The Janitor
From my bro Rob Willis: “The Hobie crew and I go down to the Dana Point Harbor at lunch whenever we can and paddle for fun and exercise. Whenever I go on my own I am bored and bummed with all the debris, especially plastic bottles/tennis balls/balloons, etc. that accumulates along the jetties. After seeing Skip Frye pick up trash in the movie One California Day, I thought, why not try and pick some up too? So I fashioned a shrimp net into a trailer for the SUP. The benefits became two fold, I can get a great resistance work out and leave the Harbor a little cleaner than I found it.”
The weirdest thing Rob has seen in the water, “One day I was paddling with Casey Walsh and we came across a partially submerged lawn chair. Casey pulled it out and being a good Hawaiian waterman, sat down and paddled the rest of the way in his new chair.”
Rob has made a couple of these trash nets for others so if you are a SUP person who wants to make a clean sweep shoot him an e-mail at rkwillis@cox.net
Daniel
April 8, 2008Right on!
Jon P.
April 8, 2008That’s the best use of a sup board I’ve ever seen.
Trash barges.
Just keep them in the harbor where they belong.
shacky
April 8, 2008that is good idea. the next surfrider clean up day should have a fleet of sup janitors cleaning the ocean while the kids pick trash off the beach.
DJ
April 8, 2008Way to go ROB!
Danimal
April 8, 2008Nice a real Janitor…and he’s wearing Katin’s!
Anonymous
April 8, 2008The people who work there keep the park pretty clean but the water is a joke especially along that outside jetty he’s paddling next too. Nice …
Anonymous
April 8, 2008He should dump the trash back on those high dollar boats in the background , the ones who threw it overboard ! Eco Warriors !
Anonymous
April 8, 2008Ocean First!
Anonymous
April 8, 2008So not nice ! Ocean Eco Warriors ! Somebody call Greanpeace and Rasta , a new way to attack whaling ships , get rid of the whalers and SUP guyz too !
JP
April 8, 2008stand up paddle boarders = cool enough
stand up paddle boarders cleaning trash out of the ocean = awesome
stand up paddle surfers…. not so much
J_P (admitted SUP owner who has never and never will surf it — mine is a 14’er designed for distance but that’s beside the point)
Anonymous
April 8, 2008“I’m just a garbage man , that’s just the lemon next to the pie.It’ll get bigger.”