Lost Boys & Co.

Lost Boys & Co... K eeping things local.  LoLa buying stuff in the mercado... F oggies this morning with limited visibility, down to about a ¼ of a mile in places.  Winds were off by 5.2kts and the sea surface was smooth.  The air temperature was 55.5° and the water was 60.8°.  Low tide wasn't that low at 6:39am +2.8' and high tide isn't that high at 12:22pm +4.8'.  The buoy is reading a west swell out of 268° at 3.9'.  We're calling it 3' steady with some shoulder high outsides.  Fun in most places with the rising tide giving it a bit of a push... For all of you with any money left, be aware of the next expected mergers so that you can get in on the ground floor and make some BIG bucks. Watch for these consolidations in 2012: 1. Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush, and W. R. Grace Co. will merge and become: Hale, Mary, Fuller, Grace. 2. Polygram Records, Warner Bros., and Zesta Crackers join forces and become: Poly, Warner ...

Lost Boys & Co... N othing is going right for this guy.  He got his girlfriend some flowers.  They had bees.  She threw them on his truck and ran toward the beach.  He ran after her.  That was 9:59am.  He got a ticket at 10:01am...  The Hermosa Beach parking enforcement detail prefers to not get emotionally involved... T he swell is starting to pick up this morning.  12 miles visibility under hazy skies.  Winds out of the SE by 4.6kts and the sea surface is smooth to glassy.  The air temperature was 57.3° and the water is 61.0°.  High tide is at 11:22am +5.5' and low tide will be at 6:47pm -0.2', our last day of minus tides.  We have a west swell out of 272° at 3.3'.  That's a good call and it continues to build.  High tides in the morning tomorrow as we usher November into the archives. W e understand that they're going to be showing some video and images from the first part of the South Bay Surf League's season...

Lost Boys & Co... I f a tree falls in the forest...?  No one heard a thing... W atched a beautiful sunrise this morning with 15 miles visibility under partly cloudy skies.  Winds were chilly offshore by 5.4kts and the sea surface was smooth to glassy.  The air temperature was 59.1° and the water was just a smidge warmer at 60.8°.  High tide at 10:30am +6.1' and low tide will be this evening at 5:54pm -0.7'.  The buoy is reading a west swell out of 265° at 2.3' and we're calling it right there.  Swell is supposed to be increasing for tomorrow. R edondo meets PV at Torrance Beach tomorrow, 6:30am the first heat hits the water.  Might be one of the most closely contested dual meets of the So. Bay Surf League this year.  Check it out...   "When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."  The Professor!!

Lost Boys & Co... L ooks like a cross between a raccoon, an anteater, an aardvark and a nine-banded armadillo without the shell.  Saw it in the backyard.  Have no idea what it is.  LoLa says it's a chupacabra.  Definitely not a chupacabra... W hat we do have a definite take on, is the day and it is beautiful although a tad cool.  Unlimited visibility after the rain did a spit-shine number on the atmosphere and mostly sunny, with the exception of a few Toy Story™ clouds to the south.  Winds out of the north by 3kts at checkout and a smooth sea surface for your surfing pleasure.  The air temperature was a sparkling (as in chilled champagne) 47.0° and 60.8° in the brine.  High tide at 5:34am +5.9' and low tide at 12:20 +0.3'.  Some radical tides throughout the Thanksgiving holiday with minuses in the afternoons starting tomorrow.  A deep -1.6' on Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) which should saddle-up all of our beach glass collect...

Lost Boys & Co... S orry we missed Friday's surf report.  We got one of the best colds we've had in years! S urf is supposed to be good today and we're thinking that it didn't rain hard enough to measure a warning on the "Danger Boy Rain Index."  Go get it! A couple of final shots from El Salvador.  We know how it is to look at other people's slides of their vacation...  #1 the Professor and Hortensia, conducting a bit of business.  She negotiated and he did the heavy lifting.  Then in #2 we have an itinerant mariachi strolling along Playa El Tunco, just as the sun was going down.  Fantastic sunsets - just like Hawaii, but it's not, because you're in El Salvador! W e found this on the Professor's nightstand this morning.  Apparently his memoirs have taken an ugly turn... "#58  I have a cold.  It is a profound example of the viral arts.  It started with a sore throat that hurt so bad, my ears were ringing.  My throat had i...

Lost Boys & Co... M elissa Mazur, getting down to a little speed run... B ig foggies this morning, with reduced visibility until about 7:30am .  Hazy sun up above the fray.  Winds out of the NNE by 4.1kts and the sea surface was glassy to smooth. The air temp was 56.0° and the water was 61.9°.  Low tide at 7:14am +3.2' and high tide will follow at 12:49pm +4.5'.  The buoy reads a west swell out of 270° true at 2.6' and we're calling it 2' with not much push... N ot exactly begging ... "The question begs to be asked, if you are in Spain , is it Body Spanish?" Don Burt   (Yes.   Ed.)   P hoto 2 shows Mark getting down to business on this nice wall and #3 opens it up to describe the playing field a bit better. O ur condolences to our good friend Zoë Mailloux Maggio and her family on the loss of her mother Tina.  Tina was 91 years old and lived a wonderful uncomplicated life with her family and friends.  She was a happy presenc...

Lost Boys & Co... M ark the Poolman, says he never smiles in photographs.  Never.  Look closely...  he's smiling... O vercast this morning, with 10 miles visibility as Redondo High met the Pirates of San Pedro at Hermosa Pier.  Winds were offshore by 3.8kts and the sea surface was glassy to smooth.  The air temperature was hoody-up 56.0° and the water was 61.9°.  High tide early at 5:25am +3.2' and low tide was early as well at 11:35am +5.0'.  The buoy showed a 2.6' west swell out of 271° and it was all of that, to 3' outside, as the Seahawks won their second dual league meet.  After Thanksgiving week off, they surf again against Palos Verdes High at Torrance Beach on November 29.  You will, of course, have most of your Christmas shopping done and be ready to watch some flashy prep surfing... P hoto #2, Melissa is making sure the photographer is watching... T he Professor discovers that when you take off back far enough, it gets bigger b...

Lost Boys & Co... C heck this out for a little technical filmic interest.  They used a 30-cam Go-Pro array to get these wrap-around shots! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0x52u2yzgI&feature=youtube_gdata_player T hen we have our own Melissa Mazur slotted in this section that's just about to get some feathers.  Mark as well, without feathers,  wrapping this little section as he did a roller coaster into this corner.  (If these photos appear out of order in the website, it's because we had to install them after the fact.  Sometimes the files are to big to send, so we have to include them later.  They never end up where we want them.  Thank you.) H azy sun with a few high clouds and 18 miles visibility.  Winds were offshore out of the ESE by 3.3kts and the sea surface was smooth, but lightly textured.  The air temperature was a mild 57.9° and the water didn't seem that cold at 61.3°.  High tide at 10:42am +5.3' and low tide will be...

Lost Boys & Co... W e surfed with Melissa Mazur (#1) at Roca Sunzal and she ripped on some good sized waves.  Some indication of her game:  She paddled for one about TWICE this size!  She didn't catch it, but she was determined if she did... S ome good waves this weekend.  Saturday blew offshore all day and the 6-way South Bay Surf League had some absolutely stellar performances in the 3' to 4' surf.  This morning we still have a bit of swell despite the high tide.  20 miles visibility under partly cloudy skies.  Winds are offshore by 2.3kts and the sea surface is smooth.  The air temperature was 54.2° and the water is 61.3°.  High tide shows at 10:01am +5.6' and low tide will be at 5:39pm +0.1'.  The buoy is reading a west swell out of 260° at 3.0' and we'll concur.  Some good ones at Hermosa this morning, on both sides of the pier. M ark "the Pool Man" Janicich, has surfed Roca for nearly a decade and his local knowledge serv...

Lost Boys & Co... S o, here are the Professor & LoLa with Paulo Suarez, the El Salvadorian futból sensation and his son.  Paulo had just got finished vanquishing the Honduran team by scoring two of El Salvador's three goals.  He obliged our request to take his photo and then turned to the Professor and said, "Wait, I think I know you!  Are you Ubaldo Fillol, the famous Argentinian goalkeeper? "  As much as he wanted to claim that he was "El Pato," the Professor demurred and said that he wasn't.  Then, Pablo said, "Wait, you're the Coach!"  The Professor shook his head and said, "Nope, I'm the Professor."  Whereupon his son looked at the Professor and said, "Tu tienes un nariz grande!"  Olé!... I t's one of those mornings when the mom's in Hermosa bring the kids down to the beach and they ride their snow saucers down the 20' berm they've built up.  Anywhere else it would be snow...  Cloudy skies w...

Lost Boys & Co... W e were almost to the bottom when the Professor remembered he wanted a photo of the stairway...  He says, "You climb up these things in the dark, but when you start to go down you realize you're 200+ feet up and these "stairs" are really rickety.  Everyone gets a little annoyed when you start to make it shake, because you can imagine the whole thing toppling down or cracking through the first step and heading the rest of the way down like some Laurel and Hardy movie.  You start stepping really lightly..." W e're going to tell you all the stats, but first remember it's flat...  15 miles visibility under mostly cloudy skies.  Gray but not dark... yet.  Winds were offshore, out of the east at checkout by 5.6kts.  The air temp was 54.2° and the water has finally dropped below 60° to a bracing 59.9°.  We don't know how the Irish and the down East guys do it??  High tide at 7:58am +6.0' and low tide follows at 3:03pm -0.2'....

Lost Boys & Co...   "I t's good to be king!"  Bob Stassi, scores again this year with a 3rd Place in the PTN Halloween party.  What we really want to know though, is that REALLY Miss California?  Because we'd vote for her if she ran... A nother great SoCal morning as the sun came up just in time.  20 miles visibility and a bit of the local haze at the beach.  Winds were offshore3 by 3.4kts and the sea surface was near glassy.  The air was 49.2° and the water temperature stayed above the 50's with a 60.3°.  High tide at 9:33am 5.9' and low tide at 2:32pm zero's out at 0.0'.  Negative pm lows for the rest of the week.  We have a SW swell out of 236° at 2.3' and it was 3' at El Porto this morning as the Redondo Surf Team caused the Eagles to come in El Segundo.  How appropriate...  Next meet is scheduled for Saturday, although all of the forecasters are calling for one of the biggest storms in the last couple of years to hit....

Lost Boys & Co... W e're eating dinner in a little place in the jungle in Guatemala, near the ruins at Tikal.  Memé says, "I think I just saw a turtle fly onto the path."  This got everyone's attention, since even though there were seven of us, not one of us had ever seen a flying turtle (in the wild.)  Ché, had a flashlight and in no time we found the "turtle" which turned out to be a rhinoceros beetle.  To give you some perspective the Professor asked Ché to put his hand next to it.  Ché thought the Professor must be suffering from Dengue fever... but allowed that he would get "close."  If you can enlarge this on your computer, look at the "forks" on either side of it's mouth.  What a concept!  A beautiful fall morning here in LaLa land.  We have 20 miles visibility under a hazy ball of orange sunshine.  Winds were out of the north by 2.7kts and the sea surface was smooth with the slightest ripple.  The air temperature was 4...

Lost Boys & Co... O ne more of the Professor in El Salvador...  Considering the lowered water temps, the cold air and the chilly rain, ES hold some pretty warm memories...  I f the weekend was full of unstable weather (the Danger Boy 72 hour rule was in effect), this morning dawned clear and brisk.  20+ miles visibility.  Winds were offshore by 3.4kts and the sea surface was smooth with a slight roll.  The air temperature was 46.1° and the water was down another degree to 60.8° and it felt colder than that.  High tide was at 6:47am +5.6' and low tide will be at 1:30pm +0.5'.  We have a SSW swell out of 209° at 4.6'.  Looking good at all our venues, we're calling it 3' to 5'. W hen in El Salvador do as the El Salvadorians do...  Here LoLa tries her hand at making ES style tortillas.  Smaller but thicker than their Mexican counterparts, they are pretty darned tasty!  Before long she was cranking them out just like the rest of the...

Lost Boys & Co... W hen you get to be a certain age and you crank a bottom turn, you start looking like the crank...  No matter, the Professor says it felt good anyway... A bit of rain this morning, light at times and breaking up.  Scheduled T-storms around noon, 12 miles visibility.  Kite flying advisory:  Don't.   Winds, gusty at times to 15kts and the sea surface is hacked and unorganized.  The air temp is 58.7° and the water is 61.7°.  High tide at 6:27am +4.7' and low tide will follow at 12:34pm (yes, 1-2-3-4) +2.0' on your radio dial.  The 46221 buoy tells us we have a SSW swell out of 198° at 3.3'.  However, we'll be waiting for that nor'wester at 315° to be dropping and send us a bit more west for some surf tomorrow. S peaking of tomorrow, there's a 6-way meet with Redondo, San Pedro, Costa, PV, South and El Segundo at the Hermosa Pier.  First heat hits the water at 10am and it goes until noon.  Each school's gotta sp...

Lost Boys & Co... S omewhere under the ground in the San Diego Volcano Preserve, outside Metapan, El Salvador, we went searching for the various species of bats that live in this netherworld.  Like little Brown Bats, bigger Vampire Bats, giant Fruit Bats and the fearsome Chupacabra.  Photo #1 is the crew taking a rest after crawling on their hands and knees to get to this room.  L to R we have Comondante Ché, Beto, LoLa, Koki and the Professor.  The bats were there in numbers and despite their echo-location, we spent a fair amount of time bobbing and weaving to avoid being smacked by the flying mammals.  That being the case, it was hard to get a photo, but we persisted and got this one good one... C lear this morning with 20 miles visibility and a lurking fog bank, somewhere offshore.  Winds were off by 5.2kts and the sea surface was glassy.  The air temperature was 58.2° and the water was 61.2°.  High tide was at 5:49am +4.5' and low tide w...

Lost Boys & Co... T he guy taking pics had a really long lens! 20 miles visibility this morning with some hazy sun rolling out of the mountains.  Winds are out of the east by 4.6kts and the sea surface is smooth to glassy.  The air temperature is 57.7° and the water seems a lot warmer at 61.7°.  Low tide at 10am even at 3.0' and high tide will be at 3:32pm 4.5'.  The famed 46221 Buoy says it's a west swell out of 275° at 3.0' and we're calling it right on 3.0', but it needs a little more tide... G ringos scare us...   "When the surf breaks, we'll fix it..."  The Professor!!

Lost Boys & Co... W e've hidden all of the mini-Snickers, so don't even bother asking... W e were talking about it raining so much in El Salvador...  This little girl made a cute pic treading water on Lake Aguija, until we found out she was standing on her brother's shoulders, who was standing on top of their house...  They were a bit pruney so we pulled them out... A beautiful day in LA after the early morning overcast lifted.  10 miles visibility.  Winds were out of the SE by 3.3kts this morning and the sea surface was smooth to almost glassed.  The air temperature was 56.0° and the water is 61.2°.  Low tide is at 8:03am +3.1' and high tide washes in at 2:01pm +5.0'.  The swell is out of the west 260° at 3.0' and we're calling it 2' to 3' and looking nice as the tide came up. N ot known as a speed wave, in photo #2, the Professor still thought you could get some "fast" in those middle sections...  Playa Tunco, El Salvador. W e didn...