It's Not Wrong If It's Right Wednesday Surf & Culture Report



Lost Boys & Co...

Hazy sun, no...  more like smog (#1).  That smoke and fog that we are no strangers to as we bump along in this season that taxes our imaginations and leaves us wondering about what we know and what we think we know...  The fact that we can still go surfing is a miracle in the throes of everything else that's going on and going wrong...  Mexico?  Always an option...

Shmazy hazy, shmoggy etc.  Less than 2 miles visibility and slightly breathable.  Winds out of the NW, light and less than the advertised 4kts.  The sea surface was smooth.  The air temperature was 58.3 and the water is 66.9 warming in the afternoon to high sixties.  High tide at 9:31am +5.1' and low tide skids along at 3:00pm +1.0'.  There's a SSW swell out of 209º at 2.0' and it was an almost consistent 2' with an occasional outside that inevitably caught you waiting ten yards inside the takeoff point...  Indicators suggest that it should be a bit bigger mañana, so we'll be down there waiting to see who knows what...

Ronnie Garcia (#2) has been ripping it up for the last two weeks straight.  Wave count in the twenties each session, there's not a left that he doesn't turn into a flashy glide down the beach.  On the Barahona Titan model he's working his way up from the lifestyle team, to the headliners!  The other morning he and Doc ? took off on the same wave and Ronnie pulled him over, asked for I.D. and registration and left him with a hefty fine and stranded on the sand...

Clarkey (#3) continues to suggest that he might get into the water before the end of summer...

The crew on SCUM PLAZA...  L to R:  The Professor, Rasta Pete, Tarsan and Clarke making light of the municipalities attempt at a landmark...  (Photo credit:  Jetski, for "Masonry Monthly")
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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