Favorite types of east coast surf breaks.

I like the spots where there's only a handful of people out and it looks just as good as the spots with fifty doods paddling for the same wave.

 

I'll say a jetty because it blocks the sideshore current and gives a little shelter from sideshore winds.

 

This kind

 

i grew up surfing the north side of mercers pier, but it's on lockdown by the police now that they have moved the surfing areas closer. so many days you just have to watch that wave bowl up next to the pier and break right....... all the way to shore. while the cops sit in their suv's on the beach a wait for someone to paddle over to it.

 

so, to answer the question

i like shorebreak

 

Point & Beach breaks!

 

Large Jetty and beach

 

best breaks are reef.
jettties work well in new jersey.

 

reaf

 

followed closely by big hollow closeout shorebreak

 

3rd reef

 

What reefs do we have on the east coast? besides FL?

 

Essentially any pile of whatever is a reef on the east coast. Our reefs are made of rocks up here.

 

coquina rock is not a reef imo

 

"Reef"er madness

There is a reef that goes into a left pointbreak. You take off over a reef that is maybe 3-4 feet underwater. The takeoff spot is behind a reef that sticks out of the water a couple feet at low tide, and is barely underwater at high tide. It breaks left behind the rock maybe 10 yards outside, so it is an adrenaline rush on takeoff. Once you clear the dry rock, it turns into a kind of a point break over limestone slab reef and will go for a good 50 to 200 yards depending on swell and the amount of sand on top of the underwater reef. It is not dangerous unless you are a hazard unto yourself. It barrels on the inside, and sometimes on the outside drop too.

So I would say reef.

 

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