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According to the forecasts the wind should die at around noon, turn south for a moment before coming from the southwest and increase rapidly for the second impact of the storm and a furious Sunday blast. That meant I had a little bit time left before it would become interesting but I didn´t know how long the south-easterly swell would last once the wind had turned. This is still the Baltic Sea and swells usually die soon here, once their wind generator is switched off. So I wanted to be prepared and be at the right place at the right time. I went to check a few more reefs in the area. All of them were blown out and difficult to judge with that unruly swell. I drove back to the peninsula and went for another check-walk, this time in the rain.
The wind showed no intentions to back off. I became a little bit nervous and drove further north to check that crispbread beachbreak that I surfed on my last trip to this area. When I arrived it was still raining but the wind finally seemed to have gone down. Swell was there but still too windblown. But the size of the swell was solid so I decided to have a look at some other place further north that needed a bit more size to make the breaks work.
When I arrived there the wind had further dropped. But the grey – brown ocean was still stirred up and I couldn´t find a break with enough order in the peaks. I became pretty nervous now and drove back to the beachbreak. The wind had died when I arrived there. The swell was pretty impressive for the Baltic Sea. It was still far from glassy but the waves started to develop some form. Two guys were already out and I decided to join them.
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