Flailing Friday Surf & Culture Report

Lost Boys & Co...

Lethal Keithal wrote and suggested it's just a matter of time before he has an ocean view from his kitchen window...

An adventure out there this morning!  A hazy ball of sun in the sky and 15 miles visibility.  Wind was on from the get-go from 5 to 10kts and the sea surface was bumped and trying to go beyond choppy.  The rebound from the jetty was a tad hectic at times.  The air temp was 58.8° and the water was 61.9° at the buoy, but felt more like 64° in the surfline.  High tide at 9:13am +3.7' and low tide follows at 2:12pm +1.7'.  We have a west swell out of 261° and although it's registering 4.3' at the buoy, but it's looking more like 5' to 7' on the beach.

The A team was out and Vinny was burning the place up!  He was taking off big and late and making everything.  Billy Mac, kept waiting for the right slab to charge on, but he seemed to be off the peak a bit.  Still looked extremely good!  He was on it a couple of days ago and looked good on third reef Sappharua.  Meanwhile, the Professor, Danger Boy, Capt. America, Chase and Sting Ginther rounded out the crew and bobbed about trying to find the right peak.  Some classic takeoffs and some equally classic crashes.  Andrew, got so worked he had to run up the beach and do headstands to clear all the water out of his gourd.  Not to be outdone, Danger Boy took several on the head after a rolling cartwheel jackknife with a kip.  It was so crazy inside that you couldn't even make it back to the beach without paddling.  If you were unlucky, you got bounced back into the impact zone and had to go through the whole process all over again.  As the Professor did, after he headed into a jacking wall in the middle and got trampolined up, then came down with the lip, just in time to stick his head into the wall and have his neck twisted so that he could see his ass following him over the falls.  It loses something in translation, but his vertebrae recall perfectly...

(Note:  We'll be out for the week and the report will be sporadic and occasional at best.  Headed to SF for the Bay to Breakers event and attendant hoomalimali, then on to Boise for some R&R.  See you on the 28th!...   Ed.)
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
 The Professor!!

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