Sunday, August 29th, 2010
Santa Cruz Friday
Surf: Knee-Chest high, mostly in the knee-waist high range. Clean with long waits between sets. I’ve been wanting to sneak down to SC on a weekday for a while. Thursday I sent ou over a thousand pages of work to be proofed and reviewed by the client so Aaron and I took advantage of his [...]
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Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Indicators and Steamer Lane
Surf: This morning’s dawn patrol: Mainly knee-waist high with some inconsistent + sets. Conditions are clean and glassy, but expect a solid wait between waves. Less tide helps. Gear: 9’0 Yup, small and inconsistent in Santa Cruz. With warm sun, temperatures in the 80′s and almost no one out, I really wasn’t complaining about the [...]
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Saturday, May 29th, 2010
Small Wave Holiday
Surf: 1-3ft. Inconsistent but clean. Warm sun, low winds, blue water. Sunny and warm down in SC. Small waves, relatively small crowd given it’s a holiday, and lots of kelp. I got one very dramatic over the nose of the board pitch when I came to a dead stop mid wave on a big clump [...]
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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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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, 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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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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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
One more Sunset Sesh before Daylight Savings
SURF: 1-3ft. Inconsistent, but clean. Headed back down to Santa Cruz with Luke and Cynthia to get in one last sunset session before the time changes. Waves were pretty inconsistent, but the sunset was beautiful and the moonlight on the waves made the couple of waves I did catch something special. Stealing these pics from [...]
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Sunset in Santa Cruz
I forgot to snap a pic so I snagged one on flickr from photographer chrisrfox SURF: 4-5 ft. shoulder to head high with occasional 6 ft. and good conditions. PM REGIONAL OVERVIEW: Mostly-clean, good surf prevails this afternoon as WNW and SW swells ease. Average breaks have knee-waist-chest high+ surf, while top exposures are running [...]
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Surfing in Santa Cruz
Conditions: 2-4 ft. + – knee to shoulder high and fair+ conditions. Gear: 8’6″ NSP Epoxy. After a year+ living in San Fran, I still hadn’t managed to get down to Santa Cruz. This weekend a nice, mellow swell and some warm weather came in so I figured it was time to try out a [...]
