When you say drift ..you mean long shore current at the beach going in same direction as wind ?
Well you would have totally love a session late yesterday afternoon
Drift was going opposite direction of the wind
My beach faces East and the wind was side-on SE at 10kn... was on XR3 19 + Nugget
When i got to the beach the surf was 3-4 ft and all the surfers were drifting rather quickly South
Tide was also going up and my best estimate was that the NE swell had about 1-2 kn of current
I was very powered all the time and never had to work at staying upwind at all
I actually ended up one block upwind most of the time
Waves also broke perfectly to give me incredible left rides
It was a surprise wind and swell combo....so much fun..i hope you get to experienced that one day
Take care