Anyone else doing downhill swell runs with no wind?

The north coast runs can be really good, Scotts or Davenport to Laguna beach is a fun 5-7 mile run with several pocket beaches along the way to bail out if necessary. The downside is the backwash zone from Davenport town past Panther beach.

The local A team do Waddell to Natural Bridges or 4 Mile (~15-20 mi) a lot, but getting out from Waddell is not easy with smaller bumps and you need to cut right pretty hard.

I’ve done 4 Mile to NB’s on a west wind day and it’s good, slight backwash off Wilder but not bad.
There is a lane of bay bumps pretty much on a line from NB’s to the outside of pleasure pt on west wind days. I do a lot of fishing from a boat and it will be flat in Capitola/New brighton but pretty good size bumps coming around the end of the kelp off pleasure pt and then fade towards the harbor. I haven’t done it but I think that on a strong west wind day NB’s to Rio Del Mar or Manresa could be pretty good. From fishing over there, it seems like the bumps fade quickly west of the cement ship, so RDM or Manresa is going to be better than New Brighton

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