Book of World Records held endless wonder, boundless inspiration. I would study the standards, of course, the “most weight lifted,” “fastest,” “longest distance swum,” etc. and marvel but really focus in on the more obscure records and pick which one I would attempt to break.
Making the world’s tallest hat (currently an easily beatable 15 ft 9 in).
Most consecutive pinky pull-ups (36).
Most consecutive hours surfing (30).
The Florida man who set that last record in 2011 wants to break it too, though, and is currently planning a date with destiny wherein he will surf for 40 straight hours without break. With only the lightest of pauses.
Kurtis Loftus was 50-years-old when he surfed for 30 hours. He will be 60 when attempting 40 and you can go watch him, this October 15-28th, at Jacksonville Beach, Florida there in front of the lifeguard station.
Or, ruder, paddle out alongside and beat him in real time.
He’s doing it for charity. You can do for pure selfishness.
Strap on a WHOOP and watch your numbers soar.
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Can’t hate on Kelly Slater. Best surfer of all time. He’s the goat. Environmentalists be hatin on him all day. We all know what’s up. #get it Kelly #shred the gnar
How many waves would you have to catch every hour, to consider it actually surfing?
As apposed to just sitting on your board near the lineup.
Anyone know (without Google) longest wave ever ridden? Exempted: novelty/tidal boars and wave pools? I’m intrigued. Jbay? Superbank?
What about waves of nausea from hangovers? Do they count?
Must be behind a freighter
Skeleton?
I’d guess Chicama.
My rip curl watch/app says it’s the one I nabbed yesterday @ 834 yards, with a top speed of 34mph.. it also says I’m a pure cunt.
A very smart watch indeed!
I can whinge and mope for 40 hours straight.
He must really hate his missus
Nah
That makes no sense as the reef structure must be giving a natural buffer to the ever-changing seasonal sand growth/depletion cycle on that straighter stretch of the coast, wherein the beach changes annually but not to the scoured extent of the curvier stretch mentioned in that article, by all accounts.
P.S.
More public access to the beach is always a bonus on already developed coastlines.
P.P.S.
And as some Jewish builder said in the olden days
…”the wise man builds his house upon the rock, the foolish man builds his house upon the sand”…
As a geographer with skin in the beachside game, the replenishment of sand is dependent on many factors. Generally the biggest negative impacts on sand movement are manmade, and using the Gold Coast as an example, you can now find manmade attempts to restore the natural flow of sand across/over obstructions.
Seasonal factors (predominant wind direction/swell size and direction) can also have variations which provide more or less sand. A more local example for me being Coolum, which a few years ago had a season of strong E to SE swells that scoured our beach of sand. The steps to the beach had a 3′ drop at the bottom to get to the sand and exposed the coffee rock reefs in many places not seen for 10s of years. Since then gentler seasons with shorter swells have resulted in build up to the point where the steps are covered by sand almost to the halfway platform.
Basically, if you build up on the seashore, you fuck up littoral drift. Not to mention usually making a bad impression on sand banks for us.
Get outta here with your so called ‘science’! Eh!?!? You’re just a shill for BIG SAND BUDGET LITTORAL DRIFT.
Sheep! Real Lions know that Jebus loves loads of rock armour and groins and importing sand at vast expense to spray from boats every week. What are you? A Communist?
Hah! The story of the Gold Coast. That’ll teach those commies to stand in front of white shoes.
Hey Slater may be an environmental pig but lets get back on track as a 60 year old is hoping to break a record. We must be there for this incredible event.
Fuck this nonsense Chas.
Read about Slater’s criminal conduct and his contribution to the degradation Hawaii’s environment here:
https://www.staradvertiser….
His name wouldn’t be Kelly Slater if he wasn’t actively destroying the environment! Absolute cunt behavior. I remember Freddy complaining in Stab a few years ago that his swimming pool was almost damaged by erosion. What a fucken bellend!
Here’s the thing about Slater Jimmy. In 2018 the state granted the owners of certain north shore shoreline properties along Ke Nui a 3 year term to install temporary sand-filled “burritos” to help mitigate a dubiously claimed imminent loss of homes that many had built illegally too close to the shore.
Typically, such protections are forbidden under Hawaii state law. In order for property owners to armor a shoreline or install a structure on a public beach, they need to get an arduous conservation district use permit, something rarely, if ever, granted.
They had until this last summer to remove their temporary burritos and other non-permitted armor.
Now of course these entitled rich prick criminals won’t remove them. Fines for violating the lack of removal are $15K per day but the state is stalling and kowtowing to the violators.
But at least most all of the burrito violators received the requisite prior permission from the state to temporarily install them. But not Slater. He not only didn’t receive the state’s permission to initially temporarily install them but he hasn’t yet removed them.
That Florida punk is persona non grata here and he needs some old fashioned slaps and cracks with a bill for $15k for every day he has been in violation and a one-way ticket back to Lemoore.
Please correct me if I’m wrong here, but isn’t Slater’s place the double wide section/lot with the house built far back behind a big lawn so his house isn’t close to the actual beachfront like his neighbours, so he’s actually only illegally protecting his lawn, unlike his neighbours who got the temporary allowance to install the structures to protect their homes that are a lot closer to the beachfront ?
If he let it erode ‘naturally’ then his house would become even closer to the waters edge and he could sell it for more profit because it was even more beachside!
A good option would be for the national/state parks department (or whatever you guys have over there) to compulsorily purchase all those infringing houses (preferably at below market price, to discourage any more coastal land trading) and bulldoze them for a public park.
P.S.
Personally if I lived on the Shore I’d prefer to be up on the hill behind the beach to get a better view of the whole coast, and swell and wind etc…
I like the way you think Beefy. If only our state had the olos to enact eminent domain.
Making the world’s tallest hat seems like a realistic record to attempt.
Even for Chas.
I wonder if it’s measured in Californian (northern or southern), Hawaiian, European or Australian (western, eastern, Victorian or Novacastrian) feet ?
P.S.
Or is it in Jason Statham’s ?
tallest Yellow hat
I surfed for 4o consecutive minutes (maybe) earlier without pause and am quite content.
I can complain about surfing for 40 hours straight
Was that with that log I saw on your front porch the other day?
People complain about me with that thing