East Coast Winters

Go to the discount clothing store and buy the biggest, thickest, fuzzy cotton robe w/ a hood you can find. Change under that. Makes changing outside so much better. They make stuff like this specifically for surfing but it'll cost you a few more bucks to look cool and sport a logo.

 

Only if I can borrow your towel.

And what are you gonna do with the suit once you're standing half naked in the john...hang it on the urinal, slap it over the commode door while someone's dropping deuces on the other side of the door, drop it on the floor???

It's just a bad idea all together

 

This thread is fantastic.

 

Thank you, it'd be so creepy, then what if the arm of your suit falls into the urinal or something. I'll take the outside change. I like the big robe idea...I mean I could always get a plain white one and draw a Hurley symbol on it so I look cool.

 

I usually just sit on the sink where people wash their hands and change there. If someone comes in, it's a male bathroom so oh well. I've gotten some strange looks sitting there naked on the bathroom sink covered in sand with ass in the sink. No different than a locker room if you ask me.

 

I bring a small trap with me and just drape it over the seat for the ride home. Its only 20 min for me so its not so bad. Its just so tough getting out of the chest zip and dont feel like freezing. I find my hands get so stiff i can barely strap my truck shut with the bungy.

 

Like this: Yikes! I'd try a tarp if I was you. But if that's how you roll....different strokes for different folks.

 

This was answered already. The reason summer is flat is due to lack of frontal systems and jet stream going farther north. Storms= winds = swell
Less movement of air masses in summer. So a lack of strong fronts, which bring wind, which bring waves No nor'easters. No hurricane swells most of the time until sept.
And summer = memorial day to labor day.

 

Nothing is out of the question in a public restroom or locker room. Just ask Ish.

 

Even in November dude?

 

Anytime air temp is below 55. Another pet peeve of mine is how they turn off the showers and shut the buildings once sept. Absolutely ridiculous. No wear to even wash off the sand and nothing better than those hot quarter showers.

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I was obvioulsy joking about putting my ass in the sink. Just find one of those solo bathrooms that are around.

 

brahz I shred the nar on the daily.

 

i'm not your friend. go crack an oceanography textbook if you're so curious. "waves & beaches" by willard bascomb is a good starting point.

 

Well, you apparently founded the "I want a post-sesh McRib/infection" group.

BTW, what is phenmonia? Some sort of new stimulant all the kids are raving with now?

The same different thing always sometimes happens to me almost never. Make an appointment with your doc. Stat. You can also bet the others in the pool with you are just as anxious in your presence, and not due to water temp or ambient air.

Seems like you've got it all figured out, bro!

So thug. Love it. Gold chains and over-sized watch clocks round the neck, too, please.

Amazing.

My thoughts exactly, MA. SI quality seems to come in swells and we've been on one for a bit now lately.

Wait...so you really do this? True Life: "I'm propped up, buck, spread eagle on fast food restroom sinks greeting the nervous patrons with a sly smile."

Goosefrahbrah, I know we've exchanged the right-left a few times here on SI, but you're clearly a dude I want to party with. You've got a few punchlines in your quiver. And your clip art folder.

Why'd the Terminator win the election? C'mon, pay attention.

Thanks to you there's no lack of frontal system exposure in the hopper at Mc's or at your nearest break courtesy of half the dudes on this forum.

 

Ncaradillo, don't pay attention to the attitude of people like him. We are not all old grumpy men.

 

Ain't no towel could cover what I'm packin, boy.

You guys are cracking me up with all this talk about Ringworms and McRibs. So let me give you a lil tale of public bathroom winter wettie changing.

One March day, before I had a winter suit, I was pushing my luck with a Hyperflex 4/3 at a super-ultra-secret spot in NY that goes by the initials LB. I took the commuter rail train there, from NYC, as I had just finished up a high-powered meeting and didn't want to get my whip from the climate controlled garage.

Anyway, I figured, since I took the train, why not get changed in the train station bathroom that the commoners use, right? It might be sketchy, but hey, I'd feel even closer to the hardcore loc-dawgs after the experience.

Board, boardbag, backpack and all, I entered a bathroom stall. It was quite a b*tch to fit in there. It smelled. The floor was gross, covered in smears of what I hoped was dirt. I'm struggling to get my wettie on, balancing on my shoes so that I don't touch the filthy floor, and suddenly a new and extremely pungent odor of piss permeates the bathroom. Someone, who wreaks of piss, is grunting and shuffling around. The hand dryer goes off, and then goes off again, and then goes of again. This went on for five or ten minutes while I changed into my suit. 'Perhaps he is drying something off,' I thought.

The mystery man exited the room, though his perfume of piss lingered nonetheless. I finished getting my gear together and walked out of the stall. I looked below the hand dryer, expecting to see droplets of water, and instead bore witness to a smattering of breadcrumbs.

Motherf*cker was heating up a sandwich with the hand dryer.

 

for the record,swells most often occur during the "wet season."its the same all over the world.summer time is dry season,makes sense.our wet season is winter and spring,and that's when we get our swells.low pressures form out in the Midwest and make there way easterly,given the name noreasters.when a storm moves offshore,those winds pass the ocean and generate swells.here on the eastcoast,well have shytty weather,and the next day as the storm passes off the coast it will generate epic waves.

storms create waves.snow storms,rain storms,tornados,etc.a few years ago a series of deadly tornadoes passed through the south,and when that storm system moved offshore,april 17th I believe it was,it was some of the biggest epic waves ever.

also what helps in all this,are the stormy choppy days before the storms pass offshore.they call it victory at sea.waves closeout and crash,rip sand from the bottom and create sandbanks.the following day when the storms offshore and the winds turn west,thats the recipe for epic waves in the northeast