Donation Progress
January 1, 2026
On the last leg of 2025, enough donations came in to exceed the 2025 goal, so I carried over $1500 toward the 2026 goal to get this year started.
I'm thankful to everyone who donated last year! Your help kept this report alive last year, which as you know requires reader support. This report is possible because of you.
As you may recall, when Surfing and Surfer magazines shut down in 2019 and my report ended with them, I kept my WaveCast report going on my own, as long as donations covered the time it takes to track storms, analyze models, and write the forecasts. After 30 years of doing this, your donations are now what determines whether my WaveCast report continues.
For context, I ask for less than one percent of what some forecast sites pull in every year from subscriptions. While those operations pull in tens of millions of dollars a year, my monthly goal for 2026 is merely $2800 — just enough to justify the hours of work I put into each report.
Feeling the signs of age with my health issues a daily reminder of our limited time, I am forced to weigh whether I should spend my time tracking storms across the Pacific for surf, weather, and wind in SoCal, or whether my time and effort would be best spent elsewhere. Your donations are the deciding factor.
I would like to thank everyone who has donated to support this report. You are the reason this report continued and I can't thank you enough.
I'll post my next progress update after the first of February. Until then, I truly wish the best for all of you, and I hope that you too will decide to make the best use of your most valuable asset: Time.
