Lesser Antilles Forecasting, Surflie vs MSW

surfadelphia

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Anyone here frequents the carib and have a good idea on surfline or MSW accuracy. Heading down to tomorrow for a week trying to figure out what board to bring. Not quite the same exposure as Barbados but not that far off. Want to bring a rocket redux in lib tech to just not have to worry as much about board being trashed by airline but standard poly thruster may be a better choice.
 

SurfMission

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I think they are both owned by the same parent company, which is why they use the same cams.
 

surfadelphia

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How did the trip go? Hopefully you had a big enough board. I use windy.com for all of my forecasting.
Made the right call (never happens) and just brought a proper shortboard. 4-5 feet on Surfline equated to head properly overhead on sets. Would have needed more board at peak of the swell but the wind really got on it hard and junked it up.
Really hesitant to jump back into cold water
 
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