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Severn Bore surfing

Postby chris fixxy » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:16 pm

Has anyone on here had personal experience of it?

I quite fancy going to have a look at it but it seems a massive hassle to watch one wave.
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Postby sinistapenguin » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:32 pm

I went to see it once, but missed it.

Apparently it's a difficult wave, especially with all the dead sheep and shopping trolleys you have to dodge!!
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Postby northswell » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:32 pm

There isn't normally just one wave, if your free next week there should be a big daytime bore running on the 20th and 21st because of the big tides.
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Postby chris fixxy » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:47 pm

northswell wrote:There isn't normally just one wave, if your free next week there should be a big daytime bore running on the 20th and 21st because of the big tides.


next weekend in hibernation weekend while i wait for my annual bonus to kick in and reel from taxing my van.

I'll be up on saturday though, so prepare to pimp product to me.
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Huh

Postby Tom-Irons » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:31 pm

What is it :?: I've never heard of anything like that. :?
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Postby pault » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:41 pm

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Postby Tom-Irons » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:53 pm

That looks amazing! Would be well fun! :P
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Postby northswell » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:41 pm

Paccoro is the biggy in the Amazon, might need to spell check that though.
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Postby Sar » Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:16 pm

never tried it but have heard of someone dinging their board pretty badly on a dumped fridge :shock:
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Postby Luke » Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:39 pm

I would love to give it a go. But I don't have a long board. Any one ridden it on anything shorter?
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Postby GowerCharger » Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:03 pm

i remeber reading that this springs bores have the potential to be the biggest in years, but my old man wont lend me his longboard cos my brother smashed up his old one pretty bad on the bore a few years ago. I went to watch it in the autumn and id estimate at least 90% of the people trying to surf it didnt catch it, most of them looked like beginners but i saw Guts there and he didnt catch it either so a lot of it must depend on luck and local knowledge not just skill.
Wouldnt recommend taking anything shorter than 9ft, and take a pop-out if you can cos theres lots of things to ding your board on - whole tree trunks get pulled up and carried along with the bore.
I saw a video clip somewhere on the net of a guy ripping it up on the bore riding a fish, but hes a local there and has the experience, personally id go for the longest floatiest board you can find, i know bic used to make some 10ft+ popouts, which would be ideal.
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Postby chris fixxy » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:00 pm

Looks like tuesday and wednesday of this week will be the biggest tides of the year

http://www.severn-bore.co.uk/
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Postby Adrenaline Fueled » Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:09 pm

Soooo, anyone make it down to the severn then?? My sis usually photographs it for a local paper, she's captured some sweet photos of it before. I've never personally made it down to see it in action though...
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