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Sunday, 15 June 2003 5:30-8:00pm |
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North Goleta |
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Sunny and Warm |
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Small and Clean and good shape |
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| Swell: |
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7.8' @ 11s @ 305° |
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Tide: |
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2.3 @ 4:07 |
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Knee to Waist High |
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Board: |
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Walden |
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Comments:
A few jumping in the ocean sessions since the Saturday session led me to believe the water was getting warmer and that waves could be found out there. Head up to Goleta figuring it would be flat and work would be in order. Turned out the waves were looking small but fun, and the sunny afternoon was begging for some surfing. Put on the new springsuit for the first time. My first Rip Curl product and it worked out nicely, except for that stupid no zipper system which just about choked me trying to put it on.
A bunch of guys were trunking it, but I had to spring it before feeling ok about trunkin it. I ended up surfing for 2.5 hours in a spring suit and being toasty the whole time. I bet I coulda trunked it for an hour before freezing. A mixture of longboarders and shortboarders at this little beachbreak that I've only shortboarded in the past. The waves were certainly out of the NW, but lefts and rights were in equal abundance. As luck would have it, not only was I wearing my brand new suit, but I had speant an hour or so stripping my board of wax and tar after my saturday session. Tar was in abundance and my suit already looks like I've been using it for two seasons, and my board has more tar on it then before I strippped it down. Rats.
The crowd was nice and mellow, everybody catching plenty of little waves into shore. My best wave by far was a set wave where I went left. Did a rail grab trying to get slotted but once it started to close up I did a little cutback and hit the lip for a failed floater. I'm not even that agile on my shortboard. I tried to do some noseriding and board walking but I wasn't really piecing together any soulful footwork, so I stuck do trying to get barralled. My one best shot at a barrell was on another left where I was as hunched as I could get and I thought it was going to happen but then I had to adjust coarse not to hit some kids playing in the surf. rats.
A great close to a beautiful weekend.