Friday Boundary Bay

[mparkes]

I'm heading down to WR for the SW... Hopefully someone be there for a launch... Looks like decent SW for the rest of the afternoon.

[Mike]

Boat launch. Wind clearly gone SW now. Lots of whitecaps out in the bay. White rock likely place to be now.

[Roxstock]

Any osr for whiterock? It looks like nothing north of Richmond has switched SW and seems to be dropping off down south.

[george]

Sorry, not an OSR obviously, but WR delivered the goods. 8-11m depending on the board, knee-thigh waves, sunshine, no weeds. Lonesome windsurfer, C36 was making friends with all the stringers, and dropping some smooth gybes and tacks. Was all good.
George

[C36]

Sorry, not an OSR obviously, but WR delivered the goods. 8-11m depending on the board, knee-thigh waves, sunshine, no weeds. Lonesome windsurfer, C36 was making friends with all the stringers, and dropping some smooth gybes and tacks. Was all good.
George

Silver windows. Was aiming for Gabriel's Beach and M waved me off (crazy cross chop) so I was headed for the 40 mph graph at Locust when the SW arrived at White Rock just before I was passing by. Time for a look see. No kites up when I arrived but watched them launch and decided on 5.3/115 (sometimes big, sometimes small and sometimes just right) and no gloves (likely should have taken them).

Fun field of playful little onshore waves on the slack mid-tide offered mini jumps in both directions and pushy little backside rides (and a few front side tries).

Nice 'cool down' session after the full meal on Wednesday.

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[Michael]

Crazy session at PR. Wind switched to SSW just after I launched and made for an interesting set up. When I launched things were looking really good with some nice big waves rolling in. Launch felt like Whidbey West Beach today with the wind almost dead on shore and big waves to get out through. During my first reach the wind switched really fast and then it was SSW. Was sailing straight into some head high swell but it was hard to get up speed to jump and when I did the waves were so close together you were landing on top of the next wave which made for a real bumpy ride. I did manage to get in a few nice front side rides with the wind coming SSW and the big waves still coming SSE. But things were really messed up and I gave up after a while. I then tried to SUP as there was still some nice size waves coming in but the cross chop made it almost impossible to stand up and I couldn't catch any. Got to check it out on a big ESE or SSE.

[gabrielb]

thx for the info. good to know that there is still height on the switch se to sw. sw must have been a direct hit to beach, scrambling se waves, jetty did not help. probably 1/2 hour of good surf, and a few wedge waves in the transition. next time.

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SW died after 5 pm, like Jeff said, seems inland ENE is always a bad sign (like SE for NW).