pt.j/r.i. - small, but fun!~

I like your blog a lot. Its a shame we will loose it. Sometimes I think its all because people are too nice around here. Like no one pulls a guy aside and tells him hes doing it wrong. It should be like survivor where the lineup gets to vote you off the island. My last gripe for the day: would people please STOP SURFING MATUNUCK when its blowing 20 mph onshore, buy a map and find somewhere else to surf. I know its CT best surf break, but find another spot when the wind is wrong.

 

I absolutely don't think people are TOO nice.

Why do you care if someone is surfing a spot with bad conditions? Would you rather they come to where you are with good conditions?? I don't get people sometimes.

 

nothing is secret any more

 

Good point, just sick of all the traffic every day. Also kite and windsurf there so its a PIA to deal with them.

 

spot naming

HAHA! FYI...

"Courtney flies" is right next to this place. Dont worry though, it'll be full of URI kids when does break 4x a year. And when it does, I usually call ALL my friends from CT and warwick.


...Sorry for the very poor pic quality. It was taken on a camera circa the same time you wouldve had a legit argument for spot naming in narragansett on an internet forum.

get over it.

 

I pretty sure that anyone that is looking at this forum has been to surfline, wanna or any other forecast out there. You can google "surf map" for anywhere in the world. Do you really think that someone saw "it was a small couple of days at Pt. J" and decided to go check it out.... Or did you just think it was cool to say "Don't name spots!" because that's so core and cool...

 

Hahahhahaha.

 

The last thing I'm worried about is being "core" or "cool" I'm not 13 lol It's all about having fun for me. Ok well maybe my point about spot naming would be better served if none of these spots were ever posted on the internet, but they all are now I see. Point taken. They never should have been posted in the first place. Totally against localism, but let people discover it on their own.

But you can't go back in time.

 

sharky and the boyz....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgw2bewrXGg

 

sharky, the internet didnt ruin surfing alone, surfing ruined surfing alone.

 

You guys make me feel bad about myself. I just moved to RI from Jersey - I need to surf! Well, I guess I am ok cuz my plates are RI plates now . . . My experience in RI including that rocky point place has been good so far, folks have been very nice when I say I just moved up, ask about the break, and ask if it's ok if I watch where they line up so I can get the read of the place. I'm not a kook, but not an expert, either I just want to surf more and get better.

at least people in RI will talk to you, in Jersey they look through you like you don't exist. And that is weird cuz the whole jersey coast for two hundred miles is just one jetty/beach break after another, miles and miles and miles of surf. Crummy as I may be most of the time.

I don't know any of your code names yet. But I try to be polite in the water. And if there is a clean up day at the beach I will help.

 

Surfing is quite comical up here most of the time, i.e. last weekend's windswell. Best day was Friday night and the winds was blowing 25 mph from the south. Saturday and Sunday sucked with LA county style crowds, complete with flailing scrubs laying flat on their boards and total ripper brahs pumping down closeouts on thrusters all surfing next to each other. what a joke.

 

I've only been to Rhode Island once (and was lucky enough to score it big time...fall time of year, solid south swell pumping with west winds...all of the righthanders in Narragansett were working and I had a great session ..one of my best east coast seshs ever...smiled the entire 6 hour drive back to Delaware...even through ridic traffic on the Connecticut Turnpike) so i'm completely clueless about the crowd deal up there.

But it always seemed like with the parking so insane up there, the public access problems, and all of the cliffs and pockets, that if there was some swell from the south and you were willing to paddle a little ways, or park and walk a distance, that you could find something uncrowded. Probably too much hassle hiking or paddling in blind to some out of the way spot for waist high wind swell so everyone just goes to the easy spots?

 

dude,i am so going to rhode island now!!!im goin to this so called secret spot u guys were kind enough to share,so i can snake all the guys,drop in on every body and run em over with my 11 ft roadrunner....

 

We pick up these little dinky SW swells and if you wanna surf you gotta go somewhere that faces south. But yeah, a strong S or SE and all the gansett spots work and let people spread out. This is rare.

 

Nope. Easy coastal access in all areas that break in gansett from town beach all the way to the tip which is a nice thing.

Basically, just a high population for a few breaks unfortunately. It's as simple as that. That's why it's crowded
You'd think that a wave breaking in area with huge hidden boulders everywhere(some about a foot or two beneath the surface in the impact zone) that you can shatter bones on or crack your skull would scare a lot of people away. Unfortunately, Nope it doesn't!