On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

bahamas · Eleuthera

Eleuthera / Exuma edge

7.4OF 10

Day

low

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

12 mph ENE · outgoing

Where

  • Current Cut · 7.4channel gut on an outgoing tide is a classic match.
  • Eleuthera east ocean flats · 6.1hard flat on an outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Eleuthera brief

Right desk

seychelles · Mahé

Inner islands / Mahé

5.2OF 10

Day

low

Giant trevally should be the day — Ste Anne and the inner edges — a GT, not the Alphonse photograph. Work the leeward shore — fly gets harder.

22 mph SE · rain · incoming

Where

  • Ste Anne Marine Park · 5.6sand dropoff on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Mahé brief