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poor surfing conditions at San Mateo - Half Moon Bay

lkilpatrick — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:15:53 -0800

It was ok at about 7:30am but the wind shifted onshore at about 8:15 and it started to blow out. I nailed 1 really fun waves and bunch of smaller stuff. CH to HH+ on some of the sets. Tough paddle for the jetty. Shoulders if you really look for it. Have some video of mike almost making a few waves to load in a bit.

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fair surfing conditions at San Francisco - Ocean Beach

duckdive — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:17:45 -0800

We've got a nice morning with cloudy skies and offshore winds. There is a powerful 16-18s swell in the water producing waves in the 2xOH range. It's still a little mixed up looking, and the inside is mixed up and junky, creating challenging paddling. There are some bombs from time to time on the outside making it (maybe) look worth the effort. fair-

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poor surfing conditions at San Mateo - Linda Mar

Jesse R. — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:52:53 -0800

Fair around 9 am but poor by noon when I got out. Very variable, but most consistent from TB to the showers. North end had a few nice waves early on, but the paddle:fun ratio was all out of whack.

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fair surfing conditions at San Mateo - Half Moon Bay

gamed — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:38:53 -0800

Fair, possibly good with a bigger board. Great day, clean conditions, few folks out.

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fair surfing conditions at San Mateo - Linda Mar

greacen — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:19:08 -0800

I went for a few of those mid-beach close-outs that @lkilpatrick mentioned without too much glory. Paddled down toward boatdocks and found a gang of people working a nice waist-high wave. Lots of fun up there!

Overall, a beautiful morning. Would have opted for a post-session nap on the beach if I didn't have to knock things off the work to-do list. Should be a really nice afternoon on the beach though.

Finally recognized @hasbro as @hasbro. Howdy!

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fair surfing conditions at San Mateo - Linda Mar

lkilpatrick — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:37:31 -0800

There are a few decent shoulders in the chest to head high range if you can be in the right spot. Closeouts as usual but low wind offshore and clean lined up conditions don't suck. I am paddling out.

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surfing conditions at San Francisco - Ocean Beach

sticker — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:26:37 -0800

Good exercise but not much else for this guy at SFOB. No wind, clear skies, 1.5x+ outer bar if you could get past the 1.5x inner bar sla ...

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poor surfing conditions at San Mateo - Linda Mar

daniel — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:22:03 -0800

Dawn patrol sweep from LM to HMB this morning. LM had maybe 6 guys suiting up but the 2 guys who were already out there at 6:45 looked to be getting worked taking solid OH closeouts on the head with little reward to show for it.

Montara looked way better than I have seen it in a long time but there was nobody out. Burly DOH waves would occasionally peel for a nice left at the north end channel. The paddle out didn't look impossible.

HMB had too much tide with lots of reflections. 3 guys out and I didn't see a ride in the 10 minutes or so I was there.

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poor surfing conditions at San Francisco - Ocean Beach

duckdive — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:29:34 -0800

Thursday morning brings us clear skies, light winds and surf in the 2xOH range. It's looking pretty ragged out there, with funky, sectiony surf breaking up and down the beach. The paddle looks pretty challenging and the surfing opportunities few and far between. If you are feeling really desperate you might find something to slide down, but I wouldn't bet on it.

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poor surfing conditions at San Mateo - Half Moon Bay

Jesse R. — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:05:10 -0800

Wind and tide conditions less than fair at 4:30 pm - sunset but at the jetty and a few hundred yards further south there were make able corners now and again.

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fair surfing conditions at San Mateo - Half Moon Bay

lkilpatrick — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:51:42 -0800

Some blowing wind but it side or a bit offshore at the jetty small waist to chest high sets and way cleaner than I expected. Also checked montara, GWC and Linda Mar, all which are blown out and unsurfable.

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poor surfing conditions at San Francisco - Ocean Beach

duckdive — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:26:03 -0800

It's a beautiful clear morning at Ocean Beach. The NW wind continues to rage producing whitecapped, completely blown out conditions. It's a total mess out there. Bring a kite or or stay at home. Poor-

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surfing conditions at San Francisco - Ocean Beach

greacen — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:17:39 -0800

http://twitpic.com/17n8kc - Holy frothy windtunnel at sfob! Kiters on cloud 9.

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fair surfing conditions at San Mateo - Half Moon Bay

greacen — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:59:02 -0800

Fun solo session in the sun just a bit south of the jetty. No wind. No people. The waves were fun but not stellar: waist-to-shoulder-high, short rides, rare peelers to the beach. I'll give it a fair for the beautiful morning, but it's probably not worth ditching out of work.

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poor surfing conditions at San Francisco - Ocean Beach

duckdive — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:30:50 -0800

Tuesday morning brings us clear skies and light onshore winds. The surf is in the head high+ range and junky, sectiony and ragged. The wind isn't nearly as strong as yesterday but is still blowing hard a few miles out to sea. It is forecast to increase as the day wears on. I didn't see anything to call surfable.

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fair surfing conditions at San Mateo - Half Moon Bay

whatupwilly — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:49:17 -0800

Jetty actually wasn't too bad. I would call it fair and when I pulled out it looked to be cleaning up a bit. About waist-high+ on the more generous waves.

I was a total kook out there. Went over the falls 15 min into the session, my board whipped around and finned my bicep. It was weird..the immediate shock of the pain almost made me throw up in the water. Really odd. My hand instantly turned purple (even though it didn't get hit) and I figured it was time to paddle in. Circulation has started returning to my arm but I'm sure I'm going to have a hell of a bruise soon. *end whining*

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poor surfing conditions at San Mateo - Linda Mar

whatupwilly — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:48:57 -0800

as expected, lindy is a blown out mess. But I've been out of the water for 6 weeks and I'm jonezin. Heading south to check out the jetty. Poor--

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poor surfing conditions at San Francisco - Ocean Beach

duckdive — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:13:10 -0800

It's 6am and the NW is already howling. It's gusting up to 30mph. Suffice it to say that it is a blown-out mess. It's a shame, since there is a nice groundswell in the water. The wind will almost certainly blow for the rest of the day. Ocean Beach is closed for business, unless of course, you have a sail or kite. Poor-

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good surfing conditions at Marin - Bolinas

Felix D — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:51:02 -0800

Today was more blown out than yesterday, but there were many good waves to be had right in front of the boat ramp and near the channel. Perfect for long boarding, saw quite a few toes on the nose. Am now nursing 2-day surfing muscle aches :)

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fair surfing conditions at Santa Cruz - Pleasure Point

daniel — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:00:48 -0800

Just got back from a fun session at the Hook. Waist high and a touch on the slow side but fun. It was white capping way outside but slightly offshore on the inside. Not as good as my session yesterday but still fun. Fair for SC conditions but good compared to SM conditions as of late.

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poor surfing conditions at San Francisco - Ocean Beach

chrispy — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:00:10 -0800

Full on summertime at OB today. 20mph+ winds from the northwest. A complete disaster

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poor surfing conditions at San Mateo - Half Moon Bay

greacen — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:24:05 -0800

Waist high and sectiony. Way cleaner than the spots I checked to the north.

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surfing conditions at San Mateo - Linda Mar

greacen — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:22:30 -0800

SMLM strong onshore brings funky texture: chop + slop. A few bouncy, sectiony rides for folks in the right place. Cloudy.

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poor surfing conditions at San Francisco - Ocean Beach

duckdive — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:36:05 -0800

Sunday morning brings us overcast skies and a howling wind out of the NW. The surf is in the head high range, blown out, with whitecaps to the horizon. It doesn't look like a surf morning. The winds are forecast to blow all day and into tomorrow. I feel the winds will anger the natives. I fear for our sanity.

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surfing conditions at San Mateo - Linda Mar

kevinw — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:56:58 -0800

Sunset over Pedro Point after a fine surf sliding session @SMLM http://twitpic.com/172dl2

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surfing conditions at San Francisco - Fort Point

lee — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:09:43 -0800

SFFP 3 guys out despite the high tide. Looks pretty crappy.

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good surfing conditions at San Mateo - Rockaway

lee — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:48:04 -0800

Big and clean. No one out when I got there, this guy paddled out just as I came in. I watched him get one average one, then this sick one. I didn't get anything nearly as good, mostly I was relegated to the closeouts. Still, was nice to be out in some decent sized and clean surf.

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surfing conditions at San Francisco - Ocean Beach

surfpulse — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:26:30 -0800

There's about 6 people out across all of SFOB. Mostly punishing and not much fair about it.

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surfing conditions at San Mateo - Rockaway

lee — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:17:26 -0800

SMRW big clean and no one on it.

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fair surfing conditions at San Francisco - Ocean Beach

duckdive — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:58:37 -0800

Conditions look similar to yesterday morning, a nice offshore breeze, some clean longer period swell in the water and glassy conditions. Waves look to be in the HH+ range and fairly heavy on the inner bars. it's still a bit sectiony. Looks like a good morning to surf OB. Go get some.

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good surfing conditions at San Francisco - Ocean Beach

kool-aid — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:05:16 -0800

The conditions were just pretty good (wind came up big time). I was surprised not to see anyone out really. The only problem was that there seemed to be some mixed swell. I'd guess one running around 7@14 and another apparently registering at 9@20. The long paddle and getting caught inside seemed to confirm the latter. Still it was offshore and reeling for a while this morning. Caught some much needed good waves.

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poor surfing conditions at San Mateo - Linda Mar

greacen — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:13:32 -0800

Not so hot at LM this morning. Close-outs from Denny's to the northern tip of the beach. A few ridable moments around boatdocks. For desperadoes and maint. sessioneers only.

Best part of the day was a great view of a sun-ring that appeared mid-morning:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/24oct_sunrings.htm

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good surfing conditions at San Mateo - Half Moon Bay

lkilpatrick — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:00:27 -0800

Some very nice lined up clean waves at a break at the south end of Half Moon Bay. Looks to be shoulder to head high with a nice channel to get you out to the line up. Looks like lots of good surf here today.

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fair surfing conditions at San Francisco - Ocean Beach

duckdive — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:42:18 -0800

Happy Friday. Conditions are looking much better than they've been for a while. We have an offshore wind and waves in the HH+ range. It's a little low-period / sectiony but fairly well organized with some regular nice fast shoulders for the taking. Have fun.

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good surfing conditions at San Francisco - Fort Point

greg — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:54:47 -0800

This morning was a blast at FP with some blue skies, HH clean waves, strong currents pulling every which way for some added cardio, and the occasional outside set for variety. I even scored a pancake breakfast...can't ask for a better morning.

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poor surfing conditions at San Mateo - Half Moon Bay

gamed — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:43:05 -0800

I had a better time than the conditions would predict. The waves are crappy, but the sun is shining, there's only a tiny wind, and I caught some chest/shoulder high crumblers.

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poor surfing conditions at San Mateo - Linda Mar

pickle_sf — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:38:37 -0800

it's a sad state of affairs, winds up, chilly, low tide business. there are small waves that are doable here and there and the sun is out, desperados only.

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poor surfing conditions at San Francisco - Ocean Beach

duckdive — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:22:50 -0800

We've got a brisk breeze out of the NNW a powerful but junky swell and more crappy conditions at OB. It looking very similar to yesterday, maybe 2xOH+ and nothing that really looks appetizing. I've got to go to the dentist in a bit, which sounds like more fun than surfing OB this morning. Sorry folks.

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surfing conditions at San Francisco - Fort Point

lee — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:40:51 -0800

SFFP more ok waves today, less crowded than yesterday. now it's turned into mush balls unfortunately.

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surfing conditions at San Mateo - Linda Mar

lee — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:30:56 -0800

SMLM small, ruffled and very brown. You'd have it to your self, but There's no one on it 4 a reason.

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poor surfing conditions at San Francisco - Ocean Beach

duckdive — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:27:34 -0800

More of the same at Ocean Beach. We've got a gusty wind out of the Southwest and a very strong groundswell in the water in the 18+ second range. This is combining with local storm activity to produce a formidable gauntlet of whitewater on the inside bars and threatening sectiony 2-3x OH body manglers on the outside. Don't even think about it. Poor-

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poor surfing conditions at San Mateo - Half Moon Bay

lkilpatrick — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:31:40 -0800

Freaking Huge Waves! 3x-4x OH at the point. Slight onshore, but long period. If you could paddle your gun out you might get a ride. I might go check mavs to see if anyone is insane enough to go. I know it's big when I can see breaking waves out my window 1500 ft back back on the bluff.

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poor surfing conditions at San Mateo - Linda Mar

hasbro — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:50:23 -0800

New swell filling in with HH sets across the beach and plus sets at the north end. Stiff offshores and fairly clean conditions with steady rain. At 7:30 the tide was just too low to section up, so most everything was closing out.
More tide could help with that.

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surfing conditions at San Francisco - Fort Point

lee — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:12:31 -0800

SFFP a few ok waves this morning, tide is too high now.

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poor surfing conditions at San Francisco - Ocean Beach

duckdive — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:43:15 -0800

It's raining hard at OB. A powerful new 18-22s swell has arrived. Combined with the local storm activity, we're seeing large and messy conditions. It's hard to tell but it's likely around 3x overhead on the outer bars. Overall, it looks like a day to get into work early and catchup on your email backlog.

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fair surfing conditions at San Mateo - Linda Mar

Ira Glass — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:11:08 -0800

This morning we will put emphasis on the word "texture". It is indeed textured, smaller than yesterday and I am currently looking for those workable inside corners we hear so much about.
I will head into the parking lot and collect some accounts of the surf conditions. I always find these first-person accounts our culture's most important and thought-provoking.

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fair surfing conditions at San Mateo - Half Moon Bay

lkilpatrick — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:48:17 -0800

Chest to Waist high, little mushy but I got a few fun rides. Should get better when the tide drops this pm. First dawn patrol video report, what do you think?

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surfing conditions at San Mateo - Rockaway

lee — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:11:14 -0800

SMRW looking shoulder high, clean and ok.

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surfing conditions at San Francisco - Ocean Beach

surfpulse — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:48:43 -0800

The fading swell has not brought clean conditions to SFOB. Disorganized peaks on the outside and frothy soup on the inside.

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poor surfing conditions at San Francisco - Ocean Beach

duckdive — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:40:04 -0800

Conditions at Ocean beach look similar to yesterday, except a notch smaller. Despite light winds things are very mixed up. Local windswell is dominating. Waves are in the head high+ range. Doesn't look worth the paddle.

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