Rideable blog

If you are sitting around watching the swell models and checking the conditions on the cams and waiting for the surf to get good enough to go out, my advice to you is to give up and just paddle out. A couple weeks ago I vowed to stop looking at swell models. So I lied, and it’s your fault because you trusted me.

So here’s the thing. It looks as if we have a decent chance of getting some surf this weekend. As a matter of fact, if you have been dawn patrolling before work, you already have ridden the beginning of it. But this is the East Coast, and more specifically South Carolina we are talking about here, so it never gets really good, like magazine-quality good. So suck it up, face the facts and paddle out in choppy/bumpy/lumpy/windy (or substitute your favorite crappy surf adjective here) substandard closeouts and be grateful for it.

Now, don’t get me wrong: My prediction for the weekend isn’t for Victory at Sea conditions. It’s possible we could have some classic surf. It’s just not that probable. So I’m going to go with rideable. That’s such a good word. It’s like edible. It doesn’t mean that what you’ve just eaten is delicious — only that you won’t die some horrible, purple-tongued, twisted-agony death.

It’s going to be rideable. So go ride it.