Posted on 02/10/2016 7:13:18 AM PST by mac_truck
The Bay Area got its Super Bowl fix -- now it will get its Super Bowl of big-wave surfing, too.
The Titans of Mavericks was greenlighted for Friday, meaning 24 of the world's most fearless watermen will take to the ocean off Pillar Point Harbor near Half Moon Bay and put on their own adrenaline-soaked, El Nino-fueled spectacle.
It will mark the first year under new ownership for the event, which wasn't able to stage a contest last year because the perfect day with the desired minimum 40-foot wave faces and clean conditions never materialized.
As for Friday's conditions, Mark Sponsler, the event's longtime forecaster, is predicting sheet-glass smooth conditions early with wave faces from 36 to 38 feet. "Big enough to make the grade and clean," he said.
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The Eddie Aikau is on today:
http://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2015/spec/1182/quiksilver-in-memory-of-eddie-aikau
Right now it less than 5 ft? 2 days and it will be 40 ft? I know the weather can change in a moment, but I don’t see the storm to do it right now? We’ll see!
The swell is hitting Hawaii today - Waimea will be in the 30 to 40 feet range with some faces hitting 50 feet: http://www.surfline.com/surf-report/waimea-bay-oahu_4755/ . The swell will then hit California on Friday.
Yep...they’re expecting a bunch of the Eddie Aikau competitors to hop on over and surf Mavricks.
Never surfed once. I don’t think I’ve ever touched a board. Been landlocked all my life.
But, surfing fascinates me. I enjoy watching it and can’t get enough of good docs like “The Big Swell,” and “Riding Giants.”
Anyway, I think this is cool.
Thanks to the Super Bowl the contest missed the swell of the year, last Thursday.
Eddie would go.
So here’s the thing - storms produce swell. For example, you can have a storm down in New Zealand produce a swell that will travel all the way across the Pacific until it hits California but the storm itself might never get further north than Fiji. In the case of the swell hitting Hawaii, that was produced by a storm sitting south of the Aleutians. That swell is hitting Hawaii now but you can count on it to hit California on Friday thru Saturday. I’ll be out in the water on both days and its forecast to be double to triple overhead where I’m at. If I get some pics I’ll post them here for you to check out.
I’m going out Fri as well, Santa Cruz.
But I have no one to take my pic:(
What you riding?
costco special
Nice!
thanks
Watch the documentary ‘Riding Giants’ if you want to see some great surfing action.
Jeff Clark started surfing Mavericks in 1975 when he was in high school. From 1975 to 1990 he surfed it by himself. The big wave riders of the day refused to believe that any place in California had large waves comparable to Hawaii and wouldn’t even come take a look. Eventually that changed, but in the meanwhile Clark had Mavericks to himself for 15 years.
“Surf’s up!”
But no rain.
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