surfing vancouver - general

[Chris Klohn]

I have never seen WR resemble conditions remotely close to those pictures 30-40 knots, ESE, SE, SW, W, NW...........you name it.

The best days I can ever recall at WR had overhead swell on the outside and mushy waist to chest high weak waves on the inside. Those pictures look like Coastal type waves. JWSP on a big westerly is the first thing that comes to mind.

I think Lilly point and PR on a big SE day might come close. Unfortunately, the wind always has some onshore component to it and the wave size dies pretty quickly when the wind tanks.

Thanks for posting the great pics again.

[gabrielb]

Richi , you were right, it's slowly building. Friday 1pm-3pm. Wreck beach will be getting small surf (good for SUP's, hb 05-06m), a repeat of last week. Richi if you want to get your windsurf gear down those stairs I'll help (if it gets to 15knots from the strait, tide is 10 ft, you'll have a 50X250 meter wide, 4 foot shallow surf area, small but well formed waves to windsurf on and practice when the real thing hits). I have the day off that day.

[keeldude]

A couple photos from the archive. This past mothers day brought a crisp windswell to Vancouver as well as some of the most heinous looking shorebreak with log jams.

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Just a couple of random other pics I figured I would share:

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Location should be obvious enough

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