On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

Tuesday, July 4. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

bahamas · Eleuthera

Eleuthera / Exuma edge

8.1OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — the cut and the Exuma-edge banks as they fall.

No wind reading · outgoing

Where

  • Current Cut · 7.7channel gut on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Eleuthera east ocean flats · 7.0hard flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Eleuthera brief

Right desk

florida · Biscayne

Miami / Biscayne Bay

7.4OF 10

Day

low

Permit should be the day — do not grind a Biscayne slack — boat traffic already did.

No wind reading · high slack

Where

  • Stiltsville / Cape Florida edge · 6.6sand dropoff on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Cape Florida Channel · 6.6channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Featherbed Bank · 6.4hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Biscayne brief