Lost Boys & Co.

Lost Boys Exhibit A would be the view from the Hermosa Pier checkout point.  This makes it look almost rideable. It was not.  Sapphire wasn't deluxe either... But there was 2 miles visibility under hazy sun.  The air temperature was 67.1° and the water is 70.3°.  High tide was at 9:57am +4.0' and low tide will be at 2:25pm +2.2'.  There's a SSW swell out of 198° at a respectable 3.0', but it's not enough to make Hermosa great again, so to speak... ✠ "When the surf breaks, we'll fix it" The Professor!!

Lost Boys & Co... If you were serious about surfing today, you could either go to Sapphire with 47 of your closest surfing buddies (like we did) or you could grab a boat and get an emerald green wave like Steve Burke (#1) on Lake Payette, Idaho.     Here we had hazy sun and 10 miles visibility.  Winds were light onshore and the sea surface was lightly textured.  The air at checkout was 66.3° and the water is a nice 69.4°.   High tide was early at 8:01am +3.1' and low tide follows at 11:23am +2.7'.  It was a SSW swell out of 199° at 2.6' and it was 1' to 3' at inside Sapphire... ✠ "When the surf breaks, we'll fix it" The Professor!!

Lost Boys & Co... " A pophenia" "describes the human tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random ideas and objects (why we perceive faces in cloud formations.)"  Thank you "Surfer's Journal!"  We didn't see anything this morning, but it was hazy and almost ten miles visibility.  Winds were annoyingly onshore by 3 to 5kts and the sea surface had a bit of texture.  The air temp was 65.9°and the water is nice at 68.9°.  High tide was at 6:38am +2.8' and low tide followed almost imperceptibly at 10:04am +2.5'.  We finally had something that looked like a swell from the SW (215°) at 2.6'.  Hermosa still insisted on floating everything that came through, but Sapphire,  sporting 42 rabid surfistas (Kaweka counted them!) was almost 3' and if you had the right attitude and the right equipment was passably fun.  Not adorable, but giggly... W onder what to catch for dinner tonight?  #1. Gives you som...

Lost Boys & Co... S o here (#1) we have a map of an area in south Florida.  You will note a number of extremely warm water temps in this area, but none quite as amazing as the buoy off of Manatee Bay which registered a whopping 101.1°!  Now we thought this was a misprint, BUT NO! It was legit and now they're telling us that this is the second time it's gone over a hundred in that area.   They're claiming that in 2017 it got up to 102°, but now they're saying that they thought their findings at the time were suspect.  Apparently the folks in Florida have lost their collective #%&#$+! minds and view climate change as a hoax.  What's it going to take to make all these people take notice?  They continue to dump silt producing effluent into the bay and that heats things up at an even greater rate!   Is this the tipping point?  Will there be no pedaling/paddling back from the brink?  We're in the water every day.  We know how little ...

Lost Boys & Co... H ere (#1) we have Burnsy waving frantically as we get ready to depart Idaho for So. Cal.  Been a nice vacation with warm weather, fine food and great company.  Of course the Idaho contingent will be visiting the South Bay next week and we're planning some beach activities for the group.  Surely some good Brother's time!  Now if we can get the surf to cooperate! B ut not TODAY! Hazy/foggy with about a mile visibility.  Winds are light onshore, 1 to 3kts and the sea surface is smooth.  The air is 67.0° and the water is 68.2°.  Low tide was at 8:15am +1.8' and high tide will be at 3:39pm +4.7'.  It's a SSW (198°) swell at 2.6' and it's poor to flat.  Again, it's supposed to pick up later this week and we'll see how that goes... ✠ "When the surf breaks, we'll fix it" The Professor!!

Lost Boys & Co... (#1) S he looked like a Goth-Angel-Mermaid-Siren, ready to lure teenage sailors onto the rocks. 10 miles visibility under hazy skies.  Wind is out of the west by 3 to 5kts and the sea surface is lightly textured.  The air is 69.9° and the water is 67.1°.  Low tide is at 7:47am +1.3' and high tide is at 2:54pm +4.4'.  No surprise, we have a SSW swell out of 207° at 1.6' and it's almost 1' and poor, but not quite... L ooking like Thursday and Friday of this week have the surf jumping a bit!  We have it on good authority that Jetski will be making an appearance and other South Bay notables and visitors will be on board, surfboard that is... And Clarkē, what about Clarkē?  😎 ✠ "When the surf breaks, we'll fix it" The Professor!!

Lost Boys & Co... O ur thoughts turn to that fateful day 8 years ago when Jah Morgan decided she was going to surf every day for a year.  Well, we all know how that turned out, don't we.  And we watched her on the cam this morning still surfing like the surf goddess she is, along with the other goddesses she's inspired, like Anna, Marion, Ginny, Millie etc. etc.  Carry on Jah!  We love you! (#1.  Bacallao, Jah, Christiano, Ginny) T hen our thoughts turned to the conditions!  Like partly cloudy skies with ten miles visibility.  Winds out of the south by 2 to 5kts and the sea surface has a bit of texture.  The air temp is 68.7° and the water is 67.8°.  Low tide was at 6:29am +0.1' and high tide is full at 1:11pm +4.0'.  It's a west swell out of 269° at 3.0' and it's 2' to3' with some better outsides. W ith thoughts still revolving, we read SeaWolf's account of the beginning of the Lost Boys (and consequently the Surf & Culture Repo...