To access the spot, you drive down Vista Del Mar towards El Segundo and if you continue driving you will see a parking lot. Turn left into the lot, you probably will need to pay a fee to enter the parking lot. Once you park, walk to the south-side of the parking lot, you will see a staircase. When you get to the sand, there will be a lifeguard tower in front of you. Just to the left of that is the reef.
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Prattes dosn't break! Never has, never will, period!
comment by Joe Banks, Ph.D. Oceanographer, 2007-06-17 17:43:02
Pratte's Folly
Pratte's Reef... They dropped the sandbags. The sandbags broke open. The sand washed away. Period. No wave was ever created by those sandbags. The pics you see are just the regular waves created by natural sandbar/beachbreak conditions. The sandbags were dumped about 30 yards from the mean low tide line. The spot was marked by a red buoy. So while the photos are of Dockweiler Beach, north of "Hammerland," they are not waves created by the sandbags. Pratte's Reef would be better named "Pratte's Folly."
comment by Gundo Local, 2006-10-11 00:33:52
a rare gem indeed
Pratte's hardly ever breaks much less goes of but I am one of the few that have caught it on one of it's good days and let me tell you it was a treat Epic Right an left barrels but the left is better than the right so next time you guys are surfing porto with about 300 other guys out I ll be scoreing at pratte's with maybe two other guys out and you gotta have the right swell and everything it isn;t that consistant so you really hve to check it beacuse if you catch it on one of those days, trust me it will be epic
comment by Anonymous, 2007-10-09 13:21:52