Water temps around here are around a record 59, around 4 warmer than normal. Little NW winds to cause upwelling.
I doubt I can handle Blacks at 6', unless you remove the crowds. Not surfing, and getting old, has ruined my ability to surf in decent surf with hustling crowds.
Surfing without a wetsuit for me is no big deal. I've done maybe 10 surfing trips to Oahu and Kaui, now 5 to Puerto Rico.
Windsurfing sorta died everywhere. In the '90's, we once counted 150 windsurf cars at Larkspur on a windy weekend. There might now be 6. I worked at a windsurf shop then.
I still have 3 wave windsurf boards in the garage. One more in the basement. But surfsailing is a fickle lady, needing a perfect combination of windspeed, wind direction, swell size and direction, long period, and correct tides for the spot, and it has to coincide with early afternoon timing! Lots of fickle factors to come together.
Still haven't surfsailed a decent spot in SoCal, have sailed Bolca Chica, Pacific Beach, Santa Monica so far.
Best spot ever for me so far is Revelations, or outside Velzyland. There, it's a combo of at least 10 bottom turn/off the lip moves, before reaching the outside of Velzy and the pack of longboard mokes.
