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Posted: **Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:55 am**

what is a 'point break' ?

Posted: **Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:50 am**

POINT BREAK A break where the waves are refracted around a headland or point and then peel along the inside of the point.

Posted: **Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:57 am**

A Good Movie ?

Posted: **Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:22 am**

J bay in South Africa is proberbly the best example of a point break, the only 1 iv'e ever surfed was in Bude by the harbour.

Posted: **Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:57 am**

I think I read somewhere that Saunton is a point break, makes sense now you think about it

Posted: **Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:08 am**

saunton itself isnt a point breack, buy you know them rocks at the end of the cliff, when you drive around the point to get to croyed, that is called oysters/croyed point/downend point and that is a point breack but it only works well on clean big swells. saunton is just a verylong beach breack when you catch it by the rocks cas thers a build up of sand or something like that

http://magicseaweed.com/photoLab/viewPh ... otoId=8397
thats a pic of oysters working

Posted: **Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:42 am**

eeeeeeek!!!!!!!! A bit too close to rocks for lil ol' me! :lol:

Posted: **Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:53 am**

lol thats what i think im gunu surf it when i go down there on my own soon as i turn 17, but i would neva get my mum to let me surf there :lol:

Posted: **Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:03 pm**

bluesnowcone2000 wrote:lol thats what i think im gunu surf it when i go down there on my own soon as i turn 17, but i would neva get my mum to let me surf there

Don't tell her and enjoy yourself

Posted: **Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:05 pm**

lol well the only way i could do that is i go surf saunton and if oysters is working paddel there on my longboard, but its a long paddel and im a lazy kid. + i recon id die if i go there now, i might of been surfing for 3-4 years but i still c**k up a couple of me rides

Posted: **Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:57 pm**

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Posted: **Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:59 pm**

ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Brill lil diagram SP!!!!!

Just a thought, has anyone heard from Phil, or Cheezer? Have they emigrated together!?

Posted: **Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:39 am**

aha that makes it all clear

Posted: **Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:24 am**

You'd struggle be able to paddle to oyster's as it isn't where you think it is. Downend point is at the end of the rocks as suggested but oysters is elswhere all together and is a reef break/sandbar (not sure which) and is quite a distance maybe 1 mile out the back of croyde. See photo of it breaking in the distance!

Downend point

Posted: **Sat Aug 12, 2006 9:57 am**

IdRatherBeSurfing wrote:Just a thought, has anyone heard from Phil, or Cheezer? Have they emigrated together!?

Phil's in dorset this week. Me, phil and the cheez were gonna meet up this weekend.... but the surfcams explain the rest :roll:

Posted: **Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:50 pm**

kitesurfer wrote:You'd struggle be able to paddle to oyster's as it isn't where you think it is. Downend point is at the end of the rocks as suggested but oysters is elswhere all together and is a reef break/sandbar (not sure which) and is quite a distance maybe 1 mile out the back of croyde. See photo of it breaking in the distance!

Downend point

was that october last year?

Posted: **Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:57 pm**

It certainly was. How you doing phil, how was portland?

KS

Posted: **Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:59 pm**

just sent you a PM not bad got a bit of diving in, prob gonna go back down next week for a few more days

Posted: **Sat Aug 12, 2006 11:18 pm**

That diagram explained alot thanks

Posted: **Sun Aug 13, 2006 12:10 am**

Phil wrote:just sent you a PM not bad got a bit of diving in, prob gonna go back down next week for a few more days

Thought u were coming to newquay!

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