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CONTEST RULES
Please review the COMPLETE RULES prior to entering, if you are new to competing.

WAVE COUNT
(subject to conditions; confirm at check-in). Maximum wave count is 6 waves. Top 4 highest scoring waves will be counted.

JUDGING will be on a 10-point system with half points. Competitors will be judged on style, wave selection, length of ride and controlled functional maneuvers. Shuffling, hopping back and forth and flapping on the surfboard will be considered poor style and will not be scored as high as walking or stylish radical maneuvers.

NOVICE ELIGIBILITY
Novice surfers must be able to catch a wave, stand up, and ride the wave for some distance. Novices may be able to turn a bit and typically falls off during or at the end of the wave. If you can do multiple cutbacks, walk the nose, drop-knee turns, or floaters, you are NOT a novice. If the judges deem that you do not belong in the Novice Division, you will not receive a score.

BOARD SIZES
Longboards are at least 9’0 or 3 ft over a kid contestant’s head.
Shortboards are 2 ft or less over contestant’s head.
Funboards are 7’0 -8’0 hybrids.

HEAT ASSIGNMENTS
See heat assignments by 9/10, 3pm at www.ncwsc.com. OR call the heat hotline 415-285-4542 after 9/10, 6pm. NOTE: Heats are still subject to change on 9/11, so please regularly check heat postings + PA announcements and with the check-in tent during the contest day for prelims and your advancement to the semi-final & final heats!

DATE & TIME
Saturday, Sept 11, 2004
6:45am: Contest check-in begins
7:30am: Heats begin (subject to change) Click here for schedule

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ENTRY FEES
Sign up by MONDAY SEPT 6TH.. Space is limited.
ENTER EARLY Beach entries accepted on a space available basis. $10 late fee applies.

$45 for first contest division | $25 for menehune & grom divisions
$10 per additional division entered.
$12 per extra award dinner ticket(s)

Surf contest fees includes goody bag and one awards dinner ticket per contestant. For groms, there is one extra ticket for parent/guardian. Trophies, leis and more for top finishers!

Download your ENTRY FORM HERE

We will email entry confirmations ASAP.

NOTE: The Groms & Menehune Boys & Girls’ Award Ceremony will take place at 2pm or so. Kids’ contestant board will also be chosen then. At the evening Awards Dinner, results for grom & menehune division will be re-read at the Awards .

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CONTESTANTS' BOARD RAFFLE
All the names of the groms & menehune contestants will be entered into a hat to win a special kid's Neptune board by Shawn Rhodes of NorCal Surf Shop. Also, all the names of the women contestants (other than the groms & menehune divisios) will be entered in a hat to win one of the 4 raffle boards of their choice. The remaining 3 board winners will be pulled from the raffle ticket sales pool.

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CONTEST PHOTOS

Elizabeth Pepin returns as our official Surf Fest photographer, and we thank her for generously donating long hours to document every surf heat possible. Contestants will be notified by email that photos will be available for purchase online after the event.

Elizabeth is a San Francisco resident who grew up at Ocean Beach and can often be found surfing with her husband David and friends in Santa Cruz, Pacifica, and north of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Elizabeth currently works as an Producer and Research & Development Associate at KQED-TV in San Francisco. She has won 4 Emmys for her documentary work. Current projects include co-producing a high definition documentary on the problems facing California's coast which will air the week of November 12 on California PBS stations, providing the principal surf photography for a women's surf book to be released in 2005, and co-producing a half-hour documentary, One Winter Story, with surfer/filmmaker Sally Lundburg on big wave Mavericks surfer and scientist, Sarah Gerhardt to be released in the winter of 2004.

For her women's surf photo project, Elizabeth has photographed more than 400 women and girl surfers with both water cameras and from the beach. Elizabeth's images have appeared in numerous museums, galleries, newspapers and magazines, and in the only book on the history of women's surfing, Girl in the Curl.

Visit these links to learn more about Elizabeth Pepin:

Costa Vista Gallery
Frankfilms
Email

Photos of Surf Contests 2003

(photos at top: Elizabeth Pepin, Alex Johnson)