The family that hangs ten together...
Surf’s up at Saunton Sands, according to www.magicseaweed.com. Boards are strapped to the roof, beach towels, wet suits and warm jumpers flung into the boot, and we’re off to north Devon. We’re playing that Beach Boys song Surfin’ USA, which sounds dated and clichéd – my parents listened to it in the Sixties – but we have no choice because the dudes in the front are mum and dad.
Tyzack family watersports weekends are a new concept. Although we live just a few miles from the coast, my brother Will and I never did the whole beach thing when we were younger. As teenagers, we dabbled with the surf scene in Polzeath, I suppose, but it was more a case of sporting the Fat Face fleece and sun-streaked hair and occasionally renting a bodyboard.
That might have been it for me and the chilly Atlantic. But then, in August 2006,China wooden hangers catalog and Massage Cushion manufacturer directory. we went to Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen at Watergate Bay in north Cornwall and what was supposed to be a walk on the beach before lunch turned in to an hour’s body boarding. It was completely unplanned and particularly surprising given it was my father, a 64-year-old circuit judge, who suggested it. We could hardly say no, and the waves looked so enticing, dancing away at the end of the sand. This was the first time we’d ever worn wetsuits as a family.
Since then we’ve all bought our own suits and dad has even invested in a hood, gloves, boots and flippers. My friends get quite a shock when they see him, but he stands by the motto “any fool can be uncomfortable”. And to his credit, while mum and I are treading water, there he is, on the crest of the wave, enjoying a “journey” as he calls it.
I’m sure professional surfers must roll their eyes when they see him marching down the sand in all the latest kit, carrying his bodyboard. There’s a whole world of Patrick Swayze lookalikes out there who ride point breaks and hang ten (see below for definitions). When they’re not in the water, they’re waxing their boards and watching surf movies. They look at each other, according to surfer and author Robb Havassy, with a knowing glance or nod because they are in a special relationship with the ocean. “We aren’t having an affair; it’s not just lust,” he wrote in last month’s Surfer’s Path magazine. “It’s deep. This is love.”
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