Archive for March, 2010
Sunday, March 28th, 2010
38th Ave Longboards
SURF: 2-4 ft, knee to chest high. Clean, light/moderate west crosswind. Sunny, warm, nice peeling waves. Light crowd. Otters. Gear: 9’4 Stewart A good day in Santa Cruz feels like a vacation. Warm, blue water, sunshine, point/reef breaking waves groomed by the kelp forest. Most surf spots near the city are beach breaks or rocky [...]
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Saturday, March 27th, 2010
Springtime sun!
SURF: 3-4 ft + waist to shoulder high occ. 5 ft. This morning’s dawn patrol: Clean, glassy lines with workable inside sections. Offshore wind with sets running shoulder-head high. After yesterday’s jumbled surf and worn out arms trying to catch it, I decided to take a few more laps at Linda Mar. Soft waves on [...]
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Friday, March 26th, 2010
Jumbled, rocky morning
SURF: Waist to Shoulder high. VERY Disorganized. Choppy, sloppy, and an all around mess. Gear: 10’6. Having finally recovered from the weekend and convinced by my friend’s stoke from the day before, I hit Linda Mar for a morning session. The clean organized waves he’d caught the day before were messy, nearly uncatchable and wildly [...]
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Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Self Imposed Skunking
SURF: 3-5ft, inconsistent, steeper than yesterday, much more closed out. Gear: 7’4 and 8’3 Petty With the size and steepness building for Sunday, I decided to go back to the 7’4. I paddled around, I didn’t catch anything. I saw a large crab floating around. I didn’t catch anything. I switched to the 8’3 and [...]
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Saturday, March 20th, 2010
Mellow longboard day with a 10’6
SURF: 2-4ft, very mellow, very clean. Long period small south-southwest swell. Gear: 10’6 A perfect longboard day spent on a shortboard is just cruel. A day like today is when longboards can really shine. They can catch even the smallest waves and float down the line like it’s nothing. With the Stewart still off being [...]
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Friday, March 19th, 2010
Sunny Morning for the 7’4
SURF: Waist to Shoulder high waves. Fairly clean, but a little swamped with the tide. Gear: 7’4. With the Stewart in the shop being patched up, the 7’4 was a good choice for a little paddle practice. The waves cooperated enough that I could paddle out without too much trouble, but still get into position [...]
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Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Shifting Sands at Cowells
Photo by Cynthia SURF: 1-3ft. Light winds. Warm and sunny. Gear: 9’4 Stewart, 8’3 Petty The winter has done some strange things here in Norther California. A giant chunk of Sloat is missing and a new beach seems to have appeared smack in the middle of Cowells. The spot where I picked off wave after [...]
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Charging Snow
Another weekend up in Tahoe. Ahh mountains. I decided this weekend to work on my charge. When my life feels out of control, I hold back when I surf. I get scared of steep waves, I don’t like speed. I have more experience skiing than surfing and took the opportunity to get my charge back. [...]
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Sunset to Snow
Surf: 2-4ft, clean, inconsistent. Dark. After Tuesdays bigger wave morning, I was pretty excited to hear the swell was dying down. At high tide the waves were mushy. It was an easy paddle with lots of sprinting for mushy waves. I wound up doing a fair amount of kooky riding, trying to make bottom turns [...]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Paddle Out in the Storm
Surf: 4-10ft, 20s period. Raining, Windy. Gear: RipCurl G-Bomb and 7’4 roundtail. We’ve had storm after storm the last few months. I’ve watched the buoys spike, heard the rain pounding away at my windows, and grumbled about how it was soo big and too rough to go out. I had a new wetsuit and a [...]
