Team Canada’s three surfers were in the water today at the 2010 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in Auckland, New Zealand.
The surfers include Nomme and Diego Mignot, who are competing in the under-16 category. Both boys live in Mexico and hold Canadian passports.
The third surfer is 16-year-old Jacob Albury of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, who is competing in the under-18 category.
Canadian Surfing Association (CSA) President John Fluke is currently in New Zealand with the team and sent back this report:
“Yesterday was the first day of the competition and the conditions have changed from sweet waves to a wind-blown mess. Read more…
Taghazout. Click to enlarge
Surf: 4/5 = Great but seasons make a difference here.
Price: 4/5 = Cheap!
Party: 1/5 = Good luck. They’re strict on alcohol.
Localism: 2/5 = It’s not your wave, and don’t forget it.
Thieves: 1/5 = Pick pockets and car break-ins are common, very common.
Time Frame: Oct/Nov 2009
Where do I start on this short story of a surf trip? With the most important points I guess.
How to get there: I’d recommend using one of Europe’s low cost carriers once you already have a flight to one of Europe’s major airports (e.g. London, Frankfurt, Paris). Ryanair, Easyjet and Royal Air Maroc are pretty safe bets to get from Europe to Morocco. I flew return with Ryanair from Frankfurt for $120 CDN taxes-in.
Here’s a basic rule of thumb: A 100 km bus or train ride costs around 25 DH or about $3.50 CDN. Read more…
Nomme Mignot
Nomme Mignot and his cousin Diego Mignot will be representing Canada in the under-16 division at the 2010 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in Auckland, New Zealand (January 20-28).
The two surfers currently live in Mexico but hold Canadian passports. Both surfers regularly compete in Mexico and are nationally ranked.
Canadian Surfing Association (CSA) President John Fluke announced on Thursday that Nomme and Diego would be joining Team Canada. Last week, it was believed that Nomme would be representing Mexico.
Sixteen-year-old Jacob Albury of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia is the third member of the team. Albury, who was born in Ontario and has lived in the Bahamas and Nova Scotia, is in Grade 11 at Park View Education Centre in Bridgewater.
Albury took first place in the open boys division at the Shut up and Surf Classic contest in October at Cow Bay, Nova Scotia. Read more…
See more photos of Jacob at the end of the interview.
Sixteen-year-old Jacob Albury of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia will be representing Team Canada at the 2010 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championship, which takes place January 20-28 in Auckland, New Zealand.
Albury, who is in Grade 11 at Park View Education Centre in Bridgewater, took first place in the open boys division at the Shut up and Surf Classic contest in October at Cow Bay, Nova Scotia.
ScotiaSurfer.com interviewed Albury through email this past weekend.
ScotiaSufer.com (SS): Tell us a little about your background.
Jacob Albury (JA): I grew up in Abaco, Bahamas but moved to Nova Scotia when I was 10, then moved back to Bahamas at 13, then back to Nova Scotia this summer. I get back to the Bahamas two, three times a year. Surfing in the Bahamas is definitely more convenient not having to change into wetsuits. Read more…
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Taghazout. Click to enlarge
Surf: 4/5 = Great but seasons make a difference here.
Price: 4/5 = Cheap!
Party: 1/5 = Good luck. They’re strict on alcohol.
Localism: 2/5 = It’s not your wave, and don’t forget it.
Thieves: 1/5 = Pick pockets and car break-ins are common, very common.
Time Frame: Oct/Nov 2009
Where do I start on this short story of a surf trip? With the most important points I guess.
How to get there: I’d recommend using one of Europe’s low cost carriers once you already have a flight to one of Europe’s major airports (e.g. London, Frankfurt, Paris). Ryanair, Easyjet and Royal Air Maroc are pretty safe bets to get from Europe to Morocco. I flew return with Ryanair from Frankfurt for $120 CDN taxes-in.
Here’s a basic rule of thumb: A 100 km bus or train ride costs around 25 DH or about $3.50 CDN. Read More…
Nomme Mignot
Nomme Mignot and his cousin Diego Mignot will be representing Canada in the under-16 division at the 2010 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in Auckland, New Zealand (January 20-28).
The two surfers currently live in Mexico but hold Canadian passports. Both surfers regularly compete in Mexico and are nationally ranked.
Canadian Surfing Association (CSA) President John Fluke announced on Thursday that Nomme and Diego would be joining Team Canada. Last week, it was believed that Nomme would be representing Mexico.
Sixteen-year-old Jacob Albury of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia is the third member of the team. Albury, who was born in Ontario and has lived in the Bahamas and Nova Scotia, is in Grade 11 at Park View Education Centre in Bridgewater.
Albury took first place in the open boys division at the Shut up and Surf Classic contest in October at Cow Bay, Nova Scotia. Read More…
A casting agency out of Toronto is looking for a surfer who’s interested in getting paid to surf in South America.
The catch is, the surfer must be female and over 40.
Jigsaw Casting Ltd. is looking for a female surfer 40 to 60 years old to be featured in an upcoming TV commercial for Becel, which will be shot in Santiago, Chile.
The role is open to women of all ethnicities. The surfer must be fit and athletic but not too extreme – she shouldn’t look too thin or like a professional athlete.
The surfer also needs to be natural, not made-up. In other words, she must look good with minimal makeup. Of course, the surfer should be able to surf, or at least familiar enough with surfing to be credible.
The surfer can have some element of ‘hippy’ or ‘bohemian’ in her look but nothing too extreme like weird piercings or outrageous tattoos. Read More…
See more photos of Jacob at the end of the interview.
Sixteen-year-old Jacob Albury of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia will be representing Team Canada at the 2010 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championship, which takes place January 20-28 in Auckland, New Zealand.
Albury, who is in Grade 11 at Park View Education Centre in Bridgewater, took first place in the open boys division at the Shut up and Surf Classic contest in October at Cow Bay, Nova Scotia.
ScotiaSurfer.com interviewed Albury through email this past weekend.
ScotiaSufer.com (SS): Tell us a little about your background.
Jacob Albury (JA): I grew up in Abaco, Bahamas but moved to Nova Scotia when I was 10, then moved back to Bahamas at 13, then back to Nova Scotia this summer. I get back to the Bahamas two, three times a year. Surfing in the Bahamas is definitely more convenient not having to change into wetsuits. Read More…
Jacob Albury
Due to economic conditions, Canada will only be sending one surfer to the 2010 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championship, which takes place January 20-28 in Auckland, New Zealand.
Sixteen-year-old Jacob Albury of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia will be representing Team Canada at the contest. Albury took first place in the open boys division at the Shut up and Surf Classic contest in October at Cow Bay, Nova Scotia.
Albury has also competed in the Bahamas as well the U.S., including Florida and Virginia Beach.
A total of five surfers were invited by the Canadian Surfing Association (CSA) to represent Canada at the contest, four of which were from the East Coast.
In addition to Albury, the other East Coast surfers were 16-year-old Connor Marsh of Liverpool, 17-year-old Isaac Norman of Port Joli, and 15-year-old Kris Rambeau of Eastern Passage. Read More…
The first big storm of 2010 brought some decent waves on Sunday. Photo: Reed Holmes
Killing it Santa Style
Everyone here at Scotia Surfer hope you have a great and safe holiday season. It’s looks like Santa brought some surf for the week as well! So go surf off those beers.
Cover from California musican Michael Quest's 2003 album 24-7-365.
Happy holidays, folks. Hope some of you have enjoyed the swell the last few days. I’ve been kept out of the water due to a surf-related injury – I took a board in the ribs. Damn rib injuries take forever to mend.
If I were to get wet now, I’d set myself back a couple of weeks. My goal is to get back in the water on for our traditional New Year’s Day (or Eve) surf.
In the meantime, I’ll kick back and enjoy the Christmas chaos. While doing so, I’ll be skipping the Xmas carols and tuning into some surf music. If you weren’t aware, Scotia Surfer has a little online surf radio station – click here to check it out.
The station has a compilation of some of the greatest surf tunes of all time (the good stuff; not Beach Boys). We also play some new surf tunes by independent artists.
The station is broadcast on Live365.com, a network of online radio stations run mostly by amateurs. Because it’s on this network, Scotia Surfer has listeners from all over the world. In fact, the last time I checked, the station has listeners from over 40 countries, from the U.S. to Japan to Brazil to Morocco. We even had four listeners from the land-locked mountains of Austria in the last month.
Occasionally, we’ll get emails from musicians sending us songs and requesting airplay on the station. Sometimes the music is a little weird and far from being classified as surf music. Other times will get some of the cheesy Beach Boys-Jimmy Buffet-style stuff. Fun, but not fit for the station.
Once in a while we’ll get lucky and get some true surf tunes. Recently, we received an email from a California-based musician named Michael Quest, who sent us Q-Surf, a decent surf tune which we added to the playlist.
If you’re in a band and you play surf-related music, please send us a song, and we’ll try to get it on the station. We also play a style of music called Exotica, which is the jazzy, laidback type of music you’d listen to while sipping on a Mai Tai at a Tiki Bar in Hawaii.
For those of you who simply like listening to music, I recommend Scotia Surfer radio this Christmas as an alternative to songs about snow, trees, deer and a jolly fat man.
