Finally a break from the wind...been pretty much a mess up there in San Mateo county spots for the last couple weeks. At least I have Santa Cruz to maintain my sanity, for those cool City kids it's been a tough run. Anyways we've got a bit of a window of opportunity now and through the rest of the week, so got out there and made the most of it along with the rest of the Linda Mar regulars...
Surf wasn't anything to get overly excited about, but at least it was surfable. Ramin and I got some fun ones to start a bit north of the showers, I paddled a bit more north thinking it might be better, it wasn't, so moved back to spot 1 and picked off a few more...some decent lefts, one nice right that I got dropped in on, all in all pretty fun. Pretty soft and mushy shoulders w/ the high tide but what are ya gonna do...still fun out there. Good for the fish. Ramin was ripping on his new 5'11, great board for him, the skinny little fella that he is.
For context, here's the numbers as they are reported right now on the Stokemaster stoke console:
Swell Height:
6 ft holding
Swell Directions:
Most energy from NW(322), with NW(313) and WNW(300)
Swell Period:
7 sec descreasing
Wind:
14 Kt from NNW(330) Gust: 16 Kt
Plus: High tide was at 7:21 AM, 3.83 ft.
All that translates to: soft mushy but workable shoulders, chest to head high, maybe slightly larger on the biggest of the closeout sets. Add in beautiful blue skies, what felt like nearly 80 degree weather as soon as I woke up at 6 AM, and you got a good morning.
Again, more pictures. Are more pictures good, even if the pictures are bad? Probably. Yes. Whatever.
(picture from my go-to LM surf-check cam, a mom and pop operation, drop em a couple bucks!)
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1 comment:
i don't know if i would ever describe myself as "ripping", but thanks for the cameo. tomorrow morning 6am, let's hope it's good. later kook
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