See that brown stuff in the water and the well defined line across the top of the picture? It looks like red tide is still thick there this morning. No thanks! Those may also have been pelicans, but it looked like on of those “pelicans” rode a wave. Whatever they are, they won’t be there for very long.
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A Slow Moving Cold Front
A slow moving cold front is forecast to move over the northern gulf this weekend. The featured image above shows the low starting over near Texas, then gradually moving over Florida. The wind will start southwest, switch west, then go northwest. The swell is forecast to hold for about 3 days with significant size on just about every day. There may even be a little tiny clean wave left bright and early Monday morning. The temps will be cooling significantly, so you’ll want the rubber for this swell, maybe even a 3 mil on the cold mornings or breezy days after the cool down. You’re going to need to turn the heater on for this one. It’s time for the wave machine to start bringing us swell again regularly. Winter is officially here, our Florida winters anyway. Tides below:
My New Lost Puddle Jumper Carbon Wrap
The mission to find a nice surfboard today was a success. This 6’2 Lost Puddle Jumper with the newly patented carbon wrap is the board of my dreams. It rode like a magic carpet today in the small thigh high surf at the Cocoa Beach pier on the high tide this evening. The carves were silky smooth, the buoyancy was unparalleled in a shortboard, and the off the lip at the end of my session felt like a smooth fully controlled off the lip. The volume on this board sits at a full 42 liters. It didn’t appear to take on any pressure dings after the first session unlike the recent Torq board I purchased. This is a really nice one.
