Santa Barbara Area Surf Reports

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Another day at sands. Better get used to this, peaky afternoon shortboarding on windswell. Smaller than yesterday but also less crowded. Found a spot outside the crowd where I could score short rights and lefts. I'm realizing how waterlogged my Goleta shortboard was. I thought the waves just didn't lack the punch that they did up along the central coast, but now that the central coast board was down here for the week I've been able to not suck. How much better would my surfing have been this winter had that board not been slowly sinking all winter as I failed to repair it from the dozens of dings I was giving it? Answer unknown.

Plenty of oil and tar in the water. Had a really nice left that sucked up and let me ride along the lip as it closed out. Worth the price of admission.