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Nels · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:25 pm Post subject: July Sneaker South Swell

I hate to waste space, but I was wondering: who else on the West Coast has been able to take advantage of this sneaker south swell?

I finally just locked the weasels in the microwave Thursday afternoon and trunked it in the Ventura area. The sun was out, the water that nice funky green/brown red tide color, the waves coming in with enough of an angle to give a thrill...not enough to make riding the mat worthwhile but plenty for the mini paipo, would have been better on the unfinished project in the garage...

Since I haven't been going to downtown L.A. lately I haven't seen Birdie's breaks, but they should have been working. I am told close to one out of every 17 residents of the "6 county area" was at County Line Thursday morning, and all the rest at Zuma. Summertime...

Nels · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:09 pm Post subject:

Pardon my manners... the weasels seem to be chasing me today. Didn't mean to dis-include the rest of the world - anybody in the East or Gulf or Hawaii or the rest of the world getting any waves? Doc? Jon? Rod? It's July 9 and time to make hay, or something...

rodndtube · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 12:55 pm Post subject:

stormseeker · Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: Location: CA, SF Bay Area

The Point Reyes CDIP buoy was reading 2.1 feet (backs) at 17 sec. early this morning and now shows 2.5 at 14 sec. That translates into shoulder high plus wave faces at SW facing locations here in the Golden Gate National Rec Area. There were inconsistent sets in that height range on the Steamer Lane cam in Santa Cruz.

I've opted to work on some household projects this weekend in the hope that yesterday's storm SSE of New Zealand will provide a swell late next weekend.

rodndtube · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 2:14 pm Post subject:

Our local buoy, just off Delaware Bay, is reporting 2' at 5 sec which yield knee minus high slush, confirmed by the local web cams. Mad

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stormseeker · Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: Location: CA, SF Bay Area

What a difference the interval makes, eh?

Consolations on the slow start to the season back East. There hasn't been any noteworthy tropical activity in the East Pacific. Thankfully, the beginning of the Southern hemi season was in fine form with four overhead+ swells. But it's been over a month since the last one hit.

http://www.mavsurfer.com/photos/image_photo/montg_03_04_06/

With the opening of "Riding Giants" next Friday, I hope it won't be a case of "all stoked up with no place to glide."

tumak · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 3:17 pm Post subject:

Today in South Brevard County, FL (Patrick AFB) it was very small at Picnic Tables...but I noticed a sizeable crowd down south at Officers' Club. Packed up the paipos and pulled in down there to take a look. The bottom was right, and the waves were in the thigh-high range with probably about 50 longboarders interweaving amongst one another, and two shortboarders doing their absolute best to get the longboarders PO'd. It would have been really fun on a paipo...but NO WAY with that crowd. It's really strange how that spot has one hot zone, and nothing else will be happening on the whole coast.
Word has it there might be a swell in about 4 days...the tropics are starting to heat up a little. Our June was really quite good, with lots of shoulder-high days...many fun paipo waves! July has been very weak...just a few waves on the 4th. Pretty soon we'll start getting tropical waves coming through the Bahamas...SURF!...with blistering parking lots, boardwalks, and sand...

Poobah · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 5:02 pm Post subject:

Rather small, but fun here today. A water temp snapshot could be interesting. What was the water temp at your local break today, whether or not you got wet? The sign at the Ocean Beach (San Diego) lifeguard tower read 68 degrees today, and my personal scrotometer gave a similar temp reading.

baidarka · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 10:15 pm Post subject:

West 3 feet @ 13 seconds
Water Temp. a balmy 58 degrees. Warm.

No saltwater frolicking for awhile; it's harvest time in my field 0-flowers.

kage · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 10:16 pm Post subject:

Junky and kind of crumbly Thursday and Friday at the Lane but not bad this morning(Sat.). More friends than I would normally like to see, but what can you do. Drove a little up the coast to 3 and 4 mile, not bad.

Jon Davey · Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: Location: Cornwall, U.K

We haven't had much in the way of shapely waves here in Cornwall for a number of days; what we have seen has been mainly on-shore storm driven chop as opposed to as decent ground swell. There's been some quite unseasonable weather with a storm on Wednesday night - trees uprooted, localized flooding etc. In between these episodes it's mainly been a crumbly couple of foot. On the vaguely surfable days there's usually about 900 longboarders in the water - God bless 'em!