Surfski Knowledge Base

2015/10/31 Sat ripper
Reivers Dustin
10/31/15 #18215

Indeed, from 9 to 10 or so it was blowing hard. Very high water level. You could paddle right up to that statue rock near Post Point. So I did. (….) It was best to stay along shore until you had to stick your nose out in the heavy air.

Most did loops. Some did loops just near Marine Park. Me and a few guys did loops from the tunnel area. There was strong wind in the middle of the bay, so if you wandered too far out it was hard work getting back inshore. There were a handful who did the Larrabee to Marina run. That had to be pretty good. I actually liked scrappin my way through the chunky munky off the point. Then there was good wind shadow behind the lee of the points. I kinda ruined my youthful enthusiasm chasing Joost in his Phantom. There was a spot near the tunnel point where he hooked up big and that flat bottomed, no-rocker boat sounded like a tri-hull on plane.

There were a bunch of guys who showed up at 11. The wind had eased with a bit more Westerly in it. Not much white cappin, but the tide was beginning to ebb a little. It looked to me like there were building some of those low, wide fast-rollers going on.

We had a couple of guys go swimming, but it looked to me like low risk stuff. MG told me he found some Halloween weeds. Like Army of Darkness weeds that totally wrapped his rudder. They were trying to capture his soul, but changed their minds. Probably because of that nasty looking wetsuit he wears.

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allipp01
10/31/15 #18216

Pete Wells, Eric Gerstl, Mike Lee and I all had a great downwind paddle from Wildcat Cove to Squalicum Beach. The conditions were strange, as it went from very good to merely decent and then back to very good, several times throughout the paddle.

David Hooper
10/31/15 #18217

The bed-hangin’, coffee-drinkin’, rain-avoidin’ 11 o’clockers (Medler, Rybczyk, Andy Bunn, and I) had some nice laps off of Marine Park. A bit chunky monkey on the first couple, but on the third, the wrapping south swell combined with the strengthening westerly component to make for some great sets coming in toward the Park from the buoy direction. It was almost as much fun paddling out as coming back in…almost. Rybczyk almost got washed off his boat by a wave breaking into his chest, and the washing machine effect kept everyone on their game trying to figure out the wave direction, wind gusts and currents.

Overall, it was a bit higher on Medler’s WTF ratio¹⁾ than perhaps we’d have liked, but the fun that was there was good, and upwind work is pretty fun too.

-Hooper