In Santa Cruz, California, Santa arrives by -- what else -- surf board.

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After three years of track trauma, nobody neither the still-scarred railways, nor Congress, nor the Surf Board could bear the thought of another blow.

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She was then pulled onto a surf board by rescuers.

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That power makes it easy to pop up onto a water-ski-size board and surf off across the waves.

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Monarch Green had another hook: "It's not an environmentally friendly type of product that we make, and we all know it, " says Shea Weber, president of Dewey Weber Surfboards in San Clemente and chair of the Surf Industry Manufacturing Association's board builder committee.

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But, like the bigger Karma (and the even larger Surf), there's an on-board motor that burns gas to generate more electricity to extend that range -- but sadly nobody's saying by how far.

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Jon Ruppersberg, who repairs boards at the Santo Loco surf shop in central Munich, said river surfing requires a different type of board.

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