E's Surf Report: weak but rideable... at lindy

OB big but probably surfable this morning when i checked it at 6:45.. kinda junky at sloat but 2nd-lot-sloat a little cleaner. 6.5ft high tide around 7am.. After surfing some serious waves this weekend i was on the lookout for some mellowness.. and with the super high tide... why not cruise down to Lindy!.. so i did.. If i had more time i would have checked Sharp Park and Gazebos.. i saw some promising glimpses from the highway. but.. Onward to Schmlindy.. pretty flat for the most part, with a three wave set every few minutes.. a pack of 8 or 10 sat right in front of the showers, as a right flirted with working along the sandbar there.. i paddled out a little further north.. would rather have my own space then battle for something *maybe* a little better. I made a few steep drops on set-wave closeouts and enjoyed one long right, where i made the close-out drop, but then cruised in the white-water for a second, then pumped and worked the wave into the inside reform, where i was able to maneuver a few turns.

i got slammed by the shorebreak on my way in.. i still have sand in my ears and in my hair..

anyway.. wind is blowing offshore now but i heard that it's supposed to come from the NW later today!! that would suck.. we haven't seen onshores around here in months! (knock on wood)... think May and imagine saying that.. I love it in May and June when you can barely remember a day without howling NW onshores.. ugg..

kewl.. hope y'all got some.. anyone have crazy weekend tales?

here's an email my friend Dan sent me about a session he had at Mavericks the other day.. enjoy!

Hey guys, it's been a while since you got one of these. Mav's hasn't broke clean that much this year. I missed jan 5th cause low tide was in the afternoon, and i had to work (I didn't call in sick cause i knew it was going to break again a couple days later). Then the next day, I got the flu and was like 50 percent when it broke again on the 7th.
Anyway, finally i got another day today. Really clean, fun size. 10 guys out early then almost 20 by the time i went in. I saw some new faces in the lineup today, and talked to the guy who is riding Ludwig's first gun shaped for mavs. He's from malibu, but has driven up here twice this year for mavs days.
The period was pretty long today, steep drops, and the barrel was fully
working - see through windows. I got two waves early on before it got crowded. One of them was a macker. On the way back out from the inside
channel, i got swatted by a really wide swinging set. Couldn't believe it.
Score 2-1. My leash got stretched another five feet or so.

Highlights/Drama:
-Saw a guy go down hard, then get sucked up and over the falls, and lost his board.
-Saw a goofy-footer take off way back in the bowl on a bomb. Board
side-ways near the bottom, lip pouring over, fins sliding out, about to go
down for the count. 3 of us started cheering the crash when some how he
pulled it!!! We were like yeeaahhh!!! Ohhhhh, How the #$%# did he
make that? Unbelievable!!!! It would have been the highlight of any mav
video. Guess the movies don't get everything.
-Saw a japanese guy that i've never seen before get nothing for like 2
hours, scratch anytime a wave game in even though he didn't need to. then
finally take off on a medium one, and ate it. As i was going over the next
wave looking back, i could still see his board tombstoning. Two wave hold down.
-Biggest set of the day came in. Full scratch, no takers, i barely made it over. After the spray cleared two broken boards, and two guys swimming. A $1,000 dollar wave. Guess who was one of them, that same asian guy! That sucks!!! Here is how his session went ... paddle out, sit for 2 hours, finally get a wave, eat it, 2 wave hold down, paddle back out, break his board, swim in. Can't get worse than that without getting injured!
-Mav's claimed 3 boards that i know of while i was out.

Anyway, i missed two other really good bombs cause someone paddled for them, and pulled back just after i needed to fully commit. Could have gone
really late, but i didn't want to end up like the japanese guy. Got another wave
after a little while and rode it all the way in. Final score 3-1, although the one point scored by mavs was like half a point. It was on the third section on the inside. Great session, beautiful day, wish i could've gotten more waves, but i had to get to work.