What does a surfer do when the surf goes dead flat and stays that way for days on end?

The short answer… you go crazy.

If you’re still able… skate board.

Take time to patch dings on your boards.

When the dings are patched strip wax and clean your boards.

Clean the sand out of you car.

Put your wetsuits through the gentle cycle in the washing machine.

Watch surf movies.

Get depressed after watching surf movies because there’s no surf.

Go visit relatives all along not feeling like your missing something… like surf, and you aren’t missing anything because there is no surf…. you keep telling yourself.

Hang with your surf buddies.

Pic from the 1970’s courtesy of Doug Galati.

This house is right on the beach and take notice , the three guys are looking at the camera and the guy on the right ( Mike ) is looking out at the surf. Does he have the look on his face like ‘ is it flat or what’ ? Actually I don’t know if there was surf that day or not, just guessing.

The surf here is pretty much dead flat and has been for a week now. I could say it’s a good thing because Christmas is just a few days away and I don’t have a conflict with needing to do Christmas stuff and surfing at the same time.

Yeah, spent the last couple days shopping with my wife, and amazingly wasn’t conflicted at all. We went downtown Ventura yesterday and went to Carpinteria today.

Happy Holidays!

D.R.