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Present times:  July 2011.   Our 35th contest has just concluded successfully.  Decent waves on Saturday, diminishing to mushy trough mush balls on Sunday.  But skimboarding is all about making do with what you have.  The week before that my family had just taken the trip of a lifetime, a trite phrase, but nothing could be more true, down the Colorado River on an 8 day motor […]

L to R J.P.Garau’s yellow woody. Check the tan  VW Squareback parked on the ramp. The company truck way back then, and my wheels. J. Weber and I share the same birthday and the same passion for the slippery little car. Sally not yet Peter Prietto’s wife, my partner in Victoria Skimboards.  , Tex Gregory Williams, Brother to Ray and Jay […]

This history is dedicated to the memory of Marion B. Haines, and Charles L. Haines Jr.   Back in the water together again.  August 2011. Introduction We live in scary times.  And the ending of this story, be it happy or sad, is yet to be written.   Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine this […]

Explanations: Tay is my oldest sister, and she came from a gymnastics background, so she proposed the simple 10 point scale for each wave. And Jo is my older sister. Jaime was my cousin from out Redlands way. I think he had a run in with a bad mosquito that gave him spinal meningitis or something heavy […]

A few, (5 , 10?) years back I was invited to speak to the students at Thurston Junior High on the subject of my career and what I had learned in the process. I was rewarded many times over by 20 or so nice hand written notes collected by the teacher after the experience was […]

TODAY: CONTEST CRITERIA