Carls-BAD! Report

[MrPatrick]

Short interval surf and a 48 year old guy with two bad legs, makes for a morning worthy of "The Benny Hill Show". I'm used too LJ surf, linear, steady, predictable and a shallow sloping beach. Carlsbad is the opposite! The frustrating thing for me was the waves would just turn and go at a 45 degree to the beach. I'd time a set and do my not so graceful mount into the kayak and get hit with an angled wave that lifted up and rolled me happened three times. And the tide was coming in to the steeper part of the beach. This caused a shore break that made it impossible for me to get on and go through the set. I couldn't figure out why it was so difficult and why I was falling off to the right. Like I was being pushed off.
I called it quits and dragged my beast to the beach wall. As I was unloading I found out a small part of my problems today.
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The pad eye that holds the front seat strap had broken and upset my balance. Quick fix and will get at it again soon.