- Date/Time:
- Thursday, February 13th, 6:30 am - 9:30 am
- Location:
- Rincon Point
- Weather:
- Sunny and warm. Strong northerly flow from high pressure passing through the northern part of the county, bringing warm downsloping offshore breezes.
- Conditions:
- Excellent and smooth, light offshores early. Just short of perfection due to windswelly quality.
- Swell:
- Combination NW wind and groundswells. Waist high to overhead.
- Comments:
- The National Weather Service continues to rave about a worse-than-average day of winter surf.
Offshores at Rincon are a real treat; we don't get affected by Santa Ana conditions. The last time we had offshores was for New Years Day, 1996. Lots of wind-fanned peaks atop the indicator and rivermouth, but no good lines. Mostly just windswell.
The cove, strangely, had the largest and best waves, lots of long lined-up sets to the freeway pushing into the overhead range. A thick aggressive crowd with a lot of the usual rivermouth and indicator surfers jostling with the cove locals. Finally getting some great conditions didn't help matters, either.
I got a few waves, and got my first-ever top-to-bottom pitch on a cove wave. Spun late for a set after someone didn't make a section, paddled hard twice and stood, and the wave started carrying me out and over... I didn't have a chance. Dropped into the sandbar like a wounded duck shot from the sky.
The new booties are great.