On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Thursday, September 17. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Abaco

Abaco

6.6OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — the Marls and Cherokee on foot, or the ocean cays by skiff.

6 mph SE · incoming

Where

  • Cherokee Sound · 6.7hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Great Guana ocean reef / bar · 6.7sand dropoff on a incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Little Harbour / south Abaco creeks · 6.2creek bight on a incoming tide is a classic match.
Open the Abaco brief

Right desk

puerto-rico · Vieques

Vieques / Culebra

4.5OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — the Esperanza and Culebra banks — bones and permit, not a San Juan tarpon sentence.

16 mph E · thunderstorms · incoming

Where

  • Esperanza banks · 5.2hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Culebra banks · 5.2hard flat on a incoming tide is a classic match.
  • Isabel Segunda harbor · 4.6channel gut on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Vieques brief