Cinco de Mayo Thursday Surf & Culture Report
Lost Boys & Co...
Yet another holiday that we've appropriated and made a bigger deal of than the country in which it started. You know, like St Patrick's Day, Christmas, Arbor Day, Groundhog Day... Wait, maybe not Groundhog day...
Photo #1 gives you a good idea of what it looked like out there at checkout. A. Almost a quarter mile visibility, with vapor condensed to fine particles of water suspended in the lower atmosphere. Appeared to differ from a cloud only in it's proximity to the ground. B. The flag in the upper left suggests a 1.1kts zephyr out of the west. C. The sea surface appears glassy. What you can't see so well is that the air temp is 60.6° and the water is a phenomenal 62.4°! Hermosa made it to a even 63, but we'll take it tenth by tenth... Low tide is early at 5:30am -0.5' and high tide will follow at 12:04pm +3.4'. The buoy is reading a SSW swell out of 203° at 2.0' and we're calling it 1' to 2'. You had to know that with all this warm weather the foggies had to be lurking in the forecast. Should break up later in the am and maybe the swell will pop a bit for a little pm surf action...
"Who is the Speedo King?" How many times have you heard that question? There is only one answer: "Birdie!" Yes, our own Steve Burdette is the Speedo King. Should your Vespa or Lambretta ever need speedometer work, he's your man. Also if you have questions about those classic machines, he's more than likely got the answers. See, you just thought he was one of the best laminators on the planet... Speaking of lamination, we heard that he just glassed a new blade for a full-on Topaz assault. 11" longer than his red egg, with a kinda of Tiburon outline, he should catch a lot of waves! See, it had nothing to do with Speedos™.
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
The Professor!!
Yet another holiday that we've appropriated and made a bigger deal of than the country in which it started. You know, like St Patrick's Day, Christmas, Arbor Day, Groundhog Day... Wait, maybe not Groundhog day...
Photo #1 gives you a good idea of what it looked like out there at checkout. A. Almost a quarter mile visibility, with vapor condensed to fine particles of water suspended in the lower atmosphere. Appeared to differ from a cloud only in it's proximity to the ground. B. The flag in the upper left suggests a 1.1kts zephyr out of the west. C. The sea surface appears glassy. What you can't see so well is that the air temp is 60.6° and the water is a phenomenal 62.4°! Hermosa made it to a even 63, but we'll take it tenth by tenth... Low tide is early at 5:30am -0.5' and high tide will follow at 12:04pm +3.4'. The buoy is reading a SSW swell out of 203° at 2.0' and we're calling it 1' to 2'. You had to know that with all this warm weather the foggies had to be lurking in the forecast. Should break up later in the am and maybe the swell will pop a bit for a little pm surf action...
"Who is the Speedo King?" How many times have you heard that question? There is only one answer: "Birdie!" Yes, our own Steve Burdette is the Speedo King. Should your Vespa or Lambretta ever need speedometer work, he's your man. Also if you have questions about those classic machines, he's more than likely got the answers. See, you just thought he was one of the best laminators on the planet... Speaking of lamination, we heard that he just glassed a new blade for a full-on Topaz assault. 11" longer than his red egg, with a kinda of Tiburon outline, he should catch a lot of waves! See, it had nothing to do with Speedos™.
The Professor!!
