| Date/Time: |
Monday, February 21st, 10:00 am and 2:00 pm
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| Location: |
Campus Point
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| Weather: |
Stormy, rainy, with very strong southerly winds
slowly weakening through the day.
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| Conditions: |
Victory at sea storm conditions "improving" to
choppy and poor in the afternoon.
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| Swell: |
Combined seas on the outer waters of 20 ft at 14 s with very
strong southerly winds. Waves generally coming from the WSW.
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| Surf: |
Double overhead with sets to triple overhead.
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| Comments: |
Biggest surf I've seen out here since
Big Wednesday,
but unsurfable. Saw a triple overhead set come through
and clean up the few surfers that were sitting out there,
most of whom were on the wrong equipment (longboards?!?).
The few that were catching waves were getting drops and
a couple of turns before getting caught behind a section
triggered by storm chop.
In the morning watched waves feather at the underside of
the Goleta pier, then break and take sand from Goleta Beach
offshore, with some of them rolling up into the parking lot
by the restaurant. Lots of seagulls sitting in the grass
looking a bit stunned by the magnitude of it all.
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