who here has been surfing this week?

^^^yup.

 

Saturday was windblown chunky chest to shoulder high sets, and I got caught in a reverse rip, just getting hit with wave after wave trying to get out. Finally made it, only two SUPers out, no one else, at a well know sandbar in Jupiter.

First wave was a pig dog left, got munched at the end, and by the time I made it back out I was pooped. Got a couple more better waves, they had a lot of power for some reason. Then walked back up the beach for another round. One of the SUPers was a smoking hot female, so it made the paddling more better. She and her friend were getting wave after wave, and plowing back out for more, as I was struggling in the soup to make it out. Got a few more and called it a day after an hour of constant paddling.

Yesterday was much better. Same spot. The swell picked up to shoulder plus, the wind died, and the crowd grew, but were spaced out and everyone got lots of waves. Guys in floppy hats, Old Dudes on longboards, a few random groms, a couple women, everyone smiling and catching long, steep, sectiony waves.

I got my share of nice lefts with good off the lips, floaters and long smooth turns, and a couple steeper shorter rights. The frustration from the day before was washed off by the dirty waves of Sunday.

They let more water out of Lake O, and the sea is poop. Worst I've seen, big mats of brown foam, dark brown water, with lots of vegetation - not sea weed - just under the surface. Duck diving through it was nasty. Last night I dreamed I was on a boardwalk at night on a lake and a Loch Ness monster popped his head up and his neck was as thick as a tree and it went up 8 feet in the air and came down boom looking for prey. Any connection?

 

+1 on that crystal clear water. Love it like that.

And yes, Sunday DP was awesome before the wind started to get on it.

 

Right on, brother. It actually went light offshore for bit, before it turned more south. And the sun peeked out, too. Sort of all came together...

 

Yes, that's the one!

 

wow, i had to dig this thread out from the trenches. Finally got to go out this morning in some proper waves. we've had some serious wind, drift the past week. luckily, my patience paid off. Stomach hi, serious push with some angle on it. Could of rode a LB or a shorty, went with the somewhat funshape 7'2 fisch. lotta teaserz which sux for a DP knowing ya gotta go to work, but the rides were fun. mainly rights, nobody around. i hope it keeps going thru the wknd, but i'm not so sure

 

I got out for an hour or so after work yesterday. Buoys are saying the water is 67, but i trunked it and seemed a little warmer than that to me, maybe just because the sun was out and there was no wind. Soft little thigh waist high waves that were fun on the mini simmons. Just about everyone else was on a log, which always makes things interesting when your on a 4 foot shorter board than the rest of the lineup. Shot these around 5, and they def make it look bigger than it was...because it was small

 

Got home from Hawaii on a red eye yesterday morning (write up of those sessions is in my hawaii threade) and snuck in an hour or so of fun knee to waist high longboard waves in moco before coming into work for the afternoon. My wife, the friend who went on the trip with me, and my coworkers all think I'm crazy... apparently because I just went on a good surf trip I'm supposed to pass up fun waves at home now?? Idk... I came back more stoked than ever. Anyway, waves were fun, although they seemed smaller than they should've and the water felt cold to me (go figure). But there were solid waist high sets and they were lining up all the way to the beach. Hoping similar conditions hold up for after work today.

 

^^^suite. I haven't surfed since Sunday. I need to rinse the workweek off me, quick.

 

What's a Bluebottle?

#wurst

 

Got a 1.5 hour session at Second Beach before the tide killed it.

Why are you all such ****ing sheep? I checked it for 20 minutes with nobody out before I decided to give it a go, and within two waves some douche paddles right to where I'm sitting. Right to where I'm sitting, the only one out on a mile and a half stretch of beach. Then his SUP butt buddy paddles out to join us.

Why do other surfers want to surf next to me? I don't want to surf next to you. In fact, I don't want to surf next to anybody. I don't crave your company. Why do you crave mine?

Good news, I didn't see any Masshole rental pussbags out there today.

Water is getting chilly. At first I thought booties were in order. After a bit I realized it wasn't that bad, but it was shocking for the first 10 minutes or so. Then my rage warmed me.

 

I find myself generally losing hope for humanity. A mile and a half of beachbreak, all of it more or less the same, and the ****ing sheep see a guy catch a wave and figure out that's the place to be.

I'm going to kill myself in San Diego, I'm sure of it.

 

Yeah I'm heading to SD in 1-2 weeks, just looking at the cams gets me all tense.

But...it all depends on where you surf. You can still catch uncrowded surf if you know where to find it.

 

If you find it, please tell me where it is. I'm going to buy a house right in front and be the guy that paddles out and surfs right next to you every time you're out.

Seriously, though, looking at the SD cams on Surfline, I might just give up surfing and take up diving full time or something. I don't think I'll be able to deal with those kinds of crowds.

 

Twice this week, Thurs and Fri during lunch at my usual Dam Neck break. Water temp in high 60s.

 

Actually, I thinks he's referring to the flies.

 

Tiny but super glassy longboard waves today.

 

Surprisingly fun weekend. Last weekend had a bit of size but was chunky. Still some fun ones. This weekend was the complete opposite. Small, thigh high, but super clean and fun. Yesterday high tide was super deep so i paddled out in the dark to maximize water time. Had this nice little peak all to myself on the mini. Was a blast. Small but a nice wall to play with. I don't care about size, if its got a wall and a lip to mess around with I'm happy. It got to deep and crowded quickly though. This morning i had the same plan. Similar waves, but the tide was later and lower then yesterday. It was a ton of fun. Little floaters and lip love taps. Gotta love it when your expecting close to nothing and you get somthing you can actually surf

 

Chunkfest this weekend but plenty of size and pretty fun. Lots of head-high + sets.

High tide was kinda wonky but you could sit outside and get a nice roll in to set your feet and get some speed. Sandbars have been different since the hurricanes but I like it so far. It's actually been a lot steeper of a drop at my usual spots so maybe the next solid offshore day we get will have some barrells.

Pretty packed for a "poor" day too.

 

drink, smoke, surf. prolly shouldn't do in that order, but that was the wknd feature for myself. it wasn't clean, but rideable from knee to thi hi over the coarse of the wknd. took the LB for most of it. got choppier and a lot heavier yesterday evening. head hi right after lo tide, short period of lil wind after a rainfall but things got chopped up quick. was really fun, could be awesome tomorrow after this cold front passes thru