Honestly? It's a shorter drive to Newport/Little Compton than the National Seashore. Plus swell direction makes a difference.
Spicoli, what kind of board you gonna be riding? I'll probably have my Hobie out there. It's a 5'8" fish-tailed quad, white with a green horizontal stripe. I'd like to meet the man behind long-winded soliloquies. Maybe even get a bench-off in...
Yeah from Boston it's a friggin' 3 hour drive to Wellfleet, less than an hour and a half to Newport... only ~45 minutes to the frigid waters of Gloucester though (and if the tides and swell direction etc all conspire there's always Winthrop). Wellfleet does get awesome waves but a 6-hour round trip drive every time you want to catch a wave gets old fast...
Haha yeah i drove by second and it looked good but very crowded.. I scored first instead sat and su day morning. Big and semi clean saturday and clean but smaller today. Cold with a 20 mph offshore and overcast...red tide barrels this morning.
Winthrop isn't a break man. Neither is Nahant or Nantasket. The first two have awful pollution worse than the area river mouth runoffs and they are never good. If they are ok, that means all the real breaks are bananas that day. Tasket is just not set up for success. But BCN is a folk hero then. Btw...Cape Ann area will tend to have the same ocean temps as NH and even 3-4 degrees warmer. Nothing in MA is going to be that warm inside Cape Cod and up due to Labrador currents. Rhodey is still low 60s right now. Some of the best breaks in MA are ones no one ever speaks of. Rhodey is sick though on a S or SSW swell like this past weekend. Who was down there?
I've caught really good rides at Winthrop, if the tide etc are all right the rock-reef makes for a lot more consistent break than a lot of the beach-break spots I usually hit (although IMO Good Harbor in Gloucester is also amazing even if it is mostly beach-break)... actually caught good rides at Nantasket once too but yeah def agree that is a worst-of-all-possible-worlds break in terms of pollution, facing a direction that waves virtually never come from, combined with the super inconsistency of a mega-gradual-dropoff beach break. But yeah, for the pollution, maybe getting an updated Hepatitis vaccine isn't a bad idea.... I got the crap beat out of me over and over at a super heavy shore-breaky RI spot Saturday, big but super choppy and random sets were coming from every direction. Made up for it by getting mega stoked at Second Beach Sunday -- even with 100ish guys out I was able to paddle down until I found my own peaks, super clean consistent sets being held up by steady offshore wind made for one of the best days I've had in a long time. Even waves with no peak/shoulder you could still get a good 5+ second ride on the face as it got held up by the offshore wind...
Nantasket can be good but that usually means anywhere else is better. The only reason I usually go is if the wind is from the South (b/c it faces ENE) or the tide is too fat for other spots. It's a good place to take the longboard in the summer, but it can be a zoo. As far as scoring this weekend goes, I hit Point Judith for a solid three hour session. Mostly head high sets with the occassional overhead bomb. Winds were light and variable. The sun was peaking out. The water was warm as it's gonna get for November. I wore my 3/2 no booties and never got cold. Oh man, it was one of those days...The waves were just lining up right. I had my new 5'10 thruster out, and it felt like I was just flying on every wave. There were probably 30 guys out but they were all clustered around one peak so me and my buddy sat where we thought the best sets were coming in and traded waves alone for three hours. One of those days that reinvigorates the soul...
I went out at Gansett yesterday. Really fun, some leftover 5 footers. actually stayed pretty clean. dunno why the forecast said choppy. Then I headed over to Matunuck for an hour before heading home. Perfection. Best I've seen Matunuck I probably 3 months.
Glad you scored from brah. Sounds like it was dope on Sunday. It was awesome on Saturday. Hours of stoke. Lots of people yet so many peaks for all and the sections were wide so multiple people could take off of the same wave.
Glad you scored bra bro bruddah. Sounds like it was dope on Saturday. It was awesome on Sunday. Hours of barrels. At least big enough for me to fit inside. Breaking off the wall and firing down the beach. There were only 4 of us out at 8 am til noon. Stayed clean the whole time. Heck, 3 people even left!
Damn man, it wasn't really hollow on Saturday but just perfect wide walls that were feathering at the top from the offshores and rolling nice and slow and steady. I'll take those any day and be real happy with it. Checked out PJ before daybreak and it was most definitely hollow there nonstop. Very, very fast moving, faster than I've ever seen it there on similarly sized swells. The direction was for sure SSW at PJ before dawn and straight S at Mat. Mad heads were out at Mat on Sat but peaks for all. There were really only 4 cats there on Sunday? All the married dudes must have used their furloughs on Sat!!! No hall pass remaining for Sunday I guess haha Glad it held up solid for you. Was worried you'd miss the great swell when you and your pops were gettin wood on Sat.
Try fenway too if you don't want to go too far. I know sat is long gone anyway. We always make the trek to Matunuck or further to Gansett. Ever surf the sound on a hurricane swell? I'm looking to do it this winter maybe if it ever gets big enough.
This is funny. Yea, there were only 4 guys, one from VT and a couple local groms I surfed with but don't know.
