Donation Progress
February 2, 2026
After carrying over a surplus from 2025's donations, January had enough donations to keep the donation goal out of negative territory.
I'm thankful to everyone who's donated. You're keeping this report alive, which as you know requires reader support.
As you may recall, when Surfing and Surfer magazines shut down in 2019, I chose to keep my WaveCast report going independently, as long as donations covered the time it takes me to track storms, analyze models, and write the forecasts. After 30 years of doing this, your donations are now the heartbeat of my WaveCast report, keeping it alive.
For context, my donation goal is 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.
We all reach a point where we have to be protective of our time. With my health issues and the natural shift in priorities that comes with age, I have to weigh where my energy goes. I want that to be here — tracking storms across the Pacific for surf, weather, and wind in SoCal. But that only makes sense if the report remains self-sustaining.
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 March. 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.
