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Free Stickers!

Just in time with the new layout, we have some free waterproof stickers to give away! The next 10 people to register, after today’s date (the 21st of Dec) will received an arbitrary amount in the mail that you can stick anywhere on your stick.
Just email us at: info@scotiasurfer.com with your address, once registered, if you don’t want to have it public on your profile and we’ll send them out to you!
We will send them all shortly after the 10th person has registered. If your not the 10th person to register and still want free stickers just mail a self addressed stamped envelope to:

Stickers
350 Oceanview Drive
Bedford, Nova Scotia
Canada
B4A 4H5

Happy Waves!
ScotiaSurfer.com

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ScotiaSurfer.com gets a facelift!

Out with the old, in with the new!

As most of you may have noticed, we did a bit of rearranging with the site over the last couple of days.
We’re pretty stoked on it and hope you are too! We tried not to make any drastic changes (yet!) as we know most of us are creatures of habit. There is more to come but your going to have to wait it out and see (similar to our summer surf!).

What’s new so far?
– New account login and/or facebook connect. This allows you to login, create a profile, connect with other surfers, comment on articles, live chat, personal member blogs, be entertained by some random games and an enormous amount of other things.
– ‘Activity’ function on the user menu allows you to see the most recent happenings pertaining to you and your account.
– There will be a new photo gallery in the coming weeks.
– Largest selection of surf vids on the east coast!

We realize that it may not make some of you so happy to find out that your forum account has now be terminated. It would be great to have you register using the same user name under our new system. We tried to integrate your former forum username’s so you wouldn’t have to re-register but it’s nearly impossible from a programming perspective. However, we will be archiving all of the old relevant forum posts in the new system so you will still be able to read and reference them.

For the most part everything else has just been re-arranged to make ScoitaSurfer.com easier and more user friendly.

If there’s something we missed or something you’d like to see post a comment below!

Cheers,
The crew @ ScotiaSurfer.com

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Andy Irons dies on way back to Hawaii

Three-time world surfing champ Andy Irons has died. The 32-year-old Hawaiian reportedly died as a result of complications from dengue fever. Irons missed his Round 1 and 2 heats at the Rip Curl Search Puerto Rico stop on the ASP Men’s World Tour Saturday due to the illness.

He was flown to Miami from Puerto Rico where he remained on IV drip for two days. Irons then attempted to fly home to see his doctor in Kauai. He missed his connecting flight in Dallas Read More…

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Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from us at Scotiasurfer.com

Now that our days will be getting shorter, evenings will be spent eating stale candy wondering ‘if it’s worth getting up for’. Of course, when you do get up, you hit it good at least half the time and there’s less people out.  Here’s to Halloween, fall swells and all that cheap, empty, candy .

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Aussie wins the O’Neill Cold Water Classic in Tofino

Josh Kerr wins 2010 CWC Canada

Australian Josh Kerr knocked off local favourite and defending contest champion Pete Derives Thursday morning en route to capturing first place at the O’Neill Cold Water Classic (CWC) Canada in Tofino, B.C.

In clean four-foot conditions at Chesterman Beach, Kerr, 26, defeated American Eric Geiselman in the final of the 6-star ASP event. For his efforts, Kerr pocketed $20,000 and earned 3,000 points in the CWC series.

“It was a bit of a slow final,” said Kerr, following what was his fourth heat of the day. “Youʼre blood is pumping a lot harder to keep you warm. It takes it out of you. But we are surfing in Canada – itʼs a beautiful place. Youʼre in the mountains but by the beach. Itʼs a trip. I am stoked!”

One high point in the contest for Devries was a Round 3 victory over Australian Stu Kennedy, who currently sits in second in the CWC series.

“Iʼm disappointed, but still happy I made it through a few heats,” said Devries, who recently won the September Storm Classic at Lawrencetown Beach. Read More…

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First days of the O’Neill Cold Water Classic

Peter Devries gives the locals of Tofino a scare before advancing in the dying minutes, as the O’Neill Cold Water Classic gets underway in 6-foot swell and sunshine.

Tofino, Canada – October 10, 2010 – The storms might have calmed for this second day at the O’Neill Cold Water Classic Canada, but the local community of Tofino were anything but calm as Peter Devries took to the water.

Last year’s CWC Canada winner and Tofino local, Devries gave the crowds on the beach a little bit of a fright as he looked set to be knocked out of his first round heat, before calmly pulling out the score he needed in the dying minutes behind one of the standouts of the morning – Timmy Reyes.

“I had a complete shocker out there today,” said Devries. “I just wasn’t feeling good on waves. I was lucky to get through. That last wave was good and I felt like I surfed it pretty bad so I wasn’t expecting the score,” he said.

In stark contrast to the stormy last few days in this remote western corner of Canada, the 6 Star ASP O’Neill Cold Water Classic awoke to gentle winds, clear blue skies and 6-foot surf for a 9am start at Chesterman’s Beach. Read More…

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Photo of the Day: Kitesurfing Taking off in NS

Eric from Club Wind & Kite in New Brunswick makes a worthwhile trip to kitesurf in N.S.

Surfing, no matter what genre, seems to be really catching on in Nova Scotia. If you have any pictures you’d like to share please email them to us at: info@scotiasurfer.com

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1st Annual Canadian Surf Film Festival Challenge

The Canadian Surf Film Festival (CSFF) is hosting the first Canadian surf film challenge. The deadline is September 3rd for submissions.

Join the celebration of surf culture by making your very own short surf film. It can be a documentary, experimental, animation, drama, or whatever you like. Shoot it on any format: from cell phone to IMAX. They will select a full program of the best films submitted for a world premiere and then present one short film per month over the following year on their website. Prizes to the audience favorite and jury favorite. Show your friends and family what your passion is all about!

Deadline: Completed films in by 5 p.m., Sept. 3.
Screening Date: Selected films will premiere Oct. 1.
Location: Park Lane on Spring Garden Road, Halifax

Guidelines and Regulations: Read More…

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Danielle’s Diary

The Hunt “Danielle” from ALEK PARKER on Vimeo.

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New surf brand, Cascadia, hits Canadian shops

Press Release

Victoria based contract manufacturer, Swell Source, has announce today that it’s newest brand, “Cascadia Board Co,” has hit the racks of local shops. The surf brand is the first of its kind north of the border and although they offer a variety of different water sport products their focus will be on hand shaped surf and stand up paddleboards.

“We’re building products specific to the Canadian and the Pacific Northwest conditions. We’ve developed special manufacturing methods that make our boards more durable in our conditions as well as using shapes for our unique conditions,” explains company founder Jeff Zamluk. Read More…

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