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Photos by Michael Woolsey
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Hydrodynamic
Jamie Murray and the craft of the North Coast surfboard
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urfing in Sonoma and Marin counties is dodgy in the best of times, but spring is downright dismal. Northwest winds scour the coast, rendering any waves that straggle ashore into ragged, unsurfable junk. The constant onshore blow dredges up deep, cold water to give surfers brainfreezing headaches as they duck under waves.
BY STETT HOLBROOK
But there are not many waves worth surfing this time of year anyway. Spring is a season of transition. Northwest swells from the Gulf of Alaska have all but dried up, and Southern Hemisphere swells have yet to make their way to our shores. Still, Jamie Murray manages to stay connected to the ocean during the windy season inside his 108-square-foot shop tucked behind his home in Santa Rosa’s west end. Murray, 40, is a surfboard ) 18 shaper, one of just a few in Sonoma County. If he can’t ride a