Saturday Dawn Patrol

[Alton]

High tide + on shore wind = bad combo

oh well. beggars can't be choosers

CYVR Vancouver
TAF Forecasted Oct 20 1:39 pm
Fri 2pm S 8
Fri 2pm-4pm W 15g25
Fri 6pm W 15g25
Fri 10pm-12am E 10
Sat 2am E 10
Sat 7am E 15g25
Sat 1pm E 12

[LeopardSkin]

Do not beg.

Take the situation in your hands and own it. BC Ferries is calling you.

[Alton]

Do not beg.

Take the situation in your hands and own it. BC Ferries is calling you.

I don't want to end up like this guy ... yikes!

[Alton]

Boundary Bay delivered plenty of wind this morning ... and the rest of the day. Fully powered on 9m+surfboard in E 20-25. Could only handle 2 hrs (8-10am) of wicked chop before I started seeing double. Full house at 3rd Ave and about 8 windsurfers at Centennial. Not the best session but still grateful to score 3 sessions this week.

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[ShonanDB]

Arrived at Light House Park Point Roberts around 7:30 am to ESE 18-22knts and rigged my 4.7 and took out the 101L. 100 m of flat spool up water then into knee to thigh high rollers with the odd breaking section. Decent lofty port tack jumps and back side riding on the way back in. It ramped up around 9am and switched out to my 73L and the waves built with the odd chest high set or two coming through from time to time. Saw some bigger swell coming from the SE once in a while and had some great ramps when they doubled up with the ESE faces. Had to downhaul the 4.7 more and make some adjustments as it was becoming a handful but glad I stuck with it as it dropped back down to around 20 knots around 10:30 and I switched back to the 101L. Although it was still ESE, the waves dropped away to almost nothing and got really close together and choppy. Came off the water around 11:00 AM and called it a day. Nice to get out as it's been 2 months since my last session.

[Slappy]

On the water from 9:30-1:00 today with 9m + SB. A fun session with good wind/wave angle for port tack airs. Well powered on the 9m at the start but a bit underpowered from 11:00 on. Quite gusty and holey wind.

Some fun little wave sections to be had, right in front of Centenial Beach early on, then just south of the pump outfall after that, then just east of the pump outfall.

I went over to the end of Bay View Dr. hoping for a good break on the beach there but the wind was garbage close in. Checked out the swell at the mile marker and it was waist high but choppy. A few runs way down north of Centenial but nothing much doing there. Nice to have so much mobility with the easterly.

Also managed to hindenburg my 9m Solo V2 today. It was a shocking sight to see as it's almost impossible to get it to happen. I was trying a strapless frontroll and there was a lull as I pendulumed under the kite.