Biggest East Coast Wave

Nj

http://www.amfibianusa.com/contest_archives_07-1.php

 

Here is a shot that Beaner took about a year and a half ago, during that big spring time S swell in Jersey. Not too shabby:

 

I'm on my way to claim for fame! I'm on my search with what I saw (in pictures) to be massive 20+ft waves on the EC... just have to find it fellow riders...

So..everyone GTFO!!!! J/K!

 

Not what I was looking for... but....

 

Lol, with a wide angle 18mm then it falls to about 2 to 3'... this is getting good as I have ridden Frisco Pier in a wide range of conditions, 2' to solid o/h.

 

anyone dig up some ruggles photos. Wasn't there a outer Rhode Island reef mission that was scored some years ago.

 

noel in atlantic city last year. that was freaking big. surfed it with a 6'0". got one of the best waves of my life that day in front of mad spectators. psyched

 

Big Surf!

East coast boundaries are? I have seen videos of very very big nova, phatoms of hatty and huge barrier islands off florida that easily exceed 20'. It does exsist. Tres gets big and is kind of East Coast. I have seen pics of the Northeast with questionable but obviously large photos.

 

ruggles is definitely the spot that would hold some of biggest and most rideable...on another note, weren't guys towing into some cloudbreak waves in FL and NC in recent years? what about those red bull icebreak comps?

 

im guna guess that montauk easily has some of the largest waves on the eastcoast

 

Just a few teasers...

 

have any of the pros, like Hammer ever towed into Big NJ? If the slant of this thread is leaning towards NJ being A BIG WAVE SPOT, you would have thought we all would have seen and heard of a more active group of surfers trying to blow this fact up some, do you not think?

No way I am busting On NJ waves, would love to have some of the goodness that those Jetties and beachbreaks receive, as opposed to what the Delmarva gets. But If it is true that some spots in that state have been pushing those types of wave sizes, you really would think that it would have been exposed within the last decade for sure.

Any ideas,...have we missed some of these sessions I am speaking of.

 

nj is not a big wave state. give me a break.

it's just once in a while there is a macking swell

 

I would have to agree.....we get ours every now and again.

And Hammer, Gleason, and McCoy do get their fair share of it when it comes. Myself, and few friends do photo shoots with them almost all the time there is good waves. Mostly hurricane season. So, when there are bombers coming in I know where they are.

 

http://nesurf.com/photos/view/4.html

http://www.wannasurf.com/spot/North...dex.html?wdaction=lib.WDPagePhoto.show&page=3

The first picture is ruggles during hurricane fabian 2003, and the second is a famous shot of ruggles aaron chang snapped. I think ruggles is the big name spot on the east coast, those pictures from fabian are just insane, Hammer was there that day.

 

Ash Wednesday storm of 62

Here are some more details of the ash wednesday storm, surely some of the biggest waves ever to hit the ec (historically).
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Further north, 60 mph (96 km/h) winds and 7.6 m (25 ft) waves struck Ocean City, Maryland. Waves more than 12 m (40 ft) high occurred at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware destroying the boardwalk and beach front homes. Sand dunes were flattened along the entire length of Delaware’s ocean coastline. In New Jersey, the storm ripped away part of the Steel Pier in Atlantic City. Long Beach Island was cut through in several places. The destroyer USS Monssen was washed ashore near Holgate. In New Jersey alone, an estimated 45,000 homes were destroyed or greatly damaged. In New York, on Long Island, communities such as Fire Island were decimated; 100 homes there were destroyed. Wave heights reached 12 m (40 ft) by the shore of New York City.

Perhaps a fitting memorial to what was lost in the storm is Assateague Island National Seashore, a unit of the National Park Service. In the 1950s, some 5,000 private lots comprising what is now National Park Service land were zoned and sold for resort development. The Ash Wednesday Storm halted the plans for development, as it destroyed the few existing structures on the island and ripped roads apart. Instead, in 1965, Assateague Island became a National Seashore

Taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday_Storm

 

I'm doing a lot of "work" at work today... more bombs...

 

Ash Wednesday Storm Aftermath....1962

 

heres some from wilma in oc nj

http://magicseaweed.com/photoLab/viewPhoto.php?photoId=54696

http://magicseaweed.com/photoLab/viewPhoto.php?photoId=57207

http://magicseaweed.com/photoLab/viewPhoto.php?photoId=54693

whatcha think about those?