Archive for November, 2009
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Back to Steeper Waves
SURF: 3-5 ft. waist to head high with occasional 6 ft. and fair to good conditions. This morning’s dawn patrol: Mostly walled-up, glassy lines with open, workable corners to be had. After a few good days of solid longboard waves, I’m back to Pacifica and the steeper mix of things. I got a couple good [...]
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Negative Tide at Cowells
SURF: 3-4ft and clean. Great day for the longboard. After 2 solid longboard days my arms were mush. Jello. I could barely sit up to answer the phone when Luke texted me at 9:30am. I knew it was going to be a negative tide at Cowells but had written Sunday off as a day of [...]
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Saturday, November 28th, 2009
Offshores in Bolinas
SURF: 3-4ft mellow waves. Light to VERY strong offshore winds. A little choppy with the wind but mostly clean. I drove Josh and his friend Andre up to Bolinas. The WNW and NW swells hitting the other breaks made most spots anywhere near SF pretty big and junky but Bolinas was working nicely. The offshores [...]
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
Longboard Waves in Capitola
SURF: 2-4 ft knee to shoulder high. This morning’s dawn patrol: Clean, lined-up little walls. Had a nice little mid day surf down in Capitola. Everywhere else was big, blown out, or just un fun looking today but Capitola has nice, smooth little waves. My favorite kind of waves. I only got in a few [...]
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Pre-Holiday Crazies
SURF: 3-6ft. Great Head High peak by the pumphouse, mushier jumped 3ft waves on the south end. After my interview and various other pre-holiday obligations, I managed to get in a little time at Pacifica. There was a great peak working by the pumphouse with quite a few people already on it. I paddled out [...]
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
7′ Al Merrick
SURF: 3-5 ft. waist to head high and poor conditions. This morning’s dawn patrol: Mostly walled up lines coming through with just a slight texture to the surface. Occasional workable corners through the inside. This morning was a bit mixed up. The pumphouse was showing some niiiiice waves for people who could catch them. After [...]
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Bolinas!
Surf: Knee to Shoulder high waves. Went up to Bolinas with Luke and Beth. Everywhere else was blown out bigger waves and I’d been wanting to get up to Bolinas. It was a good day for it. Sunny, nice waves, pretty mellow. I got in once nice right. It switched up and went left making [...]
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Quick Sunday Paddle
SURF: 3-5 ft. waist to head high and fair to good conditions. This morning’s dawn patrol: Fun, semi-walled lines with racy corners through the inside. Expect sets around head high. Conditions are clean and glassy with light wind. Conditions were a bit more mixed than reports suggested. I’ve been fighting off a cold since Thursday [...]
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Almost Got One!
SURF: 3-5 ft. waist to head high and fair conditions. This morning’s dawn patrol: Just a slight texture to the surface with sectiony/broken up walls coming through. Plenty of scattered inside corners to work with. Back on the 6’8. I am determined to ride this little board. My duck dive practice on Monday was pretty [...]
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Birthday Waves for Cynthia
SURF: 3-5ft. Cleaner than yesterday. Good shoulder high waves for some folks, waist high closeouts for me. Caught a mid-day session with Cynthia to celebrate her birthday. I caught one nice long mellow right and swamped a right I should have gotten. My neck is still really tight so I didn’t get in a smooth [...]
