Just knew you would be the first in Vega Can't bet the Kerry hospitality

Hugh.
49.
Derry.
Seperated{There is a God!}
Two bloodsucking teenagers, one of each and my eldest girl of 22.
Surfing 20 plus years.
Keep mostly to the North Country but have been down the West Coast from time to time but never further South than Kerry.
Have never surfed out of Ireland, actually like cold water but would like too sometime.
Do shift work so that I can get in more frequently.
Other sports, Judo and when conditions are poor will go to the gym to keep my fitness up.
Quiver in order of most frequently used: 9'6", 9'9",9'1" all Chapters and 6'2" Santa Rosa fish.

Col

27
Male
Happily Single
Cork man.


Been messing about in the water since I was a kid, thanks to my parents. Started out windsurfing, often with forum members "ultan k" before he jetted to Aus and "jamkell". I then migrated across to surfing in 1997 when I had the loan of a board. I've been lovin' it ever since but I guess it's been the last couple of years I've been religous about it! If there is surfing anywhere in Ireland at the weekends I'm on it. I try keep things interesting.

Surfed: Brazil, France, Spain, Portugal, Africa, USA and Ireland of course ...

I will surf (soon): Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, Fiji, Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia .


Currently working on my own web site for my past/future surf trips & photos, but you can check out my surf photos on www.corksurf.com under featured photographers!

I'm a Cork local but I surf the North West as much to be honest, Some nice reefs up there!! so I guess I like variety! When I surf cork I do it with forum members "jamkell" and "sponger".

Quiver: 6'2 Random shortBoard, 5'9 WB Retro Twinnie, 6'8 Dalberg, 7'4 Beachbeat Fatboy Flyer, 9'3 Glide Roundedtail longboard.

That's me

Photos here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/colinosullivan

Hi colirl. Some great shots there. You do a better job of promoting west cork than Bord Failte.

Feck me, they are stunning shots

Cheers lads.

Wouldn't be any good without the good surfers on the waves, so thanks to those guys.

Brendan

30.

1 young fella who’s six.

1 girlfriend who’s not six.

3 Spider boards (9' longboard, 8' mini-mal and 7'4" fatboy flyer).

1 Camper van (La Bamba).

Surfing just over 2 years now. (Disgusted its not 20!)

Chasing Waves all over the west and north west and loving every moment of it.

Spent my early 20s cycling around Argentina, Chile, Peru, Easter Island, Fiji, New Zealand and East Cost OZ. Figured there was something missing and now I know what it was! A feckin SURFBOARD! Aaarrrrgggghhhh!!! Live and Learn.

My brothers have been at it for 10 years plus and are crazy kamikaze types but from knee high to head high is where my comfort zone is at. I like to think of myself as sensible in my old age.

Still absolutely shite at it but surfing makes me very very happy.

Enjoy the surf-forum, surf-talking and surf-dreaming. Oh and surfing I suppose!

Bflaherty1998. Did your girlfriend write your bio.

You must gave a great set of lungs cycling in Peru.

Jonathan

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I'm a West Cork fella, living in Clare, working in Limerick. I know Krusty & Tsu from college. Got coaxed into the water by a kerry mate of mine 3 years ago.

I have no balance, fall over even when i'm lying in bed. Somehow once in a while, through freak forces of nature, the space time continuum and the alignment of the planets, it all comes together and i get the board pointed down the line, man it's just pure pleasure. The rest of the time you'll find me beating 7 shades of shite out of the water in disgust or the water beating 7 shades of shite outta me for being too ambitious.

I surf mainly in West Cork / Kerry / Clare. Been to France twice.

I'm "sponsored" by Bic, a 7'9 and a 7'6, but hey they stand up to 90mph+ on the roof rack. Have to say Tsu's mctavish looks like the way to go.

Thats about it!

29-year-old guy,

Cork born and bred, of a proud Douglas/Garrettstown/Skibbereen/Clonakilty lineage. Managed to wait till my mid-20's to start surfing, despite spending my childhood summers at Garylucas, Co. Cork, and having an uncle surfing for nearly a decade before I was born. I'm some langer...

Luckily, a few years back met a Clonakilty woman (married her a year and a half ago) and decided to try this surfing lark

No great allegiance to any board shape yet, I have a shortboard, a shortish-board and a 9ft epoxy.

Surfed around Cork, Clare, Sligo, Donegal and once in Florida (small waves, but mellow, and warm enough that I didn't need a wetsuit...lovely...)

to longboardireland Bucketceann

welcome on board dude you won't find better than here i tell thee

a bit overdue as I'm a long time lurker..

33, a "blow-in" from across the water, surfing 10+ years but never lived coastal so it seems more like 10 weeks sometimes, 9'6" Stewart HydroHull for bigger days, 9'6" uber-fat log for smaller days, a 7' Nine Plus Magic Carpet for when i get fitter (yeah right) and a 6"10 single fin from the 70's i got as my first board for 30 quid (before retro was expensive!)
way more enthusiasm than talent, but love it none the less.

and just had a crackin weekends surf in the most unexpected of places!

Thanks for sharing yup

Male
27
Single
Live in kildare and work in Dublin

Did a surfaris trip from Sydney to Byron Bay in 2003 on my year away. It was by far the best week of the year and I have been totally hooked ever since although not making too much progress. Got a 5mm wetsuit in December 2004 when I got back and I have been tring to get west as often as possible since. I have done a good part of Ireland but mostly surf in Sligo and have gone down to Morrocco twice. Mostly riding an 8ft Escape board that Gavin in Bundoran kindly fixed up for me.

I play Gaa for the local team aswell and thats whats holding back my Surfing (well thats the excuse I'm gonna use anyway)!

Cool Forum much more chilled than some of the others