Spring and Summer 2014 Surf Report

[Tex]

Spent, I think we are the last ones standing.....is it time to close the saloon in this ghost town?

[Critter]

Was great group of folks sad to see it flatline like this. Le Sigh.

[X-squid]

Yeah, what happened? I'm 'new' but it seems like there was some fun convos going on there for a while. Oh well...

[noparking]

Don't have anything to report about surfing, but I did just pick up a new(to me) longboard. so that's something to be excited about.

[X-squid]

I spent probably 8-9 hours in the water between Friday evening and Sunday (yeah, wife and kids are outta town). Nothing much breaking over waist-high, but it was sunny, the water wasn't terribly cold, and only one kook on a soft-top got in my way the entire 3 days. Win.

[noparking]

I spent probably 8-9 hours in the water between Friday evening and Sunday (yeah, wife and kids are outta town). Nothing much breaking over waist-high, but it was sunny, the water wasn't terribly cold, and only one kook on a soft-top got in my way the entire 3 days. Win.

it's the little things in life. hopefully i'll be able to spend a good chunk of time in the water early next week. been itching to get out on my new board/s

[smithgrind]

Dusted off the longboard for waist high low tide closeouts with icy water temps on Friday. I realized my 6-7 year old
wax job was done and it was too hot and sunny to wax so wave sliding turned into board sliding. Got some nice tip time in and a warm and fuzzy sunset to cap the day. Stoke restored, mission accomplished.

[holddown]

The spring & summer streak of '14 ended on 8/1 at 78 days in a row due to a road trip to Montana. It covered half of May, and every day in June & July. Big, small, medium, good, crappy, marginal, crowded, solo, calm, windy, Oregon, Hawaii, cold, warm, sunny, rainy, and always fun. The only improvement I noticed was better skill in small crappy side onshore wind chop.

-HD

[Tex]

Wow, that is impressive HD...nice work! Still, I would have enjoyed reading the daily reports =)

I got out to Short Sands last night at 5:00. Not a cloud in the sky and the wind was offshore. Unfortunately, the tide was super low so waves were closing out a bit initially. Also, for a Thursday evening, there were more people in the water than I would have expected.

Anyway, as the tide came in, Third Creak got a bit more peak action and the right was starting to horseshoe around the outside bard. Most of the pack was on second creak which was slightly bigger than third. I chose smaller waves with no competition for the peak.

Surfed till 8:00...nothing beats a 3 hour evening session mid week!

Tex

[noparking]

Wow, that is impressive HD...nice work! Still, I would have enjoyed reading the daily reports =)

I got out to Short Sands last night at 5:00. Not a cloud in the sky and the wind was offshore. Unfortunately, the tide was super low so waves were closing out a bit initially. Also, for a Thursday evening, there were more people in the water than I would have expected.

Anyway, as the tide came in, Third Creak got a bit more peak action and the right was starting to horseshoe around the outside bard. Most of the pack was on second creak which was slightly bigger than third. I chose smaller waves with no competition for the peak.

Surfed till 8:00...nothing beats a 3 hour evening session mid week!

Tex

we might of crossed paths i was just getting out of the water and headed back to the car around that time.

[X-squid]

Short Sands sucked bad yesterday. I just got back from a warm-water trip tho so maybe the bar was up a bit. A few more weeks of summer slop should solve that.

[Spent]

Back to Oregon, back on the longboard. Had somewhat of a mini OSP re-union last Friday with some fellow longboard kooks, just south of the epicenter.

[Bubalus]

Sure seems like everwhere except Oregon is getting swell right now. Come on September. ..we need you!

[Bubalus]

Today was stellar; head high, lined up, clean, uncrowded and warm. All smiles...
Rather have today's conditions with just a few out than Malibu with Marie swell and 100+ doods...hands down. Thank you npac.

[Tex]

Did everyone catch the clip of Laird Hamilton SUPing at Malibu and shooting the Pier all the way from the Point?
I have surfed there several times, that is a long, long, long wave.