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How to Read the Ocean A Surf Guide by Sea Together and written by Bri Ortega

You checked the forecast. It said 6 feet. You paddled out. Nothing felt like you expected.

If that's ever been you, this guide is for you. Note: This guide is written in a way that is good for all surf levels to read!

Read the Ocean is a field guide to actually understanding what the sea is doing, written from real world experience, real mistakes, and real time in the water in the Pacific Ocean.

Inside you'll find everything from how swell period works (and why 19 seconds once left me sitting on the beach wondering what I'd just paddled into), to how tides behave differently depending on where you are in the world, to how to spot a rip current before it finds you first.

This guide won't make you a pro surfer. But it will make you a surfer who understands what she's looking at - in the forecast, on the beach, and in the water.

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“Your ebook is awesome! It really helped me conceptualize how my homebreak is a lot different from other places I’ve been. It’s sometimes hard to get an idea of how these things work when you don’t grow up on an ocean, but your explanations were really clear.” - Hayley, surfing 9 years

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Bri’s Surf Trip Guide

Traveling with Your Surfboard: A Practical Guide from Sea Together®

Flying with a surfboard can feel stressful, but it doesn’t have to be. In this free guide, Bri, founder of Sea Together® and a lifelong second-generation surfer, shares the system she has refined over years of traveling with her boards, all with one goal: arriving without a single ding.

Inside, you’ll learn:

• How to decide whether to bring your board or rent one, plus the one question that makes the choice easier

• How to pack a double board bag with reusable bubble wrap, foam pipe insulation, and cardboard, whether you’re traveling with one board or two

• How to get through the airport solo, from wheeling your bag through terminals to managing elevators and ground transport

• What to do if your board is damaged, including filing claims within 24 hours and using travel insurance or credit card coverage

• Money-saving tips, from airline credit card perks to travel insurance

• What belongs in your carry-on versus your checked luggage

• A printable packing checklist to make sure nothing gets forgotten

Whether you’re heading out on your first surf trip or you’re a seasoned traveler, this guide offers real-world, experience-based tips so you can spend less time stressing and more time in the water.

Disclosure: This guide is free. By downloading it, you’ll also be added to the Sea Together® website email list. You can unsubscribe anytime.

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A 22-page guide to understanding and navigating burnout as a surfer, featuring reflections, common warning signs, helpful metaphors, and four short exercises to help you reconnect with yourself, rethink your relationship with surfing, and find a more sustainable way forward.

This guide was previously used for our Recovering from Burnout Workshops we hosted in 2020 and 2021.

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Women Who Surfed Here is a small field guide for looking closer at the places where we surf. It begins with a simple question: who surfed here before me? The women who came before us may appear in photographs, newspapers, surf shops, local archives, family stories, or memories carried by people who have lived in a place for a long time. Sometimes you may find a name. Sometimes a photograph. Sometimes just a small clue.

This guide is an invitation to slow down, look around, ask a few questions, and follow what you find. You don’t need to be a historian or uncover something famous. Start wherever you are, pay attention to what catches your curiosity, and make a record of what you discover. What begins as one small finding might help bring another woman’s story into view.