Coast Surf Cafe Halloween Party 31st Oct 2009 Dunbar

We had a great turn out for the Halloween party that followed the surf comp with a great compliment of costumes which brought some quality moments later in the evening with Ray mixing the tunes and setting dances offs between the likes of Dracula and a Skate Zombie!

C2C RETRO COMP 31st Oct 2009

Results where as follows. Retro Style! With a good turn out all divisions where competitive with the senior longboards even managing 4 heats! Congrats go to Chris Robinson who battled the surf in a genuine 1980’s gul suit showing his retro best.Chris managed his heat and semi-final before switching back to his new millenuim suit!

Best Retro Wetsuit
1. Chris Robison

The first final of the day saw two of our junior surfers (Alistair and Max) go head to head with two of our older newcomers (Pete and Joe). This was a really exiting final with the lead changing hands almost every minute but the slightly better wave selection of the juniors just edging out their senior counterparts. In the battle between Max and Alistair it went to count back (the 3rd best wave) as the top two waves where scored equal with Ali just having the edge!

Newcomers

1. Alistair
2. Max
3. Joe
4. Pete

The next final saw Clover join the two lads to compete in lovely offshore conditions with both Alistair and Max trading excellent surf, Clover aged 7 (helped a touch by her Dad) made it out to the line up, where she turned and paddled into a (well overhead for her) wave jumped to her feet and rode gracifully with speed along the green peeling face for a full 50m, the crowd went wild!! When the scores came back Clover just edged first place from the two older youngsters who did incredibly well. Ali and Max will hopefully both represent Belhaven at the Scottish club competition on the 14th/15th Nov.

Junior Final
1.Clover King Christopherson (Age 7)
2 Max Hook Ferguson
3 Alistair MacDonald

The Longboard senior final had the biggest entry with heats, semi-finals and Finals. In the final old pros, Sam, Tim and Angus faced up to the new wee star Max (who in his third final of the day must of been knackered). With some excellent styling and old school tricks, Angus was pipped by Max, and Tim narrowly lost to Sam on countback. A great event in all and thanks to all that helped make it excellent fun!

Longboarding Senior Retro Final
1 Sam Christopherson
2 Tim Christopherson
3. Max Hook Ferguson
4 Angus MacDonald

Diane King gained the top lady award narrowly missing the final on count back to Angus who progressed.

Top Lady
1. Diane King

EAST COAST OPEN BODYBOARDING CHAMPIONSHIPS 24th/25th October 2009 Top bodyboarding wave East Coast

Most of Scotland’s top bodyboarders got together to take on a high quality east coast swell on a good quality reef. The format of the competition was head to head heats, semi-final and final. With quality waves the competitors where linking together some of the best trick combos a bodyboard competition in Scotland has seen with regular 8’s on the scoreboard for barrell, spin, roll, spin, ARS combos. Due to the good overhead powerful surf all the pre-event favorites made the final with Dunbar brothers Josh and Tim going head to head with Aberdeen’s Rupert and Livingston Craig G. The final saw slightly less sets with a very competitive final seeing Josh pick off the set of the day forcing a good barrell and an ARS combo. Unfortunately for the others no similar waves pushed through and Josh took the title. To find out about other comps including the National BBoard champs in January 2010 get in touch with joshchristopherson@yahoo.co.uk.

Results

1. Josh Christopherson (Dunbar), 2. Tim Christopherson (Dunbar), 3rd Rupert (Aberdeen), 4th Craig Gravenstien (Livingston)

DUNBAR EAST BEACH CLEAN 19th September Dunbar

Coast cafe is organising a local beach clean on the 19th September with agreat turn out.. We also had a great surf band Espionage of the Loc playing at the cafe later in the day.

C2C BRING & BUY SURF SALE 5th Sep 2009 Dunbar

Coast to Coast sold off a load of ex-hire kit alongside many local surfers bringing second hand kit along. This was a great opportunity to pick up second hand kit and  will be an annual event. Alongside this we had local DJ’s and a party into the evening!

RNLI CHARITY RAFT RACE Aug 8th 2009 Dunbar

Coast to Coast entered alongside many teams from East Lothian in the Dunbar Raft race on the 8th August at the Harbour. With a team made up of a grandfarther, 2 ladies and surf instructors, the surf school managed to beat all the male boats and claim first place!

COAST TO COAST SURF PARTY 9th May 2009 Dunbar

Coast cafe launched in Dunbar with over 200 people getting down to the funky tunes and watching Danny MacAskill and the Clan Mountainbike team and local skaters put on a show!! With a barbe and a fantastic selection of speciality Mexican and Spanish food and drink it all went down well ! The surf cafe and new surf school base are located just next to Dunbars train station EH42 1JX.

SEA GRASS ROUTES TOUR 10th May Dunbar

Coast cafe hosted the first leg of the Surfers Against Sewage “Sea Grass Routes tour” on Sunday 10th May. The main guys from SAS from Cornwall and Scotland turned up to give an overview of what SAS are about and where really constructive with ways we can help improve our environment. A local website is going to be created so water users in East Lothian and the borders can get behind iniatives to improve water quality and if successful this idea will be moved to other areas of the country

O’NEILL 6 STAR WQS SURF COMPETITION 29th April - May 6th 2009 Thurso

This $145,000 6 star surf event run in Thurso went down a storm again. Attracting big crowds (for Thurso) and a couple of big swells to keep the pros happy the event was eventually won by Australian Adam Melling. The heighest placed Brit was again Russell Winter, with Scots Mark Cameron and George Watt getting wild cards and valuable experience.

BELHAVEN BEACH CLEAN 11th April 2009 Dunbar

Around a dozen surfers and coastal users turned up to help clean Belhaven beach. The beach was pretty clean but the enthusiastic crew covered around a mile and a half of the beach picking up 6 bags of rubbish a couple of tyres and a few lobster nets. Thanks to those that attended.

SCOTTISH SURF CHAMPIONSHIPS 4th/5th April 2009 Thurso

Around 30 surfers turned up to the Scottish Champs with the competition running over two days at the bowl, Thurso East and Melvich.

The surfers made the best of some difficult conditions with Mark Cameron (Fraserburgh) winning the Scottish open title with an impressive performance of 360 ollies and the WQS wildcard slot, Mark also added the senior title. Shona McIntyre (Thurso) won the ladies title at Thurso East, Sam Christopherson (C2C Instructor/ Dunbar) won the Longboarding title at the bowl and Ali Coghill won the juniors at the cove!. Video of the open surfing event Scottish by Roger Cox

Full results

Open 1 Mark ‘Scratch’ Cameron 2 George Watt 3 Mark Boyde 4 Scott Main
Seniors 1 ‘Scratch’ 2 Scott Main 3 Sam Christopherson 4 Christopher Williamson
Ladies 1 Shona McGuinnes 2 Diane King 3 Dee Riphol 4 Shelia Findlayson
Junior 1 Ali Coghill 2 Louie Chadwick
Longboards 1 Sam Christopherson 2 William Watson

EAST VS WEST TEAM COMP 29th March 2009 Belhaven

Belhaven Surf club hosted the 2nd East V West Surf comp with teams from around Scotland competing in nice 2ft offshore surf. Thanks to Coast to Coast, St Vedas, Puro Nectar, and Ratho for sponsorship. Final results as follow :

Open Men 1.Lee Wood (Edinburgh) 2. Karel Phillips (Coast to Coast) 3.Sam Christopherson (Coast to Coast) 4.Alistair Chalmers (Belhaven Surf Club)

Open Ladies 1. Diane King (Coast to Coast) 2.Olivia Advil (Edinburgh) 3.Gillian Thomson (Belhaven Surf Club)

Longboard 1. Lee Wood (Edinburgh) 2. Sam Christopherson (Coast to Coast) 3.Andrew Leiper (Belhaven Surf Club)

Bodyboard 1. Tim Christopherson (Coast to Coast) 2. Douglas Howie (Belhaven Surf Club)

Junior 1. Douglas Mackenzie (Belhaven Surf Club) 2. Max (Coast to Coast)

Overall Team Placing 1. Coast to Coast 2. Edinburgh 3. Belhaven Surf Club

BELHAVEN SURF CLUB COMP Nov 2008

This comp took place in small 2-3ft surf at Belhaven. Finals Results as follows

Juniors 1. Jenna Howieson 2. Douglas Mackenzie
Mens Open 1. Angus MacDonald 2. Adam Rusbridge 3. Neil Munro
Ladies 1. Gillian Thomson 2. Caroline Lasham
Longboarding 1. Lindsay Gillies 2. Angus MacDonald 3. Neil Munro

SCOTTISH BODYBOARDING CHAMPIONSHIPS October 2008

This event took Scottish competition bodyboarding to a new level with the competitors taking on some heaving north coast slabs and then freesurfing some huge surf. Thanks to Coast to Coast and St Vedas surf shop for providing the prizes.

Finals 1. Josh Christopherson 2. Tim Christopherson 3. Rupert Williams 4. Aurelien Maze

Best Wipeout : James Biggest Cojones : Rupert Williams

C2C BEACH PARTY June 2008

Around 25 party goers braved the worst rain in 6 weeks to have a beach party!

SCOTTISH SURFING CHAMPIONSHIPS 29th/30th March 2008

Run around the Thurso region in 3-4ft surf - full reports www.scottishsurfingfederation.com.

Junior 1. P Cannop 2. A Coghill 3. M Norburn 4. L Chadwick
Longboard 1. M Findlay 2. I Masson
Senior 1. G Noble 2. A MacLeod, 3. M Malcolm, 4. C Williamson
Ladies 1. S Finlayson 2. D Ripoll 3. Winter
Mens 1. M Cameron 2. L Cruickshank 3. I Masson 4. D Hewlett

BELHAVEN BEACH CLEAN 15th March 2008

Good turn out of local surfers helped clean a suprisingly litter free beach. Alongside 6 bags of rubbish we also managed a tractor tyre.

GATHERING OF THE CLANS 13th/14th Oct 2007

The organisers, Broch Surf club ran an excellent contest Fraserburgh in nice 2-3ft conditions.

Team Results
1st. Broch A 740pts 2nd. Moray Firth 640pts 3rd. Belhaven A 578pts 4th Broch B 450pts 5th. Belhaven B 252pts

Open 1.M Cameron Broch A 2.R Cruickshank Broch B 3.G Watt Moray Firth 4.L Cruickshank Broch A
Ladies 1.J Noble Broch A 2.G Thompson Belhaven A 3.A Fraser Belhaven A 4.E Cowe Broch A.
Senior (over 30) 1.G Noble Broch A 2.I Campbell Moray 3.S Christopherson Bel A 4.I McWilliam Bel A
Junior (under 18) 1.I Scott Moray 2.PJ Cowe Broch A 3.G Allen Moray 4.D MacKenzie Bel A
Longboard 1.S Christopherson Bel A 2.I Masson Broch A 3.M Boyd Moray 4.P Gibson Moray

BELHAVEN SURF CLUB COMP 15th/16th Sep 2007

Run at Belhaven in perfect 3ft long period offshore swell

Open 1 S Christopherson 2 A MacDonald 3 C Robison 4 J Porro
Senior 1 C Combe 2 P Homochy 3 E Kerr 4 B Morland
Ladies 1 G Thomson 2nd K Tweedie
Senior Ladies 1 K Tweedie 2 G Thomson
Newcomer 1 J Hunter 2 J Duffy 3 M Saddler 4 D Nairn
Longboard 1 S Christopherson 2 A MacDonald 3 J Porro 4 MIA
Masters 1 C Robison 2 A Bennetts 3 S Hart
Junior (U18) 1 M Barnes 2 R Barnes 3 D Mackenzie 4 W Brunt

BELHAVEN BEACH CLEAN MAY 2007

Coast to Coast Surf School and Belhaven Surf Club joined forces to do a quarterly beach clean as part of our sponsorship of the beach. Great turn out of over 40 people at Belhaven beach and a load of rubbish collected.

SCOTTISH SURFING CHAMPIONSHIPS 14/15th April 2007

Held at Brims Ness in Thurso in 4-6ft Surf. More details www.scottishsurfingfederation.com.

Longboard 1 Iain Masson 2 Alisdair Waite 3 Rien Kutterink
Senior 1 Chris Noble 2 Iain Masson 3 Scott Main 4 George Noble
Junior 1 Marc Norburn 2 Ewan Fraser 3 Iain Scott 4=P Cannop, Zac, Ally
Ladies 1 Jill Noble 2 Angie Fraser 3 Sheila Finlayson 4 Caitie Lennox
Open 1 Chris Noble 2 Lester Cruickshank 3 George Watt 4 Iain Masson

EAST VS WEST CLUB COMP 8th April 2007

8 teams competed for the East vs West title at Pease bay in onshore 3ft surf.

Men Open 1 L Wood (Edin Uni) 2 J Blair (Clan) 3 T Wills (Glas Uni) 4 G McKenzie (Bel B)
Longboard 1 S Christopherson (C2C) 2 Eoin Murphy (Edin Uni) 3 G Menzies (West Coast) 4 J McCallum (Clan)
Ladies 1 D King (C2C) 2 L Carse (Clan) 3 A Forbes (Glasgow Uni) 4 S Mann (Belhaven B)
Ladies Longboard 1 G Thomson (Belhaven A) 2 K Tweedie (Belhaven C)
3 D Blair (Clan) 4 Ashley Doolan (Glasgow Uni)
Bodyboard 1 J Christopherson (C2C) 2 E Murphy (Edin Uni) 3 J Blair (Clan)
4 B Morland (Belhaven C)
Junior 1 S Robison (Belhaven A) 2 M Ferguson (West Coast) 3 S Mckay (Belhaven B) 4 F Duncan (C2C)

Team Results
1. Coast to Coast (33pts) 2. Clan (31pts) 3. Edinburgh Uni (30pts) 4. Belhaven A (27pts) 5. Belhaven B (23pts) 6. Lets Get Moist (aka Glasgow Uni) (22pts) 7. West Coast Boardriders (21pts) 8. Belhaven C (16pts)

C2C SURF SCHOOL PARTY 6th April 2007

Masked party in the woods with great tunes and 40 or so folk going pretty wild.

SURFERS AGAINST SLICKS DEMO 24th March 2007

Over 250 surfers, watersports enthusiasts and concerned members of the public turned up at the beach protests at North Berwick and Portobello beaches. the event was organised by Green Peace, Coast to Coast and Scottish Seabird centre. Members of Surfers Against Sewage and the local surf community put across strong concerns about the proposed ship to ship oil transfers. This event got huge media coverage which resulted in a new marine conservation bill going through parliment protecting Scottish Waters and the company proposing the ship to ship oil transfers removing proposals. Thanks to St Vedas, Great Escape, Boardwise and Puro Nectar for their promotion of this event online and in their shops.