Santa Barbara Surf Report Archive
1995 Overview

Mystery spot, by Dirk Brandts
1995 was the first year of archived surf reports, with only one season's worth of reports online. The rest are lost to the electronic void of Usenet (unless someone archived them and hasn't told me about it yet).

All in all it was a pretty good fall season, with a lot of surfing reported over the four-month period... at first glance. Actually, I didn't surf nearly that much, but archived all the reports even if I didn't surf. The winter wave season opened early, in October, and we had pretty good surf all the way through to an all-time December. (things shut down for early '96, but that's another summary).

54 reports were filed for the year, out of 122 days, for a report rate of 44%. Out of those reports, got good surf 37 times (69% of the time). Waves averaged around shoulder high. The highlights follow:

Top Months:
(Most Reports)
  1. November, 17 reports
  2. October, 15 reports
  3. December, 13 reports
  4. September, 9 reports
Top Months:
(Most Good Surf)
  1. December, 12 reports
  2. November, 11 reports
  3. October, 8 reports
  4. September, 6 reports
Top Months:
(Best Good Surf Percentage)
  1. December, 12/13 (92%)
  2. September, 6/9 (67%)
  3. November, 11/17 (65%)
  4. October, 8/15 (53%)
Top Months:
(Biggest Surf on Average):
  1. December, Head high plus
  2. November, Shoulder high
  3. September, Chest high
  4. October, Waist high
Most Surfed Spots:
  1. Rincon, 37 sessions
  2. North County, 5 sessions
  3. Campus Point, 3 sessions
  4. Sequit, Bates Beach, and Goleta, 2 sessions each
Longest Sessions:
  1. November 2nd, 4 1/2 hours
  2. September 24th and 26th, 4 hours
Most Sessions in a Row:
  1. 5 sessions, December 11th to December 15th
  2. 4 sessions, November 24th to November 27th
Biggest Sessions:
  1. December 13th, Campus Point, 1.5-2.5x overhead
  2. December 12th, Rincon, 1-2x overhead
  3. November 13th, North County, 1-1.5x overhead
  4. December 11th, Rincon, Overhead+
Best Sessions:
  1. December 13th, Campus Point
  2. December 30th, Rincon
  3. October 23rd, Rincon
  4. November 24th, Rincon
Favorite Reports:
  1. Big Wednesday
  2. The Whip Lady
  3. Don't Drop in on Me
  4. The First Report

Monthly Archived Reports and Overviews
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May June July Aug.
Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.

Santa Barbara Surfing -- Last updated 5/26/98.