yea...i agree, this year is really bad. What ever happened to "the most active hurricane season ever"????
Not the worst year ever but very poor, last year was the most consistent head high and clean everyday I can remember in 35 years which makes this summer feel even worse.
plenty of ridable days considering not much tropical activity.. def. not worst year.. the problem this year is the sandbars are terrible bc of the lack of big swells to shape them.. i def. surfed plenty this summer with some occ. good days.. i.e. colin swell which had some head+ sets rolling in
tropical season generally doesn't get going to around this time of year. We of course can get storms earlier, but middle to late august is when the storms start to form off the Cape Verde Islands. Hang in there...
Yeah September is on average the month with the biggest ground swells and most number of days with ride-able surf in the northeast. Oh and the water is still warm
i don't put ne faith in magical "cane swellz"...most playcez on wrong island can't hold longer period sh$t, xcept turtlez and LB...and most timez it gits chaotic when it DUZ arrive, with sh$tloadz o current and lets face it thu wind RARELEEY goez offshore here! even if it DUZ, u haftuh deal with thu rite tide. i actually prefer windswell around here cuz it duzn't cloze owt az much. and i prefer l8 fall/winter cuz there'z less kooks/general surferz in thu water. lets face it, thu oddz uv scorin' good surf around here? better oddz winnin' thu lotto...don't live here 2 surf, but 2 make $$. once enuff $$ saved up, Cali here i come!
wow what a bunch of whinny babys why dont you all stop complaining and maybe ull get ur swell. till then you have to sit tight and let the tropics stew to make us some happy people lets hope those Nor'easters start rolling around this winter besides the prime time hurricane season is in the fall months the later it gets the better the swells. last week we got that low from the east and that should of made anyone happy
Kman i agree with kman cali is where its at but strongly disagree about his further water knowledge. if long beach and turtles are the only spots your thinking of then you have alot of exploring to do. i could name 15 spots that hold groundswell better then you can drop into a wave and thats on long island.
surfing > not surfing only an idiot complains about surfing. who cares if it's not thumping all the time, obviously you've got something worth keeping you here besides waves. if not, go explore... live in bali or california at least. if you've got no reason to be in ny/nj and don't travel it's your own fault. if i didn't have 2 kids & a mortgage i'd be on a sailboat somewhere in central america or the south pacific eating fish & guiding touristas.
LOLz...wrong island haz bin "good" 5 timez this year since January...if u ride knee-thigh garbage that's kookage...might az well just go in when it's flat and ride a kayak... this playce haz like a couple barz that are rideable. (ie. that don't break 5feet from thu beach)...seerius lack o swell/barz around here.
look at this 4cast and compare it with our crap wee've bin ridin' this yeer since january lolz...u get a good session like once/month here. there? once/day! http://www.swellinfo.com/surf-forecast/santa-cruz-california.html
wow kman the whinny 31tch why dont you just go surf pipeline hit the reef and then wash up and have the locals have was left of you we dont want you on long island no more if u dont like it then move.
