fair surfing conditions at San Francisco - Ocean Beach

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Thursday 8am - San Francisco - Ocean Beach, fair- surfing

Some onshore winds and just general junkiness make it look pretty unappealing. However, junky though it is, there were some decent sized fun ones that held up if you were just a little patient. Might clean up later but to me the wind felt as if it was going to be picking up - we will see.

Inside very washing machine ish but paddle not a big problem today.

HH+ on the outer sets.

Giving it a fair-... Looks worse than that but a bunch of us all scored some fun waves this morning.

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joby1
33 weeks ago

I made a post for last night which was amazing. Today??? argh!
She loves me... She loves me not.
There were decent size waves coming through from 6:30-8am but it was unorganized in a big way.
I felt as though I was playing a game of cat and mouse and I got dogged.
Got a few but about the waves were a little less than 1/2 the size as last night.

H20MansLibrary
33 weeks ago

It was junky to be sure, but I had plenty of fun, weird peaks. Was turning to complete crap when I got out at 8:00. In this case, the early bird got the slightly squished and funky looking worm, but a meal nonetheless...

mlanson
33 weeks ago

I'm going to say complete crap at 9:30am.

sticker
33 weeks ago

My Expectations:
* OH-1.5x
* No wind/light wind
* Glassy
* Crowded as F
* Me: Stoked out of my gourd

Reality:
* CH-OH (some short dudes were catching 1.5xOH waves... for them)
* Rather stiff onshores
* Bumpy, junky, chewy
* See above... Not so crowded
* Me: After overcoming my grumpyness due to unmet expectations... Pretty stoked. Caught a bunch of fun waves, including my last, which let me make multiple turns all the way to the inside.

Bonus points: Now listening to Merle Haggard in preparation for HSBG this weekend.

fatnewt
33 weeks ago

Thanks for reminding me, I think I'm missing MC Hammer right now. Fun ones out there, but confused peaks. what a difference a day makes. worse than I would have thought, but better than it looked. Best one I snagged was three different waves masquerading as one, including 2 unique steep drops.

ConsciousPilot
33 weeks ago

Speaking as one of those short guys for whom it was occasionally 1.5x, I would concur that it was a fun time. High expectations were unmet, but once you adjusted your standard there were some nice rides to be had.

piss_shiver
33 weeks ago

Pretty decent...got a little late start and had a quickie from 7-8 right out front. Craptastic, but what the hell...used my new 6'6 single fin from Las Olas for the second time in solitude, and snagged a few tasties as well. No complaints really.

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