Socializin' Surfers Happy Hour

The next Socializin' Surfers Happy Hour will be held on Thursday May 15th upstairs at the Morgan Creek Grill on 41st St on IOP starting at 5:30. As an extra bonus, there will be a live blues guitar performance starting at 7. All are invited to attend the happy hour. You don't have to be a member or a surfer to come. Maybe there are some wannabe surfers out there who want more information on the club. So come out and tell us about your surfing exploits or mishaps. Enjoy the camaraderie of the group. Have a beer or a soda and stay for dinner if you can and enjoy some blues. No RSVP required! See you on 15th!

If anyone has any suggestions for future locations, just chime in! By the way, this activity has been approved by the exulted officers of the Club!!

Susan & Jim Radley

Newsletter - January 2008

“The Glide” – from Tom Proctor

Happy New Year to all & my wish is 2008 will be your best & most prosperous year yet. 2007 was a fantastic year for Carolina Coast Surf Club. It presented our club with a number of 1st; a lot of comradery as well as some very influential members of the surfing community joining CCSC.

On behalf of your board of directors I’d like to thank everyone that attended the 1st annual Oyster Roast held in February. It was a great success & we hope to see you all on March 8th 2008 for the 2nd annual “shucking”.

Our gratitude goes out to all who participated in both the Adopt -a- Hiway clean up program & spring Surf Get-togethers. Our thanks especially goes out to Hal for his innovative way of preparing our Continental Breakfast @ the events - on an ironing board. Not any ironing board but the very ironing board he claims he uses on overhead days because it is so FAST off the bottom. (he even showed it off in the Christmas Parade – see the photos)

Robert August, “Wingnut” Weaver & Sam August were in town promoting RA’s latest film release as part of a benefit put on @ The Windjammer by our Web Cam Sponsor Charleston Water Sports. Hal, Nick & I met the trio the following day and they accepted our invitation to join CCSC. You can see their membership forms & a picture of us welcoming them to the club below.

As part of our effort to support & promote surfing - CCSC for the 1st time was one of the elite sponsors the South Carolina Governors Cup of Surfing. The Eastern Surfing Association contest was held in August on Folly Beach. I am proud of our club members that competed & placed in the event. It was great exposure for our club!

The jewel of the year was the Annual Meeting & Reunion. Club members, family & friends joined us for the best surf ever in what turned into a 3-day event. Will Lucas, Director / Producer of three East Coast Documentaries & member of CCSC was kind enough to present a pre-release showing of “Board Shorts” @ the annual dinner. The documentary features interviews w/ charter members of CCSC: Lucy Price, Hal Coste, Mike Spence & me.

The year ended w/ the club’s biggest 1st of 2007 & hopefully what will continue to be an annual event - The Mt. Pleasant Christmas Parade. Sally Price & Susan Radley co-chair'd the production & did a super job in planning & coordinating the event THANKS LADIES!!! Everyone was really impressed w/ Nick’s “parade float hot-dogging” however I understand several of his clients are a little concerned that he might show up for their next court appearance in his wetsuit.

We look forward to your participation & attendance @ the events planned for 2008.

Keep surfing,
Tom

2008 Events Calendar (Check back here often for more details)

February 2 - Adopt a Highway clean up day:

Hello to everyone!
The holidays are over, we made it thru another year. So now it's time to get out and walk off some of those extra goodies you may have had. Yep!! It's clean up time again. We had a really good turn out last Oct. Hope to see the same and more new faces! We will meet at Dr.Durst's office. (Jasper Blvd.) Feb.2, 9:00 AM.
See you There!!!, Sally Price

March 8: Annual club oyster roast, Sullivans Island Fish Shack

August 29-September 1 : Labor Day Weekend Surf Reunion

Web site/surfcam sponsorship
We are currently looking for sponsorships for our Surf Club Website. If you or your business is interested in sponsoring advertisement, please contact Tom Proctor at proctors@att.net
Thanks for your support.

2008 Christmas Parade
Let’s win First Place in the Mt. Pleasant Christmas Parade 2008. Please call Hal Coste at 883.3310 or
email him at cosren@bellsouth.net if you are interested. This is going to be fun!

Mount Pleasant Christmas Light Parade a big success:

Many thanks to all that participated! (Click on photo to see more)

Way to go Dyer!

One of our "hot" young members, Dyer Askins, won the ESA Menehune Longboard Division for the 2007/2008 Season.

Adopt A Highway Clean Up Day:

Thanks to all for your help with CCSC's October- Adopt a Highway Clean-up. 13 "Cigarette Butt Picker Upper's" took 45 minutes to clean the road and 1-1/2 hours for breakfast afterward - Great Team Work! For the January '08 event, I'd like to have 20 "Cigarette Butt Picker Upper's" - the Road Clean Up will only take 20 or 30 minutes. Hope to see some new faces in January.
Keep Surfing,
Tom Proctor
281-851-3695 (Cell)
843-883-3100 (Island)

CCSC Members Relax at Breakfast After Their Work Was Done.

Congratulations
Bo and Cheryll Stallings
Bo and Cheryll have just opened up a new beach shop, Island Time Beach Shop. It is located at 8 J.C. Long Blvd., IOP. That’s right across the street from the Sea Biscuit. Bo and Cheryll are selling all of your beach necessities - hats, flip flops,toys,shirts,chairs,towels, etc. They are also selling the works of local artists. They buy used surf boards and sell many items,including boards, on consignment. Please support their store.
Hours: 10:00 - 6:00 M - F
10:00 - 7:00 Sat. & Sun
You can park in their lot all day for only $5.00!

Dr. Nancy McGinley
Nancy is our new Charleston County School Superintendent of School. She has always been a super surfer. Now she is a surfing super! We are proud to have her as a member of CCSC.

Nick Sottile
Nick married Stacie on Saturday, May 12th.
CCSC member and business colleague,Dickie Hopkins, performed the 2:00 ceremony. The altar was beautifully decorated with white roses, ferns, and two Infinity surfboards. A honeymoon is planned for later this summer. They will live in Mt. Pleasant.

Tom and Sheryl Proctor
Tom and Sheryl are closer to becoming full-time South Carolinians. With the Phase 1 renovation of Tom’s boyhood home on Sullivan’s Island completed, they will be living on the island 6 months out of the year while still living in Houston, TX, the remaining 6 months. Can we congratulate you?
Please call Karen Coste @ 883.3310 if you would like to recognize a club member or promote a
business or event.

Last but not least ...

Membership
It is still not to late to renew your membership if you have let it slide. We are a fast-growing , friendly, active group of old guys who refuse to grow up!
Family Membership - $100. per year
Adult Membership - $50. per year
Student Membership - $25. per year
Contact Nick Sottile for more information - 884-0104 or nsottile@bellsouth.net

The Glide archive:

From Tom Proctor, May 2007
Late winter and spring 2007 has produced some pretty good days here; however, the surf continues to be unpredictable at best in the Northern Hemisphere. Believe me, the IOP surf conditions are not unique in this respect. I was welcomed by lousy surf at Huntington Beach and San Diego, CA for 5 days in January (knee to waist mush). Costa Rica, of course, held predictable with shoulder to slightly overhead waves for 6 days in February. The Texas Gulf Coast blew me away with atypically consistent waist to chest sets for 3 straight weekends in March. April, normally known for fair to good waves was a bust, but May is starting off with a lot of promise. The Nor’easter on May 7-8 kicked up chest to head high peaks at the pier. I hope this is the signal for a good summer.

I’m stoked because now I can get up at daybreak and see what the surf is doing without having to drive to the pier and check it out. I just login to our SurfCam and voila! The CCSC Surf Cam is LIVE and well thanks to Gill Guerry’s hard work. I urge you to thank Gill personally as well as your Board members and our sponsors. We also ask that you patronize our sponsors.

There is still work to do on the CCSC site. Soon links to buoy, weather and marine forecasts will be available. Links will be established with other Surfcams and surfing-related sites. We urgently need several volunteers to help with posting the daily Surf Report on the site. Please contact Andy Benke if you would like to help.

This newsletter provides Information about a number of activities planned for this summer and fall. The club needs YOUR help in planning and organizing events and trips. Your Board is running out of ideas. Please contact any Board member with ideas. Of greatest importance is your participation at club activities and functions! Make an effort to attend at least 2 functions this summer.

I look forward to seeing you in the water this summer and catching a few waves together.
Keep surfing,
Tom

From Tom Proctor - January 07
Another Christmas has come and gone - I hope it was the best ever for you and yours! The New Year is upon us and here’s wishing you the best that 2007 will offer. I am excited about this new year especially since the CCSC Surf Cam is going online! Your board members worked with the management of the Sea Cabins. They graciously agreed to allow our club to place a Surf Cam facing the southwest side of the IOP Pier.
Additionally, we are working on establishing Links to other cams and surf-related sites on the web. The Web presence and exposure will be great for our club!
As you can see from this edition of our newsletter, your Board is planning and has arranged a number of activities for 2007 which we think will be fun for all members - the January Oyster Roast, another trip to Costa Rica, continuing our Adopt A Highway clean-up community service activity, our Annual Meeting/Dinner, and entering a float for the 2007 Mount Pleasant Christmas Parade! We also want to take some Surf Safaris to nearby beaches in Florida and North Carolina, You are urged to attend and support these functions. Don’t be surprised if you receive a call from a board or committee member asking for your participation. Most of all, don’t be shy - contact any board member by e-mail at carolinacoastsurfclub.org or call us if you would like to help or have suggestions for our club.
Happy New Year! I look forward to surfing with y’all this year!

Almost one year ago the surfboard manufacturing industry was stunned by the unexpected closure of Clark Foam. Gordon “Grubby” Clark had manufactured foam blanks since the early sixties. At the time of closure, the company sold 400,000 blanks annually to shapers worldwide. Supply and demand caused prices to rise. This closure highlighted other construction materials and techniques to be reevaluated. The most noteworthy alternative has been the combination of epoxy resin with polystyrene foam blanks. Epoxy resin is more environmentally friendly and less toxic. In traditional fiberglass technology polyurethane is used. A traditional fiberglass board is hand shaped or CNC (computer controlled) machine shaped out of foam core. These machine shaped boards are referred to as PU Pees (poo pees).
Hand shaped epoxy boards are very similar to traditional polyurethane boards. The only significant difference is the foam core and resin bases.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both polyurethane/polyester and polystyrene/epoxy constructions. With regard to traditional boards, a buyer should be cautious of the foam origin. New entrants in the business do not have Grubby’s experience, product quality control, or the choice of products he offered. Likewise, a PuPe does not equate to a hand shaped surfboard. Rich Barbour, Bill Stewart, or Donald Takayama do not hand shape every board with their name on it. Much of the work is done by a computer controlled machine. On the other hand, buyers will find that an EPS molded board with better strength fares well when transferred at airports or in and out of the garage. Also, a buyer can count on having the same identical shape with each subsequent purchase if desired. Finally, a hand shaped polystyrene/epoxy board is less destructive to the environment and easier on the body of your shaper/laminator.
Did you know? ...
... that director Bruce Brown was only 25 years old during the filming of The Endless Summer. Originally, the crew only planned on traveling to South Africa, but Brown found it was less expensive to continue to travel in one direction around the world. The only way to get to South Africa on a one-way ticket was to travel to countries like Senegal and Ghana. At the time of the filming, the sport was only known to exist in four countries.