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Sitka surf team rider, Noah Cohen, is doing some blog posts for you. Here's the first entry! Check back for future entries in 'Noah's Bark'.
The photo here is a shot of half (obviously) of Sepp Bruhwiler's surfboard circa 1999, or something like that. While we were camped out at a not so remote and even less secret break north of Tofino for the ever alluring first south swell of the year, Dom Domic stumbled across the board while looking for a place to do his number two doo-doo. While this board could almost be mistaken for a very big and very sponsored piece of doodie, vigilant Domic was not fooled and came back to camp grinning excitedly at his new discovery of Sepp's old half craft. Im not sure if i was more entertained by the fact that fifty percent of his then sponsors are now out of business or by the fact that moss knows how to sprout out of Clark Foam, which, ironically, is out of business now as well.
After staring at the board by the fire while methodically dismantling a satchel of dill pickle flavoured spits, i had a little think about the board and what it symbolized. Broken by the hollow right hander that unloaded a couple hundred meters beyond where the board now sat, it told me just how long Sepp and brother Raph had been doing this. The boating, the camping, and of course, the tube riding. Its pretty cool to think about what it would have been like to score this wave back then,which, at that time seemed no doubt very remote and even more secret.
Funnily enough, to put to rest the theory that seems to run rampant about waves being way better "back in the day", Raph stated that this day was the best he had ever seen at this particular spot, a statement that was quickly backed up by his brother. Then and there i realized how lucky we all were to be in a place so so sooo sweet and to see waves of this quality. And, in a funny and unusual twist, this day, just like the days surfed prior to it on that old board of Sepp's that lay broken beside us, was completely empty and not a photographer was in sight. Either of these two things are (somewhat laughably) unheard of these days, and to see them both coincide with the finding of the old surfboard really was quite neat.
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