Mother Nature Steals the Show

If you made it down to the end of Bates Road this weekend and got your eyes on the ocean at that fabled corner of coastline known the world over as Rincon, then you already know how lucky you are. The surf was gangbusters!

The 33rd Annual Rincon Classic surf contest was held all day long and all day strong on both Saturday and Sunday in conditions that trended anywhere from “fun and contestable” for much of Day One to “big and epic” for the business end of the competition on Sunday. It was, as Contest Director Chris Keet put it Sunday morning, “A dream come true. It doesn’t get much better than this.”

A locals-only contest that crowns a champion in a wide variety of categories from the tiniest of groms to the oldest of salts, as well as a team competition (“The King of the Queen”) between area surf shops and Rincon Brewery’s Professional Division, the Classic is amongst the world’s most prestigious and star-studded grassroots surf competitions.