Red Car Wednesday Surf & Culture Report

Lost Boys & Co...

There's a spot outside of about 14th St. that they call "Cable Cars."  It only breaks when it's huge and then it might almost qualify as a tow-in spot.  So to begin with it should be called "Red Cars" because that's what they sank there to create an artificial reef.  The Pacific Electric Railroad was going the way of the dinosaurs and they had all of these Red Cars gathering dust.  They sank a bunch of these, in what could be considered a relative underwater desert, then monitored the reef to see if it attracted fish.  Well it did and it inspired J.G. and his crew to consider larger more stable reefs.  It wasn't long before worms ate away most of the wood, but for years the steel wheels looked like pick-up-sticks on the bottom.

We could have used a reef this morning, or more accurately a swell. It was partly cloudy and visibility was 10 miles.  Winds were out of the south 1 to 3kts freshening to 15kts by noon.  Lots of bump.  The air temperature was 62.9º and the water is 66.4º.  Low tide was at 7:44am +0.6' and high tide will be at 2:33pm +4.9'.  It's a SSW swell not making the turn at P.V.  It was 2.6' at the buoy and 1' and poor on the sand.

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