Saturday Surf Session

Original photo by Clayton Plummer

This past Saturday the 7^th, I was back at my usual haunt of Anderson Street.  I met a buddy of mine for a little dawn patrol session before the rain came.  Nature had other plans.  By the time I was in my truck and headed to the beach it had started to rain.  Thankfully, it hadn’t been raining overnight.  So, the water wasn’t a toxic waste dump yet.

The air temperate was hovering around the 45°F mark as I made my way to the parking lot.  I snapped a cool picture of the rain hitting my window as the sun peeked through the clouds while waiting for my buddy to park.

 The surf was just OK.  Every now and then there was a waist-high wave.  Otherwise, the waves were little ankle breakers.  It was still fun chatting with my friend as the rain turned on and off.
  

Original photo by Clayton Plummer

I surfed my new Infinity SUP Phoenix V4 Asym board.  I know that’s a mouth full.  It is an AWESOME board.  I didn’t do any actually stand-up paddling this time out though.  I surfed it prone.  The board is 30” wide, so paddling it was really funny.  I did stand up on it while waiting between sets.  Stand-up surfing the board isn’t going to be as big of a learning curve as I had feared.   

This is my first custom board of any kind and my first “short” SUP board.  The board’s dimensions are  7’7” long x 30” wide x 4” thick. The asymmetric tail shape is subtle, but the performance is noticeable.

I’m really stoked my new board and I had a blast surfing in the rain with my friend. 

Until next time,
Clayton