A friend just told me that since the Shuttle program is no longer funding the maintenance of these two buoys that they are moving them to the Gulf. In 3 weeks supposedly. I've googled it but haven't found any info of this but there you go...sucks if true...

This would be a killer blow to our simplest form of surf swell data. They're still launching rockets, and the plans are to have manned flights by 2017 (I thought), so what gives?

So who would fund them in the Gulf? BP?

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Not sure, that is all I got. No funding for them is what I was told. It is hard to believe it, but my guy was adamant about it. End of our precious Canaveral buoys by August 2015?

erggg....

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There is water at the bottom of the ocean

We will be blind. It is unfathomable. I am still missing QuikSCAT.

Agreed. Those are two important buoys. I pushed back on the info but he stood firm. He said the buoys are going in 3 weeks. Hard to believe, right?

Wow this would suck. Time for Surfline to fund some buoys if this goes down.

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You can get all the navigation info, corrections and proposed changes you need from the USCG District 7 Local Notice to Mariners and  there is nothing mentioned about the buoys in question.  I call BS.

I hope it is BS. My friend has no reason to lie to me. Its not April Fools joke either. Hopefully we get some more info soon and can stop it from happening! But, what he said it is a done deal.

Summertime lack of real surf causing delirium and pandemonium...

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Looks like its bad to the old days with calling your friends to see if there is any waves

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Going left

De Ja Vu all over again, , , ,

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I don't see either of these buoys listed for maintenance:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ops.shtml

Time to sk8 on over to the nearest pay phone and reactivate the pager surf notification network.

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If the buoys go...
... and your friends can't tell you,

you can always do it the old fashioned way, make the drive and watch for the "thumbs up/thumbs down"
but by making the drive you'll get the most accurate surf report .... the gocheckityourself report.


I checked this morning... and at sunrise, it was small.
Launched the kayak around dawn, found a definite ground swell, a very
large spaced out ground swell.
Much much more than expected.

Sailed and played around a bit, then sailed in,
grabbed the longboard and found fun waves at the streets.

At dawn when I launched, there wasn't much, but ....
.... we all know how that is.













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wow that would really suck if it's true! seems like it would cost more to relocate them than to just buy a couple of new ones for the gulf!...i guess the oil platforms needs outweigh the needs of the space programs....or they have deeper pockets

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$150K/year is not really much in the big picture, and private enterprise can often do things cheaper. Maybe someone else will step in.

I would hope they at least tie a big floaty to the moorings so someone else could attach new hardware to what I assume is a rigid mount on the bottom.

Heck, if the 2L community wants to chip in, I could probably replace them at 1/10 the cost.

As long as Tiptime still had access to whatever models he uses, then I ain't too worried.

The company I work for can provide all the buoys you want; cameras, more accurate data...the works.

They aren't cheap and maintenance contracts can be quite expensive.

I will service them for free if you guys can provide me a nice center console in the 30 foot range with an open array radar, so I don't get lost or rained on.

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