JSinn's Break & the 6th View Surf Shop
(since 2002)
Welcome, komo mai, and bienvenidos...
From the shores of Willoughby, I extend a big 6th View welcome to those who have wandered into the break. While it takes a hurricane to pick up the swells here on the Chesapeake Bay, we are lucky enough to be in close proximity to Virginia Beach, the Outer Banks, and the Eastern Shore, making life a much happier place.
The purpose of this site is not only for informational and educational links concerning waveriding, but also as a forum for our experiences and a place for others to interact with the 6th view crew.
From myself, Shorty, Porkchop, and Jorge, welcome to 6th view...
(porkchop, jason, and shorty: willoughby 2004)
Jason a.k.a. Iakona, in Hawaiian
December 2004
The 6th View Surfing Links
Rodanthe Surf Report
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Cape Hatteras Surf Report
(click here)
the source for checking conditions local and worldwide
Nags Head Surf Report
(courtesy of the Ramada)
(Me and my son's birthday/christmas present, willoughby, dec 2004)
I made the killer deal with my neighbor, Shorty, for his 6'3" WRV which was seemingly too small for him. I traded my 7'2" Secret Spot that I rode throughout the summer of 2004, for this shortboard and $100 I needed for my great northern excursion to Michigan and Canada. Everybody made out on this deal: Christian got a board, Shorty got a better board for him, and I had an extra $100 for our vacation. Merry christmas to all...
Christian's board on our back porch...like the bar? wood courtesy of Harrison Fishing Pier and Hurricane Isabelle.
While shopping for a board for my neighbor Shorty, we stumbled into the used board section at Wave Riding Vehicles in Virginia Beach. We found him an old WRV shortboard for $175 and I did one last sweep of the room and saw one hidden behind some battered funboards. It looked like the flaming board on the cover of Allan Weisbecker's "In Search of Captain Zero." The board was a 7'2" pintail Juan J board, which at the time, I never heard of... It was a sturdy, seemingly unused stick for $250 and knowing my Secret Spot 7'2" had seen better days, I grabbed it. To date it's my current ride and I love the thing.
After doing an internet search, I found it is a Python model from BOA Surfboards out of Panama. I thought the fact that this board that I immediately came to love, was shaped in a little workshop in the coastal jungles of Panama. Pretty cool, huh... This is a link to their site and some history about my stick's roots.
(Oregon Inlet, Outer Banks, North Carolina, September 2004)
Jason, Shorty, and Oscar on the search...
