CRNW Forecast and Rpt of Tue, 2015-0616

Report to follow later. Wow, only four more surfing days.

We paddled out at about 2.5 hrs into high tide. The plan had been earlier but we chatted with the former manager of our old hotel for about a half hour. Tim was first into the water again and first to catch a wave. He starts fast in a surf session and was picking off one wave after another on his 5 ft FrankenBoogie paipo. After an hour Terry and I were up to tempo. I stayed way off the Rock to the north and a little inside to catch the WSW mix for many clean face take offs and a nice cover-up on one. I tried to be fancy-dancy on the next for another pull-in but was demolished! Waves were mostly 2-5 ft with some 6-footers rolling in. Terry & I surfed for 3 hrs. 

Offshore winds all day!!! One of my shirts actually dried toasty dry! I should have set all my t-shirts out, lol.

Big breakfast post-session, around 230p, of eggs, bacon, gallo pinto and cantelope, watermelon, papaya and pineapple.



  Model Cycle: 2015 JUN 16 06Z         
  Time Zone: GMT - 6 hours             
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             SURF    SURF DIR   SEAS  PERIOD   WIND    WND/DIR
             (ft)       (deg)   (ft)   (sec)   (kts)     (deg)
            -------  --------  -----  ------  -------  -------
6/16   6am   4 -  9    S 182    4.9    16.4   14 - 19   NE  43
6/16  12pm   4 -  9    S 186    5.0    15.4    8 - 11  ENE  72
6/16   6pm   4 -  8  SSW 198    4.6    14.7    6 -  8  ENE  68

6/17   6am   4 -  8  SSW 196    5.2    13.4   13 - 17  ENE  63
6/17  12pm   3 -  7    S 188    4.9    12.7    4 -  6    E  99
6/17   6pm   3 -  6    S 189    4.6    12.3    7 - 10  SSW 208

6/18   6am   3 -  6    S 179    4.7    11.1   10 - 14   NE  45
6/18  12pm   5 - 10   SW 220    4.7    19.0    1 -  1  ESE 124
6/18   6pm   5 - 10   SW 219    4.5    18.9    7 -  9  SSW 197

6/19   6am   5 - 10   SW 219    4.9    17.7   12 - 16  ENE  61
6/19  12pm   4 -  9   SW 219    4.7    17.4    2 -  4    E  84
6/19   6pm   4 -  9   SW 219    4.6    16.6    3 -  4    S 178

Effective Monday evening

SHORT TERM FORECAST (through Friday, June 19th)
Highlights: Fun zone Southern Hemi swells move in. Small tropical swell drops out.

South Pacific Swell: Fading SW swell (230-205°) which is partially shadowed by the Galapagos in the southern half of CR, will be joined by some new, overlapping South and SW swells during the first half of the week. Tuesday sees mainly knee-chest high waves off the mix at exposures, then Wednesday and Thursday fill into the waist-shoulder-head high range at well exposed spots. Those heights hold for Friday as the South and SW combo ease and a fresh SSW swell begins to show.

Tropics: All eyes on Carlos, the system that barely regained hurricane status today with maximum sustained winds of 65kts about 160 miles SSE of Manzanillo, Mexico. Carlos is a modest scale system, tracking WNW at 5kts. The system is due to hold that heading while maintaining hurricane force winds through the next 24/36 hours.

Under that scenario, modest shorter period WSW/W swell lasts for Tuesday in the knee to waist high range at exposures then that small surf drops out by mid week.