Santa Barbara Area Surf Reports

Location:	Rincon
Weather:	Clearing From a Rainy Morning
Conditions:	Some Bumps and Shutdown Sections
Swell:	9.3ft @ 14s @ 280°
Surf:	Head High
Rip Curl Bomb Wetsuit Life:	17 Sessions in Replacement Suit.

Comments:

Rincon session after a little bit of rain this morning. Cove didn't look to crowded so I parked there and walked up the Rivermouth. Used the channel blasted out by the creek to paddle out in between the Rivermouth and the Cove, which were two distinct breaks because they were not connecting on this tide. The far side of Indicator wasn't working, most people were within the Rivermouth or Cove. My first wave was a little bigger than head high, a screamer that slammed me hard on the inside. I caught a few more here just below the Rivermouth before sitting at the top of the cove, midway between the rivermouth and the Glass House, right where that house is under construction. The crowd was thick here but somehow I managed to get a head high wave that I could work all the way down to the call box, certainly my longest Rincon ride of the winter. By the time I pulled out it was down to waist high, there were many weird sections on this wave, not really your classic Con.

After that wave I walked back up to the Rivermouth and paddled out again. This time it took me much longer to get a long wave. Everytime I was about to take off there was always someone deeper, usually impossibly deeper. You had to go against your instincts, either by taking off way deeper than you thought you could pull, or dropping into a section where you thought the guy was way deeper then you thought he could pull. Many times I saw the later, where guys would just drop in on a guy that was way deep, some unsafe stuff out there, with the deeper guy sometimes having to alter course and not make the section because of some shoulder hopper. Some poor etiquette at Rincon these days. I finally managed to line up some stars and get another set wave to myself, this time all the way past the call box, near the first no parking sign. I called it quits after that one.