| December Overview | 1998 Overview |
| Date/Time: | Monday, December 21st, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
| Location: | Rincon |
| Weather: | Cold! Sub-40s F air temps last night, water temps down to the mid-50s. Mostly cloudy with light westerlies. Northerly gales on the channel. Tonight temperatures on the coast dropped into the freezing range, record lows. |
| Conditions: | A little warbly from the wind. |
| Swell: | N wind and groundswells from 310+, 14+ ft at 12 s on the outer buoys. Dropping. |
| Surf: | Steep angle, short period, so it was small, knee to waist high with chest to shoulder high sets. Hollow sections down the line. |
| Comments: |
Threw the log into the frigid cove waters after some debate
about equipment. A crew of ten or so, mostly on shortboards,
were going after the small but nicely-shaped waves. Rather
than bum them out with my log I elected to sit on one of the
inside sections that was shutting them down and get the smaller
scraps.
Robert had the same idea at first but he soon moved up into the outer lineups. Surfed past me a few times, laughing as he went up and down the zippy and hollow sections. I got a few like that as well off the end and to the fire pit, and then moved up to the outside lineup as well. Probably could have gotten some barrels on a smaller board or if I had more talent, but I contented myself with either getting up to the nose or trying to drive through the fast stuff off the tail. Temperature wise, the water was pretty tolerable once we got used to it, the cold didn't really set in until the sun vanished and it was the worst walking back to the car. |