Mal de Mer Monday Surf & Culture Report

Lost Boys & Co...

We know that the Coach, the Rock and TJ hit Torrance this morning.  But we took a different tack and ended up at Sappharua on a west swell, that is making everyone extremely happy!  In fact yesterday we took a long bike ride to Manhattan and ended up getting a little sun at 28th St. in Hermosa.  Somehow we ended up in the water and it wasn't freeze-ass cold and there were some nice little body surfing waves.  You'd almost think that it was summer!  Our first shot is of Sandy ? (don't know her last name) getting low for a little speed run to the jetty.  She made it easy...

Hazy sun this morning, clearing to a brilliant day.  12 miles visibility and we watched the steam from the power plants rising straight up into a cloudless, windless sky.  The sea surface was a tad bumpy at day break, but calmed as the morning progressed.  The air temperature was 62.3° and the water is a delightful 67.1°.  Low tide starts out the morning at 7:24am +0.9' and high tide will be at 2:17pm +4.5'.  The buoy is reading a 3.6' swell out of 260°.  We're agreeing that it's 3' to 4', but there were some sneakers that tickled our earlobes.  Definitely a good day.

Our second photo was of the Body Glove boat and the Hennessey's Cup Paddleboard Race.  If you can, take a closer look and you can see the trail of paddlers stretching all the way to the horizontal.  All things being equal it was a great day for a paddle.  Not much wind, sun and a ton of people to share the experience.  Well, two out of three ain't bad...

"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."
 The Professor!!



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