I recently got married on November 8th, Saturday. The very next day I ended up doing a Hawaii Kai surf run in the afternoon and used my wifes Pegasus which has the bungee storage in the front. Anyways I always take my wallet, phone, and now wedding ring and put it in my pelican case and place it in the bungee storage. I ended up taking off on some bombers and once I reach "rice bowls" I noticed the pelican case was missing. Paddled upwind and nothing. Its probably floating somewhere, but if anyone finds it please call my wife Crissy Helm at (808) 864-3051. Not even 24 hours and I'm in the dog house.

Never mind the cell phone or wallet (no money anyways), just the wedding ring please. And easy on the bashing, I'll take the bone headed move for the year.

Carlton Helm

The past two years I've been watching the ASP WCT (Association of Surfing Professionals/World Championship Tour "Dream Tour") contest online and wondering what if there was live webcasts for our OC-1 races and OC-6 races. Now the entire world and viewers can watch Kanaka Ikaika, PAA, etc. races online and watch their heroes battle it out and experience the action and drama first hand. Like the WCT webcast, they can have paddler or team profiles, interviews and commentating through the entire race. The only time spectators see the paddlers is when they paddle towards the finish line and not knowing who was battling with who, the fierce look in the paddlers faces while battling each other, and the size of ocean swells that are being surfed by our best. For OC-6 channel for example, we can actually watch Lanikai, Team NZ/HI, and the visiting tahitians batte it out.

Just watching surf contest online is exciting especially when you got Kelly and Andy in one heat with skatepark waves or the newly high profiled tour rookies like Dane Reynolds and Jordy Smith busting sick moves. I would sign on online to watch Karel out surf everybody or watch Kai's intensity as he paddles or the Lanikai young guns, Ryan and Jack, make their move on the vets.. And like surfers, each paddler has their flair and style especially in the surf.

Carlton