Profanity
// January 1st, 2011 // No Comments » // BEST Kiteboarding, Hatteras, Wakestyle
Here’s the new Product Release Video Miguel Willis, Kris Kinn, Brian “BCS” Smith and I filmed in Hatteras in October.
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Just Kickin’ It w/ Nate Appel
// June 18th, 2010 // No Comments » // Hatteras, Wakestyle
This winter I was keeping in touch with lots of friends using Skype. Skype allows you to talk through text, voice and video chatting. With many of my friends going on surfing and kiteboarding trips, as well as myself, Skype was the easy (and free) way to stay in touch no matter where.
I had been wanting to film a few interviews with friends as a way to contribute to the kiteboarding website KiteScoop.com. With all of my friends dispersed all over the globe I figured Skype was the best interview platform available. So here is the first one… a conversation I had with filmmaker/team rider Nate Appel during the Spring of 2010:
No more nights in Rodanthe
// January 17th, 2010 // 3 Comments » // Hatteras
Rodanthe is the northern most town that makes up the Tri-villages on the north end of Hatteras island.
‘Nights in Rodanthe’ is a terrible movie that Richard Gere and Diane Lane starred in… it got a 23% on RottenTomatoes.com
The house that the film was shot in was located in a high beach erosion area. Thus, after two years of Nor’easters the sand dunes in front of the house were washed back to the road and Serendipity sat in the shore break at high tide. After being declared a public nuisance by the state, and being a hazard to surf or kite near, the house ended up being bought by some Bail Bondsman!?! This guy thought the house had “nostalgia”… and bought Serendipity for a half million dollars!
So, with the house purchased and the ocean going nowhere but up, the house had to be moved. This past Friday was planned as the big move day… the owners even went as far as to bring in the same team that moved the mega tall and heavy Cape Hatteras Lighthouse a few years back. After hitting a few snags the moving company was delayed past the time they had been permitted to move the house (turns out you can’t move an 83,000 lbs house on a public street after dark!?!).
Now the house is once again stuck in limbo. Its been pulled from its foundation and now sits 50ft closer to Highway 12, but it can’t be moved until Monday. To make matters worse there is a Nor’easter that will hit this weekend. We’ll have to see if the house, and the tractor trailer which it now sits atop, can make it through this next chapter in its histroy.
Here are some photos I took on Friday along with a video clip of the house being moved 50ft.
