Recent Surf Reports


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Sunday 12pm - Rockaway, fair surfing

Sort of fun and junky this AM at south end rockaway. some swell in the water, perhaps a bit OH on the sets, but also plenty of wind and miscellaneous funk. I ended up surfing the oddball left that breaks off the southern point, which was mostly just entertaining for its novelty and for the company of the cool surf lady who I shared the peak with. The one other time I surfed on that left I just got sucked out in the current like a freight train, so this was at least a little more manageable and fun, if not exactly all time.

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Decent little peaks on a glorious day. Not crowded really and plenty of peaks to go around. SH to HH and fair.

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Santa Cruz has long been a hot spot for surfing artists and innovators, eclectic individuals whose passion for the sport inspires them to create new ways to see, feel, understand, appreciate, enjoy and even reimagine the stoke of surfing.

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1- Duke Kahanamoku.

2- Michael Vick is not associated with surfing in any way.

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It's a beautiful, clear chilly morning at Ocean beach. The sky is clear and there is a light offshore wind. The surf looks similar to yesterday, but definitely a bit cleaner. It's mixed up and windswelly and a churning mess on the inside, but there are regular rideable shoulders on the outside if you survive the paddle and manage to work yourself into just the right position. Waves are in the 1.5xOH+ range. It's a great day for a drive as you can almost certainly do better than OB if you have time. Don't forget to spring forward!

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Great time longboarding at Cowells Saturday from 10-3. Wind was blowing side-offshore in the morning and died down by noon. When I first got there I was 1 of 6 people in the water!? I guess people were waiting for the tide to drop even though it was still breaking and by noon there were the usual crowds. But everyone was catching waves and having a great time. I caught a bunch of half a minute plus rides. Waves were about chest high on the outside and waist on the inside. Loads of sun. Hard to beat for a longboard session.

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Rant - Tonight's Set
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Saturday 5pm - Linda Mar, poor surfing

Lousy Blown Out Slop, Look to the south for better waves.

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Some really nice chest high to head high waves on some sets. Lots of close out with a strong side shore wind, but the sun and the swell make it pretty darn fun.

I caught my last wave on my well loved Harbour 8'0" surfboard :( I caught a wonderful long chest high right that unfourtunatly jacked up and perled the nose into the sand Hard :( This was my first board so I am sad to see it done.

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Set your time machine back to 1844 and it's all you.

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Q. Do you pee in your wetsuit and, if so, do you ever worry that it will increase your chances of being bitten?

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Saturday 11am - Linda Mar, poor surfing

Nice day out at LM but the surf is not cooperating. Junky swell in the chest to HH range. Few workable shoulders but mostly closed out. Poor.

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Authorities in Hawaii have stopped searching for a 35-year-old Sunnyvale man who was last seen Tuesday afternoon surfing off a beach on the north shore of Oahu. The Honolulu Advertiser is reporting the man is from Beijing and has been living in Sunnyvale. Authorities in Honolulu have not identified the missing surfer.

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Saturday 8am - Half Moon Bay

It's beautiful and sunny out @SMHM. The waves are chest-high, the surfers are friendly, and the children are above-average. Get some!

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ake a junky surfboard that's been sitting in the back yard all winter. Grind it up. What can you do with it? Turn it into street pavement? You can. You even can turn it into a new surfboard.

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Saturday 6am - Ocean Beach, poor surfing

It's a beautiful sunny morning at ocean beach with clear skies and a light wind out of the north. Conditions are similar to yesterday: we've got a fairly junky swell producing a mess on the inside bars with rideable shoulders on the outside. It's in the 2xOH range, and very shift and sectiony looking. It looks like a lot of work to hunt down a rideable shoulder. Overall it looks like a surf day, but perhaps OB isn't your best bet. Poor+

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Last spring, on a green wave in the Mentawais, a chain of islands off the west coast of Indonesia, Jordy Smith performed the most sublime aerial in the history of surfing, a back flip while spinning one and a half times. Video of the flip, known as a rodeo clown, went viral when Yahoo posted it in June.

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There is still some good news in our North Pacific forecast…the storm-track still has enough energy for at least one more “winter-size” WNW-NW swell before really starting to close up shop. The storm that will be sending this swell is actually start to develop today but the main portion of swell generation is going to occur as the storm peaks late Saturday night and through Sunday morning.

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follow up on the Bournemouth reef post.

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Friday 11am - Linda Mar, fair surfing

poor+ (circa 7 am) to fair+ (in between 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.). Rising tide cleaned it up, off shores groomed it up, and there was a magic half hour or so where every wave seemed ride able. the rain is steady. I heard more "oh yeahs!" than I have in a while. My best surf in March for sure.

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To the indefatigably stoked crew:

I'm land bound till at least August because of surgery. In the meantime, I've got a quiver of boards sitting around like bird dogs with no quarry. They're pent up and need to get wet. If anyone's going on a trip, just wants to try something new, or has a friend from outta town hit me up here, on email or twitter.

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Fun morning with long period swell and steady offshores. CH to OH depending on where you paddled out.. The usual closeouts on the chunkier sets, but the inbetweeners offered up some shoulders... Spotted a few OB SR refugees out there as well...

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