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C J Gagner · Post by **C J Gagner** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:29 pm

I here a lot of how the surf was today or yesterday, what about tommorow? What then is the best surf forcasting web site on the net?

JackG · Post by **JackG** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:50 pm

C J Gagner wrote:What then is the best surf forcasting web site on the net?

Surfline LOLA. Pay the $$$.

Surfline's data corelates well with what the buoys eventually say, and what I see at the breaks I know. Beeline, cough up the cash. You'll never believe Wetsand's hype again.

See you all in the water on Saturday.

KAVA · Post by **KAVA** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 5:05 am

I've had many days of uncrowded surf because surfline was wrong or generic (say all the HB/NB breaks were the same, come on! blackies the same as the wedge on a south swell?). I am growing more respectfull of wetsands forcast. Although surfline does have the owners rights to most surf cams around the world. I guess you would call them the "Microsoft" of surf cams lol

Doc Turbo · Post by **Doc Turbo** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:33 am

KAVA wrote:I've had many days of uncrowded surf because surfline was wrong or generic (say all the HB/NB breaks were the same, come on! blackies the same as the wedge on a south swell?). I am growing more respectfull of wetsands forcast. Although surfline does have the owners rights to most surf cams around the world. I guess you would call them the "Microsoft" of surf cams lol

I have had good success with Global Surfari and Magic Seaweed sometimes too.

http://globalsurfari.com/

rooster · Post by **rooster** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:48 am

It seems as though the surf forecast sites are fairly generic. Wet sand ( WetScam ) does over hype a lot of times. If you know your area, or if you have been surfing long enough you should know where to go given the size of the swell.

Beeline2.0 · Post by **Beeline2.0** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:03 am

rooster · Post by **rooster** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:06 am

I used to do very well back in the day with just a weather radio and a map of the pacific ocean

it doesn't take a genius to track a low pressure system in the Aluetion islands or those announcements from the national hurricane center about tropical storm jizzball @ 14.7lat 114.6 long

And while I'm at it STOP giving your lazy friends cell phone reports from the beach If they want to know what the surf is like let 'em drive

Beeline2.0 · Post by **Beeline2.0** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:15 am

surfhorn · Post by **surfhorn** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:22 pm

Surfing each and every day and a Radio Shack weather radio seemed to work just fine.

fincut · Post by **fincut** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:04 pm

I'm a fan of wetsand.

There size is questionable but its so much more streamlined than Surfline. Surfline has just too much fluff. I hate fluff.

One thing all these new sites do is take the guess work out the direction. In years past, I only focused on the letters, now I know the numbers.

"This swells got a touch of north to it"

"What are you talking about, I'd say a smidgen of north" Dumb kids we were.

JackG · Post by **JackG** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:19 pm

Don't read the surfline forecasts, look at the charts and make your own conclusions. That's where I get the value.

rooster · Post by **rooster** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:28 pm

Beeline<Surfhorn and JackG

You guys know how it was, always a day ahead of the masses.

when this whole web thing crashes, we will still know when to go!

You boys are welcome at my firepit anytime!

randiego · Post by **randiego** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:56 pm

Hell Rooster when this web thing crashes, the whole government is gonna crash!! We'll be back to sticking our finger in the air

KAVA · Post by **KAVA** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:58 pm

aCTually back in the day i would just call the Lifeguard surf and weather report. dont think the number had changed for HB in like 5 decades! and NB hasnt changed since they got their own area code

rooster · Post by **rooster** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 5:00 pm

randiego, now exactly which finger woud that be?

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