Carlsbad Lagoon 06/03/08

So at about twelve o’clock I call my ol’ trusty friends Dylan and Lina who I can always count on to fill vacancies on my boat. Dylan worked until three and Lina as of current is an unemployed helecopter pilot so she was available. We agreed to meet at the Carlsbad Lagoon at three thirty in the afternoon.

Now I had never been to the Carlsbad Lagoon until this point so I really didn’t know what to expect as far as launch fees and permits. Just so everyone else knows the process and you’re ready when you get there. You have to provide or have your insurance company fax over a copy of your insurance policy showing that you have $300k in coverage for property damage/great bodily injury. You also have to add the Carlsbad Lagoon as “Other Interested Person” on your insurance policy. Then you have to either buy a $25 day use launch permit or a $500 membership that allows you to go as many times as you want. The City of Carlsbad also requires you to purchase a permit from them. The staff assured me that the initial sign up process was the only time i’d have to go through this process since they have all of my info on file now. Just FYI, they aren’t just making all these requirements for their health….it’s actually required by their insurance company and the City of Carlsbad.

The staff was very helpful and informative and they offer alot of awesome social programs. The lagoon has a small but cool pro-shop with some kick ass equipment and a Ronix Rep who is almost always there. Earlier in the day I had just got a wakesurf board and I was looking for a wakesurf rope to go with it. The staff at “Wakesports” which is the shop at Carlsbad Lagoon ordered me the wakesurf rope I wanted since they didn’t have it in stock. Then they offered to let me use one of their demo ropes until mine came in (very cool of them). Wakesports’ pro-shop and customer service were very good, I highly recommend shopping there if you want some quality equipment and helpful knowledgeable staff.

So I get my boat into the water. I see one other boat on the whole lagoon and not one ounce of chop. This is definitely not what i’m used to and I was super stoked. I had just bought two more ballast sacks in addition to the stock front ballast my boat has. I filled up all the sacks which gave me 1250lbs of ballast..INSANE. My boat already throws a huge wake, but this was insane. After a few amazing glassy water wakeboard sessions we turned to the wakesurf board. Now this was my first time wakesurfing and all I have to say is that I LOVE WAKESURFING!!

Dylan and I both have about six years experience surfing so that helped us tremendously. We were tearing apart the wake with frontside and backside boardslides Dylan busted out a 180 and was riding switch for awhile. We basically closed out the session wakesurfing because we loved it so much. Overall, I give the Carlsbad Lagoon a high recommendation because once you finish the signing up process; You get uncrowded glassy waters, a wakesports friendly layout with long straightaways and an area where you can clean and flush you’re boat when you’re done with you session. Overall great day!! Any questions just shoot me an email.