Brutal Flat Spell?

find something else to do. waves will come when they come.

 

it's almost always thigh-waist in hatty this time of year...

 

The south shore gets waves??? Just kidding...why don't you take a drive up to NH or better yet head down to the Cape or RI...they have been having a better go of it this summer. I usually surf on the north shore MA but been heading up to NH. Scored some fun waist high sets just last friday!

 

Yeah had a few decent days down here in the SE

 

Summer in FL has actually been pretty fun this year, no complaints here.

 

Cape getting some random small days, but NH has been awful. Maybe thigh high at best some days. I'm with Brett - obviously this is NE and summer, but this one stands out for me as particularly brutal

 

Maryland has not yet had a real summer flat spell this year. To me, a summer flat spell is more than a week straight of knee high or less. If you want to surf several days a week, and dont mind gutless longboard or fish sized waves, you've been surfing several days a week. Its been very consistent in the knee-thigh high range with quite a few waist high days. Lots of sea breeze. 10-15 mph side/onshore makes 2-3 foot waves pretty hard to get excited about.

At this point, i'd say this summer has been about average.

 

man vb has been brutal. we have had this 1ft at 8-10 sec stuff for the majority of the summer. it's basically a clean to glassy knee high barreling fast breaking wave that you can't really do much on....with lots of surf camps. Not sure if these conditions are the norm down here since it's my first summer, but I am ready for some fun ones.

 

Yea you guys arent exposed to the S/SW wind swells that we get. Ive actually surfed three times lately in OC, MD with these two guys that make the 2.5 hour drive up from Va Beach to surf waist high wind swell...they are both super stoked older guys, and as soon as i saw them both paddling out on Austins i guessed (correctly) they had driven up here to score a little DP.

 

hahah thats pretty funny. i would rather drive south than north but hey atleast they got something!!

 

in monmouth county we have had tons of days that were fun the past month, nobody out because the reports say 1 ft, but its waist high and peeling.

 

The south shore LMAO. That's totally NORMAL. That's the flattest place on the entire east coast. The cape totally blocks the usual south swell that you get from fronts during the summer. Dude seriously, forget about the south shore and take a drive or quit surfing. During the summer, the south shore is almost as bad as the great lakes

 

Find a place that's exposed to south swells... aka RI

 

Get a yac and go shark hunting

 

.............................................................dude..............................are you serious?
Not that optimism is a bad thing, but "tons" and "peeling" aren't the adjectives I would have chosen to describe the last month. I surf when it looks fun not when a report says it's going to be fun. I feel sorry for anyone who lets a report dictate there sessions or lack of them. Some of us actually enjoy getting our asses kicked by real surf, so yeah, the kiddy waves of summer are getting old for many men.

 

Its been loggable or fishable here on Folly past few weeks on and off but I was in Mex for a month before that so cant speak for the rest of the summer here.

As far as I am concerned, looking for waves on the East Coast in the summer is like expecting to ski in Colorado in the summer---wrong season.... if something pops up cool but I just expect it to be flat or dribble for 2-3 months

 

You're kidding me right? I've counted at least 14 days of waist high swell since memorial day around here. 2 days of head high and few chest high days. Saying it's flat or dribble for 3 months is exaggerating

 

florida is showing 18-19 ft at 12 secs tues 21st, OBX 9-10ft at 12 secs, and VA 4-5 ft at 11 secs

 

like always a few spots in RI have had swell when most of the popular ones were flat. Take monday for instance, Surfed a usually unpopular south facing spot with 6 other guys that was waist-chest on sets.... matunuck was ****, judy was ****... Ive surfed quite a few more times this summer than I remember last summer