| Santa Barbara Area Surf Report | |||
| February Overview | 2000 Overview | ||
| Date/Time: | Sunday, February 6th, 10:00 am - 2:30 pm |
| Location: | Rincon |
| Weather: | Sunny skies with scattered high clouds, no wind until midafternoon when mild westerly breezes arrived. |
| Conditions: | Perfect glass, excellent. Still good when the wind first came up. |
| Swell: | New WNW swell with additional WSW windswell, 11 ft combined heights at 14 s from 285 deg. on outer buoys. Very strong 9 ft at 14 s on the inner buoys. |
| Surf: | Solid overhead to overhead and a half. |
| Comments: |
Sunday Rincon... I try so hard not to do this to myself
but I can't resist. I can't stop myself! "Hi, I'm Tim
and I'm addicted to Rincon..." applause, and the crowd
says from the shoulder "Hi Tim!"
Why I should resist: Very heavy crowd, spent the whole day playing either the "How deep can you paddle?" game or the "How many people can I get to drop in on me?" game. The first one necessarily meant a lot of short rides, either total closeouts or being stuck behind the section off the 2nd indicator peak. Why I can't resist: Several waves through the rivermouth. Then one all the way into the cove, with a couple of fat rivermouth bowl sections that didn't barrel me but were so nice. Then a wave the length of the whole point, from outside of where I usually sit on the indicator (remember that first game?) to past the freeway call box. Solid the whole way, with a really fun walling section atop the cove that my board just screamed across. Only had two drop-ins (bad score on the 2nd game), but there was enough room for all of us to perform, and they both kicked out pretty quickly. I lost my Rincon Addicts Anonymous pin somewhere along the way on that last wave. Please, don't bother to return it to me... |