{"id":644,"date":"2007-03-30T03:21:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T03:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phpaddlers.com\/blogroll\/mark-pecot\/spring-surffinally\/"},"modified":"2007-03-30T03:21:08","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T03:21:08","slug":"spring-surf-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/spring-surf-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Surf…Finally!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Spring<\/p>\n

Winter seems to have finally relaxed its grip, and I managed to get out for a little spring surfing yesterday. The water is still quite cold (36F \/ 2C) and despite a sunny, 55F \/ 13C day, a steady 20kn onshore wind mad<\/a>e temps feel downright frigid.<\/p>\n

My buddy Nick and I met up at Edgewater Beach where nice, easy, 3-5 foot spilling waves made for some fun surfing. Nothing heart pounding, but in near-freezing water, I wasn’t exactly looking to get trashed in the surf.<\/p>\n

\"imgp0703.JPG\"The early season foray did give me a chance to test my NRS Mambas <\/a>(pogies). They worked great…my hands felt like they were sitting in little saunas. I did notice I tend to hold my paddle more stiffly with the pogies on…I usually open my fingers more and use a looser grip (especially with the off water hand), and actually started cramping up a bit.<\/p>\n

All in all a good day on the water, and we pretty much had the beach to ourselves…just a couple of die-hard board surfers. One of surfers bobbing around turned out to be an old high school friend I hadn’t seen since 1991. Of all the places to bump into each other, we figured this was one of the most unlikely! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winter seems to have finally relaxed its grip, and I managed to get out for a little spring surfing yesterday. The water is still quite cold (36F \/ 2C) and despite a sunny, 55F \/ 13C day, a steady 20kn onshore wind made temps feel downright frigid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-reports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}