Moil for Gold Monday Surf & Culture Report
Lost Boys & Co...
Okay! We got back into town yesterday afternoon from our cruise to explore the Alaskan hinterlands and have pretty much been enjoying our return to terra firma. Our first photo is of our floating hotel the Westerdam out of Rotterdam, along with her sister ships the Veendam, New Amsterdam, Zuiderdam, Friantdam, Hooverdam and several other dam ships. And "YES" they had the t-shirts that said "DAM SHIPS" with the entire list.
Some really good waves this morning! Partly cloudy skies with 12 miles visibility. Winds were offshore by 5.6kts and smooth conditions until the wind switched about 10:30am. The air temperature was 60.5° and the water was a hopeful 63.3°, with some warm spots on the outside. High tide was at 10:35am +3.8' and low tide is at 3:00pm +2.1' with some minus lows later in the week. The buoy was reporting a 3.9' swell out of 192° and we're calling it 3' to a solid 4' with some even bigger outsides.
Our second photo is from Ketchikan, one of our ports of call. It was a nice partly cloudy day, hiding that cruel northern sun and these local kids thought they needed to get wet to lowert the body temps down to normal. The sun was coming up about 4am and setting right around midnight. So how cold was the water? The kids didn't know, so we convinced the Professor to dip his toe in. He said it was probably in the mid-to-low 50's. Brrr...
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
The Professor!!
Okay! We got back into town yesterday afternoon from our cruise to explore the Alaskan hinterlands and have pretty much been enjoying our return to terra firma. Our first photo is of our floating hotel the Westerdam out of Rotterdam, along with her sister ships the Veendam, New Amsterdam, Zuiderdam, Friantdam, Hooverdam and several other dam ships. And "YES" they had the t-shirts that said "DAM SHIPS" with the entire list.
Some really good waves this morning! Partly cloudy skies with 12 miles visibility. Winds were offshore by 5.6kts and smooth conditions until the wind switched about 10:30am. The air temperature was 60.5° and the water was a hopeful 63.3°, with some warm spots on the outside. High tide was at 10:35am +3.8' and low tide is at 3:00pm +2.1' with some minus lows later in the week. The buoy was reporting a 3.9' swell out of 192° and we're calling it 3' to a solid 4' with some even bigger outsides.
Our second photo is from Ketchikan, one of our ports of call. It was a nice partly cloudy day, hiding that cruel northern sun and these local kids thought they needed to get wet to lowert the body temps down to normal. The sun was coming up about 4am and setting right around midnight. So how cold was the water? The kids didn't know, so we convinced the Professor to dip his toe in. He said it was probably in the mid-to-low 50's. Brrr...
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
The Professor!!
