Wyatt & Tyson's La Ventana/Baja Report

gasman1 · Joined: 24 Jul 2000 Posts: 7

Awesome, Awesome, Awesome!!!

Sailing 4.5-5.0 am/pm, Fishing, Beach, Sushi/Sashimi, Cerveza!!!
Did I mention Awesome? Wyatt and Tyson you guys keep inspiring us to Freestyle! Looking forward to the next windsurf trip but for now it's off to the mountains for the winter ski season. Keep on rippin!

wyattmiller · Joined: 23 Jan 2008 Posts: 651

Ha Ed has the extra grande beer and Tyson is so stoked he must have dropped his.

Epic trip guys. Tyson is still eating Sashimi for breakfast every day.

The next crew just showed up today. No wind today or tomorrow, but Monday - Wednesday are supposed to rip, then no wind Thursday and Friday but a killer Norte shows up Saturday.

Here goes the youtube link to our new video made a couple days ago....

A Tuna Story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00BIjVqb894&feature=share

wyattmiller · Joined: 23 Jan 2008 Posts: 651

Forecast for this week in LV is looking pretty tasty.

This Season in general is kicking Culo.

wyattmiller · Joined: 23 Jan 2008 Posts: 651

Friday morning I woke up to Rain coming in my bedroom window at 5AM, which sent me into a panicked dash to the roof to save the internet router (the last rained killed my other router). Got that down and pulled all the other things that don’t like rain off the porch. It poured till about 11AM which was kinda lame especially since there was supposed to be a Norte. Then at 12’oclock me and a couple guests took an ATV trip up to the mountains to see if the streams were flowing….alas they were not, we are in a super big drought and the dessert is pretty thirsty. By the time we got back around 1, the promised Norte wind had started to blow, and by 3 0’clock it was fully sailable. Wind blew into the night and stirred up quite a bit of swell. Saturday was full on windy at like 7AM 4.5 for me with solid swell. Sunday morning I woke up super early and checked the surf break, it was pretty small with like 8 guys out so I loaded the SUP on the ATV and headed down to the Buffadore…and it was firing. It was just me and Dave Tyburski with shoulder to head high lefts super glassy till around Noon. (Check out the photo of me and Dave). I caught my longest wave yet in LV and the water was so clear you could see sizeable fish all around. (Tyson would have freaked out and driven back for his fishing pole and missed all the good waves, but he was back in the Bay for Thanksgiving. Finished Surfing and it looked to be a glassy day, but at 3:30 the wind came up to 5.0 till evening. Monday morning I went back to the buff and surfed the wedge on the LV side of the Buff, a super fast wedge going right. Lost my paddle once and was sure it was going to be snapped on the rocks, but the wave pushed it up ontop of the rocks which saved it.
This has got to be the best Nov on record, too bad it is coming to an end today.

wyattmiller · Joined: 23 Jan 2008 Posts: 651

Oh man, the last few days have been sooooo good. The whole crew feels as if we have been run over by the windsurfing truck. There was definitely some "old man noises" involved in climbing out of bed this morning.

We saw the Norte arrive on the 4th, the 5th was 5.0 and 80L for me but a little bit holey and then yesterday the 6th we awoke to gusts shaking the walls of our concrete block house. By 9:30 we were hitting the water (shoulda been out there at 8AM).

It was filled in 4.5 and 80L boards with a perfect medium tide and some of the most consistent breaking waves at the generals. Perfect port jumps and clean backside wave rides were the call for our first 4 hours session. Then thirsty and exhausted we sailed back down to the house fired up the barbie for a hamburger and exhausted and bleeding we could not believe how windy it still was so we went out for another 1.5 hr session.

Our Man Bill Blanke saw the forecast that we had been watching for over a week and hopped a quick flight over from Mexico City to score the Norte. Apparently it is only $200 Round Trip from Mexico City to La Paz, on Volaris....we need to get them flying from San Diego or something, they fly from TJ to La Paz for about the same price but that is a bit inconvenient.

This morning it is already super windy, tide is a little too high for good waves at the Generals. We would be out there right now if we had a hot tub to soak away the morning pain. But alas we will just have to marinate on this coffee and find some energy somewhere.

Check out the shots from yesterday. And come on down its gonna be a great season.

cypress · Joined: 21 Mar 2000 Posts: 1

wyattmiller · Joined: 23 Jan 2008 Posts: 651

Pfew. 5 solid days of windsurfing in a row and a 3 hour SUP surf session this morning. I am done.

Honestly I didn't even windsurf today, after supping this morning we came back to see the Pipeline Billabong Pro live stream was up online and the Surf in Hawaii was macking we did the full on siesta thing all afternoon......
Well actually Tyson went out and taught a waterstart lesson (the most dreaded and energy sapping of all lessons) while I chilled out.

But back to the awesome SUP day, we rocked the fast right off the Buffadore all morning, just Tyson, Dave Tyburski and I. Solid waves and no one went on the rocks......more than once. The mellow left in the bay was rocking toO, but the right was where it was at.

I will post some of the pics from yesterday....different from the ones from ...ah crap I don't even know what day it is.

But ya windsurfing from yesterday and SUPing from this morning.

Enjoy. And don't drool on the keypad. Ha.

caustic · Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 5

capetonian · Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 1197 Location: Florida

Maybe if you learnt this instructor's technique you'd enjoy giving waterstart lessons more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEXMaOOJQck&feature=youtu.be

PoorBoyUS22 · Joined: 14 Apr 2000 Posts: 105

So remember the last time Wyatt and I said it was the best day down here in La Ventana? That was about a month ago and I really did think that it would not get any better... Well, it just did! These last three days have set a new standard for what a "really good day" is here in La Ventana.

The forecast had been saying that it was going to blast last friday. In fact, it was forecasted to be the windiest I had ever seen it here. We didnt want to get our hopes up, just to be let down, so we just planned on it being "good". Since the forecast was only one day, I didnt think it was going to bring waves with it either. I couldnt have been more wrong! (check out the pics below)

On Friday, we had wind averaging in the high 20's, gusting to the high thirties! The windiest I have ever sailed here. Wyatt said that was the biggest wind and waves day he has ever had, and he has been coming here for over 9 years! With this wind came some logo high waves breaking out on the second sandbar, just in front of the campground. It was insane!!! Sailed for 4.5 hours that day!

With the wind being more offshore, you could actually get some good waves rides in.

Thursday came along with the same conditions. The wind was a lot steadier and the waves were pumping in a bit more organized. I counted 9 turns on one wave! In La ventana!!! Both days we sailed until our arms fell off. Started at around 11 in the am and sailed till 4 or so. AMAZING AMAZING DAYS!!!

Yesterday was a bit smaller and lighter, but still a lot of fun. We sailed up in front of Palapas Ventana because the waves were holding on the sandbar a bit better up there. Still, by our old standards, yesterday would have been another one of the best days on the water, ever.

Today, the wind backed off so it is off to the surf break with the SUP's to hopefully get some of the tail end of that swell. What a Christmas Gift!!!

Happy Holidays to you all and hope you enjoy the pics!!! (if they load properly)