Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Wild Wildlife
Surf: Knee-Waist High. Junky. Pretty low expectations once again exceeded. Spent about 4 hours paddling around catching waves here and there, running in to friends. In the last hour or so of the session I was looking out to sea and saw a pretty big something jump pretty far away from us. Something big with [...]
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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 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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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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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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Friday, August 28th, 2009
Watching from the Beach
Surf: 3-5 ft. waist to head high and fair-good conditions. PM REGIONAL OVERVIEW: Mix of old Southern Hemi swell and new/building NW swell on offer this afternoon. Better breaks have waist-chest-shoulder high+ surf, while top exposures are pulling in head head high+ sets at times. Conditions are still clean, with most spots seeing scattered peaks, [...]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Back in Pacifica
Conditions: 1-3ft. Glassy, peaky lines with soft/mushy corners looking semi-workable to the beach. The mellow little waves followed me home! Sure it looked pretty flat out there, but I got in some nice long rides on little waves. Jamie and I found a nice spot that, with a LOT of patience, set us up for [...]
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
Good rides!
SURF: 1-3 ft ankle to waist high and poor+ conditions. This morning’s dawn patrol: Weak, scattered peaks, with soft, semi-workable little corners on offer. Wow. Today was a small, clean little day. It looked pretty unassuming from the beach, but man did I have fun. The waves were pretty easy to catch and gave some [...]
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Sea lions!
SURF: 2-3 ft.+ knee to chest high with occasional 4 ft. and fair conditions. This morning’s dawn patrol: Mostly walled up lines with inside shoulders that are open and workable, but a little soft and crumbly. Clean conditions. Headed out early for another dawn patrol. Short swell period made a tough paddle out. Weather was [...]
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
Fun, warm, sunny day. Now with whales!
REGIONAL OVERVIEW: The surf is looking fun this afternoon as NW swell and S Southern Hemi energy back out. Better breaks are still seeing knee-waist-chest high waves with some shoulder high+ sets making it through standouts. Conditions remain clean this afternoon, with some fun, peaky surf on tap with racy/lined-up corners, especially through the inside. [...]
