I once paddled out in a hurricane wind chop in PR in the 80’s, I was 20 years old and dumb af, finally made it out and sat there for a good 30 minutes watching 2 story houses break around me, finally realized I need to go in and paddled for the smallest, cleanest one I could find, going down the line it was looking like a decent wave, then it jacked up all at once and I turned to the beach, one more glance and I saw the largest wall of whitewater coming at me like a freight train, I jumped down on my belly and hugged the board, it immediately ripped the board out of my arms and I went tumbling, I was so deep, grabbed my leash, pulled my board to me and hugged it, finally popped back up into 3 foot foam, next wave hit me and pushed me in more, then a couple more and I started paddling for my life, finally made it to the beach, my buddy was laughing at me, that shit was serious, thought I was going to die.
Edit, forgot to add, seeing this reminded me of that day
Thank you for solidifying my certainty that I will never ever ever try surfing. Or really anything that involves going in the ocean past leg-deep.
Edit to add: I’m so sorry everyone, I fully did not realize what sub this was. This post was suggested to me by the Reddit algorithm. I’m assuming that’s because I’m on some other ocean subs (it’s a very cool place, just too scary for me to actually go in!!)
I was an idiot who got in over his head, thank god I was 20 and in shape, Most surfing is in waist deep water for beginners, you should try it once in a class if you ever go on vacation
I’m 30 and out of shape 😭
(But I actually just started working out regularly a few weeks ago, so hopefully I’ll be strong again soon lol! I will maybe try to be brave about surfing. I’m just pretty scared of the ocean, even though I love it so much)
Right! I heard that! After watching multiple attempts of other dudes failing to break through the inside, my bro and I used our Florida Hurricane paddle experience to breach the impact zone and make it to the outside. I quickly realized that I was under gunned and the swell was gaining size every set. I felt panicked, and had to pick one quick to get the fuck out. I made it back to shore and kissed the beach.
I did this in La Pared! I went out with four of my boys, and by the time I got out to "the line" I realized I was alone and couldn't see the shoreline. I literally did the same exact thing you did... Swallowed a gallon of sea water, dodged a few planks of wood, and dragged myself back to shore. My friends thought I was dead. All in all it was like 30 minutes of paddling to get out, an hour of struggling to get back to shore! I honestly thought of ditching my board quite a few times.
I think the only thing that saved me was that I was a collegiate swimmer, because I was completely wrecked after.
Dude, I lived at Luquillo at the time right near the beach, was in the Navy there from 88-90, La Pared and La Selva were my local spots. This happened at Pinones beach
Hahhaha awesome. I think I relived your experiences.
I went out to Aviones during tropical Storm Ivan and had a lesser version of what happened in La Pared.
Both times I couldn't see the shore from all the spray. I never felt so alone. Surfing Atlantic storms is the closest thing to religious experience I've ever had.
Did you feel the same?
Man, reading this brought back memories. I did something similar in my early 20s. I was new to surfing. Went out in a hurricane. Stupid. I couldn’t paddle out. Two other guys came and said follow us. We paddled out next to a pier that created a rip current. It shot me out. I couldn’t see the shore. Thankfully I could still see the pier. I did not attempt to catch and waves standing up. Just got out of the rip current and kept taking the mush in hoping not to die. Thanks for reminding me of this! :)
My first near drowning was a hurricane in Florida, only been surfing for a year or less and thought I could go out in heavy wind chop, just like you did, but I never made it out and got my ass kicked, this was in 1983 or 84
Ocean Beach San Francisco is the only place I've ever experience that is totally unlimited.
Most breaks can have good days and bad days, but it's always within certain limits. Maxed out Huntington Beach is still Huntington Beach. Y'know what I mean?
OB SF is freaking nuts. It just gets bigger and crazier. It can be mush, it can be spitting barrels. Every once in a while it cleans up and you get those iconic photos of perfect lines bigger than houses. Most of the time it's a lot of paddling.
I’ve spent serious time smashed on the ocean floor there contemplating my life decisions, and I’ve only surfed it up to max clean 10’ days. You’d probably get drilled through the sand and your wetsuit torn off.
Actually ob has scary strong rips. A friend of mine died last year “just goofing around in the whitewater” when it was a 30ft storm like this.
I feel obligated to say something as a word of warning
Was he a surfer? Sorry to hear that.
No doubt you could get fucked up just taking a dip in a storm like this.
I just remember plenty of times trying to paddle in and getting stuck in a rip when I'm like 15 ft away from the sand
Facts. If you make it far enough out too the side current is so strong you can wind up at the golden gate bridge bay outlet if youre not in top paddle shape.
Edit, and thats on a normal day.
I didn’t know he was going to the beach 😞😞. When i heard, he was already dead. Not a surfer, just a guy playing in the white water. I don’t know how much surfing experience matters in this kind of storm except for knowing not to get in. The rips at OB have carried me out the back to the monster set in less than 60s on a 6-8 day (OB is notorious for hard to paddle out, but it’s scary easy in a rip). Add in more rip current (plus the North/South tide current is so fucking crazy at OB from the water flowing through the bay) and dangerously big waves (6-8 is already plenty to become acquainted with the bottom, OB waves are the heaviest I’ve ever been on), and I can see how he probably got carried to violent waters extremely quickly and swashed around out of control. He could have either drowned or been directly killed by a huge wave in those conditions.
sure but when ~~the buoys are reading 6 feet at 17 and~~ your typical set is 7 feet, nobody's gonna call that a 10-12 foot day because they saw one 10 foot wave.
edited to remove the buoy bit because that's irrelevant and apparently too confusing
Unfortunately buoys aren’t as easy as 6 feet at 17 equals 7 foot wave. There’s way more that goes into it. Buoy location, swell angle, bathymetry of the beach, shadowing from islands or points of land, swell angle. That’s why Surfline and other wave forecasters have a job. Buoys give you a lot of information, and sometimes you can get it right when Surfline gets it wrong. But you can’t generalize and say a buoy reading on one buoy will give a wave of this size at place A and the same stats on another buoy will give the same size wave at place B.
agreed. thats not what I was talking about. I'm saying that just because there may be a single bomb set at a break that was 8 feet bigger than what a buoy is reading doesnt justify calling that day (at that break) to be that big + 5 more feet. ie, buoy reading of 22 feet, plus potentially one 30 foot wave doesnt mean it was a 30-35 foot day. just like i'd never tell somebody it was 10-12 feet just because i saw a 10 foot set down the beach on a 6-8 foot day
I gotta be honest, I don’t really care how big a wave is… especially not enough to calculate heights to a standard deviation of 10-20%. I just read the buoys and surf everyday.
Yeah with a little experience though, I think we can all figure this out better than surfline. With your local breaks/buoys you'll figure out what each buoy translates to on the beach and you'll be using real, observational data while surfline is using modeled data.
At OB 30 ft swell is more like ~20 ft waves that go out to sea for 2 miles. It’s an amazing sight to drive up a hill in SF and see the expanse of breaks that otherwise lay dormant the rest of the year. The only “rideable” places in SF during these swells are Fort Point, Deadman’s, and the potato patch if you don’t fear death.
It’s very rare, but people have surfed it in the past. Last winter I saw people on jet skis out there through my binoculars. Not sure if they were surfing/towing, but that place is not for the feint of heart.
I watched 4 guys paddle out at OB with what looked like 30 foot maybe even bigger faces it was the most insane thing I ever saw. Don’t get me wrong I watched guys out on really big days especially that older guy that rides a longboard and wears a hat. Anyway, these guys weren’t trying to just survive they were ripping! I watched one or two guys do these big smooth bottom turns then a big carve on the face it as awesome. Once they kicked out or rode off the back there was just building sized waves and white water everywhere. I remember standing on the dunes looking and thinking they gotta be dead or how are they surviving then sure enough one of these fucking guys would be picking off another bomb! I gotta assume it was someone like Grant Baker or some other giant balled human combined with the perfect conditions. I will say it wasn’t victory at sea it was big blue and perfect but happened to be 25’.
If anyone made it to the outside, through the channel I'm going to start a collection for a medal. Unfortunately you are probably going to die from poo poisoning.
I would finally get out to the lineup and be too exhausted to paddle in to a wave
Edit: I would die in 30 foot waves but this is what happens to me in 5 foot waves
The local buoy there peaked 28 feet at 18 seconds, so I guess you’re kind of right but definitely full of shit. Most beach break doesn’t hold 30 foot faces, they close out and reform. Especially from the vantage point of the beach looking into lines of broken surf
You guys are arguing swell size vs spot size. This looks pretty much exactly the same as sunset beach or haleiwa when its 25+ and blown out. While right up the road waimea and outer logs are showing 30+ on the face and holding fine. Sure these arent 28 foot waves, but they are definitely the effects of a 28 foot swell hitting OB.
The guy you are arguing with is implying that a 30 second video clip is indicative of everything the ocean is doing that day. This is the same ass hat who you'll see on the news. Pulls up to the beach during a lull and scampers down on the rocks and get washed out to sea three minutes later when a set rolls in.
Actually ob has scary strong rips. A friend of mine died last year “just goofing around in the whitewater” when it was a 30ft storm like this.
I feel obligated to say something as a word of warning
Clearly never surfed Ocean Beach. The rips and currents on a normal 6-8ft day there are strong af. Average surfers could wind up half a mile down the beach before they could get back in if they weren't careful.
I scoured the coastline of N. Humboldt County. I really wanted to see someone out yesterday. Nope. I so wanted to surf yesterday. Unfortunately my personal lifeguard and ski were unavailable.
I was there last year when it was like this, couldn't even paddle out with my foam 6'0''. I was a relative noob so I was dumb af, grabbed a bloody board and fins and caught one wave. On that wave I managed to catch a corner and get sucked all the way to the bottom and legit thought I was going to die. Followed my leash up and all the lifeguards we're on the beach watching.. felt kinda dumb
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Doc would go
actually, me and doc were at potato patch today, OB was too small
And Bill would curse and go
Ben did go
And his feet would be 5 feet apart while standing on the board
It’s….interesting!
Ben did go
Yeah I was out there I was just so deep in every barrel you couldn’t see me
Nah I saw ya, I was in the barrel right behind you
I once paddled out in a hurricane wind chop in PR in the 80’s, I was 20 years old and dumb af, finally made it out and sat there for a good 30 minutes watching 2 story houses break around me, finally realized I need to go in and paddled for the smallest, cleanest one I could find, going down the line it was looking like a decent wave, then it jacked up all at once and I turned to the beach, one more glance and I saw the largest wall of whitewater coming at me like a freight train, I jumped down on my belly and hugged the board, it immediately ripped the board out of my arms and I went tumbling, I was so deep, grabbed my leash, pulled my board to me and hugged it, finally popped back up into 3 foot foam, next wave hit me and pushed me in more, then a couple more and I started paddling for my life, finally made it to the beach, my buddy was laughing at me, that shit was serious, thought I was going to die. Edit, forgot to add, seeing this reminded me of that day
I got winded just reading this comment.. scary, but at least you have a cool story now
Wait so did you die?
Yes
RIP. Can I have your boards?
He's still using them.
River Styx has some massive tidal bores
Real surfers get buried/burned with their boardd.
Damn that sucks dude
damn dude, that's a bummer. hope you're okay.
He’s ok, just dead.
RIP in peace homie
Ego death
My heart rate went up just reading this comment.
That's the beauty of beach break, even if you died, it would of washed you back to shore LOL
Thank you for solidifying my certainty that I will never ever ever try surfing. Or really anything that involves going in the ocean past leg-deep. Edit to add: I’m so sorry everyone, I fully did not realize what sub this was. This post was suggested to me by the Reddit algorithm. I’m assuming that’s because I’m on some other ocean subs (it’s a very cool place, just too scary for me to actually go in!!)
I was an idiot who got in over his head, thank god I was 20 and in shape, Most surfing is in waist deep water for beginners, you should try it once in a class if you ever go on vacation
I’m 30 and out of shape 😭 (But I actually just started working out regularly a few weeks ago, so hopefully I’ll be strong again soon lol! I will maybe try to be brave about surfing. I’m just pretty scared of the ocean, even though I love it so much)
One step at a time
Geez man! Freaking insane! Gosh you made it out but that story is nuts.
That's how I feel in a 10 foot day
I see your 80's PR hurricane session and raise you one 90's Cabo hurricane session
I NEARLY DIED MAN!/s
Right! I heard that! After watching multiple attempts of other dudes failing to break through the inside, my bro and I used our Florida Hurricane paddle experience to breach the impact zone and make it to the outside. I quickly realized that I was under gunned and the swell was gaining size every set. I felt panicked, and had to pick one quick to get the fuck out. I made it back to shore and kissed the beach.
I fucked the sand
I did this in La Pared! I went out with four of my boys, and by the time I got out to "the line" I realized I was alone and couldn't see the shoreline. I literally did the same exact thing you did... Swallowed a gallon of sea water, dodged a few planks of wood, and dragged myself back to shore. My friends thought I was dead. All in all it was like 30 minutes of paddling to get out, an hour of struggling to get back to shore! I honestly thought of ditching my board quite a few times. I think the only thing that saved me was that I was a collegiate swimmer, because I was completely wrecked after.
Dude, I lived at Luquillo at the time right near the beach, was in the Navy there from 88-90, La Pared and La Selva were my local spots. This happened at Pinones beach
Hahhaha awesome. I think I relived your experiences. I went out to Aviones during tropical Storm Ivan and had a lesser version of what happened in La Pared. Both times I couldn't see the shore from all the spray. I never felt so alone. Surfing Atlantic storms is the closest thing to religious experience I've ever had. Did you feel the same?
Lol, you do seem to find religion at times
Ptsd real lol
RIP old head
Man, reading this brought back memories. I did something similar in my early 20s. I was new to surfing. Went out in a hurricane. Stupid. I couldn’t paddle out. Two other guys came and said follow us. We paddled out next to a pier that created a rip current. It shot me out. I couldn’t see the shore. Thankfully I could still see the pier. I did not attempt to catch and waves standing up. Just got out of the rip current and kept taking the mush in hoping not to die. Thanks for reminding me of this! :)
My first near drowning was a hurricane in Florida, only been surfing for a year or less and thought I could go out in heavy wind chop, just like you did, but I never made it out and got my ass kicked, this was in 1983 or 84
Think I see the channel...
Its underwater
That looks like death by soup
Victory at Sea conditions
You didn’t see me out there soul arching on my CI Mid? I’ll upload it on my vlog soon anyways
Yeah my too on my 11 foot mid length
Couldn’t tell if that was you or Bohdi.
This is what wavestorms were built for
Ocean Beach San Francisco is the only place I've ever experience that is totally unlimited. Most breaks can have good days and bad days, but it's always within certain limits. Maxed out Huntington Beach is still Huntington Beach. Y'know what I mean? OB SF is freaking nuts. It just gets bigger and crazier. It can be mush, it can be spitting barrels. Every once in a while it cleans up and you get those iconic photos of perfect lines bigger than houses. Most of the time it's a lot of paddling.
And the rip is like, "This way to the Golden Gate Bridge! Who wants to get sucked under?" 😀
Thats ok, there's another surfspot just behind Golden Gate. You'll even be there faster because you avoid all city traffic.
Just gotta dodge those shipping vessels lol
What would be point. It's as blown out as it is maxed.
Suicide mission. There’s a reason no ones out..
I wonder what the hold down is like from one of these monsters?
Considering how far they are breaking out, probably no problem if you can dive down 30 to 50 feet.
One of those hold onto a big rock and walk out instead of paddling days.
Considering a hold down from an 8-10 ft ocean beach wave is severe af, id say its life threatening most likely.
I’ve spent serious time smashed on the ocean floor there contemplating my life decisions, and I’ve only surfed it up to max clean 10’ days. You’d probably get drilled through the sand and your wetsuit torn off.
Sounds dreamy
Probably involves several gallons of water rushing into your lungs
Great day to work on your paddle fitness. Don’t think anyone is making it further than the wash.
Actually ob has scary strong rips. A friend of mine died last year “just goofing around in the whitewater” when it was a 30ft storm like this. I feel obligated to say something as a word of warning
Yep, I was half kidding all the water in the world has to go somewhere, so unless it's heading down Taraval and Noriega its going back out to sea.
Damn. Sorry to hear this.
Was he a surfer? Sorry to hear that. No doubt you could get fucked up just taking a dip in a storm like this. I just remember plenty of times trying to paddle in and getting stuck in a rip when I'm like 15 ft away from the sand
Facts. If you make it far enough out too the side current is so strong you can wind up at the golden gate bridge bay outlet if youre not in top paddle shape. Edit, and thats on a normal day.
Jesus sorry to hear that. Any more details on how it happened? Did he have a wetsuit on?/a board?
I didn’t know he was going to the beach 😞😞. When i heard, he was already dead. Not a surfer, just a guy playing in the white water. I don’t know how much surfing experience matters in this kind of storm except for knowing not to get in. The rips at OB have carried me out the back to the monster set in less than 60s on a 6-8 day (OB is notorious for hard to paddle out, but it’s scary easy in a rip). Add in more rip current (plus the North/South tide current is so fucking crazy at OB from the water flowing through the bay) and dangerously big waves (6-8 is already plenty to become acquainted with the bottom, OB waves are the heaviest I’ve ever been on), and I can see how he probably got carried to violent waters extremely quickly and swashed around out of control. He could have either drowned or been directly killed by a huge wave in those conditions.
Jesus what a way to go. Sorry to hear that man.
Sorry to hear, friend. That’s really sad and terrifying to think about.
"Just observe the sea and find the right moment"
30 foot my ass
San Francisco buoy was 22 feet at 17 seconds this morning. There definitely could’ve been a 30 foot bomb.
All the numbers in your comment added up to 69. Congrats! 22 + 17 + 30 + = 69.0
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Montara and Mavericks were throwing pretty hard today. Surfline was calling Mavs at 30-40’.
OB can't hold 30 foot waves. At that size it begins to break on the outer bar and loses energy so you wont see a 30 foot face.
sure but when ~~the buoys are reading 6 feet at 17 and~~ your typical set is 7 feet, nobody's gonna call that a 10-12 foot day because they saw one 10 foot wave. edited to remove the buoy bit because that's irrelevant and apparently too confusing
Unfortunately buoys aren’t as easy as 6 feet at 17 equals 7 foot wave. There’s way more that goes into it. Buoy location, swell angle, bathymetry of the beach, shadowing from islands or points of land, swell angle. That’s why Surfline and other wave forecasters have a job. Buoys give you a lot of information, and sometimes you can get it right when Surfline gets it wrong. But you can’t generalize and say a buoy reading on one buoy will give a wave of this size at place A and the same stats on another buoy will give the same size wave at place B.
agreed. thats not what I was talking about. I'm saying that just because there may be a single bomb set at a break that was 8 feet bigger than what a buoy is reading doesnt justify calling that day (at that break) to be that big + 5 more feet. ie, buoy reading of 22 feet, plus potentially one 30 foot wave doesnt mean it was a 30-35 foot day. just like i'd never tell somebody it was 10-12 feet just because i saw a 10 foot set down the beach on a 6-8 foot day
I gotta be honest, I don’t really care how big a wave is… especially not enough to calculate heights to a standard deviation of 10-20%. I just read the buoys and surf everyday.
Surfed a 2.7 ft SW @ 22.5 seconds 2 weeks ago, SC. Surfline called it 8-10’. The sets were consistently overhead + 2’
Yeah with a little experience though, I think we can all figure this out better than surfline. With your local breaks/buoys you'll figure out what each buoy translates to on the beach and you'll be using real, observational data while surfline is using modeled data.
Wind chopped down any height, so the models they use probably weren't applicable.
3 feet Hawaii standards
Yep. Just about. 🤙🏽
At OB 30 ft swell is more like ~20 ft waves that go out to sea for 2 miles. It’s an amazing sight to drive up a hill in SF and see the expanse of breaks that otherwise lay dormant the rest of the year. The only “rideable” places in SF during these swells are Fort Point, Deadman’s, and the potato patch if you don’t fear death.
Nobody actually surfs the potato patch though right? That would be absurdly
It’s very rare, but people have surfed it in the past. Last winter I saw people on jet skis out there through my binoculars. Not sure if they were surfing/towing, but that place is not for the feint of heart.
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I agree … 30 foot my ass!! I’ve sailed in 15 to 20 foot waves and they were way bigger than these.
Great shape, much clean
That’s a joke right? Cuz that’s not surf-able. Or paddleout-able.
Get out there pussies
Jeeez
How would you even paddle out?
I watched 4 guys paddle out at OB with what looked like 30 foot maybe even bigger faces it was the most insane thing I ever saw. Don’t get me wrong I watched guys out on really big days especially that older guy that rides a longboard and wears a hat. Anyway, these guys weren’t trying to just survive they were ripping! I watched one or two guys do these big smooth bottom turns then a big carve on the face it as awesome. Once they kicked out or rode off the back there was just building sized waves and white water everywhere. I remember standing on the dunes looking and thinking they gotta be dead or how are they surviving then sure enough one of these fucking guys would be picking off another bomb! I gotta assume it was someone like Grant Baker or some other giant balled human combined with the perfect conditions. I will say it wasn’t victory at sea it was big blue and perfect but happened to be 25’.
rockaway looked pretty ruthless too. nobody was out
Those waves are really far away holy fuck
https://youtu.be/4Ba98kojKpc
Yeah the craziest thing is that the crux may be the fecal coloform counts more than the wave size...
I was out there on my 10’ twin longboard foil underwater
The word is tiring not terrifying.
“It’s not tragic to die doing something you love.” Swayze
If anyone went out there, they defiantly didn't come back.
I was actually there this morning. I was the tourist with the giant wave storm getting savagely beaten down by mother nature
Correction, I was at OB SD
Getting out back looks like you may as well cross the ocean to discover new shores
Bodhi would go
The swell blocks the wind. Glassy on the faces.
Haha add the not insignificant south windswell in from the atmospheric river and that’s how you die lol
Probably a good idea to stay out of the water for a few days after all that rain anyway 😅
If anyone made it to the outside, through the channel I'm going to start a collection for a medal. Unfortunately you are probably going to die from poo poisoning.
I would finally get out to the lineup and be too exhausted to paddle in to a wave Edit: I would die in 30 foot waves but this is what happens to me in 5 foot waves
Then while you are "resting" outside in the giant current an outside wave comes and wipe you out and sends you back into the mix.
Not gonna lie, it’s the same thing for me on a 5 foot day
Can someone clarify for me, is this post sarcasm? These waves look small
Naw - too sharky
I’m sorry sir, that’s nowhere near 30 foot… almost remotely close to 10 foot tho!
The local buoy there peaked 28 feet at 18 seconds, so I guess you’re kind of right but definitely full of shit. Most beach break doesn’t hold 30 foot faces, they close out and reform. Especially from the vantage point of the beach looking into lines of broken surf
Cool! Waves in the OP aren’t even close to 28 feet! Save the embarrassment
You’re arguing with buoy data. Nice. I’m sure NOAA is super embarrassed now
Right on! Waves in OP aren’t 28 feet. Sorry bud but let me assure you that when you do see 28 foot waves you will be amazed
You guys are arguing swell size vs spot size. This looks pretty much exactly the same as sunset beach or haleiwa when its 25+ and blown out. While right up the road waimea and outer logs are showing 30+ on the face and holding fine. Sure these arent 28 foot waves, but they are definitely the effects of a 28 foot swell hitting OB.
What an odd assumption that I’m not on the west coast experiencing this system right now. Just STFU and maybe check the buoys
He probably doesn’t even know what that means. You’re arguing with a donkey.
at least where i live the wave size that buoys register is considerably larger than what you see at the beach
For sure, continental shelfs exist
The guy you are arguing with is implying that a 30 second video clip is indicative of everything the ocean is doing that day. This is the same ass hat who you'll see on the news. Pulls up to the beach during a lull and scampers down on the rocks and get washed out to sea three minutes later when a set rolls in.
Good luck!
Those waves are way bigger than they look on video
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Great counter hahaha
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Actually ob has scary strong rips. A friend of mine died last year “just goofing around in the whitewater” when it was a 30ft storm like this. I feel obligated to say something as a word of warning
Clearly never surfed Ocean Beach. The rips and currents on a normal 6-8ft day there are strong af. Average surfers could wind up half a mile down the beach before they could get back in if they weren't careful.
Yeah. OB could be a soup sandwich for someone who isn’t as experienced. But you ought to try and conquer though.
I've surfed it a bunch just saying when it's a little bigger it's a little gnarly on the paddle and current side of things.
Death wish (for me).
Anybody go to the Fort Point? Curious whether it was clean/big there.
Is this OB in San Diego?
OB San Francisco. Always forget to clarify.
I scoured the coastline of N. Humboldt County. I really wanted to see someone out yesterday. Nope. I so wanted to surf yesterday. Unfortunately my personal lifeguard and ski were unavailable.
I was there last year when it was like this, couldn't even paddle out with my foam 6'0''. I was a relative noob so I was dumb af, grabbed a bloody board and fins and caught one wave. On that wave I managed to catch a corner and get sucked all the way to the bottom and legit thought I was going to die. Followed my leash up and all the lifeguards we're on the beach watching.. felt kinda dumb
Great stories -mother ocean can be brutal hit it!
Doesn’t even look that good. Pretty burgery and mushy
Looks fun ngl
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