| Santa Barbara Area Surf Report | |||
| January Overview | 1999 Overview | ||
| Date/Time: | Monday, January 11th, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon |
| Location: | C Street |
| Weather: | Continued high pressure dominance with gorgeous sunny conditions and light offshore air. |
| Conditions: | Absolutely perfect glass. |
| Swell: | Small W swell, 6 ft at 17 s on the outer buoys. |
| Surf: | Chest to shoulder high with head high to overhead sets. |
| Comments: |
Our pattern for this winter is holding with storm systems
winding up a solid fetch for 48 hours -- right at Hawaii --
and then dying and moving northward as they cross the dateline.
Leaving us with occasional scraps. We haven't had a solid
west coast swell in a month.
Leaves lots of time to get work done, which meant I wasn't feeling the slightest pang of guilt about bailing this AM with the longboard to hit C Street for what looked like decent surf on the online cam. Wasn't disappointed; it even took about 15 minutes to find a lull long enough to drag the log through the whitewater to the outside lineup. A thick crowd out but C Street was doing its typical routine with enough shifty peaks and sections to keep everyone happy. Including myself. It took a couple of waves to make the transition to longboarding after being off it for three weeks, but by the end I'd managed to find a consistent spot mostly to myself and got several to the second set of stairs by the pier, including a couple of long tiprides. |