Twig Title on Track

Alex Gray takes top honors in his first Xpreshon Big Wave World Tour Event.  Bianca Vallenti won the Women’s Super Heat Championship with Shawn Dollar and Andrea Moller taking second respectively.
 
Nelscott Reef offered up great waves in the 30ft range for the DIVE N’ SURF Oregon Pro all day and allowed the world’s best big wave Men and Women to challenge the reef for an international audience via a Live HD Webcast and Live National Television coverage of the Men’s final thanks to our media partners – Universal Sports Network.
 
 “Today was an epic event with excellent waves, we could not have asked for better conditions. Everyone worked as a team, the surfers looked out for one another and the water patrol did an excellent job of keeping our competitors safe.” Gary Linden of The Big Wave World Tour.
 
“Body Glove and Dive N’ Surf are very proud of Alex and his win today and want to congratulate all the surfers involved in a successful event. Robbie Meistrell CEO of Body Glove.
 
We would like to specially thank our official surf forecasters at Surfline for giving us the detailed analysis to run such a great event in Lincoln City, Oregon.  Additional thanks go out to all of our sponsors who made this event possible, Dive N’ Surf, Xpreshon, Body Glove, Body Glove Surge, The Surf Channel, Redondo Beach Board of Tourism and American Wave Machine, The City of Lincoln City, Chinook Winds Casino and Resort and Ninkasi Brewing Company for supply the prize purse for the Women.

Grant “Twiggy” Baker     SOUTH AFRICA   2,459.00
Ken “Skindog” Collins     USA                 1,140.13
Nic Lamb                     USA                 1,117.50
Shawn Dollar                USA                 938.50
Kohl Christensen           HAWAII             864.88
Alex Gray                    USA                  850.00
Shane Dorian               HAWAII             810.00
Greg Long                   USA                  731.38
Ryan Augustine            USA                  710.75
Anthony Tashnick         USA                  666.00
Ramon Navarro            CHILE                629.38
Jamie Mitchell              AUSTRALIA        599.38

Nelscott Reef

Officially named Tacklebuster Reef, but more commonly referred to as Nelscott Reef, is one of the Pacific NW's hidden gems.  Located a half mile out to sea in Lincoln City, Oregon, just up the beach from Spanish Head. It is a high performance big wave with both rights and lefts, but predominantly rights when it’s really big. The wave is protected by miles of beach break surf that is mostly impassable when the swells are big enough for the reef to break. Although there are smaller days when the reef can be paddled to from the beach, Nelscott Reef isn’t generally considered a big wave spot until the beach break is too big to paddle. In these conditions, PWCs are the access vehicle of choice, but you still have to deal with beach launching to get to the wave, and launching a ski from the beach can be a truly precarious undertaking with high tides and huge surf. The waves at Nelscott Reef are rideable up to 50-foot and beyond. Add regular rainfall and chilly land and sea temperatures to the equation, and you’ve got a truly rugged big wave spot. Water temperatures from October to March range between 47-53 F (6-12 C), while the average daytime air temperatures range between 55-61 F (13-16 C)