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November Overview 2000 Overview |
Santa Barbara Area Surf Report |
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| Date/Time: | Wednesday, November 8th, 7:00 am - 10:00 am | ||
| Location: | Pipes / Stables | ||
| Weather: | Gritty dry cold with strong offshores, going to warm and glassy by midday. | ||
| Conditions: | Perfect. | ||
| Swell: | NW ground swell, yesterday's windswell fading overnight, 6-7 ft at 17 s on outer buoys, 3-4 ft at 14-17 s on the inner buoys. | ||
| Surf: | Chest to shoulder high with head high sets, inconsistent. | ||
| Comments: |
Winds wrapping their icy tendrils around my extremities and
squeezing as I stumble across the newly-forming sand dunes
and paddle out north of the rivermouth. Poked in the eyes
hard by the sun's rays on each turn down the line after
the takeoff. Surfing for the blind. More crowded but
better-shaped, longer lines on the submerged cobble point/reef,
and once the sun got out of my eyes managed to make a few turns
in the right places.
The Rincon crew must have missed me because all of a sudden I was surrounded by them after a couple hours' worth of surfing. Most of them were good surfers that I was happy to see again after riding down Malibu way all summer, but one of them managed to mess up one of my better waves by dropping in, something this guy in particular is notorious for. Didn't see any of that heinous activity as I checked Rincon on the way back around mid-day; I must have drawn all the snakes south. |
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Created by Tim Maddux, courtesy of UCSB, CoE, ME, and CS. Last updated 11/8/2000. |