who here has been surfing this week?

ok ok
dont get this thrrad closed.
surfed 2x monday town AND COUTRY, SWEET!

DTUNK
GNITE ***S

 

Crazy high tide backwash made it pretty interesting yesterday, but the swell stuck around all day. Offshore wind, too... What a run we've had, and in June to boot!

 

long boarded knee high waves in a rain storm

 

Lunch hour sesh Monday off Dam Neck with the long board. Water felt about 5 degrees cooler. Then had to hurry back to the office for a meeting.
One has to take a break from the "rock pile". I'm fortunate that my office is near the beach at Dam Neck. Desk jobs and sitting for hours looking at a computer screen will take their toll. More and more, my eyes must recover from the screen and the fluorescent lighting. When I retire in 3 years-3 months-3 weeks (who's counting?), I still want to have my vision.

 

Back from Peru - lunch break session in Delaware yesterday. Fun rippable stomach high waves, trunked it for the first time this year. Thought it might be cold from what i had heard about the morning in Maryland. Water was a bit above 70 based on how it felt...and the fact that most everyone else was in boardshorts with maybe a top and comfy. Rode my 5'5" Chemistry Experimental. Board is really growing on me.

 

Tried the other side of town, went by IOP n met up with a bud for dawn patrol. he's never surfed that wayz, so it was equivalent of teaching an old dog new trickz - not really. He took out a fun shape and i brought ova the LB. On first sight, thi hi, hardly any chop but not clean. no clean lines out there. getting in, no real power from the waves, occ waist hi, then chop slowly built up within the hour. Got a good bit of waves, but nothing that sent me 100 yards one way. hard to work hard to keep dem going, turning prunes into fine wine wave-riding. no one out but us for at least five blocks each direction. def worth the ride out tho, will be checking into folly for the rest of the week

 

What??? Amazing the difference in temps...it was very cold, even in pm, tho it did warm up a bit, but definitely not trunking weather. Last weekend I was trunking.

BTW, I dig the chemistry experimental...Keep going back and forth whether to get one.

 

I think AI is way more prone to early summer upwelling than Delaware. The Chemistry Experimental is a great board for summer waves. I wanted mine a bit shorter/wider than the stock dims (lets face it...our summer mush is softer than most summer mush) and had a great experience working the the guys at Chemistry. I felt like the Jason the shaper knew exactly what i was looking for, and he delivered. I would get another one.

 

NICE!...Yea, Jason has shaped me 4 boards...all have been great...good guy to deal with too.

 

Nice board. Is that your Willys?

 

I wish.

 

Got out againe last night. As I walked out on the beach a friend was getting out of the water and told me it was better an hour before and it was dying. Great. The waves did look pretty weak and high tide wasn't helping things. However, I didn't come to the beach to pull a Barry so I hiked down to my favorite sand bar where it looked like it might still be working.

I caught several waist high crumbling bombs right away that I was able to ride to the sand. After a while my buddy arrived and paddled out. He got a few of the mushy waves on the outside before even those died out. We finished our sesh surfing the reformed inside waves that ended in shore pound. Great fun to bail out just before you crash into the sand.

It was a beautiful evening when I left just before sunset. Nobody else on the beach. Three surfing days in a row in June. I'll take it without complaint.

 

Amen to that. Got a fun lunchbreak sesh at IRI today, I forgot how glorious trunking it is! Everything is just so much....better

Surfed until 9:30 last night, only got out because the last afterglow finally dimmed out. There wasn't much out there besides a few short rights into the sand, but when it's light that late you have to take advantage of it!

 

That board looks fun!!

 

I finally got my tooth sealed up this morning so I got medical approval to paddle out. I missed the goode choppe day yesterday, but made it out as the the tide was pushing in, Damn it was hot, and I got wore out fast paddling against the current, since I've been milking it for a couple weeks.

The water was beautiful, only four surfers out (tons of tourists wading and body surfing kinda), waist high south windswell with a few bigger random peaks. I took my home made 6'6" fish out,it catches everything and does well in choppy stuff. It was really really nice to catch a few waves today after being drydocked for a couple weeks. One right just opened up, a waist high clear green beauty, with a nice warble, and I kept making the sections and it felt like I was flying on a magic carpet. Life is goode.

 

That's a good day Sisdog!!

 

Summer solstice surf. Another beautiful evening with an empty beach. It was pretty weak at high tide but I caught a few mushy ones outside. Got tired of the drift and ended up surfing the reform shorepound againe. Four days in a row with surf in June. Suite. Even though the waves are essentially crap the alternative (flat) is so much worse. I'll take what I can get.

 

It's always auspicious to surf the summer solstice - omens of good waves to comme!

 

I got in for 2+ hrs after work, right at high tide, outgoing. It was deep and mushy but as tide went out it got better. Wind died too and nearly glassed off but still had a bump on it. There was a 30-45 min window where I was picking them off one after another. Short rides on the Flashback Fish. LB woulda been better but I wanted to switch it up today. I saw a big ass manatee just a few feet away, it kept popping its big head out of the water to look around. Caught me of guard at first lol no sharks today though, it was a decent session overall.

 

Went for a 2 mile paddle on my longboard (not on a twat yacht) because it was mostly flat.
But as I was on my way back to my starting point a couple of waves came in. Luckily I was in the right place over the best sandbar there and had 2 nice rights flying along the small walls. Made my day.
Next, I will go for a long bike ride this morning in a little while.
That is the thing about being retired guys. Yes it nice, but I have to keep myself moving and busy, or I will end up looking like Jabba the Hutt.......and bored to tears.
This afternoon I promised to work in the garden with Mrs. Cuda.