CRNW 2017-0304 (Sat) Forecast & Report

Flight check-in had a long line but it moved well. David was ahead at me with two agents at the counter, one learning or supervising. There were some questions about his board bag with the Xylem and he told him it was a skimboard. There was some more back-and-forth between the agents and the agents and David and finally they said "sign this luggage tag waiver" and he proceeded forth. With the ticket agent along now, he just asked me, "Is this a skimboard, too?" Yes!!

We both had PreCheck, me as normal and David was granted. Last year SWA did not have PreCheck for international flights. This is good now. Went well. Even the Starbucks line was short and went smoothly (during this past year it has been very long).

In CR, our luggage came to the carousel in good time as well as our boards :)  Outside, our transfer man, Ruben, was there with his sign for us. Good guy, we all talked a lot on the trip to the hotel. He was surprised to hear I knew of Juan Luis Guerra, as we were talking salsa and merengue. I told him I also liked the bachata and he went crazy! We are going to buy him breakfast at the German Bakery on the trip back.

Wind has been blowing crazy for about a week people have been telling us and much less wind the prior month. It was macking rather hard... we paddled out and got in about an hour session. Lots of upwelling from the Papagayos so the water was cold in places and really chilled around The Rock. David had a great first session on his new mat, the Uber Cat (his name for the mat is the "Oselvar"). Wind was running extreme offshore/sideshore such as it was In Your Face riding left... flying blind, and as the tide still had a little low in it so we were wary of flying into a submerged rock.

Ron's daughter turned 15, so he put on a quinceañera party for her at the hotel last night. Lots of people, music, festivity. He looked and acted like a true gentleman. It was nice to see Adolpho (brother of Arturo, both who worked at the hotel for decades) at the fiesta and meet his wife.

And, yes, the Bavaria Negra was stocked and cold. Good job, Miguel!

We slept very well!

  Model Cycle: 2017 MAR 04 06Z          
  Time Zone: GMT - 6 hours              
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             SURF    SURF DIR   SEAS  PERIOD   WIND    WND/DIR
             (ft)       (deg)   (ft)   (sec)   (kts)     (deg)
            -------  --------  -----  ------  -------  -------
3/4    6am   6 - 12  SSW 203    5.9    17.6   19 - 25   NE  49
3/4   12pm   5 - 11  SSW 206    5.9    16.6   18 - 25  ENE  54
3/4    6pm   5 - 11  SSW 200    6.1    16.3   20 - 27  ENE  54
 
3/5    6am   5 - 10  SSW 198    6.0    15.2   18 - 25  ENE  53
3/5   12pm   4 -  8  SSW 202    4.8    14.6    9 - 13   NE  45
3/5    6pm   3 -  7  SSW 200    4.5    14.3   16 - 22  ENE  56
 
3/6    6am   4 -  8  SSW 201    5.0    13.6   15 - 20  ENE  57
3/6   12pm   3 -  7  SSW 197    4.3    13.5    5 -  7   NE  42
3/6    6pm   2 -  5  SSW 194    3.7    13.3   10 - 14  ENE  59
 
3/7    6am   3 -  7  SSW 193    4.6    12.9   15 - 21  ENE  54
3/7   12pm   3 -  6  SSW 192    4.0    12.7    7 - 10   NE  48
3/7    6pm   2 -  5  SSW 193    3.7    12.5    4 -  6  ESE 101
 
3/8    6am   3 -  6  SSW 196    4.7    12.3   15 - 21   NE  45
3/8   12pm   4 -  8   SW 211    4.5    16.4   11 - 15   NE  39
3/8    6pm   4 -  8   SW 214    4.4    16.3   15 - 20  ENE  62
 
3/9    6am   5 - 11   SW 214    6.0    15.3   19 - 26   NE  46
3/9   12pm   5 - 10   SW 216    5.6    15.2   15 - 20   NE  43
3/9    6pm   5 - 10   SW 214    6.0    14.6   20 - 27  ENE  54
 
3/10   6am   4 -  9   SW 216    5.7    14.3   18 - 24   NE  49
3/10  12pm   4 -  8   SW 216    5.2    14.2   13 - 18   NE  46
3/10   6pm   3 -  7   SW 216    4.5    13.7   13 - 18  ENE  63
 
3/11  12am   4 -  8   SW 216    5.0    13.5   16 - 21  ENE  56