M: You ever been to Fred Gingell Park located
here.
Chris Klohn wrote:...I can imagine the current would be wicked on the point with all that water pushing up against the shore and then rounding the corner. That's not the tidal current there though...
There was current (call it what you will) well off shore (SW) of the point. Anytime the wind backed you could see yourself loose ground big time to the shore (stronger than Stevenson on and east wind, but not quite as strong as Rufus with all the gates on the dam open).
Chris Klohn wrote:...Was the shore break too bad to launch on the west shore, make one upwind reach to the south then tack and reach way upwind towards the ferry?
When I first arrived the shore break was bone-crushing material exploding balls of spray higher than the poles at the boat ramp. I would have been amazed to see anyone launching there. Later in the day when the tide had dropped and the waves diminished Mike choose his moment wisely to sneak out on that side.
In the early morning there was less shore break right at the shoulder of the point and getting out was fairly easy. Later in the day when the tide dropped there were less gaps at the shoulder of the point and wave were standing taller and throwing forward. I got rejected twice there (once standing in the waist deep water controlling my gear finally to have it redirected toward the beach by the third wave and then later I launched, crossed two waves and thought I had made it out only to have the next wave stand up and eat me).
Chris Klohn wrote:..Cool to hear Dave's OSR too with the swell size in the top 3 he's seen in the Lower Mainland...
I may have been caught up in the moment. The wave faces were big and clean for sure, but I was since reflecting back on some other memorable days and top 3 might have been overstated.
That point break keeps haunting me, it was standing and peeling like the south jetty at Florance - difference was you just couldn't get to it (that day).