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Just Jibes

I need to lean forward more.

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Site: Coyote Point
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Happy Thursday!

Huge holes, killer blasts, white-haired mogul swell. Happy Thursday!

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Site: Coyote Point
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A Preview

North Pacific High made a shy (with a tad of WSW) appearance today, first in the year. Paging Mike Godsey!

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Site: Coyote Point
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Let me Fly!

Good old-fashioned 6.6 fun at Coyote. Unreliable clearing wind, kept switching to WSW, driving port tack right into chop. Need to work on keeping the horizon level!

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Site: Coyote Point
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Hyperventilation

Deceptive winter wind pattern, never mind the date. Got stuck waterstarting on the outside with some chop and little wind. Then it came up with a vengeance, I could only get couple of reaches with the kit that I rigged. Hey, it’s spring now and there are no excuses to keep sails dry anymore!

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Site: Oyster Point
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February is the New March At 3rd Avenue

Monday 1:30pm-2:30pm at 3rd Avenue, and I again forgot the booties.

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Site: 3rd Avenue
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Quality Compressed Videos with GoPro Hero

A Few Waves by GP

Here is how I compressed this Giampaolo’s amazing video:

  • Premiere Elements Shadows/Highlights filter (enable remove flicker in clip’s field options)
  • Sometimes it is worth to add just little bit of sharpen filter too, but not in this case
  • Frameserve (Debugmode) video to VirtualDub to resize to 400×304 (multiple of 16) and convert sound to 22050Hz Mono
  • Mencoder to encode into H.264 at 650Kbps (gobs of settings in the bat file, also need MP4Box)
  • Served from Amazon S3 using this script (the script needs unique player names if you have more than one player on a page). GP also points out (thanks!) that you’d want to remove page breaks if you post it on Blogspot.

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    12V Portable Shower / Washer

    I don’t like to wash my wetsuit. This is usually the last step after wrap-up and it involves taking suit from the bag, going to backyard, hosing it inside out and then carrying it back to dry. Really kills your mood after the session.

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    Bad Day for Surfing

    Wanted to go surfing at 7:30, checked sensors and was pleasantly surprised.
    5.2 taut 93FSW 25cm fin / 190lbs
    Coyote Point 8am this Morning:

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    Snowboarders

    If you feel cold and skunked – check out these guys:
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