In typical fashion, I stumbled upon an entertaining buoy-related rant about four months after it was published over at Transworld Surf. Incited by a predicted swell that more than managed to disappoint, it encourages everyone to learn the buoys as a tool for your surf forecasting arsenal (and refers to the excellent lajollasurf.org.)
After last weekend’s debacle of a surf forecast from every major player in the market, I feel like it’s high time everyone took off their training wheels and learn how to make your own call. The great thing about being your own Sean Collins is that all the information is free and easy to find, you’ll impress your friends (or depress depending on the situation) with this new found knowledge, and most importantly, you’ll know when the waves are good, not when a Web site says the waves are good…
Bombora charges a nominal amount for putting all this wonderful ocean data together, and it’s only going to get better and more feature-rich with time. We’re adding more stations, more forecasts, and more tidal stations; and don’t think for a second that we’re not looking for ways to include swell models in Bombora, too!
