| February Overview | 1998 Overview |
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, February 4th, 8:00 am - 10:00 am |
| Location: | Campus Point / Goleta Beach |
| Weather: | Clearing, with cold strong offshore winds out of the NW. |
| Conditions: | A bit windswelly and peaky, offshore-groomed and clean. |
| Swell: | Combined NW and SE windswells and holding groundswell, 15' at 11 s on outer buoys. |
| Surf: | Overhead atop the point, chest to shoulder high with peaks to head high at poles. |
| Comments: |
Did the drive to Rincon, hoping for some good waves, but it
was blown out atop the indicator and sectiony and burgery
in the cove. Good size but no form. Doubled back to Campus
after retrieving my longboard and was greeted by an empty lineup
and cool offshore winds.
Waves harder to get than expected, with the windswell making for shifty peaks that threw and then burgered on the shoulder. Make the drop at the peak or don't get in at all. The longboard made it easy to cruise the slow sections, with the strong offshores adding a component of fun and a bit of challenge as they put a lot of upward lift on the nose of the board. Still got several waves from the poles lineup to past the biology building. Surfed in to Goleta Beach on a few sections that I'd never tried or seen before, pretty fun stuff, hollow and fast, trimmed out atop the nose. Got polished off by a solid cleanup set at the beachbreak, said beach is rapidly disappearing offshore after all the heavy wave action. |