| September Overview | 1998 Overview |
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, September 23rd, 6:30 am - 10:00 am |
| Location: | C Street and Stables |
| Weather: | Light offshores switching to light onshore by noon, bands of clouds breaking up the sunbeams. |
| Conditions: | Perfect glass. |
| Swell: | Outer buoys 7-8 ft at 17 s at dawn, inner buoys 4 ft at 17 s. Backing off to 14 s intervals and 3 ft on the inner buoys by noon. |
| Surf: | Waist high with shoulder high sets, larger bowls on the takeoffs at Stables and the Ventura River mouth. |
| Comments: |
Heard a 5 ft at 17 s buoy reading on the East Channel this
AM but there was no sign of it in the water and the
current online data shows it peaking at 4 ft 17 s. Must
have misheard it or gotten a bad report. It led us south
to check Rincon (nothing) and onward to C Street, seeing
more of the same (nothing) all the way. We (SurferBob and
I) finally saw a few waist high waves in the water and
grabbed the logs.
Some fun sets rolled through from the upper C Street lineup to the pipeline at the edge of where the point falls away, clearly visible with a closing section and a lot of boils in a straight line out to sea. Things stayed fun for an hour or so, with Robert getting a fun-looking backside left hang-five, then seemed to shut down. A paddle up to Stables proved pretty fruitless, with more people and the only really good wave I got was on the way over on one of the outside walls in front of the Derby Club. After sitting for a long while and watching guys getting barrels and floaters in the short rivermouth sections, we drifted, paddled, and occasionally surfed our way back down the point. Finally got a few good long waves well inside in front of the hotels and condos; shared one with Robert way out on the shoulder. Started to play around with pointing the heels forward and looking back at my wake towards the end, anything to push the stokemeter out of the red! |