http://www.surfesa.org/content/category/6/30/37/



Appliations are in at my house for any competitor that surfed at the May 2008 Northeast Regional in Montauk.


I will not be attending this years Easterns due to financial and transportation problems that I'm in the process of getting corrected.


Competitive surfers who went to Montauk and plan on entering the Easterns as a slotted competitor, or who want to apply for an alternate slot please contact me here or via my land line at (716) 884-7781 as soon as possible.

Then get it corrected.....Dammit!

Just busting ya Magilla. Not sure if I'll make it down either.....new job...new baby on the way, just a lot going on, oh, and yes, finances too! If I do Hatteras, no lake run this year. Right now, it's looking likely for neither. I think a Lake run is more feasible, time wise (can go up, hit it, and come right back down).

I think for my division(s) Mens LB, Masters SB, I would be surfing Sunday, Monday, and possibly Tuesday that week. Which would mean 2 days off from work, which isn't a lot, but when it's a new job, I'm going to need the time when baby #2 pops out in December. Again, why a Lake run is possibly a better option for my fix of chasing swell. Plus, Hatteras could be small, and those times for running divisions are never set in stone.

Can you confirm the schedule for me? Sunday/Monday/Tuesday for Master SB, Mens LB? Could that change last minute?

Have to say I'm bummed that if I do get down that you won't be around. Another possible reason for hitting the lakes, and maintaining my yearly pilgrimage up there since 2005.

Oh, do you need a passport to go over the border by car? Mine expired, and I'm due to renew it.

3.3 feet on Erie right now (45142). You hitting that?

Thanks

Ryan

Hey Magilla,

I've been MIA since last fall but I'm back after a very long 10 months in the cold north!

I looked for contest schedule postings but I didn't see anything. I don't want to miss them again this year.... Are there any local contests coming up???

Thanks, Tarik

Ryan a passport is what guarantees you will get back to the states with less hassle. I'm not expert on the laws but at the moment double identification should still work. There might be a change in policy after the next election.

The Eastern competition schedule will change slightly on the day of the comp to readjust for withdrawals and alternates moving up in slots via the changes. The days and time usually remain the same.


http://www.surfesa.org/content/view/67/37/ is the authority on the current schedule until after the Directors meeting the Satuday before the ESA competition begins. At the directors meeting all final withdrawals are made.

Hey Ryan welcome to Papa-hood. In the immortal words of the Harrison: "Hang In There." You will get another opportunity again to surf some Fall head high.


Tariq I will be starting our competition season until Sept. This summer hasn't produced a lot of days of surf on weekends and I have had some work conflicts. The contest announcements are made a the week before the competition.

The thing about hurricanes at this time of year is sometimes thay show up during the Easterns and cause us to postpone. In the post hurricaneys da on the Outer Banks the ESA Easterns is usually the first shot in the arm for the local economy because the contest must and will go on.


We eastern Great Laker surfers deal with blizzards, and high wind storms but don't lose our homes to them like the people living along the Atlantic coastline. We don't have to board up our homes and evacuate them and head out on the highway far from the storm.


My point is the ESA Easterns have been taking place for decades in Buxton, North Carolina. This is the most significant amateur east coast surf contest and is like the motto of the United States Postal Service derived "from Herodotus' Histories (8.98), referring to the ancient courier service of the Persian Empire:

It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day’s journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.
(trans. A.D. Godley 1924)om" - Wikipedia


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