Santa Barbara Area Surf Report

November Overview 1997 Overview

Date/Time: Sunday, November 30th, 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm
Location: Rincon Point
Weather: Cool and dry, mostly cloudy with howling westerlies. Strong rain from 4am-6am, then with building/fading SEerlies.
Conditions: Victory-at-sea everywhere but the cove, very windswelly and peaky there. Terrible.
Swell: Too-north or too-small for its northness, 8-10 ft at 14 s on the outer buoys and around 4 ft at 14 s on the Santa Monica buoy.
Surf: Junk peaks with weak shoulders, around chest high.
Comments: Should have surfed on Thursday or Friday instead of this slop! Checked the cove with some friends up from San Diego on a bit of a lark, blown out and brown everywhere but what looked to be fun lines rolling through the inside. Somehow it looked better from shore than it actually was, with not much worth surfing after the quick peaky drops. Lots of paddling against the wind and chop and a pretty thick crowd given the conditions.

Santa Barbara Surfing -- Last updated 11/30/97.