You know what sucks? 

Loosing your new board, not being able to get to it before white water pushes it to the beach... when the tide is just high enough to have your new lost board get pushed into the rocks.

Yeah it happened. I got lucky though, there was a guy at the waters edge retrieving his board right where mine was and he picked my board up with his and pushed mine to me. So, the board didn't get bounced on the rocks for 3 or 4 minutes before it got picked up.

I say to my son " lost my board, it took on some shatters" . He says... "you know how to fix it, so...."  Yeah, so.... still sucks. Shiny new board, only been ridden 4 times and now it has half a dozen shatters on one rail. Who likes that?

I should have said "OK, how did you feel when that guy ran you over and dinged your new board...  remember that?" Poor kid, I saw the collision from the beach. Robin was all of 12 years old at the time, surfing his new board at pipe, he was so upset walking up the beach to the car.

That's got to be  one of the biggest surfing downers... getting your first ding in a new board. Yeah I hate that, and now I've got to fix the pickin' thing. Like I don't have enough things to do already.

Only a surfer knows the feeling.

D.R.

A 7'6 Gadget with some color going on.

In the on going story, Ventura Point post of  08 November 2015 I said that a few of the palm tree planters most likely wouldn't last the winter.

It was only a short 4 or 5 weeks later with a couple days of high surf and tides that one of those planters went down, the pier got damaged too. The City of Ventura from what I understand has a contract with a company to repair the pier damage so in short order there was a crew working on that.

The other thing I said in the November post was that the cobles were on their way to the pier. That has happened too, and are stacked half way up the height of the pier.  As well, the cobles stretch all the way to first jetty. Not sure what the City will do with them but it's a big treacherous mess. When spring and summer get here beach goers will have a tough time getting to the waters edge with out getting hurt in the process unless the cobles are some how removed.

The past couple weeks repairs have started on the beach at the top of the point, there is a  sign that said repairs are estimated to be completed in April. From word floating around, the City obtained an emergency permit from the Coastal Commission that allowed them to immediately move forward on fixing the erosion problem without any community input.

Roomer has it that the City will be putting in a 300 ft. long by 15 ft high wall in front of the palm tree planters, though the sign at the point says it's a Revetment . Currently the work being done is large rocks are being put in front of the ledge or small cliff created by the surf and tides. It also looks like the machine operators are digging below the tide line and dropping a course or two of rocks so the 15 ft height may start a few feet below the tide line.... just guessing.

The surf at the point has been affected by what the City of Ventura has done to the beach from day one. It all started with an eminent domain deal with the beach property owners along the point, back in the 1960's.  Surf will be affected by what is being done now too, depending on how far in front of the palm trees the revetment is put. It's really a wait and see deal right now. 

D.R.      

The surf and tide pull down one of the Palms

  

 The cobbles stones half way up the stairs at inside point. As the surf and tides move them to the pier.

 Cobbles piled half the height of the pier by surf and tides.

 Equipment operators pulling material out in front of the palm planters

Large rocks being placed for the revetment.