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A Few Little Ones: 10am, 03/22/19

I’m watching and hoping for the swell to fill in this morning. I’m thinking about driving down to Sand Key. It looks on the small side here for a shortboard. The one guy out is getting long rides on his longboard. It’s super fun size for a log. Incoming tide push peaks around 11 and the high should be about 3 hours from then, so between now and two in the afternoon looks like the beat time to surf Honeymoon and Sand Key. It appears to be getting more consistent. The weather is comfortable. I’d say it’s a solid knee high with long rides here at Honeymoon Island.

Sand Key looks better for a shortboard. I’m jumping in with the groms:

Getting Screwed By Catalyst, Lost, FCS 2, and Corporate America

Well, shit. You assholes just don’t know how to make something that works. Why is it that you claim these fin plugs will work with FCS I or FCS II fins? When I went to put these FCS I fins in my board I couldn’t. Can you guess why? The fin plugs for FCS II fins don’t come with the little screws you need to put FCS I one fins in. Some “local” came into the shop and said, trust this guy. What you should probably do is, don’t trust those guys. He steered me in the direction of some big fins that nobody probably wants to buy. So I’m switching out my fins. I guess I need to go see if I can buy some screws from the hardware store because these companies have decided to decieve me and screw me out of 10 little stainless steel screws that should come with my surfboard.

Apparently they’re called socket screws, and your local hardware store will probably have a thruster set of stainless stell screws for about 5 bucks.

You Need To Go Out There

After watching a few social media clips from today I can’t help but wonder how good it really was. I saw one from Brandon Fraley that looked like a solid messy head high barrel.
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His looked better than any of the clips I saw from the Palm Harbor groms. Everything I saw coming out of their profiles were similar, although way less organized. The swell appeared to be a solid southwest swell, rather than the west southwest swell being shown on the buoy. Mike Peru sent me a couple clips of the point Honeymoon Island. The clip he sent looked like it was more manageable there than anywhere else.
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The storm surge was a large one and is probably taking its toll. Honeymoon could split soon. I was watching the cam seeing waves breaking way out in front of the south Clearwater jetty. On a longboard you could literally almost ride those waves from the channel marker way offshore( well maybe not that far, but truthfully pretty close). Brendyn Levasseur posted a really cool picture from deeper in the pass closer to the end of where that wave breaks. It almost looked like it was dropping by afternoon.
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A Fortnite video game professional was even out there giving it a go in the pass today, the man himself, Tfue.

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I would be stoked to read what it was like for you today. Did you find any manageable waves? I opened back up the comment section, so post up.