Nov 12 w/Josh N, Drew, Dan H - by Carl

Little dawn patrol at OB. Swell on Friday 11/11 was NUTS - all of us looked, no one went in. Big posse drove south all the way to HMB, but nothing was surfable. Josh T had gotten in at Rockaway, but was a bit nuts there & no one else (from our crew) joined him.

Saturday was clearly going to be smaller & more surfable. No wind, no fog, cloudy but pretty fall day at OB. Sloat looked pretty good, bigger than expected - HH on the sets, sometimes a little mushy. Breaking both outside & inside. Checked Pacheco, but looked smaller & messier.

Got in with Josh N & Dan H at Sloat. Walked south a bit to counteract the obvious N current. Drew paddled out a little later & joined us. Pretty fun session. For me it was a little 'right time / right place', but I scored some fun waves & just generally enjoyed myself. Took out the 6'4 step up, which seemed to be the right board for me. Definitely did not need the semi-gun, but possibly could have used a board with more foam. Some longboarders were killing it at the end, and Drew did well on his pod. He was also hanging out a bit more on the inside & seemed to find the 'magic spot', catching wave after wave.

Saw Josh N catch some killer waves & unfortunately dropped in on him once too.

When getting out of the water was hit by how beautiful a day it was. Glassy, clean, some size with peaks breaking all around Sloat. Josh T said that Noriega Rivera was 'bombtastic', which sounds pretty fun to me.

All around a great day. Wonder what lies ahead. Looks a little smaller & marginal, but the forecasts have not been very good recently, so we shall see.

Fun first surf with Dan after trying to hook it up for a while.