New wave on Crab Island

HP Surf's new Sunset wave breaks on Crab Island

Surfers visiting West of Ireland may have noticed that there is a new type of big wave break on Crab Island, now giving surfers a choice of three different waves in the estate (Bundoran Reef has pipeline waves and Neart an Epic). The 100 meter wide, seamless sculpty wave is called a Sunset wave and is the first of HP Surf's new generation of waves. Judging from feedback from surfers invited to test the new wave, it's quite a ride.

"We've invested most of our development time in trying to create new, innovative wave forms in attempt to make surfing in Second Life more realistic," said leogarto (Leo) Burt, CEO of HP Surf Boards Inc. "Surfers will see that each generation of our surfing waves has new innovations in form, textures and scriptiing: all designed to help surfers have more fun!"

"I really like them, said surfer Kimmy Leroux at Crab Island. "The fact that the wave is seamless from end-to-end makes it a nice ride. The wave is really smooth and catching air is great! I also like the fact that HP Surf is asking surfers to test these new waves and is taking advice from us."

Crab Island has recently been taken over by HP Surf, which has made it the developer's new testing ground for surfable waves, surfboards and other watersports products. HP Surf Boards, the leading Brazilian developer of Second Life surfboards and brought a new wave out a few months ago called the 'Teahupoo'. HP Surf is also the key sponsor of the ABSSL (Associação Brasileira de Surf no Second Life), which will hold its third major surfing competition event in two weeks time.

"The Sunset wave will be available in 60, 100 and 200 meter models," said Leo. ""The new 200 meter Sunset wave is gigantic!" SurfWatch hears that HP Surf plans to start testing the new 200 meter wide Sunset wave at the Pacific Coast Xtreme group of sims during the next few days.

Useful links
SurfWatch: Brazilian surf circuit comes to Praia da Paz (5 Jul 08)
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