Written By Jamie Moran on August 17th, 2009 with
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Just a quick update. A couple of the Jersey boys (myself included) are making a run over to Tahiti this week to try and tame the beast we know as Teahupoo. Andrew Gesler, Zack Humphreys, Clay Pollioni, Alex DePhillipo, Trevor Moran, and myself have all made the leap of faith and booked tickets over the weekend and will be headed right into some solid swell over there. It’s been a slow summer here in Jersey surf-wise so it will be good to get the gears moving again, even though it will be like going from 0 to 60 tomorrow…
Written By Jamie Moran on August 10th, 2009 with
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As every east coast surfer knows, summertime can test even the best man’s patience as endless knee high swells overtake the forecasts every week. While the opposite side of the globe sees the southern hemi swells light up their forecasts, we are forced to get a little more creative when it’s flat. As the saying goes, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”. And in our case this past weekend, our lemonade was in the form of beach slip n’ slide.
The recipe for Beach Slip N’ Slide
Ingredients: 1 Painters Tarp, 2 Shovels, 1 Bucket, 1 Ocean, 1…
Written By Jamie Moran on August 9th, 2009 with
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When I hung up the phone after accepting an invitation to participate in the bartending portion of the Dark Fall Blackout Party held recently at Maynard’s in Margate I had to chuckle because I realized that the most experience I had with serving drinks barely went beyond passing out beers to friends from my own fridge. I heard rumors of this shin-dig earlier in the summer, but I just figured it would be a standard promotional event for the Dark Fall movie (see the trailer here) that we have been working on. But guest bar tending? This was going…
Written By Jamie Moran on July 8th, 2009 with
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My previous post chronicled the first part of my recent mission to the fabled land of 10 second tubes known as the Gold Coast. If you remember, I was starting out in Sydney, which is supposed to be an 11 hour drive away from the 3km stretch of sand know as the Superbank, and I was trying to meet up with a massive winter-time low that was pushing 20-30 foot seas right into Australia’s east coast. It was more or less a last minute decision to pull the trigger and charge the drive because the forecasts were changing every…
Written By Jamie Moran on June 1st, 2009 with
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“It’s gonna be a while. There’s heaps of trees and debris and s**t on the road.” This is the last thing I want to hear from the man in the florescent green jacket directing traffic and sporting a thick aussie accent. At this point I have already been on the road for 8 hours and am waiting in line with a bunch of other cars in the middle of some random mountain pass where fallen trees have wreaked havoc on the man made snake trail through the forest. The worst part is that I am four hours inland and…
Written By Jamie Moran on May 13th, 2009 with
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It’s days like yesterday that make my surfing world go ’round. A new round of solid 6-8 foot groundswell graced the east coast of Australia over the last couple of days and pretty much everywhere was going bananas. With offshore winds in place all day, yesterday saw the best of the swell event and I was sure to pull a sunrise to sunset surf marathon. While a lot of my surfing in this area has been done around the town of Narrabeen, I have been been pushing my comfort zone more and more after meeting up with a local…
Written By Jamie Moran on April 25th, 2009 with
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Yesterday was certainly a day to remember for any surfer lucky enough to have been on the East Coast of Australia. While all of Australia and New Zealand were busy celebrating one of their biggest national holidays, Anzac Day, surfers up and down the coast gorged themselves on the best swell of the 2009 season.
In Narrabeen I awoke at sunrise to see that the swell right out front had jacked up significantly overnight. Thanks to a strong low pressure system spinning away in the Tasman Sea over the past couple of days, beautifully groomed, long period swell was gracing…
Written By Jamie Moran on April 21st, 2009 with
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Well, I just got back from Indonesia today. I was over there with my brother Trevor, Zack Humphreys, and Rich McMullin, along with Heritage surf team groms Chris Eaves, Shane Mathews, and Nick Rutkowski. Believe it or not it was my first time to Indo and I can’t believe it took me this long to make my way over there. The archipeligo of over 17,000 islands is well known as the traveling surfer’s holy grail and for good reason. The reef setups are simply insane. Long waves, short waves, soft waves, heavy waves, barrels, turn sections, air sections… it’s…
Written By Jamie Moran on April 6th, 2009 with
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Check out the new ESM (Eastern Surf Magazine) for a feature article on a recent cold water swell-chase to Nova Scotia that included Andrew Gesler, Zack Humphries, Kevin Morris, Mike Roth, and myself, as well as photographers Trevor Moran and Rich McMullin. We pulled a last minute mission that payed off huge. We flew up for one day and the waves were epic, but I’ll let you read all about it and check out the photos for yourself in ESM. Check the link below if you can’t get your hands on a copy.
Click here for ESM Nova Scotia…
Written By Jamie Moran on April 1st, 2009 with
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For those of you who don’t know, I am currently in Australia traveling around and surfing my life away. I have been here for the last two months staying in the Sydney area with a couple of friends as I try to find cover from the cold winter back home. Everything has been amazing here so far. My “local” spot these days is Narrabeen which is home to the likes of WCT vets Nathan Hedge and Nathan Webster, as well as Volcom’s air freak, Ozzie Wright, and many other world renown surfers. The waves here are basically punchy beach…
