I have siad it before i will say it again, you guys are getting waves real soon, I leave for Seattle Wa for work this upcoming Monday, everytime without fail when i have to travel for work during hurricane season we get tropical swell here in the VB/OBX area. So I leave Monday not suppose to get back til August 31st in that time you guys will have chest to head high or bigger fun surf for two to three days.
yeah bushwood, way to take one for the team. I wonder what the chances of invest 92 and invest 93 gettin it on and forming like voltron are? AND... while the little guy off of carolina IS small, im surprised we dont at least get a bump from it.... That L on the weather map always gets my mouth watering
lets all get our knickers in a twist so we can get disappointed. yaaaaaaaaaaaay. silly fools in 2 weeks half of ye will be gone most of the time and later the noreasters will start and we will get some surf that matters. yaaaaaaaaaaay.
Rip, my knickers are so twisted up my keester that I can taste the fruit of my loom. And it is yummy!
Exactly! the noreasters are were it's at and they produce such heavy fun barrels for my lonesome self.
Noreaster - Snoreaster...Just kidding. I think we got 2 NEaster storms last year...hopefully this year will switch from a southerly dominated storm season to a more NE season trend...We are due!
This was a noreaster, November 15, 2010. I didn't take the pictures my friend did, but I was right there when he took them, drooling and shedding my warm wintry clothes for some crisp over head barrels. We did get some solid hurricane swells last year but they were mostly walled up and inconsistent. There was that one day though where it was solid double over head in VA beach. The swell picked up the night before and was blown out over night. The wind started howling west over night and by mid morning it was huge and clean on the outside. The inside was white wash, over head rollers pushing into the shore break. Some of them were reforming on the inside several times over. There were three guys out by the discharge pier at 61st. Me and two friends paddled out just south of there and I was the only one to make it out at first. It was the biggest I've ever been out in VA. My friends made it out on their second and third tries, I think it was mostly mental what kept them out at first. We scored a few massive bombs. They weren't heaving over barreling though, they were just walled up 12 foot faces that had a little tiny crumbly barrel on the top. Some of them would link up and heave over when they came inside and you could get double or triple barrel sections but they were much smaller than the huge rollers on the outside. As quick as it came it was gone. By that afternoon all the surfers were out and it was fractionally as large as it had been. The wave wasn't even that nice once it dropped to about head high and me and my friends packed up and left. I think by the time we left it was barely head high and there were dozens of people out where there had been 6 for hours while it was gnarly. You had to be there though. You might've surfed that day but I bet the amount of guys who were out when it was literally double over head are slim. Lots of guys standing on the beach, very few in the line up. Any body remember that one or have any pics? I really have to start taking more pics.
Remember it well!! I broke my big board and ended up surfing this day 5'10" on a fun-fish. Great session! I surfed the little island pier and sets were breaking so far out that jumping off the end of the pier only got you to the "inside"! Only a few days a year when the rhino chaser comes down off the wall, thanks for taking me back bro!! Seen some solid DOH waves come from named storms too, so lets spread the love around a little...
Which day are you talking about the nor easter or the hurricane? I can't remember the date of the hurricane but I want to say it was before it got cold. I was wearing a rash guard and board shorts. It was a very gray day, over cast and drizzly in the morning through mid day and a bit clearer but still gray in the afternoon. Either way both of those days were sick but the Nov. 15 swell was probably the most perfect day I have ever been out. 3 feet over head on the sets and barrels so perfect you just dropped in and got slotted. Doesn't even seem real in hindsight.
That middle one, the close up of the barrel, that's been my computer desktop since my friend took it. And it's the background on my phone. I just can't get enough of it. Edit: There are more pics from that day in my album. All of the pics in my album are from that day actually.
I remember this, but in OCMD it was supposed to be nice and glassy but it was rough and closing out. got a couple good rides though
