Our time demands were a lot less than normal this past weekend. Enough so that I got to go out and surf twice this weekend. Coincidentally, there was also a south swell that hit and made things interesting (but the tradewinds also picked up and it wasn't quite an epic swell). With the larger than normal size, I decided to breakout the Firewire Greedy Beaver - a little overkill since it does fit in the bed, but here is the board tied up to the roof racks.
I was actually a little spooked about keeping it in the bed because of the forward tiedown hooks - they could put a ding in a board if there is a little movement in the bed.
Plenty of room up top. The surf was pretty wind whipped on my Saturday evening session. I did manage to grab a few waves where I got a good bottom turn followed by a long-ish glide. Good fun (and probably better that fighting the wind on the TJ Everyday or a SUP). I ended up putting the board in the bed on the way back home from surfing. The board did not shift - I'll probably still put a piece of foam over the tiedown hooks, but it is pretty handing having a truck bed - might as well use it.
And on the Sunday morning dawn patrol - the wind was low at the onset. And it stayed low just until I got out (about 8am). Marlon used the 6'5" shortboard quad that I built (look to the beginning of this blog several years back) - he said it was real easy to duck dive through the breakers. I got several good takeoffs - still short rides, but it feels good surfing a shortboard again!
