The Core’s Schralpfest is ON for this Sat­ur­day at Plea­sure Point in Santa Cruz, Ca.

The surf fore­cast looks favor­able so get down to the Point Sat­ur­day morn­ing and reg­is­ter for one fo Santa Cruz’s funnest surf con­tests! You’ll have First Peak to your­self (and five other guys)!!!

Here’s the fore­cast for Saturday:

Sat­ur­day the 5^th a new pulse of NW swell could bring some more over­head+ surf to the region, with top spots see­ing a cou­ple feet over­head.  Peri­ods are expected to be around 11 sec­onds.  Not much change as far as south breaks go…

JUNE 26^th NEW BRIGHTON STATE BEACH, CAPITOLA CALIFORNIA

The 2010 Surftech Jay Mori­ar­ity Memo­r­ial Pad­dle­board Race is an annual ocean pad­dle­board race in the beau­ti­ful waters of the Mon­terey Bay. This event is in mem­ory of Santa Cruz Water­man Jay Mori­ar­ity. Pad­dle the 12 mile or 2 mile course. Free races for kids 12 and under.

Why should you do the Jay race?
This is the 9^th annual race. It keeps get­ting bet­ter every year! We gather to remem­ber Jay! Pro­ceeds will go to Santa Cruz County Junior Life­guard Pro­grams to pur­chase pad­dle­boards and to pro­vide schol­ar­ships in Jay’s name. Par­tic­i­pants get a goodie bag, tee-shirt, fresh Peet’s cof­fee, and snacks. And…you get a Hawai­ian plate lunch from Aloha Island Grill. Of course there is the chal­leng­ing course, family-friendly atmos­phere, and great hand made tro­phies and raffle.

Divi­sions for the 12 mile Race.

Men: 12 mile Stock and Unlim­ited boards: 29 and under, 30–39,  40–49, and 50+.

Men and Women: 12 mile SUP: stock (12’6 and under) and unlimited.

Women: Stock pad­dle­boards. If pad­dling an Unlim­ited you will grouped in the Men’s division.

Four­teen foot class

*New for 2010 Life­guard Divi­sion! All life­guards and Jr. Life­guards who pad­dle the 12-mile course will accu­mu­late points for your Life­guard orga­ni­za­tion. A per­pet­ual tro­phy will be awarded to the orga­ni­za­tion who accu­mu­lates the most points!

Pre-Registration Gath­er­ing
Fri­day, June 25^th from 4 pm to 7 pm at the Santa Cruz Har­bor Beach near the Crow’s Nest Restau­rant. You can still reg­is­ter for the race for a dis­counted price. Look over the course map. This is a great time to meet other pad­dlers, dis­cuss race tac­tics, and pon­der the Mon­terey Bay currents.

Park­ing and Restrooms
Plenty of park­ing in the New Brighton Beach lot above the venue. Be pre­pared to pay the entrance fee at the kiosk. This is not included in the race entry fee. There is lim­ited park­ing in the sur­round­ing neigh­bor­hood and chal­leng­ing access to the park.… if you know where to look! Restrooms are located sev­eral hun­dred yards from the venue on a vehi­cle access path on the beach. Plan ahead!!

Race Day Reg­is­tra­tion
5:30 am reg­is­tra­tion opens for both the 12 and 2 mile races.

Race Day Entry Fees on 6÷26÷10
12 mile is $50.00, 2 mile is $25.00, The No Frills 2 mile (no lunch or tee) is $5.00 and the Fam­ily Relay and Kids Races are free (we pro­vide the soft paddleboards).

Jay Cer­e­mony
At 8:00 am we will have a cer­e­mony to honor the great Santa Cruz Water­man Jay Mori­ar­ity. This year the Jay cer­e­mony will be hosted by Mav­er­icks charger and Jay’s good friend, Grant Wash­burn.

12 mile Course
(Pad­dle­boards) Water start at 8:30 sharp.

12 mile Course
(Stand-ups) Water Start at 8:40 sharp.

2 mile Course
Water start for all pad­dle­board­ers and stand-ups at 8:50. The course par­al­lels the beach toward the Cement Ship. It is an out-and-back course. There will be plenty of Cal­i­for­nia State Life­guards patrolling the course. The winds are usu­ally calm and the swell small. This is a great course for begin­ners. Sorry… we can no longer pro­vide loaner boards. Start look­ing for one now!!

2 mile Cat­e­gories
Pad­dle any type of board! We will make up divi­sions based on participants.

Lunch
A Hawai­ian Plate lunch will be pro­vided by the Aloha Island Grill.

Kids Races
Kids races will begin around 11:00 am. We will pro­vide kids age 12 and under with Nip­per or Soft pad­dle­boards to use. Courses are age appro­pri­ate. They are out and back around a marker off the beach. There will be plenty of Life­guards on hand to keep the kids safe.

Fun Fam­ily Relay

New for 2010 a Three per­son relay around a tri­an­gle course of roughly 800 meters. Teams will use one board to pad­dle the course. All teams will con­sist of three pad­dlers and must have at least one male and one female pad­dler on the team.

After Race Gath­er­ing
We will meet at the Crow’s Nest, at the the Santa Cruz Har­bor, for a after race gath­er­ing at 5pm.

New age restric­tions for the 12 mile pad­dle.
If you are 15 years old or under, you must be pad­dle the entire dis­tance with another respon­si­ble adult (buddy pad­dle). How­ever if you are 15 and under and have com­pleted this race in the past, the race com­mit­tee will decide if you can pad­dle solo.

Addi­tional Infor­ma­tion
Fri­day, June 25^th: 4 to 7 pm is pre-race check-in at the Crow’s Nest / Har­bor Beach. Look over the course map. You can also reg­is­ter for the race if you haven’t yet done so online. Sat­ur­day, June 26^th: Race Day! 5:30 am Check-in starts for both the 12 mile and 2 mile pad­dle. 8:00 am Jay Cer­e­mony. 8:30 am 12 mile Pad­dle­board start. 8:40 am 12 mile Stand-up start. 8:50 am 2 mile start. 9:20 am first 2 mile fin­ish­ers. 10:20 am first 12 mile fin­ish­ers. 11:15 am Lunch, awards, kids races and Fun Fam­ily Relay. 12:00 pm Raf­fle. 5pm Post-Race Party at the Crow’s Nest.

Join us at Surf N Sea’s “SUP INTO SUMMER” event June 5^th @ 10 AM.
Give aways, live music, raf­fle, free Surftech Demos and a 4 mile SUP Race
high­light the day’s events.
For more infor­ma­tion, visit www.surfnsea.com

Join Kaenon and us at the 2^nd Annual “SUP for a PUP” event. Last year’s event was a huge suc­cess — many dogs in need found homes. Let’s help them out again! While you’re there, check out the huge sam­ple sale, raf­fles, food, music and much more.

Admis­sion is free.

Come out to Kaenon Polar­ized Head­quar­ters @ 864 West 16^th Street in Newport.

Jan­u­ary 8, 2010 (Santa Cruz, CA) – Surftech, the world’s largest man­u­fac­turer of surf­boards, stand up pad­dle­boards and
acces­sories names Bodie Shan­dro Cana­dian Brand Manager.

• Down­load the full Press Release HERE

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So you’ve been rid­ing your SUP for awhile, and now you feel like it’s time to take it to the next level. Well, in 2010, you’re scor­ing the oppor­tu­nity to show off that wicked bot­tom turn!

Call up Aunt Hilda and tell her to get her ortho­pe­dics on, because March 26–28, it’s going down.

The 24^th Annual Santa Cruz Surf Kayak Fes­ti­val

@ Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz, CA

:: Thanks to Ocean Extreme Sports for this killer footage! ::

See Lil Dar­ling, Love Lil Dar­ling, BUY Lil Darling!

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Just off the jet and back on the North Shore! “Mecca”, the “Seven Mile Mir­a­cle” what­ever you wanna call it, the North Shore of Oahu is the place where the entire surf world col­lides for two months. The Surftech crew made the five hour pil­grim­age to Hawaii with big plans… we’ll be hook­ing up with some of the world’s best to find some waves and put the boards to the test. We’ll keep you posted on how that’s going.  Check back here for updates.

With a truck load of boards we left Hon­olulu bound for the North Shore. Surf check, Lanis, Logs, Sun­set… all looked pretty good. Solid ENE swell in the water. So where’d we surf you ask? Right behind the house. A wedg­ing left­hander, no one out!

With the cur­rent run­ning like a river, no food in our guts and light fad­ing fast, we tossed the boards in the truck and raided Food­land. Not a good idea to gro­cery shop on an empty stom­ach after surf­ing for two hours… we had the cart full by isle 3.

Tomor­row morn­ing up at the crack headed for Ehukai.

Stay tuned.