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    • A story about a Frenchman, 3 Poms & an Australian
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    • A Tale of Two Oceans - 2006

Ballina Bar 2014 
photos courtesy of Nicole Ainsworth

"What the photos don’t show is that while the swell was southeasterly, the leads and bar arms into the port run east/west, so while we squared up to take the waves at 90 degrees to our stern, between each wave we had to bomb hard to port to avoid ending up on the bricks; an interesting ride."  Read the whole story here

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