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The last day of March 2011 turned out to be very bright, very warm, and without a lot of wind. In other words, a good day for Ocean Beach! Too bad the swell was wack, all torn up with windswell and short period slop. There was the usual (for these conditions) four to seven lines [...]
Continue reading about 3/31/2011 Ocean Beach – wimpy whitewater
Walter and I headed off to Marin for the day to check out Muir Beach. Since Mavericks was firing, and it was a Friday, Bolinas would be the only other place surfable, but it would have been packed (i.e., Friday). We didn’t fool around. We just packed the guns, Parmenter 7/9 Aleutian Juice for me, [...]
Continue reading about Muir Beach 2/13/2010 Ugly 6′-8′ close outs
Walter was on one of his Fabulous Furlough Fridays, and Jee decided surfing was for her, so it’s off to Bolinas for an afternoon. The weather was great… early on. After meeting up at the Dean’s IGA in Mill Valley, we piled into a little car with a stack of big boards, and roared over [...]
Continue reading about Bolinas 1/29/2010: Double Over-Ankle and Deadly
It was big yesterday at Sloat. 11-13 on the outer bar, and breaking way, way out near the shipping channel. Several people were out there. When it starts to get really big, it breaks so far out, it’s hard to judge the size. Unless someone catches a wave… then you can see big it is [...]
Continue reading about Sloat 12/26/2009: Double-O and Shacked
I have this Taylor 8/4 gun I bought for $200 at Aqua Surf shop back in February or March 2009. It’s in immaculate condition: white, 2-3 pressure dings on the deck, no cracks anywhere. Very nice tapered pintail. I have a picture somewhere, I’ll post it later. In any case, I had not been in [...]
Continue reading about Sloat 11/29/2009: Taylor 8/4 Gets Whitewashed
Another great day at the beach! There’s a nice south swell shutting down right now. I didn’t surf over the weekend. I did go out to Sloat and watch it breaking clean at 6-8′ and just felt sick that I didn’t bring a board. But Monday after a big weekend is always mellow. All the [...]
Continue reading about Bolinas 7/27/2009: 2-4′ in the channel
Great day at Sloat on Sunday morning. Rolled into the south lot around 10am. Sunny, puffy onshore wind, not quite glassy, but close. Tide incoming(?) around 3-4 feet. Swell supposedly around 7 feet at 10 seconds. Very peaky, lots of waves, but a small cross-cutting swell made for a lot of mushouts. The outer bar [...]
Continue reading about Ocean Beach 6/28/2009 Classic summer conditions: peaky, lots of waves
Superb day at Bolinas yesterday. Of course, being a Saturday, with 2-3′ south swell coming in at 16 seconds and the starting from 0 and incoming tide and the sun out, it was crowded. Did I mention the light, nearly offshore breeze? That too. And that water was warm? Outflow from Bolinas lagoon stores up [...]
Just spent a couple hours at at OB late morning. Superb! Period was short enough with the right tide that it was peaking and wedging all over. And the outer bar was working with a nice shoulder high longboard wave. Worked for me. Had the 9/0 SF Surf Shop shaped by John Schultz. That board [...]
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