If a person can't do it on the land they can't do it on a surfboard. Seals are inquisitive and friendly even though they will die a horrible death by sharks.
NB: Post surf -- even a short surf session adds about 2,000 calories to your day's intake, and a 3 hour session is equivalent to eating 4,000 calories of candy watching TV. It takes two days for the pot belly to descend from shoulders after surfing: do not eat anything for 2 days, otherwise will be unable to determine how much weight gain that session.
- NDBC Buoy 46026 (SF)
- NDBC Buoy 46237 waverider closer to entrance, helpful solving the occasional over or under-stated 46026 swell readings.
- Street cleaning Side of street parking information.
Car ($200 mo)
- $92 non-op: $80 insurance, $12 registration per month
- $180 mo gas
- rotate, align 3 x year
- $17.5 mo fluids 5Q OReilly synthetic 10/30 ($25). WIX 51394/Toyota 90915YZZF2 ($10); Store 3450, 9989 San Pablo Ave, El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 524.0267
- El Cerrito dump site for oil and batteries. (M-F 8-5:30, Sa/Su 9-4:30)
4/3 Suits ($170)
WalMart ($183) 2XL 4/3mm O'Neill EPIC, via Wetsuit Wearhouse, 2019 :: external key pocket R calf
HBC suits ($123) XL 4/3mm Rip Curl Dawn Patrol, 2018 :: internal key on back
cheap watches
Watches costing $10-15 are a necessity if they need to be in the salt water daily. The watches and bands last eternally, but the band pins are cheap pop metal that rust-out in a few months. The watches simply fall off in the ocean if a person doesn't have a bag of properly fitting band pins and the OCD to swap them out every three months.
There are two main brands, SKMEI, and SMAEL. They both have two batteries, one for the analog hands, and another for the digital portion. You can change them yourself, who cares if the watch is ruined. When these watches arrive, I throw them into a glass of water and see if they leak. 1 out of 4 will leak. They all leak if a button is pressed in the water -- don't press a button while they're in the water. I take the bands off the leakers to use on other watches and throw them out.
When these arrive, they drive a person nuts: the hourly charm or alarm is nearly always turned on at the factory, and incomprehensible instructions. Here's how to turn off the alarm mode in each watch
| SKMEI | SMAEL | |
|---|---|---|
| alarm on/off | C,D simultaneously | |
| alarm set | ||
| start/stop timer | ||
| reset timer | ||
| time set | ||
| 12/24 hr | ||
| light |
review
Environment Variables (7:55) Maloco, 2017. Goes over each, notes that they are kept in the
safety - board repair
Board repair is an immense subject requiring a separate post. The two important points are 1) respiratory protection for vapors and particulates, and 2) power tool safety: angle grinder. are important safety notes, and it's all about respiratory protection, since a person will wear nitrile's anyway. I started with 3M products back in the day, so there are likely other options I won't cover here. The pricing challenge is you'd like to just use the flat 6501 (vapor-only) filters when glassing, but microspheres require particulate protection, so you need the pink shell 60926 filter if glassing with microspheres.
- vapors: grinding and sanding are particulate, but glassing poses risks with 1) polyurethane resin, 2) MEKP catalyst, 3) Acetone clean-up, and occasionally 4) styrene "gloss" coat. 3M's top OV is required, the 6001 (best), or the 6003 or 6006. $30 season 6001 (US) 6051 (EUR) cartridge pair.
- particulate during lay-up, there's only microspheres. During grinding and sanding prep, it's essentially all particulate fiberglass and resin dust. A P2/99 might work when sanding and grinding, but microspheres require P3/100, so might as well buy P100's. Microspheres are deadly as f***. $10-20 season 2197 or 2135 filter pair
- combined easiest -- handles grinding and sanding and glassing. However, try to just use with glassing or the particulate will be full before the fumes are.$31 season 60921 or 60926 cartridge pair. The 60926 is a combination of the olive 6006 multigas and particulate P3.
This chart shows all the vapors, but not the particulate, so we need the 6051 series
7500 series half-face ($45)
For organic solvents, it's worth getting the more deluxe version of the half-face, the 7500 series, which has the exhaust valve and all (don't forget that filter). The model number for large is 7503. This typically runs $45, and then the twist-lock filters are additional. There's also a small exhaust filter in the front that requires occasional changing.
Here's the vapor chart...
From this we can see that, for the combined filter, with the pink shell on top, the pink shell catches the particulates: it's the same as the round P100 disks you can put onto the the outside of it. The question is what kind of organics are being caught in the vapor cartridges beneath. Since we spend most of our time grinding and sanding, we can do this with a simple dusk mask or these here
3M guides are available here, butthe main one to see is this, that you need the 6051 filters.
safety - comms and tourniquets
IP ratings Sites with waterproof connection bags note the various ratings and depths for them. There's an ELD (Electronic Locating Device), similar to avalanche ELD's, but for ppl overboard, so it's called an Man Overboard "MOB" ELD, with DSC. $300. There's an article explaining how to select these things.
But the other issue is comms. I'd like to setup a $15 neoprene hood with waterproof headset and be able to talk to 1000' meters on a waterproof motorcyle bluetooth unit. Hood, headset (with 3.5mm), and motorcycle comm (with 3.5mm). And what about a throat mike instead of a booom?
