Took a walk down Half Moon Bay Beach this weekend with Stacia. Among the family picnics, beachcombers and the napping elderly were a few surfers making the most of a flat-water day. What I first thought was a standard skim-boarding outing was something more creative.
These innovative lads had built a slick tow-rope machine that pulled fast enough to provide just enough extra speed to enable them to catch the very brief, anemic waves.
Basically, a guy would walk a couple hundred yards down the beach with rope in hand and wait for the next decent swell. At the right moment, the crude toggle switch is pushed and the little engine begins to take in the cord pulling the rider along the water.A decent pull drags the rider directly into a wave on which, hopefully, the rider is able to capitalize and get in a few snappy turns.
There is a good chance that you can buy one of these somewhere - that they may be standard fair in the scene, but a cursory search proved fruitless.
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