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Originally Posted by Ottime
soooo good. this morning was definitely that. can't stop thinking about it. the drops and top to bottom rail-ers were just so automatic.....perfect.....effortless.........Quote:
And that river mouth can get soooo good. Especially off season when there are not 500 beckies in the line up
tomorrow morning cannot come soon enough:)
rog
hard offshore winds last night put a beatdown on yesterdays perfection. but if there was still a wave to drive for i knew i could find it. OGT it would be yet again. the place just seems to channel any lil bit of energy thats left. barely gutless knee high in york was consistent thigh to occ waist with a lil bit o zip. was stoked to try out the new mini in smaller surf to see just how versatile the board is. swapped out the thruster setup for quad and left the leash in the car. man o man is the mini driver fun! crazy easy get up and go for a sub 28 liter board. amazing drive. definitely do not need the kechele anymore. mini=one board quiver:D.
sunday is looking fun, hopefully:)
rog
ya, my boys have been getting out (in their 4/3's!) and it's been big for them.
nice that you're enjoying that firewire. sweet little boards they are.
waiting for the trunk weather...
nice 1.5 hour LB session last night. Foggy, glassy, uncrowded, ankle high with one nice waist high "bomb" ;)
Regardless, caught everything I could to just work the lungs and arms. Was pretty worked after that much empty surf. Hoping to find some OK sized surf this weekend, but not looking great. Going to Mammoth next weekend so we should be getting another swell then
the firewire feels so intuitive. nice flex and pop like a good poly, but waaaaaay more durable without added weight. i may just get a full year outta this one:rolleyes2Quote:
Originally Posted by strawjack
yer boyz woulda been chilled this am. 17 degrees F for the 8am paddleout with slushy shore and 23 degrees at 930 when i got out. such a gorgeous morning tho. clear bluebird skies, perfect light offshores, and empty lil ripper zippers to enjoy:)
think i'm headed to ft pierce fla for my vaca in early april. need me some warm weather and it'll be a wicked cheap trip.
rog
I don't miss slush forming between the jetty rocks. But snow on the beach is always pretty.
Jtran, look for a good combo spot. Harvest Buoy showing 3.4@17 from 310 and 1.7@17 from 200. That could put together some head high surf at the right spots, even though that nw is kind of steep for y'all. I'm hoping to get out this afternoon as long as the winds don't fuck it up. Been a lot of that going on recently. Must be gettin close to spring.
As far a board flex goes, I notice a difference with the epoxy. It took me a bit if time to notice it, or at least be able to figure out how it was different, as the general foil shape was new to me as well. Basically, it is stiffer. Less forgiving. I really noticed it when I pulled off a wave that was breaking right on the reef. As I crossed the lip, the board was so rigid, the wave drove my knee into my chin. Hard. OTOH, when properly ridden, it seems to get a lot more drive coming back off a carve.
Surfline is calling HB pier 2-4, and Newport 2-3. That's not much, but it is surfable. I'm going to Baldy today, but should be on it tomorrow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ottime
Kinda fun looking nw windswell yesterday. Still sick from last week so spent time on the beach with my kids.
Seems a bit of South wind today, swell probably dropped some. Might go catch a corner behind some kelp beds in a couple hours, hoping to clear up the sinus' and some chest congestion. Low expectations.
Yeah, Saturday was better than expected. As was Friday night.
Sat morning I drove north in hopes if a certain slab or two working. Both I checke had issues, and time was short, so I headed back to my realizable point. Still, I know somewhere had stellar waves. The slightly OH sucked out on a reef shacked up type.
Alas, the point was fun. After 50 minutes I had to rad out and get to a bday party. That finished at noon thirty and the winds were not yet really up so I heade back with the 6'0" and the Costco foamy.
The parking lot had no wind and it was warm. On the walk to the cliffs, I felt a breeze in a valley about 100 yards from the lookout. As I crested, I felt the 20 knot cross shore. The point was ripped up, waist to chest high pseudo waves. So I paddled out with the foamy. After four waves, I got sick of trying to grip my turns with the bobby like folding plank, so I headed in to switch boards, much to the chagrin of the college kids trying to fuck on the beach. Turns out, even in bumped out, blown out, weak disorganized point surf, I prefer my new board. Had fun for another hour.
Nice, new board sounds fun.
Got some ok waves today, stayed nice and glassy behind the kelp up until we got out around 1pm. Just me and a buddy solo until the end of the session, surfing some fun little left and right nugs about chest high or so. Couple spring breakers from Florida worked their way onto the peak at the end. Nice set broke outside them and came right to me, smoking little left with an inside cover up before unloading on the closeout section. Got a room with a view to rinse cycle, nothing epic but enough to make me smile.
day late report.
got out yesterday am at the OGT. knew it would be tiny so i brought the gf's 8'2 epoxy longboard and of course the new 5'10 mini driver. hadn't paddled a board over 5'10 in eons and forgot how easy it was to slide into knee/thigh waves. got some fun ones but grew tired of that much foam. went and grabbed the mini and was yet again amazed at how small of waves i could ride that thing in. my longest right was barely over knee high and once i popped up i was able to generate plenty of speed/drive to get me goin and go rail to rail to the end.
gorgeous morning with nobody else out and fun lil waves. brought the kechele to the shop and put it up for sale. back to one board for me:)
got another big snow event (i'm so fucking sick of snow) that should generate some fun surf for wednesday once the winds shift. weekend is looking promising as well.
rog
tough to be a surfer/skier round here. snow brings surf and we've had a shit ton of snow this winter. with the surf one mile away, and the mtns 50-100 miles away, the surf usually always wins. today was no exception.
typical maine winter morning. overhead, clean, lots of water moving, and just me out all morning. kinda lonely but never a complaint from me having over a mile of shoreline all to myself.
buoy was at 10 + feet @ 10/11 seconds and coming dead on. fun drops, but definitely a bit racey and closey. lot's of drops to a few pumps and carves to off the back so as to not get caught inside. the one time i got caught inside i got worked harder than i have since living on the cape many years ago. miss timed a duckdive on a very long set of set waves and had the board completely torn from my grasp and put right into the spin cycle. there's a bar formed right now that is just brutal with a nice rip that doesn't allow you to get anywhere. good stuff:D. swallowed a bit of water, lost my breath a bit, and finally just turned tail to the beach and walked up to an easier paddleout spot. got right out, but had to be at work so i took off on a nice one and ended the sesh in more proper fashion.
good morning:)
rog
Nice work fellas, looks like everyone has been having fun in the sun (except for Rog up in cold ass NH :wink: ).
So Highanxiety and I decided to try & pull off the ski/surf in the same day yesterday... we toured Earthquake Dome in Mammoth @ sunrise and then hit the road to get down to San Clemente for an afternoon surf.
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California dreamin
Looks fun, I've hit SoCal skiing and then surfing later but not the Sierra, that's some effort.
Thursday evening was fun NW windswell and empty, fun. Yesterday was more NW windswell but little crowded.
Today was crowded but some windswell and SW combo, nothing great but managed to hook nice backside on the wave in. Two semi vertical backside snaps off the lip, the board making that popping sound off the lip is music to my ears. It energized me to really lay into the second turn, smacked the lip and hook the board back under me to ride out, felt good. Backside turns are high on the fun list.
I almost never get to surf frontside, so I gotta love that backside.
I've done a dawn patrol for good surf, followed by afternoon corn at the resort. It is always fun to put in that effort. Nice work. I especially like the two hand plant pics. Cool style points for pullin it off in both snow and surf.
I thought he was levitating
Lot of lefts in SD so it's easy to get lazy and surf frontside a lot. Finally starting to get a good flowing backside turn and come out of it with speed and straight into the next turn. I need that every wave, feels good.
Wow.
The best day I have had this winter. Went down to Trestles, and rotated between Barbedwires and southern Cottons. Several feet overhead, clean, and lined up. The should high in-betweeners were really fun, and the big sets had very good shape.
Cottons was insane, but super crowded, so I went to barbed/south cottons. The lefts were wrapping in like it was summer, and I got a couple of corners that went for 100+ yards. Sunday 3/24 is easily the best day I have had this winter. I hope everyone else was as lucky as I was.
Nice, I figured that part of the coast line was digging the south swells.
Still fun today, much less crowded. Lucked out on a nice backside wave that begged to be smacked. It was one of the nicer sets and the pack watched on wondering where that peak came from, lucky me.
Sessions have been a blur since thursday but I think the best turn happened today. Caught a bowling left off the peak and beat the section frontside, I brought it straight to the top off the bottom turn. Felt the board smack the lip and then releasing, I started to feel the float as the board came off and above the top of the lip. Finished the turn mid air as I came down in the flats, somehow stuck it and road out. I'll have that turn on rewind for a few days
figures as we get a good SSW I go to Mammoth. Oh well, finally got some great Mammoth windbuff on the upper mountain. I'll post about that elsewhere though ;)
Mid/end of last week I had several sessions with the 6 3. Getting much more comfortable paddling, kinda more comfortable duck diving, and finally catching some consistent rides when I paddle into waves, though I haven't had anything stand out yet as the waves kept shutting down on me.
Going out again this PM, most likely with the shotboard. Hopefully can catch some leftover SSW sets around here.
glassy, chest high in Carlsbad yesterday PM. Some good sets still rolling through. Got 2 real good lefts on the 6 3 and 3-4 other so so waves. Nice to be on waves that held up enough to feel the turny-ness of the board. Got flipped around on a couple drops that were a bit too steep and/or closed out for my skill on that board, and got stuck in the washing machine at one point, but was able to get out of it eventually.
Been having tons of fun on the shorter board. Looks like swell will be dropping off this week but hopefully enough waves to keep me off the LB.
There's still a few corners rolling through right now, glassy and empty.
small boards rule for small surf. they actually fit in the wave. glad yer having fun!Quote:
Originally Posted by jtran10
been a few dayz, but this am was fun as hell at york beach. had the 5'10 mini d quad on rail on the fun waist/chest ne a-frame windswell coming in. sooo much fun. lefts/rights on demand. just me and a co-worker out. i have started to invite folks so i don't have to have the whole coastline to myself every day:D
should be more fun to be had when i get outta these work meetings tomorrow afternoon. sux to be missing waves tomorrow. if only these meetings weren't 2 hour inland:(
rog
So.....I went to Catalina Island to backpack from Two Harbors to Catalina, and to my surprise we passed empty beach after beach along the way. Oh, and did I mention it was firing!
Check it....
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Shark Harbor
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Ben Weston beach, had the biggest and most consistent surf
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If I only had a surfboard instead of a backpack.....:rolleyes2
I'm actually more shocked there were people on it. Next time bring your boar as well. It's not that hard to strap a 6' across the back of the pack. I've scored some of my favorite surf at the end of a ten mile hike.
I'd like to surf the islands some day. That and the ranch.