John S Webster's surf page

They Inspired Me - a few thoughts on the people who inspired me to surf

Rhythm, Grace and Beauty - an adventure yarn about surfing, sailing, exploration and discovery

The Spiral Cape a Cape Cod surf story
I wrote this story after a Columbus Day weekend trip from my then-home in the Boston area to Cape Cod, in 1998. Much of this came from my journal, which I kept over the four days, and it's about 85 percent true and really happened that weekend.

The Cape is a special place, and I try to get out there several times per year to camp and surf.

Thanks to John Milliken, who lent his keen editing skills, and who made sure I wasn't hallucinating.

-johnw

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alex k. sets up at rockaway, NY. Hey it's only 300 mi. S of New England! winter 2000. Photo: ???	Andrew's peeling chest high, oct. 30, 2001. Photo a. paulson.	Guess where this is? Hint: it's right in front of my friend's front porch. February 2000, somewhere in New England. Photo a. paulson.	maine at dawn, 2001. photo: s. castonguay
maine on a foggy day, oct. 2001. photo: sylvain castonguay.	little peak in Maine. one guy, many waves. photo: castonguay	maine set in sept. 2001. photo: castonguay	New Hampshire on another clean day. 2001. s. castonguay
My friend Andrew's front yard goes off again! Head high and reeling on Oct. 30 2001. Photo: a. paulson.	My friend ap and dan-o on a windy day at Point Judith. ap makes the drop while Dan watches and prepares to take the hit. March 2000. Photo by Michelle.	point judith, Rhode Island in october 2001. photo: s. castonquay	point judith sunset. photo: s. castonguay
N.H. also can get pretty good. sept. 2001, photo: castonguay	New Hampshire's the Wall on a nice clean, if small, day. photo: s. castonguay		Right in front of my friends front porch again, chest- to head-high and firing on the reef. Cold day in the winter. Photo: a. paulson.

Double-overhead bomb featuring a perfect way overhead wall...and it's barreling to boot.

Big bottom turn to the "oohs" and "aahs" of the peanut gallery sitting on the shoulder.

A series of overhead rights lines up. Note the surfer, a speck trying to outrun the whitewater of the last wave in the set.

The pack jockeys for position as one surfer paddles into a sizeable chunk of Atlantic Ocean.

It's only an 8-foot face, but I'm sure he's not complaining after bottom-turning and looking up at this unblemished wall

How would you like to be the poor guy getting pitched by the lip on this one?

It isn't huge, but it sure is clean.

Another hollow glassy one.

Driftwood monster tries to behead me at Manchester State Beach, Calif.

My current skate, surf and snowboards, a growing collection of street, surf and snow riding equipment, in my old back yard in Mass.

All John Webster's photos are copyrighted © 1999

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