On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

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

Left desk

florida · Marathon

Middle Keys / Marathon

7.2OF 10

Day

low

Permit are the hunt — bayside basins until Vaca water turns.

No wind reading · low slack

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 7.5sand dropoff on a low slack tide is a secondary match.
  • Seven Mile Bridge current · 7.3channel gut on a low slack tide is a workable match.
  • Vaca oceanside wrecks / patches · 7.1wreck edge on a low slack tide is a workable match.
Open the Marathon brief

Right desk

florida · Islamorada

Islamorada / Matecumbe

6.8OF 10

Day

medium

Permit should be the day — oceanside permit and bones, or Channel 5 current — not a Texas marsh sentence.

11 mph E · incoming

Where

  • FL - Long Key State Park (Keys) · 8.0sand dropoff on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Channel 2 / Channel 5 · 7.2channel gut on an incoming tide is a workable match.
  • Channel Five · 7.2channel gut on an incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Islamorada brief