Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. On the beautiful afternoon of swell on Oct. 14, Steamer Lane was crowded, as one would expect, with an array of skilled surfers, along with more intermediate-ish ones like me, all of us trying to catch our share of the perfectly forming medium-sized waves – big enough to be fun yet still accessible enough not to overwhelm the average surfer.