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- From: andy@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Andy Michael USGS Guest)
- Newsgroups: alt.surfing
- Subject: Re: How's Cocoa Beach these days?
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 20:03:26 GMT
- Organization: Stanford Univ. Earth Sciences
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- References: <38271@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> <1k4esuINNs95@morrow.stanford.edu> <1993Jan27.141125.2306@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- In article <1993Jan27.141125.2306@bmerh85.bnr.ca> whitwam@bnr.ca writes:
- >In article <1k4esuINNs95@morrow.stanford.edu>, andy@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Andy Michael USGS Guest) writes:
- >|> Looked more like the Ron Jon t-shirt shop to me. The place was about a
- >|> block from my hotel and is the size of a decent size department store.
- >|> But all the boards were hanging from the ceiling. Nice collection but
- >|> I didn't get the impression they sold very many of them. At least not
- >|> compared to the many t-shirts. On the other hand we did rent two boogie
- >|> boards from them.
- >|>
- >
- >Your not critizing Ron Jon's are you? I consider it my Mecca. :-)
- I'll give them credit for being open 24 hours a day and did enjoy looking
- at all their boards hanging from the ceiling.
-
- >When I was in Cocoa Beach last year, the rental huts I checked out
- >only had plastic surfboards, but Ron Jon's had a small selection of
- >fiberglass boards for rent. Not much of a selection, but I was able
- >to rent a board and a wet-suit for about $50 for the week. (Is that
- >a good price?)
- Ron Jon's is no longer renting fiberglass boards. Their weekly price
- is about $40 a week for a board, $40 a week for a wetsuit, ....
- basically $40 for each item. $10 a day if you aren't there that long.
-
- >in learning how to surf? We would have to rent surf boards (or buy some used
- >ones) and lessons would be helpful. I was thinking of South Carolina, but I
-
- Another option around Cocoa Beach is buying boards at one of the many
- pawnshops. There was one across the street from Ron Jons that had a
- decent selection and reasonable prices. Looked like there were a lot of
- surfers running low on bucks and pawning their boards. Unfortunately
- nothing that struck me as just what I wanted to cart around for the rest
- of the vacation and back to California.
-
- Andy
-