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Artificial Reef Breeds Localism(Comments Off)

November 8, 2009

After a decade of planning and 14 months of construction, Boscombe Reef near Bournemouth on England’s south coast, opened for business last week. It is one of only a handful of reefs in the world that were intentionally created for surfing. In the few days since its official opening, the Boscombe Surf Reef has shown [...]

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The Severn Bore

August 6, 2009: the Gloucestershire news reports on a surfer who has chalked up 500 + rides on the Severn.  There’s also a few tales of the Bore from alt.surfing: Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re: Severn bore record goes again Date: 31 Aug 1996 From yesterday’s Times: “A man aged 50 has retaken the record for [...]

In The Dragon’s Lair: Surfing Wales

The western parts of Wales are like a fairy tale illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. It’s a landscape of dense fogs, rolling hills, mossy dark forests and crenelated castles. The Welsh flag bears the image of a dragon and that seems entirely appropriate because few visitors who’ve spent any time in Dyfed of Gwynedd would be [...]

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