Assist Al Gore to get the World's governments to address Global Warming

In seven days 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore is going to address the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia. Surfersvillage, Earthwave and Northcore have signed his petition showing their support for the important call for a visionary treaty to address the climate crisis. We hope you will too.

The world's elected leaders must take the steps necessary to solve global warming. It's not too late. We have the opportunity now to improve the Earth's future for our children, and their children. If we don't act, we will only have ourselves to blame. Please spend one minute of your time to sign the petition today.

We encourage you to forward this page to everyone in your address book. The Climate Crisis is the greatest threat the planet has ever faced!

Record size waves forecast to hit west coast Ireland today

TOWSURFERS READY TO RIDE THE BIGGEST SWELLS PREDICTED IN YEARS.

Massive waves are set to batter the western shores of the British and Irish Isles this weekend, and a small group of dedicated surfers are ready to take up the challenge of riding the biggest swells forecasted in recent years. I f conditions are right riders will be tackling Aileens in Co Clare, where one of the home page images was taken by Al McKinnon on Northcore-europe.com

Swell forecasters are predicting the arrival of powerful swells peaking Saturday afternoon of 38 feet (12.5m) high. There is an 18- second wave interval between the crest of successive waves, a daunting measure of the power behind these swells, generated by a 960 mb low-pressure system out in the Atlantic west of Ireland.

Once the swell comes out of deep water off Mullagmore Head, Donegal Bay, onto a shallow reef shelf, the waves can double in size as the wave crest is forced upwards by the changing seafloor contours, making waves heights greater then 55ft faces likely for the surfers.

The four surfers who are looking forward to the oceanic equivalent of summiting Mount Everest are Duncan Scott (Newquay, UK), Alistair Mennie (Portrush, IE), Gabe Davies (Newcastle, UK) and Ritchie Fitzgerald (Bundoran, IE.)

New member joins Northcore

Introducing the newest member of the Northcore Boardriders team!

Mike Vincelli is the creator of the "Beachnuts Comic Strip" an insightful and sideways vision of the surfing world. His writing is clever and the quality of his artwork speaks for itself. We're pleased to say that Mike has kindly produced a Northcore character for us. The idea for this character was to represent a surfer who's stoked to be surfing head high waves in freezing water and we think he's captured it perfectly! You'll hopefully be seeing more of our character in the future.

To see more of Mike's work visit:

http://www.beachnutscomic.com/

Surfing on Biodiesel

Here at Northcore we try and do our bit for the environment....we're not all out mung bean eating, tree hugging, teepee dwellers but we do attempt to have a social conscience and every little helps. Along with our Climate Neutral policy (we're part of one of the UKs first Climate Neutral surf organisations) of planting 500 trees annually to offset our carbon footprint, we're now experimenting with biodiesel for our surf vehicle.
As surfers we tend to want to be green and environmentally conscious but the irony is we travel more than most especially in our cars so we're pretty heavy pollutors...but we can make things better. After doing a bit of research it turns out that its pretty simple to run a Diesel vehicle on biodiesel. (Quick disclaimer here, this is only opinion based on what we've tried and read, so dont take our word for it and sue if something goes wrong, like chucking veg oil in a petrol car!)
Theres 2 basic options: one is to install a conversion in the car to pre-heat the oil so the car can run on 100% veggie oil. Theres loads of conversions out there but can be costly. Secondly just add normal vegetable oil into the car to mix with the diesel! Sounds simple and it is. We ran the car out of fuel and added 30 litres of diesel and then 3 litres of veggie oil...run the car, let the whole lot mix and you're off with a 10% biodiesel fuel.
Next step was to go up to a 25% mix...the car is starting to smell a bit like a chip shop (cool) but other than that theres no other effects.

The details:
1. In the UK its now legal to run a car on veg oil. The allowance is 2500 litres annually without paying any tax!
2. You can run on a diesel veg oil of up to 50/50 mix but not recommended during colder weather. 30% mix and it should be OK
3. Only try this on older diesel cars 90's and older. Injectors on newer cars wont like it and you'll probably invalidate the car warranty
4. You will create less sulphur emissions and be much "greener". Its a sustainable energy source
5. The engine should run smoother
6. Its cheaper to run the car
7. Vegetable oil is best (rape seed oil) as its thinner
8. Veg oil can be bought direct from supermarkets but recycled oil from chippies and kebab shops can also used...but it has to be filtered and processed to make it clean/useable again - so take advice on this

If in doubt ask experts on what to do and do lots of research. But we've tried it and its working....happy driving and surfing!

Try this link for more detailed info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel

Website fine tuning

You may have noticed that our website has had some fine tuning in the design to produce even cleaner lines to enhance the user experience. Theres also going to be some new content and some new products arriving soon....so watch this space!

Trade Mark secured

Northcore are pleased to announce that a Trade Mark for our Name and logo has been secured. The Northcore brand is moving from strength to strength building on a grass roots support of boardriders across the globe.

Competition Winners

The Northcore summer competition to win a load of Northcore accessories is now over. Thanks to all of those who entered and correctly answered b: Lowrider, which is the name of one our coolest surfboards. Congratulations to the winners who are as follows:

1st Place, winning one of each of Northcores accessories is Sarita Jarrett (right) of Devizes, Wilts
2nd Place, winning a Northcore waterproof car seat cover is James Sargison of Penryn Cornwall
3rd Place, winning all a Northcore t-shirt is Christina Gard of Exeter.

Well done guys and for everyone else keep an eye for more top comps to come.