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| Date/Time: | Monday, January 22nd, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | ||
| Location: | Rincon | ||
| Weather: | Sunny and fall-like, a bit of wind on the channel. | ||
| Conditions: | Good worsening to fair into the afternoon as windswell and chop rolled in. | ||
| Swell: | Second pulse of swell off the weekend system, smaller and shorter-interval. 10-11 ft at 14-17 s from 290 deg. on the outer channel, 5-6 ft at 14-17 s on the inner channel. | ||
| Surf: | Overhead to overhead and a half. | ||
| Comments: |
Uncrowded, everyone likely either at work, tired from the
weekend swell running its course, or not watching the forecasts
closely enough for this second pulse of waves filling in behind.
Whatever the cause, the outcome was excellent, mostly clean Rincon
with relatively few people out in the water.
A week or so ago I found a tail crack in my 6'6" squashtail that needed repairing, so doing that with some UV-cure resin and chopped fiberglass delayed my go-out until after lunch. It was still good when I got out there, fast waves and lots of current again on the indicator sections with a low tide. Lurked around the second peak and horseshoe bowl and grabbed several waves through the rivermouth sections and to the top of the cove. Best wave had a little barrel section past the rivermouth that I tucked into a bit too low, took the lip over my back but still got a great view, held on, and made it out. That was followed very shortly by the hardest pounding I took as the rest of the set unloaded in shallow water right in front of me. Got many more waves, and one hellish pitching in the rivermouth, a late drop that turned into a freefall into the trough. Eventually moved more and more inside as the conditions atop the point worsened. Last wave was a fun little waist high number in the cove that took me about halfway down, as far as the log pile and trail, right at dusk. |
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Created by Tim Maddux, courtesy of UCSB, CoE, ME, and CS. Last updated 1/29/2000. |