Donation Progress
April 1, 2025
Although donations were on the upswing in March, they still weren't enough to break out of negative territory:
Given the slow progress in donations over the past few months, I need to now ask for your help. As you may know, my health issues continue (and are permanent) and surfing isn't an option for me any longer. I can still keep this report alive BUT, only as long as it compensates me for my time and effort. That's where you come in as your donations are what decide if I keep this report alive or if I spend my time elsewhere. So if you find my report useful, you want it to continue, and you haven't donated in a while, then I'd like to ask you to please consider a donation today.
As you may remember, when Surfing and then Surfer magazines — who used to pay me for this report — closed at the end of 2019 and ended this report, I asked readers like you if this report should continue. I've been doing this report for about 30 years and I wanted to make sure it still had value. Thousands wanted me to continue this report, so I offered to keep this report going under the condition that I could get enough donations to make it worth my time. Once that is no longer the case, given my personal issues right now, then this report may eventually need to sunset. In other words, if you want this report to continue then please donate — not donating signals to me that it's time to end this report.
Please bear in mind that I ask for less than 0.5% of what some forecast sites pull in every year from required subscriptions. While some bigger forecasting sites rake-in tens of millions of dollars, my ask is a mere drop in the bucket, just $2700 per month in 2025, which barely compensates me for my time and effort.
Feeling the obvious signs of age with my health issues a reminder of our limited time, I am constantly forced to weigh whether I should spend my time tracking storms across the Pacific and calculate each and every one for surf, weather, and wind in SoCal, or whether my time and effort would be best spent elsewhere. Your donations are the deciding factor on this.
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. For those who don't donate, you are the reason this report could end.
I'll post my next progress update after the first of May. 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.
