Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Dec 1, 2009, 11:35 pm
A week down the track and the second alaia is underway while the first just needs a final coat of oil before launching. The big one, at around 6' 4" is proving challenging. A slight lack of aesth...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Nov 23, 2009, 7:27 pm
You'd think after 40 years I'd have made a board for myself at least once, but alas. Noop. I've helped out on a couple, in a minor way, and in my grommity (both young and aged) hanging ro...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Nov 17, 2009, 6:34 pm
A couple of weeks back I had an out of the blue email from the Chairman of Stoke Appreciation Society, the wonderful Eef, of Monsterboards.org. Those of you who don't know Eef would do well to go...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Nov 10, 2009, 11:40 pm
... 39;ve just had an email exchange with Tom Wegener, with part of its thrust being the amount of work done for love or exploration. In his case, and mine, it is the surfing world, be it making alai...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Nov 9, 2009, 12:54 am
It's been a sunny day in Victoria. Really sunny. It will continue like that for the week. Mid thirties for five days straight forecast and it's not even summer. There will be small fun wav...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Nov 3, 2009, 5:55 pm
The first Tuesday in November, in Victoria, is a public holiday. For a horse race. The Melbourne Cup. All of Australia stops to watch the $5,000,000 race, it seems, and it is a very good way to do y...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Nov 1, 2009, 10:46 pm
After the fun of last Monday with Richard Tognetti, I repeated the exercise on Wednesday, again with Richard as he had the rare pleasure of time off in his all too familiar stupid schedule. The waves...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Oct 26, 2009, 10:26 pm
Every so often a weekend comes along that is just, well, different. Saturday morning, with a friends wedding imminent in the afternoon, I headed off to get some exercise, the non surfing exercise in ...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Oct 22, 2009, 11:44 pm
One thing I now know for sure. Never put a picture of your twenty one year old self on your blog when that day was some (cough splutter) years ago. Seems people get a fright. A small new venture ha...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Oct 19, 2009, 8:43 pm
What news do you report when there's no news to report? Well, actually, there have been some developments, none reportable yet, and none of them, unfortunately, in my bank account. Buy Musica Su...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Oct 16, 2009, 8:35 pm
There are days and there are days. A few weeks back the swell in this rather eventful year hit overdrive, with Bells and it's environs occupying an intense purple patch on the swell maps. Four m...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Oct 12, 2009, 10:04 pm
In one of my last posts I moaned that every shot I ever see of me seems to be a bottom turn. Imagine my joy then when a couple of snaps from Steve Ryan turn up with me in the top third of the wave. Al...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Oct 4, 2009, 6:02 pm
Yesterday I had the pleasure of showing Saltwater Buddha author Jaimal Yogis a little of our coast as we headed for a splash at one of my favourite spots. The waves behaved, he caught a stack of th...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Oct 2, 2009, 8:42 pm
I've always liked the way Garrison Keillor begins his stories. It was a sunny day in Lake Wobegon. Not so Victoria today. It's cloudy, onshore and I haven't posted for a bit, when I shou...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Sep 28, 2009, 2:24 am
A mixed bag of news and messages today. Australia is being blessed with a visit from San Francisco author, thinker and contemplator of a very wax encrusted navel in Jaimal Yogis, here to promote his ...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Sep 25, 2009, 7:59 am
Every so often we get hit with an unusual surf event, and today our coast was at the receiving end of a swell generated 7000 km west of here in the vicinity of Heard Island where I've heard (ahem)...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Sep 23, 2009, 12:13 am
... at. That and chasing girls. He's a damn side better at that than I ever was but then you only have to look at the boy to see why. Joey = Prince. Mick = Toad. How the National Geographic m...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Sep 22, 2009, 12:23 am
School holiday time and as paying work is QUIET I thought I'd help our elder son Joey and drop him down the coast were he's spending a few days with some mates. Naturally I needed to fit in a...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Sep 20, 2009, 7:30 am
Today I had a late run for a splash as the Devil Incarnate (Tom) was off on A Road Trip with a few skating mates, to Sydney and stops on the way. So of course I had to see him off and in fact dropped...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Sep 13, 2009, 8:40 pm
Odd is the only way I can describe this past weekend. Odd weather, odd surf, and I saw my kids the odd couple of times. School holidays are upon us and that naturally means for Tom: skating, skati...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Sep 9, 2009, 2:16 am
As those of you who have been here before can see, I've been fiddling about with the layout. The lines come from old Algy Swinburne, diminutive man about town, pre-Raphealite poet and slightly tw...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Sep 4, 2009, 11:08 pm
A very quiet run on the work front, with panic lurking behind every bush saw me putting up my hand to help my producer mate Richard Keddie. He was casting about for suitable extras in the telemovie h...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Aug 28, 2009, 8:13 pm
There's been a bit of swell around here lately. The day before yesterday I made the run down to help out Maurice Cole with an interview of Nick Carroll, with a view to adding it to the webisodes ...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Aug 25, 2009, 9:02 pm
Well, back from Tonga and had a very interesting time. I'll follow up with a longer post soon as I have a bit to do today, but a few shots to show where I stayed, and a little of what I got up to...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Aug 19, 2009, 1:24 am
A very short post to show some fun waves scored yesterday while down the coast for work reasons. Naturally I managed to wangle an hour and a half in the drink, passing up these waves at Winki for muc...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Aug 16, 2009, 11:24 pm
A weekend of howling winds, banshee like at times, has led me into a dark space. Denied a mind cleansing surf, the black dog is on me a bit today, can't seem to break through a block on the script...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Aug 11, 2009, 12:21 am
Sometimes, with the highs, you get the lows.. Indeed that's life and this week has mirrored that, though I will say the highs were great. If you're a surfer (most who read this) then you prob...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Aug 5, 2009, 6:13 am
Stuck at work, nearly nine o'clock on a Wednesday night. I wonder what the poor people are doing? Well, this one is waiting for a mate to turn up to do some more work, so I thought I'd get t...
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Mick S. posted an article on Safe to Sea - Jul 31, 2009, 3:25 am
Catholic guilt is a terrible thing. Every time I nip down the waves when I think I should be working, or sneak in a surf after a meeting, I get consumed by 'maybe I shouldn't have done that&#...
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