England’s 2006 World Cup bid team is confident that the problem over the plans for the redevelopment of Wembley will prove to be nothing more than a “hiccup”. Internet users have until Friday to go and register their votes. Results will be announced on 20 December, the day before the Pipe Masters final in Oahu.
Site Addresses
Surflink http:// www.surflink /
SURFERmag http:// www.surfermag /
UK Surfing http:// www.britsurf /UKSurfIndex/
PA NewsCentre http:// www.pa.press /sport/extra/MILLENNIUM_Sportspoll.html. It also runs an e-mail newsletter, Newsurf, that has been produced for four years. It covers everything from tips on good surfing spots to the reluctance of funding bodies to put any money into the sport.
Surfers, whether competition or soul surfers, are conspicuous by their absence in the short list of candidates for an online poll to find the sporting heroes of the century at the PA NewsCentre. The best collection of resources for the domestic scene is UK Surfing.

This site has local weather reports and surf predictions as well as links to shops, surf schools, national competitions, and a Webcam overlooking Fistral Beach in Cornwall. QuickTime movies of wipe-outs and various mishaps in the water are collected under the Sick Sequence buttons.
The UK has some of the best surf in Europe – on the north coast of Scotland and in the South-West of England and Wales – even though it no longer hosts a world championship event. Recreational surfers, whether beginners or professional-standard “soul surfers” more interested in self-expression than winning tournaments, are well catered for on the Web.
SURFERmag , the Internet version of the legendary print magazine, has a foot in both camps with headlines and news stories about ASP events and sport politics plus more general industry news, such as where to find the latest Webcams and developments in artificial reef technology that could mean custom-made waves.
Some of its print features are also online, including a Q&A (for surfers with attitude, that’s short for “Question Authority”) where the finer points of the sport and its associated lifestyle are put to experts for definitive answers. Profiles of the top men and women surfers are online as well as stories about up and coming potential champions such as 17-year-old Fred Patacchia Jnr, of Hawaii.
Those with memories stretching back a few years to when Britain’s Martin Potter won the title will have to look a stage lower than the World Championship Tour into the World Qualifier Series lists to find another Brit, where they can follow the progress of Russell Winter, who has moved up from No 28 last year to No 17 this year.
Competition is only a small part of the surfing scene. It has the results and reports on this year’s tour and the schedule for the ASP 2000 tour.

For competition surfing, Surflink is the best single source on the Net. It is also the venue for the Mountain Dew Pipe Masters, the richest and final event in the Association of Surfing Professionals 1999 calendar. Waves permitting, the contest starts on Thursday.

Web-surfing visitors to Surflink will know that the world title has already been decided this year, Australia’s Mark “Occy” Occhilupo having clinched it in October during the Rio de Janeiro Marathon Surf International. Hawaii’s Pipeline is widely regarded as the ultimate wave on the professional surfing circuit. It is also the venue for the Mountain Dew Pipe Masters, the richest and final event in the Association of Surfing Professionals 1999 calendar Waves permitting, the contest starts on Thursday.

Hawaii’s Pipeline is widely regarded as the ultimate wave on the professional surfing circuit. The top six now go forward to the double round robin semi-final, which takes place at the beginning of January.. This after they made a great job of shutting out True’s helmsman, John Cutler, at the start.
Their tactician, John Kostecki, later blamed the confusion over the siting of the third turning mark, at the same time dismissing the effect of allowing True a passing lane on that second beat, and rejecting any suggestion that they had failed to capitalise on an attacking position on the final run.
The result means that, with the Spanish efficiently dispatching their Australian competitors, Cayard’s great rival Baird and the New York Yacht Club remain in seventh position, which is one outside the cut at the end of this round robin. Consequently, the complete schedule for the remaining six races in round robin three was rejigged, including the fleet being given a day off on Wednesday, except for Conner, who will be thrown back in the deep end for a solo performance against Ed Baird and Young America.
In bright sunshine and in a perfect 10 to 15-knot south-shifting south-westerly, Paul Cayard’s crew on America One contrived to look relaxed, despite losing to their San Francisco rivals, America True.

Quick action by the crew saved the mast – although their guest on board, Merritt Barber, was “banged about a little” in the mayhem – and the boat was hurriedly towed back to its Viaduct Basin dock.
That cost Stars & Stripes nine points, but an appeal for a 48-hour delay to allow repairs was granted. “The game is over for us today,” Pajot said, but the commodore of his yacht club at Morges, Serge Oetiker, said they were even more determined to put a second campaign together.
Conner’s Stars & Stripes became the latest of these carbon-fibre racing yachts to suffer structural damage when part of his stern peeled back like a sardine can minutes before his race against Italy’s Prada. But the skipper of the cash-strapped, damage-crippled Swiss America’s Cup challenger, still managed to maintain his sense of humour when he offered some of his boat-builders to Mr America’s Cup himself, Dennis Conner.

The final straw for Pajot’s team came when their radical, twin-keel and twin-rudder Fast 2000 was dismasted on Friday. Marc Pajot, making his Louis Vuitton Cup farewell, has been forced to pull out of the competition. Marc Pajot, making his Louis Vuitton Cup farewell, has been forced to pull out of the competition.