Surfboat rowing is incredible!
A hive of activity on a beautiful SA day

Our algal bloom is sadly still present in some areas but parts are doing better
Fingers crossed

#southaustralianbeaches #surfboats
#beachstories #newbook2026

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🌊 The U.S. Life-Saving Service, founded 1848, was the forerunner of the Coast Guard. Its crews rowed surfboats through breaking surf to reach shipwreck survivors. #USLSS
https://uslife-savingservice.org

This may be the best precursor on an earlier era. It’s digitized now. Copies were once scarce.

yeah! now that I enjoy running i couldnt bring myself to use the crosstrainer! i used to row (surfboats) competitively so I am looking forward to getting back in to rowing

"The frigates Raritan (flagship) and Potomac towed fifteen and twenty surfboats respectively. Albany and St. Mary’s, sloops of war, each trailed ten behind them, as did the steamer Princeton."

"Phelps, his fellow riflemen, and seventy-five soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Regiment shifted to the sloop of war USS Albany. From the anchorage off Antón Lizardo, Conner led the procession of vessels single file, sixty-five surfboats in tow, northward toward Sacrificios, a two-hour voyage."

Unlock the Perfect Wave: Your Guide to Wake Shaping Systems
#ballastSystems #boatMaintenance #inboardEngines #marineElectronics #perfectWave #surfBoats #wakeShaping #wakesurfing

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Published on Thursday, March 13, 2025

Surfboats destroy shoreline & disrupt other boating simply so people can have it “all” regardless of living where surfing happens or putting on a wetsuit and having grit to “Surf the Greats”. It reminds me of ski hills in the dessert. By entitled at great expense to the planet as always.

"It furnishes and maintains its own museums, parks, art galleries, libraries, concert-halls, roads, streets, bridges, markets, slaughter-houses, fire-engines, lighthouses, pilots, ferries, surfboats, steamtugs, lifeboats, cemeteries, public baths, washhouses, pounds, harbours...."