Hey guys, can you give me some tips on avoiding rashes or options for surfing in warm water? Going down to baja for 3 weeks this summer !!
I was thinking of using my 2/1 short arm springsuit just so I don’t have to deal with baggy boardshorts or rashes, but I feel like I might overheat and also get a really really bad tan…
I’ve always surfed in cold water with a wetsuit on, thus I’ve never actually surfed in boardies.
Thanks in advance!
Hurley Phantom boardshorts are nice and stretchy - and then get a couple rash gaurds from your local surf shop.
Vaseline on da nuts and inner thigh, lycra rash guard, always rinse with fresh water after a session. Make sure you use wax made for the temperature you will be surfing, too soft wax and surfing shirtless=bad.
Don’t wear a wetsuit.
Trust me on this one
3 weeks
your gonna be hurtin
speedos under the hurley phantom bordies
vasileen in the armpits and then put on a loose fitting ls rash gaurd
are you going to a point break ?
A few point breaks, some reef.
Were driving down and surfing Scorpion Bay for the first week or so, continuing down to surf Cabo and the East Cape for the next 10 days.
Bandaids over your nipples if you trunk it.
I reccomend Cerritos - I really liked that setup… It was a right point that fed into a left beach break. And there is a nice rip at the rock to take you out. It is just south of Todos Santos.
Sounds pretty nice, might have to check that one out on the way up
Prepare for blazing hot sun, blazing. Everybody, and I mean everybody puts out tarps somehow to dodge the sun, single layer blue plastic tarps barely do the job.
Number one thing to worry about = sunburn.
Be sure to take about 10 times the amount of sunscreen you where going to take, make sure the sunscreen is TRULY waterproof. (Don’t believe labels!) Come out every hour to put on more sunscreen, and, most importantly, use TONS. You don’t want to miss a single bit of skin.
a 2mm vest over your rashguard does wonders for nipple rash and sore ribs…and would suggest bringing along a spring suit, even a light full suit…west facing Baja waters get cooler then you might think, especially in the wind, don’t really warmup until you get around the corner of the tip…and very important to bring along a sun hat, personally like the Patagonia surf hat…
http://www.tahoemountainsports.com/product/patagonia-surf-brim
and re: sun tarps, get yourself a heavy duty one with the silver reflective coating on one side…
if your going that far down i would recommend stopping at Punta Abreajose, its about 10 - 12 hours down south
theres a few nice rights and a couple lefts at the reefs and an alright beach break
in the morning you can surf the beach ( north facing) then between 10 an 12 o clock the wind picks up and blows offshore on the reefs (south facing)
be sure to bring some fishing gear too, that spot had the best halibut fishing ive ever encountered
but unless your there around late august bring a wet suit cause the water is cold there
oh and if you do go there be sure not to take any lobster out of the “bath tub” carved in the reef
trunks, a surf cap. a wife beater style rash guard and sunscreen. 10-4 on at least a spring suit for pac side. if scorp has any swell you'll most likely be able to surf all day-am glass thru afternoon winds. at the tip early am surfs.(like up at 4 am and cracking it) wind typically trashes afternon sessions unless it stays glassy all day.
Thanks for the tips guys! In scorpion bay were going to be renting one of the palapa’s so we won’t have to deal with the sun. Only will have to deal with it once were camping on the East Cape.
sdrepair, how out of the way is it to get to Punta Abreajose?
Our current plan is to spend the first day driving to south of El Rosario, then arrive in scorps by the second in order to either score or wait for some waves for a week.
Your driving plan sounds ambitious. Ensenada to San Quintin is a slow go, sometimes painfully slow. 2 lane country hiway with too much civilization built up causing too much traffic. 1 mile south of the Y intersection south of San Quintin is the Papillon, butterfly, Trailer Park, a good stop on the beach that picks up south swell real good, cold ocean water temp, has hot showers. There is a trailer park in El Rosario, don't know that one. Then next camp site is Catavina past the fancy hotel turn left to Rancho Santa Ines. No camping on your own adjacent to the hiway, you'd be asking for trouble. Use AAA Baja road map as your companion for the whole trip. Baja eats cars, be automotively prepared big time.
I’m really not worried too much about the driving and logistics of it, I’m driving down with my uncle, who has made the trip down there every year for the past 20 years. He’s very familiar with the peninsula and the necessities of driving down there
Oh man!
You want good sunscreen…
I use this:
http://www.burnoutsun.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=3
I recently got married in Kauai and one of the things we put in the welcome package for all of our guests was a tube of that (damn expensive, but I thought - they should all know about and have this). I have used it for years and it is the best sunscreen out there.
border to abreojos in one day somewhere around 14-16 hours, especially now the road into abre is paved.have done the 24 hour straight border to scorp run, but that takes a day just to recover from. several people do the border to abre as a an overnight pit stop on the way to scorp. i'd hit abreojos, hang for a day or two then roll on....
Best thing for warm water surfing is an ice cold beer afterwards. If you do it in west oz I would change that to a cold iced coffee and some bakery grub and then the frigid beer with your guts up over looking the water.