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Stand Up Paddle => Regional => SoCal => Topic started by: Zooport on September 01, 2016, 08:12:16 PM
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Orange County people, did you notice that we had very few clean mornings this summer? Morning wind is not unusual here in the summer, but this is the worst I can remember. Almost every day this summer had some wind in the morning. Couple that with mostly lame surf since that nice run in early July and it makes the worst summer in recent memory. Leftovers from El Nino maybe?
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I don't think El Nino is gone. I think it's going to continue through next year?
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Santa Cruz has had generally a good wave summer IMHO. It has been really cool and foggy in general, much more so than the other five years we have been over here. For over a month, it has been also smokey with all the local fires.
Today I thought the water finally got warm for Santa Cruz, but it also looks kind of soupy, like it does when the anchovies come in and croak themselves by taking all the oxygen out of the water.
I am surprised things are bad in SoCal, because I thought in Santa Cruz we were getting some nice benefits from the extended El Nino.
I think El Nino is officially over, but really, do the Weathertards really know?
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We've got wind chimes all over our house (thanks wifey) and just about every day they're a tinkle-ing by 8am. I probably scratched 8-10 sessions based on those chimes. I've also thrown reason to the wind** and gone anyway and had fun sessions.
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Having spent 35 years trying to wind surf in San Diego, I have become very tuned into local wind conditions. This summer is very different from any I can remember. We have almost constant westerly winds, few calm mornings, and few glass off evenings. Out normal summer pattern is for the wind to be calm or light-off shore in the morning, wind picking up from the west late morning and increasing steadily while it clocks to the northwest. It is usually strongest in the early evening after it becomes more northerly, then is glasses off.
This summer it has only come from the west, which is primarily onshore and really messes up the surf. What makes it worst is that we usually have a thick kelp bed 100+ yards off shore which calms the near shore waters making good surf conditions even with the wind. Kelp only grows when the temperature is under 64 degrees and we did not have many cold water days the past two winters, so our kelp bed has almost disappeared.
Global warming sucks!!!!
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Orange County people, did you notice that we had very few clean mornings this summer? Morning wind is not unusual here in the summer, but this is the worst I can remember. Almost every day this summer had some wind in the morning. Couple that with mostly lame surf since that nice run in early July and it makes the worst summer in recent memory. Leftovers from El Nino maybe?
Yep, I was saying the same thing to someone the other day. The afternoons have been worse than usual as well. Hopefully we have a better Fall.
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Curiouser and curiouser . Same windy 🍃 summah here on the other side of the landmass...
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You can blame me, I sold off most of my windsurfing gear in April.
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We've got wind chimes all over our house (thanks wifey) and just about every day they're a tinkle-ing by 8am. I probably scratched 8-10 sessions based on those chimes. I've also thrown reason to the wind** and gone anyway and had fun sessions.
I gotta take a lesson from you, Adam. I have bailed out on so many sessions this summer because of wind that I have not surfed that much. I need to follow your lead and go anyway. I'm going to tower 25 tomorrow and vow to go out no matter what conditions are like.
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You guys have taught me something new. Yesterday, heavy south easterly onshore winds around Santa Cruz Sharks pretty much blowing out whatever formed waves were coming from the SW and W. All the windblown ripples intersected to make things tossy and unpredictable.
I went out on the 8'7" Flow, not the best day for a board for which I still have a learning curve as far as balance is concerned.
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How was it Zoo? I scratched this morning, high tide and looked junky so I took my bus for a cruise before masking off the roof for bodywork and priming.
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Went back on my promise to myself. It was so junky that I could not make myself go out. Drove around looked at Bolsa, Huntington and Newport...then went to breakfast. Same conditions today and I bailed again. Jaded old fart I am.
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End of the week looking promising. If there is no overnight wind like last night, it should be good early.
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Man, I hope so. I'm getting crabby.
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It was windy at Pleasure Point yesterday. These guys went full speed into knee deep water at second peak. Luckily they didn't damage the take off spot or the reef.
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Missed the grounding. Nice photos SW!
I skipped it because of the wind.
Today, Sunday, no sign of that boat and it was pretty blown out even at 10 a.m.
I ended up going out around the corner at Sharks.
Looked for Cheat but he wasn't there but a few other SUPers were.
Caught a few good ones - still pretty windy and tide a bit high.
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I was out earlier when Steve was at Sharks and I was playing with the new Flow. Things were fine until about 9:30AM when the heavy wind came up like somebody turned a switch. Then, with the rising tide, I figured it was all over since there weren't many waves to begin with so I was out of there by 10AM.
I saw that boat jammed on the reef at Pleasure Point yesterday. It looked like they tried to tow it out with one of the surf skis, but they lost their window of opportunity with the tide going out. They finally abandoned efforts to pull it out of the reef and the boat operators (owner?) looked like they were taken away in protest. I imagine they were able to pull it out when the tide went up again, but I don't know what kind of damage that does to an expensive boat since it was pounded on the reef over and over.
I don't know anything about boats, so I don't know if the reefing was boneheaded or just an unfortunate accident.
Craig and Shane back at Privates said they were doing downwinders yesterday. I didn't go out yesterday, it was flat and windy like Friday, too much struggle.
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"Jeremy Ray from Opal Cliffs · 9h ago
It was a day-chartered boat (rental) from Pacific Sail at the harbor--31' Beneteau. We were sailing back from Capitola in pretty heavy wind in the same model boat and saw them go through the kelp and get too close to shore. We called it in to harbor patrol, but it was too late to prevent them from running aground. There was no way we could help without suffering the same fate. And their sails were up when they initially got into trouble. I didn't know for sure what ultimately happened until I got home and saw the boat right in front of my street. Sucks for the owner."
I guess these boats can be bought used from 60-100K.
They said they had the boat out by 8PM or so.
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I finally lowered my standards and paddled out today in our continuously lumpy, garbage conditions. (Man up, Zooport) Had a great time despite the sloppy, lumpy conditions. No awesome rides, but fun, lumpy, waist-shoulder high waves. Mostly closeouts, but when you haven't been out in a couple of weeks, it sure feels good just to take off and get drilled. On of the largest closeouts had enough juice to rip out both of my earplugs.
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man o man i hope it's not windy this winter like it was during my four month winter stay last year. what a depressing thought. ugh.
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Funny after 30 plus years windsurfing, if it blows anything over 8mph now, I’m hating it.
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First day of Fall. We got a swell, but.................. the frick'n south winds are still banging the wind chimes dammit!
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And here I thought I was the only wimping out I missed so many days due to wind. One reason it took me so long to figure out I had a cracked fin box. I finally forced myself to go and floundered around a bit still catching some waves but at last fall is here the Indian summer has begun crowds are mostly gone. This is my favorite time of year Did I mention the north west swells
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This week things have really shaped up for SoCal. Offshore wind, clean conditions and solid swell. Been really nice...finally!