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No mate I woulda heard the banjo playing and done a runner !

^^^you should all hook up and have a tassie seabreeze get together. some new friends for you to meet bb

I see there is a second hand pair of ripcurl booties on e-bay BB going for about 15 bucks at this stage . Size 9 not sure if that is large enough for you . Big week of surf coming up this week in northern Tassie . Forecast for 2 foot easterly swell tomorrow and growing all week to a pretty rough large northwesterly swell towards the end of the week . Should be fun .

The school holidays has reminded me how nice it is to surf on my own BB . Haven't surfed at Carlton beach as yet have heard there can be some great surf there some days. You must have had just about the entire Tasmanian SUP population today If there was 5 of you out .

Will be coming that way before too long BB . Used to being in Tasmania now . Used to drive 35 minutes to get to work now 10 minutes is too far . 11/2 hours to Launceston is a day trip . 4 hours to Hobart is too far just for a weekend .in Qld we used to regularly drive 5-6 hours to camp somewhere for a weekend. Give it a few months you will be the same . We have friends here that stay overnight in Launceston because it is too far to drive there and back in one day . Have met locals that have never seen the snow , it snows about 20 kms away And cradle mountain is only a bit over an hour away .

Thanks SP I do have one of those . Not bad value for money cost about 80 bucks on e- bay . Was great about 2 months ago when I used to get about 45 minutes heat out of it . Also gives good lumbar support ( sad I know but true ) . But I have found that now with the water temp around the 14 degree mark once I duck dive and get a cold flush through the suit I can't feel the heat from the gel pack . Saying that it still must be warming my core temp to some degree and keeping me out there . So have been tossing up between the quicksilver and rip curl heated vest . Have decided to go with the rip curl as it has a side entry which has got to give it a longer life . Will let you know how it goes when It arrives . I must be getting old and soft , surfed all last year in just an old 3/2 , booties , vest and hood no problems . This year I am struggling in a new sealed 3/2 , gel pack , vest , booties , gloves and hood . And it is not really that cold here yet . Bring on old age .

I did look at those SP and in the reviews they read really well . Supposedly create more heat , longer heat and have a better control system .I am just not so keen on buying gear from Chinese companies compared to the quicksilver / rip curl brands . My steamers I have a bit of a collection . Favourites at the moment are 2 x sealed anchor 3/2 steamers , my old fav is a 3/2 which leaks like the titanic and I am buggered if I can recall the brand of it , I have a 4/3 ONeil which I don't wear much as I can't get out of it . Then I have 2 long sleeved thermal anchor vests , short sleeved rip curl vests . Rip curl F bomb booties , H2O gloves and O Neil hoods . Then I have my short wetsuits and the kids gear . Like I said I have a wardrobe full . Just talking to a bloke surfing in a 5/4/3 And he reckons he loves it . I just hate the extra thickness makes it real hard work paddling .I am hoping the heated vest will keep me in the 3/2 steamers .

you woulda need an torque wrench to loosen you're nuts

This surfing you talk does it require a paddle in hand

So they are sweepers talking 666 in a longboard SURFING forum hey

But only the brave would dare to post in there.

or those that are liked.. it is a strange place if your not part of the cool gang though

Man you mentioned that word = 666 or sweepers