nazare surfing history

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caml started the topic in Monday, 19 Oct 2015 at 9:52pm

How long has it been understood by surfers that the giant waves at nazare exist ?

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Craig Thursday, 5 Nov 2015 at 11:08am

I haven't seen the picture yet, on Insta?

And direction for the weekend's swell was similar to the last, about 300deg or so (blue dots with red showing two swell peaks).

Here's where the data is, but complicated getting it though, wouldn't want to try on a phone.

Click here: http://monican.hidrografico.pt/default/monican.php Translate the page as well.

And then click that yellow buoy just WSW of Nazare, closest to coast. This will load all the data to produce on the right hand side.

Under Maritime Agitation Data, Select the boxes you want to make a graph from (only two at a time which is annoying) and then click research bottom at bottom of page.

This will create graph. If you want to change data, have to press back and to it all again.

Not to user friendly.

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caml Thursday, 5 Nov 2015 at 11:43am

The pic is all over insty .about ten different times I saw just on the home page where you can see the popular liked pics. Thanks craig ,

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Craig Thursday, 5 Nov 2015 at 12:13pm

Wow, XXL!

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caml Thursday, 5 Nov 2015 at 12:48pm

And they said it wasnt a wave . ( critics )

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wally Sunday, 8 Nov 2015 at 3:20pm

Via Ronnie Blakey's instagram.

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fitzroy-21 Sunday, 8 Nov 2015 at 5:44pm

I'm calling bullshit on that pic wally. For starters it's a contest jersey, let alone all the other factors that make it look fake.

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wally Sunday, 8 Nov 2015 at 6:55pm

Oh dear, you are correct fitzroy-21!
I just found the same image without the surfer.
Bloody Ronnie Blakey!

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Craig Monday, 9 Nov 2015 at 8:33am

Haha, how could you even possibly think that's real.

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lostdoggy Monday, 9 Nov 2015 at 11:49am

Trademark Parko backhand cutty.
Haha :)

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caml Monday, 9 Nov 2015 at 12:06pm

Brett Simpson . Thanks to @ wsl lols

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wally Monday, 9 Nov 2015 at 1:43pm

Let's just put that whole unfortunate episode behind us.
We are all a little older and wiser, I think.

Anyway, did you see that photo of the amazing giant old lady who has been absolutely killing it at Nazare!!

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caml Monday, 9 Nov 2015 at 2:49pm

Wow was that today ?

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udo Monday, 9 Nov 2015 at 3:04pm

Yep...that's Big lifty @ blax ...note the walking stick

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fitzroy-21 Monday, 9 Nov 2015 at 3:16pm

wtf happened to her left hand ?????

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Craig Monday, 9 Nov 2015 at 3:32pm

fitzroy-21 wrote:

wtf happened to her left hand ?????

Hydrofoil mishap?

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Clam Wednesday, 14 Nov 2018 at 10:51am

"The story of how it happened depends on who is telling it.
For Dino Casimiro, a local sports teacher, the tale begins in 2002, when he was appointed by the former mayor to help popularise water sports among locals, and publicise Nazare's waves among foreigners.
For Jorge Barroso, the former mayor, the turning point was in 2007, when he gave Casimiro permission to hold a water sports competition off the most northerly — and the most deadly — of the town's two beaches.
And for the town's current mayor, Walter Chicharro, the story starts soon after his election in 2013, when he pumped more money into publicising and professionalising the town's surfing scene.
But the watershed moment really came in 2010, when McNamara finally took up a five-year-old invitation from Casimiro to come to Nazare, and try out the waves that break off the town's north beach."

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/town-once-feared-10-storey-waves-but...

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factotum Wednesday, 14 Nov 2018 at 12:35pm

Old mate's back on the horse! Good effort, Cotton Socks!

https://www.theinertia.com/surf/andrew-cotton-just-surfed-nazare-on-the-...