On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

bahamas · Eleuthera

Eleuthera / Exuma edge

7.8OF 10

Day

low

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

8 mph ESE · outgoing

Where

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

Right desk

puerto-rico · Vieques

Vieques / Culebra

5.6OF 10

Day

low

Permit are the hunt — look, do not grind a high-slack school into the reserve.

16 mph E · high slack

Where

  • Isabel Segunda harbor · 5.7channel gut on a high slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Esperanza banks · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
  • Culebra banks · 5.5hard flat on a high slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Vieques brief