E's Surf Report

i heard back in the day, right after Pearl Harbor all those houses on west cliff drive were going for like 100/500$ or something as everyone was all paranoid of getting attacked.

good waves this weekend for me. smaller and more attitude Saturday. Sunday bigger and less attitide. weird.

surfed for a bit with christian and his lady on saturday who were both killing it.

i surfed spazzzz lane on sunday. really fun. pushing 5-6' overhead on the biggest sets, kinda slow and mushy. overall pretty damn fun. light crowd up at the slot, or at least i think thats what they call it by jump off. middle peak was showing solid overhead but a little shifty and inconsistent with the really nice clean up set every 20 min or so.

friday afternoon i had a good interview for a new job (fingers crossed) and was so amped afterwards i paddled out in completely blown out kelly's. 'twas kinda fun just cuz i was extremely energetic and spastic out there. saturday i was hung over and not amped to surf but sunday i got up early and surfed the sloat shorebreak for like 2.5 hours by myself. not very good but if you happened to be in the right spot there were some sick little barrels to be had. on my way home the north end looked really fun, much better than it did earlier.

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Moved a ton and a half of broken Concrete from the back yard to the Dump over the weekend (I have the tear-weight receipts to prove it). Saturday looked doable out front around noon, but I was trying to get the second load finished to get it to the dump before 4:30. Should have surfed. My Sunday Dawn Patrol was to Tunnel Road with 3/4 ton in my non-3/4 ton Toyota Pick-up. Man, things were sure squishy on on the drive there.

Too unruly once I got back for the tide switch. Saw one guy get a wave and get out around noon. Looked possible but I was pretty beat. I continue to be beat this morning.

OB: Mmmm, slop! Medium/light velocity onshores of the drizzly wet grey variety. All wave shapes, sizes from waist - OH represented up and down the beach or all at once in the same spot, and water certainly pushing around in all directions, hell we probably have some east to west bound waves too. Seeing a couple of almost-sorta-maybe mushy peaks on the outside, they look almost sorta surfable if you're desperate to get out and paddle like mad to find the takeoff point. Mushy predominant w/tide, earlier it was much more closed out. Of course there are ALWAYS closeouts too. Might be able to dodge n' weave the inside chaos and find some rides - but my guess is 6 closeouts or lurchers on the head for every drop you luck into. Since I didn't surf this weekend and can't drive out today, have seriously considered chunky monkeying the farther inside here, but it's looking so chaotic even this charlie brown optimist doesn't know if it's going to happen. Hm.

Happy slurfing,

surfed one of the nearby marin breaks on fri & sat, south was still working up there, then wound up in the thick of it in eastern cruzland on sun. nice conditions, but so many heads that i had to resort to longboarding to get my share. blakestah notes the possibility of decent surf/conditions yet again at ob later this week, can't believe this springtime streak - best ever?

Got some fine local surf early sat am until about 11:00am. Pays to scramble & hunt.

Will takethissitedown step up to real dialogue or become the sniper? Perhaps a collection for a dictionary gift sent his way?

10.5 was real crap, watched it with the better half & some of her friends. Why such fabricated fret crap when the country faces real crisis?

The kitten pic is great. I like this one too:

Pray for more unseasonable weather!

crap. just check this link for a fine chuckle:

what the hell?

www.knuckerbooks.com/hellokitty.html

too many cats in this world anyway! got two of the insouciant buggers myself. funny pics!

Saw a nameless spot approaching all-time this weekend. Witnessed a guy score serious shack-time with a three-or-four second, fully covered-up, in-and-out barrel. He was so deep that even the nose of his board disappeared. Probably the sickest ride I've ever seen at this usually fairly mushy spot. Pipeline comes to Northern California?!

Surfpulse cam haters unite!

Having techical difficulties with the cam?
Why, yes I am- it exists and exposes our surfspot to the landlocked tranny masses!

Let's voice our opinion to surpulse and tell them what we really think!
Take down your cam or face the consequenses!
Please email surfpulse today at

cam@surfpulse.com

things have been so strange around here lately...

here's a little something on-topic...i hope some of you all scored this weekend!

- had one of my best OB sessions ever on saturday. it, of course, ended with a thorough drubbing. but the session totally had my heart soaring. shape was still great, loved the size...it was just one of those days when things kinda click. i caught waves that i might not have even gone for on other days. yeah! one for the books.

- sunday, i ended up just going for a long drive with my surfboard. up, around, down...just looking. there is something great about that experience alone, and i haven't done it much lately. anyway: i ended up at the carnie, and actually caught some long rides despite the too-strong winds. the wind almost made it suck, but the sun was redeeming...and just when i'd almost bail, another long ride would come along. awesome.

wavewise, probably not all-time. but as for my own abilities: possibly best-ever!

Drove to a certain south-facing area (that got some press here on Friday) both days this weekend: Saturday because the south swell was making it more fun than OB or Sifica looked: plenty of long 4' rides---ahhhhhh. Sunday I went there because it looked too big for me at places exposed to the NW swell. It was still pretty big and kook-challenging, but with gaps that allowed dry-hair paddles (which for me alternated with kook-krusher paddles). I took more rides under the water than on top of it, but got one or two wicked drops that had to be 8' (says the kook---adjust the estimate accordingly), and on one of them I must have done something right by mistake, because I was up for several seconds zoooooming along a right (and going to the right myself, a rare coincidence). Memory's hazy, but I think I was so surprised at going so fast for so long that I jumped off the board in alarm.

friendly - Stoked for ya!
Haven't been in the water myself for a couple of days - I was studying all weekend. Haven't a GOOD session in SEVERAL days (I missed a couple of the best days last week due to familial obligations and personal sloth). Won't get a chance to surf until tomorrow, late arvo. I'm beginning to feel like I do after I've eaten too much junk food - sloppy and slightly toxic.
O.K. - I'll quit my whinin' and go back to work now. Thanks for letting me share.

congrats on scorin' a sweet sesh, friendly!! soooo nice when things just click. klooless...sounds like you had a fun sesh too. very nice!

as for me...scored a surprisingly fun sesh in marginal conditions on Saturday (low expectations likely helped ; ). didn't get out Sunday as at the dp hour i was losing the last of my money on the blackjack tables in Vegas. ahhh....the city-of-sin....always a good time!

On Sat I sat and debated on if I should go out, about noon. I watched for 20 minutes and saw it clean up a little fun knee to waist high waves. I decided to give it a go on the egg. By the time I waxed er up and got the suit on it was head high and good, replaced the egg with my short board and had a good ol time.

interesting article, it always pisses me off when i see people leaving their fires burning, or burning questionable material. i don't think outlawing fires on the beach will be much of a deterrent, given that it's one thing to write the law and another to enforce it. i wonder if the city installed fire rings if that would help control the problem?

Friendly, good work on the seshies~!

J, I agree with the fire rings. I always thought it would be cool to have a huge bonfire out at the beach but then every morning I walk out there and "almost" step on some nails, I think twice about it.

Overall, the beach does need more patroling, especially when we have a string of warm, sunny days. Busted 40 oz bottles, wood still burning out in the morning, murders, gangs....

What will happen next?

cams...cellphones, et al...

what is the deal with the cam haters?
sure they MIGHT might show a local
break that you love BUT they don't name names
and they save a lot of wasted trips in the car.

and that is a LOT of gas....lots of gas.

maybe we should all look at how to NOT
impact the places we surf more closely....less bonfires
less driving......for all the preening of the earth
friendly nature of surfing.....ponder it ....

the next time you ride your toxic resin coated board
in your suit of petro-chemicals
brought to the beach in a fossil fuel burning vehicle.

leave the cameras be. there are much larger
calamities on the planet than someone scoping
your precious waves.

saturday was weird. am: glassy foggy fun. mid am: blown out foggy. mid day: sunny-glassy fun. pm: sunny bigger blown out crap.

i fuckin love this weather. i think its more the drum circle raving wasta's that are having fires on the beach (which seems more contradictory when they dont pick up thier shit) also the gangsta's from daly city, they dont give a fuuck. not so much surfers. surfers in nor cal are way more concious of trash on the beach than most spots up and down the coast. especially here in SF as OB is such a shit hole beach and we have to look at that crap everyday. almost steped on a hypidermic needle a couple of years ago.

ps. i have nothing against drum circle raving wastas. except the repetitive druming, and glow sticks.

i say ok to cams. who cares. and i like seeing if its glassy or not.

Korewin- you and all cam/ cell phone lover trannys from Fresno to Ohio!

You can save gas,lower the impact on our beaches and save the enviornment all at the same time!

STAY AT HOME! You'll be doing us all a favor! The enviornment will thank you!

I'm sure you drive a SUV like all the others!

i like the cams too. i also like driving around and checking spots without cams. the only thing the cam is useful for is checking the surface texture and/or wind chop. it doesnt really show that great a shot of the lineup and if you know where it is, then you can avoid the "cam crowd" and go somewhere else. basically i think the cam is great idea, it focuses the crowd in a a single spot of a 3+ mile beach. and cam hater, that is the easiest spot to check on the whole beach. you need to pick a better battle. like trash and bonfires on the beach. maybe you should fight the park police and ask them to ban beach fires. they cause more problems than anything else.

dp on saturday scored sweet lefts with seals, porpoises, whales, and a couple of strangers. plenty to go around until the wind shut it down.

oh shit, we are back on the anger, hate thing again? can't we just all claim our surf dominination instead.

s.o.s., s.s. sharkbait, is ob still selling sunshine?

hey, thanks you guys. i am still coming down from the weekend, for sure...

and by this time next week, i'll be able to surf anytime i want for almost a month! oh goodness oh goodness me. hee hee! please, may, be something like april. or better. please!

hmmm...that's a big ask of Mother Nature, friendly...but i sure hope she grants it!! ; )

cam(and everything else) hater�i drive a car and i DO
have a cell phone. and if the waves were cooking....
i would NOT call you.

dsx�driving around and looking is good too. just wanted
to remind us all that there is a price for all this surfy fun.

yeah the cam is really best to see if the wind has
runied it or not....

3to5....et al....no anger on this end...just being pragmatic
on a monday....looking at the bright side of life and cameras
and cell phones�they ain't going away and breaking them is
lame. might that be considered an act of terrorism?

pat tillman

willie nelson

HAHAHAHA, i missed his show last time 'round.

Chances are, all the recent ugly hate talk signed off with different aliases is the work of some single sniveling latch-key kid who never got any love from mommy. Hate talk sucks. Please oh please mister webmaster, run an IP trace and call in an airstrike.

hahaha, anonymity makes one bold indeed, i was thinking the same thing.

anybody here ever surfed alaska? i was thinking it would be a sick summer surf trip, with their 24 hour days to be able to surf at 3 am if you wanted to.

I surfed sandy beach in Sitka Alaska, crap. Water was warmer than our winter water and of course the fishing was good.
on another Se island My wife and I climbed a ridge and I could see a a good point firing but it was about a mile away on another island and I couldn't afford the boat ride. But I will go back.

No sunshine report cuz I'm not at OB right now...but speaking of OB goodies I did walk by a gigantic dildo near the beach and Pachinko St. Ugh!

Way to go this weekend everybody, especially Friendly and Klooless. Wooee!

J, Willie is awesome! I caught him in Reno on New Years '00 bringing in the millinium. He was so stoned the entire time, he sang Whiskey River 5 times in an 1.5 hour session. everytime it sucked. When Willie pulls the good ole' USA bandana off his heat, the ladies go NUTS! The guy pulls gravitys for sure.

On the surf cam/cell phone issue, I think I have a better idea. Since I check the surf a lot and I have a gas guzzling SUV, we can work out a little deal here. I say, all you out there in comment-land send me your cell number. Each day I drive to the beach for my DP check, I will conference call from each parking lot w/ conditions/recommendations. This will solve several issues: 1) We can kill the cams, 2) I can surf with nice people, 3) The lineup will only be crowded in one spot leaving other locations "surf-crowd-free", 4) People that used to hate me for getting 13 mile/gallon will start to like me for saving the earth.

This sounds like a win/win for sure!

Now for a nice pic:

That picture is AWESOME! OK, we might need to set the ground rules on those. Ladies, I mean no harm. I am just an admirer.....

Niceness, niceness, niceness. Let's have more. 25 years ago I was a cop and thought it was really fun to tear around at 120 mph or point a gun at some bad guy and send him to prison. After I left, a couple of my friends were killed. So this aggro stuff gets very old, very quickly for me. Enforcement? Been there, done that, and I don't see what it has to do with surfing.

Sorry for preaching to the choir. Surfed the slot on Saturday and had some fun shoulder to head-high waves. Came back on Sunday and the friggin' place was firing. I swear some of the rogue sets were DOH++ (Of course, I was surfing Indicator, and it was big enough for a wimp like me!)

So, here are a couple of shots. The rest are at SurfHumor.com, Photos 10.

kaiser you are a dirty bastard. my favorite picture yet.

but homegirl in the pink bikini need a sandwich and a robe.

damn those SC shots are nice bruce.

You may call me ODB from now on! Check out how much fun the girl in blue is having. She is total NICENESS!

Bruce, those shots are sick!

Bruce, I think I saw you at steamers, 300mm 2.8? I shot there for about 10 minutes but my buddy was screaming at me "lets get on this shit the tides going up!!" Freaking no patience. Surfed another less popular break. I actually think your photos make it look bigger, it was totaly mushy, the lefts were fast and on a few rare sets the rights threw.

i used to think being reincarnated as a dolphin or a bird or something would be cool...now i'm thinking maybe i'd like to be a wall, or a bathing suit...

oink.

Yeah that would be a good thing, a surf tram. In the 80s this guy I surfed with in San Clemente actually tried it. He bought a 3-wheeler and made a trailer w/benches he could tow (up to 7 people) behind it. I shit you not he called the thing Trestles Tram, actually motored the damn thing up and down the trestles path for several months towing paying surfers. Obviously he was jeered and teased mercilessly by the locals (BAN THE TRAM, KOOK-XPRESS, 'go back to disneyland', etc. written in wax everywhere) until shutting it down. You had to admire his guts for trying even if it was a sorta lame idea.

Hey Mexisurf- Yep, that was me with the semi-big glass. But you're wrong (respectfully). It was a long wait, but every now and then a really big set rolled through. Even the old locals took notice. And there were some top-to-bottom bombs at middle peak. Looking at the photos I took, I was disappointed that I didn't capture the size.

Your probably right, I just stopped and snapped a few cause the light was nice. I didn't wait around. Nice shots!

1st post: love this board, hate the haters.......

Had a couple of good sessions at Lindy lately: Sunday at around 9 did the Boatdocks with about 50 others. Good size -- probably getting up to head high even at the south end. Got more than my fair share and the vibe was good.

Today went south at around 10ish -- checked LM and then went on to the unmentionable south-facing spot. Not much happening there -- about waist high with around 10 "rippers" trying to get in position for nothing. Saw a couple of guys get tiny short rides, so went back up the coast and got in where initially thought it wasn't worth it. Lumpy texture, short period but got a bunch of shoulder highs and generally got stoked. It was much better than it looked from the beach.

Anyway, niceness rules......

Here is the deal with the surf cam.

It's location is well known. Many people just watch the surf cam from work, and then drive to surf RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE CAM. You may laugh, but you do not live RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE CAM.

I'd say sentiment in the neighborhood runs about 99% against, 1% for the cam, and I do not ever do anything that impacts my neighborhood that almost all my neighbors dislike. It redirects surfer traffic in front of the cam. It invades privacy. It is unmonitored.

It is a thousand times worse than naming a street name in the blog. The cams in the avenues are far more evil than cams at the more public areas of the beach ie the parking lots with lots of public facilities.

I've stated these things many times. Surf cams all suck. But especially those in MY neighborhood. I am not in favor of more draconian measures, like parking permits in the neighborhood, or traffic barriers to make access more difficult. But surf cams I strongly wish would go and never ever come back.

Opinions are like assholes..........

Every site's got one?

Regarding the hate speach, that's just a part of the surf culture. Always has been and always will be. You're going to get shit from someone, so banning an IP is like banning Flea from Steamer Lane.

I surfed for 20 years without cams. The secret is if you live in SF, drive to ocean beach. If blown out surf Kelleys, if too big surf Fort point. Easy as that. You never need to go to pacifica or HMB. I found if you do drive down there you will pussify your surfing. Stick with the open ocean breaks and you will be more prepared for Hawaii, Mavs, whatever.

OB with whitecaps is more fun than closed out linda mar anyday. The jetty is for 9 year old boggie boarders and always has been. If you want sideshore you must drive all the way to santa cruz.

Ever surfed the north end of LM when it's working? How about when there's a heavy southerly wind that shreads the coast, but LM gets it offshore? How about the Jet when it's overhead? That's a challenging, fast, exciting wave. Granted it only happens a few times a year. The one thing I've learned about SC is that there are many times you can get it pretty darned good with minimal crowds. As long as you don't position yourself beyond your abilities and waste waves, the vibe is generally positive.

Truth and surf is where you find it.

hi tranny

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