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Tales and Spills with
Chet Halleck
Kneeboarder/Shortboarder
Washington, DC

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Rides: 
Age has slowed me down a bit.  I find it harder to work with my current stick: 5' 6" thruster.  Looking for someone to cut it down, reshape & reglass into a 42" knee-machine.  Gotta pick up a longer board for playing on the w/ends.

Club Introduction: 
Local surf zone: The jetty on the south beach of Cape Henelopen Park, Lewes entrance - when there's not too many folks. The waves have been a bit better on the south jetty, Gordon's Pond. When the storms kick up, I'll head up to RI, Sakonnet Point (Little Compton, RI).  There is a rocky beach at the end of Round Pond where I learned to ride back in the late 60's - lugging around a 8' Hobie Wedge.  Glory days thru the early 70's, boards got shorter.  A friend made me a knee-machine from extra foam and I discovered the thrill of ripping into waves big-small-fast-slow.  The bottom never changes.  On a good day, the swell jacks up over the rock reef about 200 yards out and produces 7'-10' backside barrels.  We blew off a ride with a friend's sister to Woodstock because it was a good day. 
 
Was up there 2 1/2 weeks ago. FLAT.  Checked out a spot we called Secrets (our "secret spot", we were the first to surf the perfect right, discovered while looking for stripers).  Ran into a couple of guys early one morning while checking the swell.  They laughed - there are no more secrets, said after a storm there'd be 50 vehicles parked on the landing overlooking the cliffs, above a beach with no sand.
 
Bethesda is my home town.  I live on Capitol Hill with my wife.  My mother lives in Lewes and enjoys our company on the weekends.


ASC Travels...
... local breaks ...ASC Trips ...other Trips
Cape Henlopen, DE
Gordon's Pond, DE
Rhode Island


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Last updated on 07/28/06