Lost Boys & Co.

Lost Boys & Co... ... H ere we go again... (#1)  This is what happens when we don't play nice with Mother Nature...  O vercast this morning with 7 miles visibility.  Winds were calm and the sea surface was smooth.  The air temp was 64.8 and the water is 65.7, with a few warm spots here and there.  High tide was at 8:41am +3.7' and low tide follows at 1:24pm +1.9'.  We have a SSW swell out of 198º at 3.0' and it was about that big with some high tide floaters rolling through... G reat year for sunflowers!  (#2)  Suzi and Joey have been growing some gigantic plants! T his (#3) is the proper method for maintaining unsocial distancing wherever you might find yourself...  Never resort to throwing overhand.  It disturbs the carbonation... O kay, we'll be out of the water for a few days here to let things re-calibrate.  But we'll be checking and let you know what you're not missing.  Stay safe, wash your hands, social distance and...

Lost Boys & Co... A good day yesterday for all of those who jumped in and got wet.  (#1)  Demonstrates just how casual one should ride the nose.  No hand waving, no pumping, no cheating.  Mr. Christian presents a flawless example of the proper method... L ikewise, (#2) Jah Morgan in the middle of stepping to the tip.  Despite a weak knee and a cronky foot, she continues to make things look easy... O vercast this morning and cooler than the advertised 64.0.  The water is 65.7 and there was no sun poking through the clouds.  High tide was at 7:37am +3.6' and low tide will be at 12:33pm +1.6'.  The 46221 Buoy tells us that we have a SSW swell out of 194º at 3.6' and it was 3' to 4', but not as clean and peaked as yesterday.  Let's hope tomorrow things clean up and we grab a reprise of yesterday's good surf...  If not we have three days to think about our sins... #3 is a sign found in a consignment store suggesting they'd like to see y...

Lost Boys & Co... L et's get right to the heart of the matter.  Maybe it's not that we should be tearing down statues, it might be that we put the wrong ones up in the first place.  Take for instance our submission from Kolby Holdsworth (#1).  An excellent choice and no confederate general has ever won a Grammy... A n excellent day of surfing and ocean going.  Plenty of visibility under cloudless skies and variable light winds predominantly out of the west.  The sea surface was smooth with some ripples later in the morning.  The air temperature was 63.3 and the water was 66.7.  High tide was at 6:21am +3.6' and low tide will be at 11:42am +1.4'.  There's a SSW swell out of 205º at 3.3' and it was 3' to 4' with some nice waves early getting a tad faster as the tide dropped.  Quite a gathering including Doc ?, Jetski, Ronnie Garcia, Jah Morgan, Tarsan, Donnie and the Professor all keeping appropriate unsocial distancing.  Tenth St. had...

Lost Boys & Co... A t 5:30am we were trying to figure out why the sprinklers had gone on on the great south lawn of the Mar y Fuego Estate.  LoLa looked out the window and said, "It's raining!"  "Imposserous!" said the Professor, "It's June 29th and we can have overcast but rain is strictly forbidden under the Treaty of Ghent, article 32, #14."  He reluctantly got up to take a look and had to admit that it was, in fact raining.  But what does one do when it's raining?  One goes surfing (and hopes that he meets two and three and maybe four and five.)  By the time we arrived in Hermosa ( THE ) Beach there were patches of blue sky (#1) and things rapidly improved, except for maybe the wind got a little more enthusiastic and things bumped up a bit.  The air temperature was 62.8 and the water is 66.7.  Low tide was at 10:49am +1.0' and high tide will be at 5:42pm +5.3, in time for dinner.  We have a SSW swell out of 195º at 3.3' and it w...

Lost Boys & Co... T oday marks 15 weeks since we've started our response to the Corona Virus pandemic!  When's the last time you did something this religiously for 15 weeks?  And of course with the help of the fine burghers in Orange county and other spots that decided they'd had enough of the decidedly minimal personal restrictions, like wear a mask and keep an unsocial distance between themselves and their infected brethren, we've (California) had a pretty steady uptick.  Honestly, we understand the difficulty shutting things down causes businesses, schools and houses of worship.  But you know, as a human race we've been dealing with these pandemics for several millennia.  In the past they've wiped out millions of our ancestors and we can only imagine they'd cringe at the way we're finding this such an inconvenience.  It's like the inconvenience of "grazing" an iceberg to the passengers of the Titanic...  "The lifeboats?  They...

Lost Boys & Co... I t was gray and cool this morning as we strolled along the pier (#1).  Winds were out of the WSW by 3kts and the sea surface was slightly rippled.  Visibility was in the 5 to 10 mile range and it got better as the morning progressed and the overcast burned off.  The air was 63.0 and the water was 65.8.  Low tide was at 6:36am -0.8' and high tide is at 1:30pm +3.7'.  Minus tides in the a.m. for the rest of the week for your clam digging pleasure.  We have a SSW swell out of 194º at 2.3' and it was 2' with some low tide ankle busters... J ah Morgan (#2) making some tight little turns in this cool fish-eye view.  Looks like she could easily surf the Idaho standing wave.  You know the funny thing about that wave in Idaho?  It doesn't have a name.  It's not like the "Potato Bowl" or "First Reef Boise" or "Flushers."  Those Idaho folks are missing a bet here.  Next time we're up there we're going to call dib...

Lost Boys & Co... O vercast this morning with 5 miles visibility.   Winds were light out of the WSW at 3kts and the sea surface was a bit rippled and got smoother as we let the tide come up and the wind subside.  The air temperature was 63.3 and the water is trying at 66.6.  Low tide was early at 5:53am -0.9' and high tide washed in at 12:40pm +3.3'.  We have a 3.6' swell out of SSW 200º and it was 2' to 3' and pretty fun as Jetski, Tarsan, Doc ?, Jesse Rae and the Professor can attest.  It didn't look that good (#1) but it was lots more fun than it looked... #2 features Jah Morgan rocketing into a glassy little wedge looking fast, fashionable and fabulous...  Look at all those little details, like her outstretched right palm reaching ahead for maximum paddling power and her steely concentration on the wave ahead.  There's that inhalation before catching the wave and those shoulder-flexors waiting to spring her to her feet...  Take this ...