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More Than 40 on Surfboard Break Record
Associated Press ^
| March 5, 2005
| Staff
Posted on 03/05/2005 7:31:43 PM PST by Kitten Festival
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -
More than 40 surfers cruised into the record books Saturday when they successfully rode a giant surfboard off an Australian beach, breaking the previous world record set by an English team of 14 people in 2003.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: australia; beach; catchawave; cowabunga; fortyofthem; gonzo; hang400; letsgosurfinnow; pileon; rad; ride; surf; surfbus; surfers; surfsup; tubular; wave; yowza
Important news from Australia.
We need a picture of this.
To: Kitten Festival
Sat Mar 5,12:29 AM ET |
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World Championship Tour surfer Neco Padaratz, of Brazil, center, of board and a local surfers ride out on the world's longest surfboard before an unofficial Guinness World Record of 47 surfers on the 40-foot board was set on a board shaped by Gold Coast shaper Nev Hyman at Snapper Rock on the Gold Coast, Saturday, March 5, 2005. The record attempt is part of the 'Tsunamirun,' a charity set up to raise funds for Tsunami victims. (AP Photo/Steve Holland) |
To: TheOtherOne
Fri Mar 4,11:59 PM ET |
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World Championship Tour surfers and locals surfers ride on the world's longest surfboard to set an unofficial Guinness World Record of 47 surfers on the 40-foot board shaped by Gold Coast shaper Nev Hyman at Snapper Rock on the Gold Coast, Saturday, March 5, 2005. The record attempt is part of the 'Tsunamirun,' a charity set up to raise funds for Tsunami victims. (AP Photo/Steve Holland) |
To: TheOtherOne
Cool! But with all of them on it. How does it compare to a multicolor rainbow painted third world bus with the chicken coops on the top of the luggage rack?
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posted on
03/05/2005 7:35:08 PM PST
by
Kitten Festival
(The Thug of Caracas has got to go.)
To: TheOtherOne
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posted on
03/05/2005 7:36:03 PM PST
by
Kitten Festival
(The Thug of Caracas has got to go.)
To: Kitten Festival
Knowone told me the surf was up Willllllber!
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posted on
03/05/2005 7:48:15 PM PST
by
TheForceOfOne
(Social Security – I thought pyramid schemes were illegal!)
To: TheOtherOne
That's not a surf board...that's a boat with no sides.
I bet there are a few Cubans who would like that sorta luxury transport! ;-)
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posted on
03/05/2005 7:49:59 PM PST
by
Happygal
(liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
To: TheOtherOne
Where is the motor and the steering?
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posted on
03/05/2005 7:54:02 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
To: kellynla; NormsRevenge; Brad's Gramma
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posted on
03/05/2005 7:55:48 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
To: Kitten Festival
Nice...and I thought I rode a longboard...
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posted on
03/05/2005 8:00:22 PM PST
by
zoso82t
To: TheOtherOne
Yeah!! Bet they didn't jump a shark!! :-)
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posted on
03/05/2005 8:02:01 PM PST
by
JoeSixPack1
(@100 mph, you have no friends.)
To: Kitten Festival
To: martin_fierro
LOL! Gotcha in the keywords.
That's no surfboard - that's an Australian teetertotter.
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posted on
03/05/2005 8:25:40 PM PST
by
Kitten Festival
(The Thug of Caracas has got to go.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Where is the motor and the steering?
I was thinking where's seatbelts and the outboard? It would be one heck of a ride.
To: Kitten Festival
Where I come from we'd call that a boat.
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posted on
03/06/2005 5:42:52 AM PST
by
numberonepal
(Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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