E's Surf Report: blowy and ragged..

the fog and onshores rolled in yesterday afternoon and blew through the night.
the morning's sea-surface struggles with tattered, wind-swept confusion.
The powerful, super-enjoyable windswell that blessed our coast all weekend fades and diminishes.

SF buoy at 3.6ft, 8seconds.

winds around 10mph out of the SW.

5ft high tide around 3pm

i haven't checked Pacifica in about a week but with the afternoon high tide you might find waves if the wind stays out of the south?

As many/most of you know, Friday and Saturday "brought the mutha fuckin ruckus". Friday afternoon Bagel and i jettisoned home and then spent about 2 hours hunting down pockets and pits and ramps and drops. I scored a few handfuls of ledgy, racing waves but i struggled to set up any mcneuvers. The high-performance, throaty waves offered many chances for a groaning lip-bash or a silky barrel set-up.. But for some reason i found myself pumping and racing instead of bottom-turning and bashing.. Bagel, on the other hand.. scored 3 barrels and one or two or six above-the-lip re-entries. He took off on this one thicky, double-up right that was obviously going to close-out.. I was thinking to myself, "Oooo.. that's gonna hurt" while he was pulling in.. A minute later he paddles back out and nonchalantly informs that he just had a quaint little tea-party in the green room. Had time to cook crimpets and talk about Heideggerian philosophy with his imaginary friends... aka.. long barrel ride..

The waves kept coming.. one after another after another. I loved the constant barrage of swell lines. Forcing you to constantly decipher and predict likely outcomes.. forcing you to hunt down power-centers and double-ups.

Saturday more of the same.. i checked the middle of the beach in the morning and shit was actually really big and scary.. It seems like this windswell peaked on saturday morning.. I planned to find more sheltered surf for a saturday arvo seshy but skated down to the beach for a cursury glance around 5:30 and conditions were immaculately glassy and clean. Powerful, head-high dredging waves loping in and sucking off the shallow sandbars. Crystal-clear, sunny, warm beach day with tons of folks frolicking on the sand.

anyhoo.. there is a big tropical strom south of baja.. might be too steep for us but it'll definitely generate some south-swell energy. The NW windswell is supposed to persist.. though it'll be pretty small.. hope for mellow morning winds and we might score..

Here are a few pics that Jake took on his east-coast Fabian Ho-down.
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