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Date/Time:   Friday, 17 January 2003, 12:00-12:45  
    
Location:   Gaviota Coast  
    
Weather:   Super Sunny and Warm.  
    
Conditions:   Clean and Glassy but closing out.  
    
Swell(Harvest):   5.4ft @ 17s @ 295°  
    
Tide:   3.0 and dropping  
    
Surf:   Super Small. Knee High.  
    
Board:   Progressive  
    
Comments:   One of those days where you show up and you see no one out and it's small but you have to get out and so you do. This quick 45 minute session with probably only 10 waves or so, was a good way to break up a day in the office. Water was so clear the bottom was visible the entire time. When I did manage to catch a wave I would typicaly grab a rail and hunch down and pretend to get barrelled. It sorta happend once, but the other times it was plenty exhilirating watching the bottom of the ocean thru the wave. Would have been a perfect day if the size was 2-3 times bigger. But perhaps the shape needed help to as far as the close-out situation was.





 
    
   
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