Surf Reef

* I am still hopeful that the new, man-made sandbag reef in El Segundo will produce A-frames, but after reading designer David Skelly’s comment that liability forced the project into deeper water (Nov. 26), I am afraid the whole thing was a fraud. The designer and the Surfrider Foundation get paid, Chevron is off the hook for allegedly destroying a natural surfing zone, and a bunch of sandbags lie in deep water like much-sanitized excrement. All over Southern California, municipalities are building skate parks with vertical walls and slippery steel rails for a better place to skate. But as for the U.S.’s first designed surfing reef, I guess it was too gnarly to be true.

MITCH TWERSKY

Culver City