Yeehaw!
Yesterday, Florida turned its eyes to Southern California for advice on how to prepare for a powerful hurricane named Franklin that had formed in the Atlantic. Should they be scared? Board up their windows? Horde? Think about possibly surfing? Great advice poured in from the Golden State, which survived its own hurricane just last week.
Today, an even greater force is whipping up in the gulf and promising to send monster waves toward the “Redneck Riviera” and neighboring Alabama turning the usually docile shore into that place of broken skulls.
A Confederate Teahupo’o.
The storm, which is quickly strengthening off of Cuba and tracking directly toward Horseshoe Beach, is fierce.
“This is going to be a major impact,” Florida’s governor Ron DeSanctimonius stated in a quickly-organized press conference. “You need to be executing your plan now. This storm is expected to hit sometime early Wednesday.”
Along with windy wind and rainy rain, though, an expected wild storm surge will create monster waves.
“Storm surge can be life threatening at just two to three feet,” Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie told CNN. “Some of these areas are going to experience storm surge well over seven foot. Storm surge is often the greatest threat to life and property from a hurricane. It happens quickly and can endanger you, your family and your home.”
Surfline, ignoring panic, is calling Pensacola a good bet on Wednesday, claiming potential 10-foot waves.
“Good confidence on Idalia now and expecting a solid shot of SSE swell for the region with N winds setting up good conditions. This is the day so would get wet. Surf peaking AM hours with smaller swell/surf toward end of the day.”
Do you think Kelly Slater might swing in for a rare session, mixing it up with locals in his home state, maybe even politely declining to drop in?
What about current world surfing champion Filipe Toledo?
That was a trick question.
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Get a boyfriend.
“REDNECK RIVIERA”
isn’t this Julian’s new f45 line
Check out the dingbats in the lead photo. Is that a new thing mud tattoos. I can hear the strains of a banjo being delivered from here.
I use a cross file. Clamp the fin down, use an angled approach and stay on a parallel plane.
Hopefully it won’t be a Hillary letdown 🥲
In that order…
5lb sledgehammer and swearing.
VERY cathartic.
Not good for structural integrity of, well, anything really.
Might need to sand fin a bit but first try rubbing base of fin with a bit of wax , sometimes works
I usually sand down the inside of the fin box along with the fin tabs. But since no one else is suggesting sanding the inside of the box I’m probably an idiot and it doesn’t help.
Ummmm… I think you’ll find it’s pronounced Ah-lä-â-bãhhh-åmmmm-āhh-à-á
Rub a little dry soap 🧼 on the fin and in the box
Wax not easier, but works fine and usually at a beach near you! @@Jen See (Disqus):disqus
You guys and all your fancy ‘wax’ being all fancy n stuff pfft. Wax? Luxury
…so you got a tight box there eh jen? asking for a friend…
This is a fucken gee up surely
If you have a decent sanding block or access to a belt sander, remove a tiny bit of the faces that make contact with the fin boxes. Relieve any sharp edges, then wax (as Pauly suggested) and insert the fins.
Lightly sand the fins where they sit in the finbox … and don’t ask Chas he can’t spell ‘hoard’ correctly.
Chandler would say forego the fins and use your foot as a rudder.
I think the wax option (see above) is the one I’ve heard most often. I’ve never actually sanded the boxes themselves under the theory that it was less permanent to sand fins.
Just rub a lil’ wax onto the area of the fins that you would like to insert into the finbox. Voila!
You should go finless bf you go all the way to quitting! I’ve sanded the fin inserts down a little w/ a file the couple times this has happened, but that was a very amateur solution and so you should definitely not take that advice unless true desperation sets in.
Slow news day for BG!