wadell on a southerly storm?

89Spring · Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 241

Does this work? The sensor has been showing decent numbers.

wetdog69 · Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 34

10 knots with big water never works well at waddell.

89Spring · Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 241

I know the southerly storm fronts with squall lines come and go. All I was asking is if works when there is breeze from that direction.

crashman · Joined: 15 Jul 2002 Posts: 83

Every time I've been to Waddell when there's a south wind it looks really wierd and fluky. I had a blast down at Manresa on a south wind one day. Seemed like a small sail/floaty board was the right combo because, of course, all of the lulls occur when you're trying to get out...

SWE106 · Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 264 Location: San Mateo

churan · Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 54

the coast can be fun on south winds. but not all days are as steady as others. You also have to factor tides, currents, swell size and period. Any given good day will blow hard, back off, blow hard again etc. Timing is a challenge compared to summer. That said i have had great south days at pescadero,half moon bay, linda mar, sloat, vfw, stinson and bolinas. If you curtail your expectations you will have fun. It beats sitting on the couch waiting for spring. Best of luck

tsokat · Joined: 15 May 1997 Posts: 326

Bodega and HMB are much better choices

ctuna · Joined: 27 Jun 1995 Posts: 1125 Location: Santa Cruz Ca

Saw I guy out yesterday at Cowell's ,next to the Wharf in Santa Cruz, some of the Waddell and Davenport people will sail it on Winter storms with southerly's. Haven't seen it happen much this year.

Epenrose · Joined: 05 Nov 1997 Posts: 402

I've sailed OB and Bolinas on Southerlies.

Bolinas was really fun, a little work to get out but fun once on the outside. Side on wind.

OB was a nightmare as usual and the wind likes to drop off suddenly just to add to the survival sailing.

Don't bother with OB unless you want a nice $1K gear loss day, never really worth it.

kevinkan · Joined: 07 Jun 2001 Posts: 1661 Location: San Francisco

I've had a couple of fun Southerly days at OB, but the place is pretty finicky. Still not quite sure what makes or breaks a day here, but I have some ideas...

low tide: seems like a lowish tide allows you to walk out a little ways to get into the wind before getting pounded. seems like with higher tides you just get more lines of whitewater to battle and you have to deal w/ the possibility of grounding out on the inner bar.

storm front: i think you want to catch there very front of the storm... if it's been blowing for a couple hours or days, the waves and conditions get really messy, but if the wind is just starting to turn on and comes up quickly, you can have relatively clean conditions and good wind.

smallish waves: wind swell quickly ramps up the wave size here, so if it's big to begin with, it soon gets gnarly

usually launch at the south end of the parking lot at Lincoln. I pussed out the other day Sad

but other people got some.