Surfing the 7S COG @ Turtle Bay Swimming Pools. Very small day, but had a couple of fun ones plus it was uncrowded and glassy. Pulled one 360 of several attempts, cutbacks, mimi-head dips, and a couple of lipers was all the action this day. Good fun on my favorite small wave board.

More blustery stormy surf in the surf forecast. Weather acting spring like so winds will be strong and will swing around at times providing some opportunities . Surf in Santa Cruz will be chest to over-head most of the week with up to double over-head on Thursday.

Nat Young just won his round one heat at the Quiky Pro. ASP has new catch phrase It’s On!

Go Nat!

Surf will continue on the on the small side until Wednesday when a nice WNW pulse shows up. The new swell will provide 8-12 foot surf at exposed beaches like Ocean Beach San Francisco and chest to over head surf in Santa Cruz.

Thank you for the rain; we need it so badly. More in the weather forecast later this week with some associated WNW swells. The pristine Junuary warm with glassy pumping surf has given way to smaller cold spring like conditions to start February . The surf forecast calls for several weaker category WNW swell trains mixed in with local WNW wind swell. Surf will be on the smaller scale with only knee to chest high surf in Santa Cruz until Thursday when the next bump in the WNW swell arrives with 3-5 foot surf. Exposed beaches will see a lot more of this mixed up swell action with waves in the 4-6 foot range by last part of the week, but will also have potential for onshore winds with the unsettled weather.