When can we wear our springsuits?

Average Ocean Water Temperatures in San Diego
January: 57
February: 57
March: 58
April 1-15: 59
April 16-30: 60
May 1-15: 61
May 16-31: 62
June 1-15: 63
June 16-30: 65
July 1-15: 66
July 16-31: 67
August 1-15: 69
August 16-31: 69
September 1-15: 67
September 16-30: 66
October 1-15: 65
October 16-31: 63
November: 61
December: 59

This is from noaa's data. Spring might be a misnomer, our water sometimes does not warm up until well into June then we are wearing trunks in October. However I remember several April's where it was time to lose the 4-3 and go to a spring suit.

Now, I tell you of holding close my new wetsuit, like a long lost love.

Here I am in line like a White Trash Warrior waiting to stampede the Walmart security guard.

The line started about 9am for Surfride to open this morning. They had a 20% off Wetsuit sale today only. There were about 20 other people in line. There was a kid in front of me who was in high school waiting for his pyscho 2 wetsuit like me. He had been saving for 6 months which was pretty forward thinking for a 10th grader.


Well I was just as stoked as the kid next to me. I quickly took it home and tried it on again, pet it, looked at it and took this picture of it: Oh yea


"Life is too short to have a bad wetsuit" is was Bob Wise of Wise Surfboards in San Francisco told me when I was on my Winter Break from San Diego State back in 1980. I just received my student loan for $2500 and Bob wanted about a hundred of it...here is the math to convert the money in real dollars today:

$2500 x ((1980 bad music - new thrusters on the market) + (Beer money - price of Olympia Beer(B=Olympia))/ College + Tuition $250 per semester (no kidding) (C=Fun) x future chance of graduation - job at Safeway(Future F= better get employed when graduate)) + Plus real world needs (beer money $27, Food Semester Card $75, new board $190., new wetsuit, $100) + Responsibilities (R=0) Total real dollars today =$1,764,009.03

Well I was rich at the time of course and Bob was right Life is too short for a bad wetsuit. Thank you Mary, Nick, Christie and Mary.

4:3 Situation Update

Well I am getting my new wetsuit tomorrow. I am going to get the psyho 2 Oneill. The Pantagonia thing just didn't work out. They gave up on me and any ability for them to :
A) Provide a wesuit that would actually fit me
B) Stop me from complaining that they were too expensive

But I tried on the psycho 2 (yes it is a stupid name for a wetsuit) and it was unbelievable. I am hoping to be in the water by Friday but the whole water quality, wave quality and general cold thing might hinder me.

Here is the video that Oneill put out. I guess I have to start surfing like this and listen to bad music real loud. This wetsuit might be the total change in my persona. I think I will start calling everyone by new hip nick names like 'slash' and 'core'. Maybe color my hair purple and get some death speed metal music going.