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PIPELINE.ISSUE.62.PAGES.02/03 editorial The G8 Summit in July failed to agree a mandatory cut in greenhouse gas emissions. It has been widely condemned as an opportunity missed and so our planet continues to warm. With the summer now finished we’re gearing up to campaign for an embracement of offshore renewable energy devices and to introduce some radical changes to the way the water industry plans its investment. Both are needed to prevent much of the hard work we’ve done being undone because of an increase in water pollution incidents relating to changes in climate. With another packed out and memorable SAS Ball behind us the campaign season is back! Thanks for your support. RICH HARDY

CELEBRATING 15 YEARS OF SAS CAMPAIGNING AT THE CRYSTAL BALL...

THANKS TO SMUGGLERS FOR MAKING OUR CAKE! CAMPAIGN REPORT SAS FLOAT GIANT ‘X’ OFF THE COAST OF CORNWALL TO SUPPORT RENEWABLE ENERGY

SAS fl oated a giant green ‘X’ 12 miles off devices may be deployed in the coming without pollution and depletion of the the coast of St Ives in Cornwall to show years. The Wave Hub project is seeking Earth’s natural resources. both our support for renewable energy to encourage the development of wave The Wave Hub is still subject to gaining and to urge world leaders to vote for clean energy technology in the South West with the necessary approvals and funding and safe energy options at the G8 summit the electricity being produced exported to before construction could begin in the in Edinburgh, where climate change was the shore and into the National Grid via a summer of 2006. high on the agenda. buried cable. As everyday wave users SAS are fully SAS campaigners took out the fl oating SAS are keen supporters of renewable aware of the huge natural wave energy ‘X’ to a wave buoy marker 12 miles out into energy. In particular we are keen to see resources we have in the UK and just as St Ives Bay 2 days before the G8 Summit. the marine renewable energy sector we enjoy their energy for recreation we The buoy is currently collecting wave develop as we believe this to be an believe that same energy should also data as part of the wave hub project but excellent natural platform to help the UK be captured to create electricity. We are also marks the site where wave energy generate clean, green and safe electricity also very aware of the impact pollution

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Check out the sciencescience behind wavewave energyenergy on page 10 and 11. is ha havingving on our w waterater en environmentvironment presspress forfor immediateimmediate solutionssolutions toto tackletackle From the start of 2005 SAS have been from current ‘dirty energy’ technologies. climate change so that more projects like in partnership with renewable energy In particular the fi nding of radioactive the Wave Hub can be undertaken, but we provider Ecotricity. For every customer particles at 2 surfi ng beaches close to were disappointed by a failure from world that changes over to Ecotricity (it won’t the Dounreay Nuclear Reprocessing Plant leaders to commit to target dates. cost you a penny more as they match the in North Scotland has reiterated the Media coverage: ITV Westcountry, price of your regional electricity supplier!) importance of developing cleaner and BBC Radio Cornwall, Pirate FM, Western mentioning SAS, Ecotricity will donate £15 SAFER energy technologies as a matter Morning news, Cornishman, West Briton, to the SAS clean and safe water campaign. of urgency. Wavelength, Surfers Path Sign up here! RH SAS had hoped that world leaders in Watch a short fi lm of this campaign www.ecotricity.co.uk/partners/referrers/ Edinburgh would both acknowledge and action at www.av3.co.uk/saswavehub.htm SurfersAgainstSewage/sas1.html CAMPAIGN REPORT SMALL PHOTO: WORTHING HERALD WORTHING SMALL PHOTO:

SAS GO HEAD TO HEAD WITH THE ENVIRONMENT AGENCY OVER BRIGHTON SEWAGE PLANS SAS actioned outside the Environment Agency on Wednesday of adding UV could be as low as £1.5 million. Plans are to build a the 3rd of August in a demo that called for them to support full new long sea outfall costing £4 million, but the current long sea sewage treatment for Brighton and Hove. outfall could instead be used to discharge UV treated effl uent. In the latest of our Brighton campaign actions we arrived at This could allow an overall saving on the project of £2.5 million. the EA offi ces in Worthing to deliver a larger than life copy of the Following the action SAS met with Environment Agency staff discharge consent currently lodged by Southern Water at the EA. to discuss this proposal and told them that in the interests We stamped the words ‘requires UV treatment’ across the front of sustainability and bathing water quality, the EA should be as a sign of SAS’ wishes. requiring Southern Water to add UV to the proposed secondary SAS believe the EA should support our campaign to ensure UV level treatment process. In addition, the EA should insist on all disinfection is applied to the Southern Water application, both in sewage and wastewater treatment schemes to reuse not waste terms of improving bathing water quality and in the interests of water, as part of an overall strategy to conserve water. RH sustainability. If the EA were to endorse the Southern Water application as FURTHER ACTION FROM YOU NEEDED! it currently stands, it would be giving its approval to wasting If you haven’t already done so please support our campaign millions of gallons of wastewater that, with an extra level of call to the Secretary of State for the Environment to call in treatment, could be reused. the Southern Water discharge consent applications for her This would not be good environmental practice, especially at determination under the Water Resources Act 1991. The easiest a time when the Southern Water region needs to be conserving way to do this is sign our e-card online at water and planning for a future where water shortages are www.sas.org.uk/pr/brighton_vicvirus_sept_2005.asp increasingly more likely. Recent fi gures from DEFRA have shone further light on the cost Media Coverage: Meridian TV, BBC Southern Counties Radio, of providing an extra level of treatment. SAS now believe the cost Southern FM, Worthing Herald, The Argus.

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EU WATER LEGISLATION SAS met with Richard Caborn, the Minister for Sport recently. Approximately 10% of the UK population take part in recreational water sports annually (not including bathing). This fi gure is rising and the Minister suggested it might be a lot larger. This means that over 6 million people are using recreational waters annually. Good news for the Government, who are trying to encourage the public to be more active and healthy - or is it? BEACH LITTER Those using designated waters for recreation which PORTHTOWAN BEACH, CORNWALL - SEPTEMBER 17th. meet the current Bathing Water Directive ‘mandatory’ With the help of some fantastic Eco Ventures water quality standard have a 12% - 15% risk of volunteers on a very nice autumn day SAS collected contracting gastroenteritis according to the World Health over 9,000 pieces of marine litter, over 90% of which Organisation (WHO). That’s leaving a lot of people on the was plastic (very persistent in the marine environment) toilet after a surf! as part of the MCS Beachwatch weekend. Picking up SAS have called on the Sports Minister to help us call over 9,000 pieces is a fantastic feat, however, we were for clean and safe recreational waters as part of our all shocked by the colossal amount of marine litter ongoing campaign to improve European legislation. By still on the beach when we left. This is mirrored across title alone this Minister should be more supportive of our the country and SAS will be stepping up its Beach plight and SAS will work hard to ensure we gain his full Litter campaign over the coming months to tackle this support in EU discussions. mountain of waste washing up with each new tide.

SAS CAMPAIGN FILM Watch a new SAS campaign fi lm at www.avthree.co.uk/ sascampaigns.htm This covers all our current campaign issues SEWAGE & SICKNESS, NO TO TOXICS, SAFER SHIPPING, CLEAN & OFFSHORE ENERGY, BEACH LITTER and EDUCATION work and shows footage from many of our campaign demos.

UPCOMING SAS ACTIONS... SAS hope to be teaming up with WWF in supporting a Strasbourg ‘Chemicals’ action outside the European Parliament when they vote on REACH chemicals legislation... National Green Shopping Day will provide SAS an opportunity to get on their soapbox about buying low impact green household cleaning products as an alternative to the thousands of harmful, unregulated chemicals currently being used in products such as washing powders, washing up liquid, shampoos, multi surface cleaners, paints, skin care and fragrance products... Bathing water directive actions at Environment Council meetings... Face to face meetings with new Southern Water boss Les Dawson (yep I know what you’re thinking!) over Brighton sewage plans... If you’d like to help out at any of our campaign actions as part of an SAS Hitsquad then drop Andy a line at [email protected] or Tel: 01872 555952. RH/AC EDUCATION

SAS/O’NEILL MARINE ENVIRONMENT PROJECT FINISHESFINISHES WWITHITH AANN ENVIRONMENTAL EXTRAVAGANZA! Top O’Neill surfi ng stars Sam Lamiroy, interactive water related educational Jake Boex, Robyn Davies and Duncan displays. The highlight had to be the Scott joined SAS for the culmination of eco boat trip on the regions fastest our year long Marine Environment Project R.I.B. (through supporting sponsor Orca in Falmouth during July which saw over Seafaris) to learn more about Cornwall’s 150 primary school kids get a big day out. unique marine environment and the The primary school kids were some of creatures it sustains. There was also time the UK’s most ‘environmentally switched- for a fun art based workshop (thanks to on’. The 5 school classes involved in this artist Sovay Berriman for running this) project all earnt their places through where each class worked on creating an hard work during the school year. They ‘environmentally protected beach scene’ company for sponsoring this project with designed a range of projects that looked banner which they took back to their a £10,000 donation to SAS. This is not the to safeguard and protect the marine school at the end of the day. fi rst time O’Neill have been involved in environment from pollution. The projects Sam, Robyn, Jake and Duncan Scott also supporting environmental education as were all really creative and included shared their surfi ng experiences with the they run a successful schools education making thought provoking sculptures out children throughout the week, in particular project in the US and parts of Europe. of litter they collected from beach cleans; the roles they play in promoting the clean From our own perspective this was writing informative school magazines, seas message. Having experienced both the fi rst time we provided a resource for encouraging families to get involved in the good, the bad and the downright ugly primary schools and we’re stoked with how recycling projects, writing raps about and of water quality during surf sessions they the week went. It was not only fun for the songs about the damage being done to spoke of being some of the fi rst people kids but also highly educational in terms the world’s oceans and performing it to affected by pollution incidents. of protecting the environment and we’re their entire school. SAS would like to thank the participating looking forward to doing the same again We based ourselves at Falmouth’s schools Cubert, Laira Green, Devoran, next year. RH/AC National Maritime Museum so the kids Penzance and Trevithick and give a www.oneilleurope.com could get a good look round all the fun, massive thanks to O’Neill, the board riding www.sas.org.uk

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SCIENCE Ocean Power Delivery ‘Pelamis’ device

THE POWER OF WAVES Anyone who has ever heard of the sport of surfi ng will know Enter the offshore wave farm. These will involve arrays of that it requires one essential ingredient. Waves. They provide ‘wave capture devices’ being deployed in close proximity to enough power to allow a good surfer to pull some pretty one another, each device specifi cally designed to convert the impressive moves. They also contain more than enough energy motion of the ocean into electrical energy. to deal out a pretty good beating to any surfer caught in the At this point, some of you may be starting to worry. Surely, if wrong place at the wrong time. you start to take power out of the waves, won’t that mean there is less present to tap into while surfi ng? SO HOW MUCH POWER DOES A WAVE HAVE? This cannot be denied. According to the law of conservation Using a simple set of calculations, the power of a wave offshore in physics, energy cannot be created or destroyed, only can be estimated if its height and period are known. transferred from one form into another. Removing energy from For instance, a single wave with a height of 3m and a period waves must result in them having less when they eventually of 10 seconds (which should produce nice waves on the shore) break on the shore. has around 88kW of power per metre section of wave crest. To put this into perspective, the average sandwich toaster needs SHOULD SURFERS THEREFORE BE AGAINST WAVE FARMS? only about 1kW to run. Let’s consider this for a minute. Would an offshore wave farm But before we all start welding Breville Toastimatics to the result in noticeably less surf? This will depend on how much nose of our longboards to tap this seemingly endless power energy is being removed from the waves, both in terms of source, it needs to be remembered that this energy is not in a energy converted to electricity and that lost due to friction, form that we can use. What is required is a way of converting and turbulence (wave breaking). it into a more useful form. Electricity. These fi gures will vary depending on the specifi c design of

PIPELINE.ISSUE.62.PAGES.10/11 the individual devices. The ideal device for surfers would be wave by the time it reaches the coast. This would considerably one that removed a small proportion of the wave power but reduce the effect felt directly in the lee of the farm. not enough to result in a significant loss of wave power at any So are offshore wave farms something for surfers to be surfing beaches in its lee. concerned about? It doesn’t look like they will cause much Several studies are ongoing at present into the possible of a problem but to a certain extent the jury is still out until effects of wave farms on nearshore wave dynamics. Before the results of the various studies are known. Good news is these results become available, simple estimations can be that initial results from a study being carried out by Camborne made which give an idea of the scale of the situation. School of Mines suggests that the presence of a wave farm off By looking at data available on the Ocean Power Delivery the north coast of Cornwall would not cause a noticeable effect website (the manufactures of the Pelamis), it can be estimated on the waves onshore. that a farm of 40 of their devices would convert less than Perhaps it’s better looking at it another way by considering 10% of the wave power that enters the wave farm area into the alternatives to renewable energy schemes such as wave electricity. This does not include any energy that is lost due farms. Climate change and all the coastal flooding and to friction and turbulence but as the Pelamis is not designed to pollution that it is predicted to bring? A nuclear power station cause the wave to break, hopefully this will be minimal. in full view of the beach? Maybe a few percent reduction in The next thing to consider is the remote distance of the wave wave height isn’t so bad after all and that’s why we’ve been farms from the coast, resulting from the fact that they need supportive of the cleaner, greener, safer aspects that wave to be in water depth of around 50m. Any power removed from energy projects will deliver. AK a relatively small section of a wave that may stretch tens of kilometres should, to some degree, dissipate throughout the EVENTS

BEAUTIFUL SPARKLING GIRLS AND DIAMOND GEEZERS CELEBRATE SAS’S 15TH ANIVERSARY AT THE CRYSTAL BALL Friday 2nd September saw this year’s festival favourites The still threatening it. They were stoked to be able to help SAS Futureheads, The Subways and Do Me Bad Things all shining out with protecting it. brightly at the SAS Crystal Ball. As always with the Ball, SAS try and provide something The Crystal Ball marked the 15th anniversary of SAS for everyone. Do Me Bad Things kicked the night off, with campaigning for clean and safe recreational waters for their mix of blues/rock/soul/metal and they had the crowd everyone. The Ball is the one night of the year SAS stop bouncing, moshing, nodding and swaying. campaigning and put on the party of the year. And this year DJ’s Nick G and Seed kept the dance fl oor full for the was no different! Beautiful sparkling girls and diamond Futureheads set and subsequently DJ Kav (from the Happy geezers of every description packed the Ball marquee and as Mondays) injected some funk. usual, the atmosphere was amazing. Next up were the Subways who stepped in at the last minute The Futureheads have played almost all of the big festivals when a dance act cancelled on us. Peeling off hit after hit, top this year and fi nished off the summer by headlining the tunes “Oh Yeah” and “Rock n Roll Queen” amongst them, the Crystal Ball. For their legendary version of “Hounds of Love” band were thrilled to be back in Cornwall playing for SAS for they had the 3,000 plus crowd split into 2 sections for the the second time this year. Thanks a million, guys! backing vocals. ‘Oh, Oh Oh’ is still ringing in the ears! Like Which left the Barnaby Ray Quartet and DJ Jelly Jazz. The nothing seen before at the Ball, unforgettable. local band Barnaby Ray Quartet set was hard to describe. The Futureheads had a great time at the Ball, they had a Live drum and bass, hip hop, funk... they do it all and change surf on the Friday and really fell in love with the Cornish coast their style to adapt to the crowd’s grooves and cheers. A very and were shocked when they learnt of some of the pollutants entertaining and versatile show band that made sure the

PIPELINE.ISSUE.62.PAGES.12/13 BEAUTIFUL SPARKLING GIRLS AND DIAMOND GEEZERS CELEBRATE SAS’S 15TH ANIVERSARY AT THE CRYSTAL BALL crowd had the energy to keep going. providing fi rst aid cover - they were pleased to report there Either side of Barnaby Ray was DJ Jelly Jazz, who took it to were only literally a handful of minor incidents. Thanks also the end and had people dancing well into daylight with some to Salomon for a last minute raffl e prize of an S-CORE Zaka great disco funk mixed with superb samples that made the surfboard, Big Wednesday for the mobile phone comp and morning come too soon. Simon Ledson for designwork. Over in the dance tent, DJ’s Johnny Arthur, Futureshock We’d also like to thank our production team SW1, headed and Alex Anderson from London’s Turnmill’s club offered an by Katy Thomas and Susie Moore, who worked non-stop for alternative vibe and banged out some serious dance music. It days to bring us a quality event. Thanks also to our sponsors was packed until 5am and if that was too much for you then whose support is vital to the fi nancial success of the event. the chill out bar was the perfect soothing antidote. Final thanks to Mark and Sharron Doble for letting us use Dan Thompson and Elly worked tirelessly to transform their land and fi nally, to all the bands, DJ’s, production and what has to be one of the biggest marquees in the UK into crew who worked for a much reduced fee all in the name of a Crystal kingdom with loads of disco balls, hanging crystals environmental pressure group SAS!! AC and crystal clear projections!!! Hybrid’s stiltwalkers, jugglers and acrobats also entertained and thrilled! Tom Harding and the AV3 crew did some amazing work as VJ’s and ensured that SAS’s environmental message was communicated to all partygoers with fantastic visual effects! St John Ambulance and additional paramedics were on site EVENTSEVENTS

A GREENER BALL We’re making the Ball greener every year. We’ve introduced free buses to try and reduce the number of cars on the road and this year we used ‘glasses’, plates & cutlery made of renewable plant “Had an awesome time...The one thing that really materials, which are fully compostable. We also expanded the spoilt it for me was the carnage left by some recycling facilities on site with over 30 recycling points, which is inconsiderate, narrow-minded people... twice as many as previous years. We tried to clean up the site as best we could We’re pleased to say we managed to recycle 1.5 tonnes of waste but personally I draw the line at picking up that would otherwise have gone to landfi ll, including nearly 0.2 people’s used condoms!” tonnes of organic waste (food waste, compostable cups, plates Paul Seys and cutlery). However more can be done and we need your help to achieve it. Although everything was in place to achieve a 100% recycling volunteers to help with the clear up the next day, many people rate a signifi cant amount of waste still went to landfi ll and this is just dropped their rubbish & left. And it’s not just us that noticed. mainly because people didn’t use the recycling bins provided. In These are a couple of the emails we’ve had from our members... addition to this we were disappointed at the quantity of rubbish So if you’re coming to the Ball next year, remember it’s not just left strewn across the site, including the camping areas. Despite a party, it’s a celebration of our campaign efforts and as an SAS our requests for people to simply use the bins provided and for member, remember those wise Womble words ‘Make Good Use of Bad Rubbish’ and please... ★ Remember to use the recycling bins provided and put all your “Great ball...thoroughly enjoyed it all... the whole thing non-recyclable waste in the waste bins. was a real buzz until the following morning... I was disgusted ★ Remember to use the toilets provided at the mess that was left by our fellow ball-goers... beer ★ Remember that volunteers have to pick up BY HAND every bottles, bin bags, plastic bags the list goes on... for nature’s single cigarette butt, sequin and piece of USED TOILET PAPER sake, tidy up after yourselves and take responsibility.” ★ Remember, member, member what a Womble, Womble Womble Lisa Furborough you are! Special thanks to Di and the clean up crew. WN

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ANIMAL BEACH BALL The Animal Beach Ball events stormed the North Cornwall coastlines for the 3rd consecutive year. This years events took place at Fistral Beach & Polzeath. The general public were entertained at each event with plenty of surfi ng, mountain bike shows, live music & evening parties. As part of both events the SAS Tag Team surfi ng competition took place - Sunday’s SAS tag team event in Newquay attracted the crowds with hundreds enjoying its entertaining format. Low A GREENER BALL swell meant that the competitors took to the water on foamies, giving the pros a chance to show what can be done on a beginners board! The event was reduced to a 30 minute contest to add a tactical edge, with each team fi elding 4 surfers, one of whom was able to raise their hands and claim a “double whammy score.” They each had to take three waves and the whole team had to have competed for scores to count. Team SAS won, the team of Sarah Bentley, Luke Patterson, Joss & Reuben Ash who kindly donated half of their £500 to SAS. In Polzeath the teams resumed to using normal surfboards as the surf picked up, it was a monumental display by Winter Wonderland to score 43.5 that saw the Winter brothers and Lee Bartlett take the title way ahead of the rest. Thanks to Animal and Barefeet for their £2000 donation to SAS.

SAS AT THE RIPCURL BOARDMASTERS SAS had a busy merchandise and info stand at the Ripcurl Boardmasters on Fistral beach during August. Big thanks to the volunteers that helped out during the week, Ripcurl for their support of SAS’s campaign work and Fosters for their £500 donation.

SAS/RNLI PADDLE ROUND THE PIER - BOSCOMBE (BOURNEMOUTH) Around 40 paddlers from the Bournemouth region helped raise almost £1000 for SAS and RNLI Beach Lifeguards in the fi rst Paddle Round The Pier event held in the region. Boscombe Pier was the venue for this fun event that took place on Saturday 2nd July. A small windswell greeted the paddlers and was enough to provide a short shorebreak session after the paddle for everyone involved. A big thanks from SAS and the RNLI beach Lifeguards to all those taking part and in sponsoring the event which has helped to raise awareness about the clean and safe seas message. RH WATCH OUT FOR NEXT YEAR - AS WE’RE HOPING TO RUN THE EVENT AGAIN! EVENTS

SAS/ALOHA CORNISH AND OPEN 2005 SOUTH AFRICAN TAKES TITLE AT EUROPE’S GREENEST SURF FESTIVAL South African Richard Sills won the 2005 Surfers Against Sewage/ Lewis Clinton (Cornwall) and Beth Mason (Wales) made the junior Aloha Cornish and Open held at Porthtowan beach, Cornwall from divisions highly competitive. Friday also saw Damien Prisk retain the 12th -14th August. his Cornish and Open title in the Bodyboard division. The 3-day event enjoyed very contestable waves providing The grand fi nale of this year’s Cornish and Open saw the SAS some great surfi ng action from the 150 competitors. Those Tag Team event take place at low tide Porthtowan. The crowd watching on fi nals day also saw the sun shine all day to round off was treated to a fun and explosive hour of surfi ng, which saw a hugely successful event. Team SAS (Ben Skinner, James Hendy, Skippy Skilton and Sarah The Open fi nal had a hugely international feel with Richie Bentley) edge out Team Pure Blue Water. Sills (South Africa), Wesley Kelly (Australia), Clinton Fraser Throughout the 3 day event SAS ensured a strong ‘environmental (South Africa) and Llewellyn Whittaker (GB) making the fi nal a message’ was given out by all the surfers and the organisers. We close affair. The level of surfi ng was high, raising the bar for pride ourselves on delivering a ‘green’ surf contest and so the next year. This was mirrored in the other divisions with Rebecca event was packed with kids beach litter picks, appearances by Templeton (Wales) taking home the ladies title and Jed Stone a caped crusader known as Recycleman, reclaimed driftwood adding another Masters title to a competition he always does contest trophies, environmental talks by SAS campaigners and well in. The Cornish and Open also saw outstanding performances organic cotton contest t-shirts provided by Aloha which were from locally based surfers in particular 16-year-old Ryan Manetta fairly traded and pesticide free so they don’t pollute the water and Shaun ‘Skippy’ Skilton who both made it to the semis of the Open. Current English Longboard Champion Ben Skinner put in an impressive performance to show why he is ranked 13 on the World Longboard Tour. His classic mix of progressive and traditional surfi ng brought him the longboard division title ahead of the ever-consistent Chris ‘Guts’ Griffi ths (Wales). Day 1 of the Cornish and Open saw the younger categories battle it out in good conditions. Solid, consistent surfi ng by Sam Burkett (Wales), Alex Baker (Devon), Matt Burner (Devon),

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TITLE AT EUROPE’S FULL RESULTS ARE AS FOLLOWS: Youth (Under 14) Masters ( over 35) GREENEST SURF FESTIVAL 1st Alex Baker 1st Jed Stone 2nd Lewis Clinton 2nd Roger Knight table. This added up to make the event most defi nitely Europe’s 3rd Toby Donachie 3rd Chris Griffi ths greenest surf festival. 4th Tom Good 4th Daz Wright SAS are grateful for the support of title sponsors Aloha to help Cadets (Under 16) Longboard us deliver another successful grassroots contest. We would also 1st Matt Burner 1st Ben Skinner like to thank our co-sponsors The Blue Bar, Pure Blue Water, Red 2nd Billy Norways 2nd Chris Griffi ths 3rd Dane Hall 3rd Luke Patterson Stripe, Carve/Surfgirl/Threesixty. Thanks also to Our Fair Hands 4th Jack Clinton 4th Sam Bleakley for making the trophies, Tree of Life Organics, Carrs of St Agnes, Vospers, Mike Claire Textiles and Origin Coffee. Juniors (under 18) Ladies 1st Sam Burkett 1st Rebecca Templeton Emma Hartley, Aloha Europe said: “We’re delighted to have 2nd Jayce Robinson 2nd Sarah Bentley teamed up with SAS to support this prestigious event and to have 3rd Tom Owens 3rd Nicola Bunt contributed in minimising the environmental impact to ensure an 4th Dane Hall 4th Holly Donnelly exciting and green surf event took place”. ME/RH Under 18 Girls Open 1s1stt BethBeth MasonMason 1st Richie Sills 2nd GwenGwen Spurlock 2nd Wesley Kelly 3r3rdd ZoeZoe SheathSheath 3rd Llewellyn Whittaker 4th RebeccaRebecca TempletonTempleton 4th Clinton Frazer

Bodyboard 1s1stt Damian Prisk 2nd ScottScott Harben 3r3rdd Oli Medland 4th Shaun SmithersSmithers WatchWatch a shorshortt fi lm ofof the 3 daysdays action at www.avthree.co.uk/sasopen.htmwww.avthree.co.uk/sasopen.htm MERCHANDISE NEWS

CHRISTMAS✴ SHOPPING? As usual at this time of year, the SAS Catalogue is stuffed full of Christmas present ideas. Judging by how busy we were last year, lots of you did just about ALL your Xmas shopping with us! Such a sensible and environmentally responsible approach...no sitting in traffi c jams into town, no nightmares WONDERFUL WINTER WOOLY We are selling the jumpers for £80, parking, no wandering round looking There is nothing like real wool for and they are worth every penny. If you at expensive tat in the company of keeping you warm, and pretty dry look in any surf wear shop, and you will hundreds of desperate conformists. too, and consequently there are lots see plenty of woollens going for far No, just open your catalogue and of gorgeous jumpers in the shops this more money, and who benefi ts there? give us a ring, or go online if it’s out of winter. We have gone one better though, Buy one from us and you know what the hours. We like early Xmas shoppers, so our beautiful zip through jumpers were score is. we will be giving away a lovely recycled hand knitted in Kathmandu, and the Our supplier is www.peopletree. pen with all orders in November, BUT we skilled Nepalese women have knitted co.uk. Check out their website for more CAN and DO manage late orders, and will the SAS Eye logo into the back of info on fair trade clothing. tie ourselves in knots to get your stuff the sweater. The women work✴ in the to you in time for the big day. Kumbeshwar Technical School (KTS), KANG POO TOWEL which gives training and employment Towels make brilliant presents. The OR you can come to St Agnes to do to hundreds of destitute men and Nineplus ones went fantastically last your Christmas shopping! We are having women. When SAS commission them year. Our new towels, from Kangaroo a SALE DAY on SAT NOV 5th 10am-3pm, to make jumpers, the money we give Poo, are stacked up ready to go. They and 3 CHRISTMAS SHOPPING DAYS (with them is invested in their nursery and are a bit bigger and plusher than last mulled wine!) on SAT DEC 3rd,10th and primary schools, providing education years, but we can still fi t them in our 17th 9:30am-5.30pm. See map on page for 240 pupils and a hostel for homeless biggest envelopes...just! 2 for directions. children. They are an excellent fundraiser When you buy a jumper from us, you for us, so please, treat yourself, or Christmas cards? No problem...we are are not only helping to fund SAS, but you somebody else! KW doing packs of 5 quality recycled cards are supporting fair trade employment (the sort you need for bestest mates for disadvantaged women and free and ✴family) all based on Becky’s beach- schooling for impoverished children in litter designs@£3.50. See the catalogue a beautiful but socially unstable part of

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PIPELINE.ISSUE.62.PAGES.18/19 RAFFLE HELP US BREAK AN SAS RECORD! Last year’s annual raffl e was our best ever, WOW, sounds loads until you realise what making £10,000, which was phenomenal. a drop in the ocean it is to South West This has made a real difference to SAS Water’s £111 million operating profi t - but and has enabled us to invest in our own it’d certainly go a long way in helping us environmental performance by using stand up to the big boys of industry. 100% post consumer waste recycled If you’d like more books please just give paper for all our paper products, as well us a ring or email [email protected]. If you as allowing us to get out on the campaign work in a shop, or are organising an event trail even more than ever! where you could sell a load of tickets let However, with your help we reckon we us know. can do even better this year - all we ask There are 12 fantastic prizes with a is that you buy or sell the book of raffl e fi rst prize of a surf school or surf tickets enclosed with this Pipeline. We guide holiday to France courtesy of appreciate you’ve possibly already had Pure Vacations - see enclosed fl yer for one book but if every member sold both further details. WN books of tickets, we’d make £100,000!! SAS APPEAL

SAS TOP TARGET OF £100K

LAST YEAR’S TARGET: £10K

£2573 AS OF END AUGUST OUTSIDE EVENTS ROUND-UP

£122 raised for SAS so far, and wristbands impressed, they booked him in for a three can be purchased via the website month exhibition from February 2006 www.in2surf.co.uk or by calling into the and Greg has kindly offered to continue store in Swansea. donating 25% of his sales to SAS. You can check out more of Greg’s DRESS DOWN DAY/ BEACH PARTY, photos at www.fi ndyourwave.co.uk BRIDGEND. TSUNAMI SURF RELIEF SOUTHCOASTER: ORGANISER:ORGANISER: JJACKIEACKIE HHUNT,UNT, BUTTERFLY BALL, SEPTEMBER 16TH WEYMOUTH LOGICAMG 2005: SANDBANKS BEACH, POOLE ORGANISER: PAUL SEYS Thank you Logica CMG’s South Wales offi ce ORGANISER: GARY Weymouth played host to the Tsunami Surf Waterton, Bridgend for arranging a Dress WILLINGHAM Relief SouthCoaster event on Saturday Down Day in July with the theme “Beach Thank you to all who attended the 2nd July. A 4 a-side Beach Volleyball Party” where staff dressed appropriately Butterfl y Ball, as part of the Poole comp followed by short and longboard to raise money and awareness for Surfers Windfest weekend. You helped to raise a paddle races was the order of the day Against Sewage. The total money raised whopping £723 for SAS. Clad in Hawaiian and although the weather was typically was £231.15 and the day’s events included style dress, guests were treated to a sit British it didn’t deter the majority. a lucky dip, raffl e and beach themed quiz down Chinese buffet and enjoyed live An after party included a screening and games. music and DJ beats till the early hours. of Big Wednesday, Farstar DJ’s rocking Thanks to Gary and all who helped to the club and Miss SouthCoaster being FIND YOUR WAVE PHOTO EXIBITION, raise money in aid of SAS. crowned. Total raised from the day just PENZANCE stopped short of £1700, of which £500 FUNDRAISER: GREG MARTIN HORIZONS OF BLUE AND GOLD went to SAS. Next year the SouthCoaster SAS would like to say a big thank you to EXHIBITION: EXPOSURE GALLERY, event will be apart of Surf Relief Day, so Greg Martin who raised a total of £200, LONDON keep a look out! donating 25% of the sales of his photos FUNDRAISER, MEL ENRIGHT at the exhibition. Further good news is Many thanks to Mel Enright who kindly PURE OCEANS WRISTBANDS that the cafÈ exhibiting his work were so donated a percentage of all sales of her Many thanks to Mumbles surfi ng coach Surf and Lifestyle Photography, raising and former pollution control offi cer with a total of £110 for SAS. Her work was the Environment Agency, Phil Owen who exhibited in Exposure Gallery, London has produced a set of wristbands to raise and portrays not only beautiful shots of cash for clean up charity, PURE OCEANS. waves but also the lifestyle surrounding The wristbands cost £3 and for every surf culture. PS band sold SAS receives £1. A total of

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WAVEHUB www.sas.org.uk PIPELINE.ISSUE.62.PAGES.20/21 MEMBERSHIP GOT SOME TIME TO SPARE? If you’ve time to spare or have a special skill or qualifi cation COMPETITION that you think may be of help to us we’d love to hear from WINNERS you - please complete the form below and we’ll put you on our database. We particularly need people who can help in WEBSITE JOIN ONLINE the week with admin and in particular sending out Pipeline, June > Zeal Optic sunglasses > Rachela Leonello so if you’re local and you’ve got an hour or two to stuff July > Cornwall Surf Academy.com > Tim Price some envelopes please let us know! August > Vans shoes > Phil Cox Name: DIRECT DEBITS Address: June > Vans Shoes > J.O.Best July > Vans shoes > N.P.Reece August > MOD surf jewelley > J.R.S.Wright Phone no: What days of the week are you available? MEMBERS RENEWAL COMP Mon ■ Tue ■ Wed ■ Thu ■ Fri ■ Sat ■ Sun ■ MOD Surf jewellery > Vicki Butler How long are you available for?

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Do you have any professional qualifi cations that may be useful to us? CELEBRITY AUCTION RAISES OVER £3000 Our on-line Celebrity Auction reached its climax on 11th July, with some THANK YOU! We’ll keep your details on fi le and will be in touch when we need extra help. fevered bidding during the last few minutes, raising more than £3000. There was a lot of interest in the items, which were donated by Many thanks to all the volunteers who’ve helped out since the last Pipeline: Hero Selwood, Trudi Glover, Debbie Pick, Ella Richardson, Guy Richardson, Emma Davidge, Louise celebrities from around the world, but the item that probably sparked Treseder, Stuart Rolls, Rachel Dash, Garry Whitridge, Francoise Bowyer, Abi Barker, Jo Warwick, the greatest bidding war was a signed book donated by Paul McCartney, Glen Pike, Ali Stainer, Olivia Murray-Taylor, Sally Coulson and Robin, Mattie Bennett, Darren White, Larry Jarrett-Kerr, Lizzy & Julian Larbalestier, Patrick Selwood, Di Bushe & her cleanup crew, Each One Believing, which sold for an astounding £360! Graham Forster, Nathalie Giles and the Youth Offending Team and all those who helped out during Donations were received from REM, Oasis, Jack Johnson, Feeder, Joni their work experience, Sam Chamberlain, Peter Bowyer, Ben Stokes and Adrian Young. Mitchell, The Darkness, Donavon Frankenreiter, Paul McCartney, Pink, Athlete, Peter Gabriel, Anita Roddick, Ewan McGregor, The Tragically CAMPAIGN ART COMP WINNERS ANNOUNCED Hip, Steve Redgrave, Ash, Jonathan Porritt, surf photographer Tara Thanks to everyone who entered our on-line Campaign Art Moller, current British champion Robyn Davies, 2004 British champion competition earlier in the year. We really enjoyed looking through all Alan Stokes, 2001 English title winner Lee Bartlett, current English of the creations that you sent us and have now chosen the winners. longboard champion Ben Skinner, one of O’Neill’s top European riders, The Under 16’s winner is “Lost Soles” by Alessandra Cattaneo. Jake Boex, big wave charger Dan ‘Mole’ Joel and 12 of the Roxy Team The Over 16’s winner is Amanda Brooks’ Riders. “Southwold 2”. We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who donated items, Congratulations to the two winners - look everyone who bid, our volunteer Hero Selwood, who tirelessly out for their images on next year’s SAS contacted celebrities and to Cornish Art Prints who became a sponsor campaign materials! Thanks also to by framing all the prints and photographs and kindly donated their time Jonah Maddox who gave up his time to and frames. WN curate the website exhibition. WN SPONSORS

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