who here has been surfing this week?

Sure wish an storm would pop up on the NHCs hurricane map site. I am starting to lose faith. Wasn't "global warming" supposed to destroy the East Coast with short intervals between intense hurricanes?? I think Al Gore lied to us; he wouldn't do that, would he??

 

surf free or die
o barry

 

I recall driving in to TPTSNBN two years ago over July 4th wknd & seeing on the way in the NPS digital road signs that read simply "Heavy Surf" - - we got pretty excited just seeing that. Waited all day for it to clean up. The magic hour finally arrived & it was a blast.

 

took the fun board out today for dp, the name makes a lot of sense now. aboot 4 hours worth of sense.

 

It's been really fun lately, LB sessions the past few mornings. Knee - waist, clean peeling liners, got some rides today in the 75-100 yard range. Never ending little walls, so awesome for small waves.

 

That would be like telling you, "You are going to have an escalator to make things easy for you!!".

 

It has been poo here in NH lately. Small, knee highs at best, and the water just this past week was 50*F due to a very localized upwelling. Froze my cojones off.......

 

That's pretty cold for this time of year, I wouldn't mind some cooler temps about now

 

Yup, that temp caught everyone by surprise start of last week. Show up in a 3/2 with no gloves and no boots when a 4/3 with boots and gloves are called for. A cap would have been nice as well. First 2 waves gave me the ice cream headache. After 20 minutes I got out. The end of June?? Very unusual. But today it's warmer again.

 

Hear, hear! Went to the normally busy inlet spot yesterday that was pretty empty. Few of the regular locals showed up I suppose because of the minimal surf. It was just the wife and I and a half dozen of the Shreddin' Betties for the first hour. Caught shiploads of those knee high peeling liners for long rides to the sand. Every so often a rogue set of waist high waves would roll through. Thoroughly exhausted after seven hours in the salt and sun. Had way more fun than I should have considering these weren't even the C or D grade waves Florida is famous for. Rinse and repeat for next weekend cuz the local forecast is nothing but flat.

 

At dawn today it was flat. As the tide began to come in the waves reached knee high, occasional thigh high, regular lines about 8" intervsl. It was s notch bigger than yesterday when Valhalla came up and demonstrated his unique talent of being able to keep his hair dry while surfing ... Valhalla also saved me and I am very grateful for sure.

Today was better and I came prepared for the Florida heat. The water was 84 freaking degrees and the air was 88 with like a 2mph offshore "breeze". The water was glassy and clean ...I put ice cubes on my head under my baseball cap, and some inside my suit. It did the trick. Those cubes on the head lasted easily a good 20 minutes-- who knows how. But it prevented heat related problems and it was super fun to be out with the gang surfing,

DPSUP how did you manage to score waist high yesterday. The whole state looked so flat!

 

It was knee to thigh with a waist high that would roll through every 15-30 minutes, one of them went unridden, so I just camped out and waited for it again and it came through with some patience. Antoine and I found a shallow sand bar that was picking up that little 2ft @ 8 sec just right. Most everywhere else was looking meh, just got it dialed in I guess.

 

Four days out our the last seven so no complaints here. None over chest high (and three of the four were only waist) but fun, relatively warm and not too many tourons in the jerz. Exception being the one fatass in a cowboy hat who this morning set up his rig directly (as in due west/perpendicular to the beach where I was during with two other guys) and then proceeded to cast two lines with bottom sets that landed maybe 20ft from us. WTF? #saltliferulz

 

Nice, glad you got some too. Not bad for middle of Summer!

 

lolz!

Brutal mang brutal....sounds like you got a few of the idiots from TPTSNBN up your way, hermano.

The human virus. Summer seems to bring out the plague.

 

missed the fun waves on wednesday...went out of town for a few days for out 25 year ann...yesterday, small and choppy, but surfable...nice day tho...Zoo weekend coming up.

 

Yeah, I was out at S*cond Bea*h and it was a generous 2'. I took the SUP out and it was rideable, but damn was it an obstacle course. After about an hour I couldn't take it anymore and grabbed a sponge and fins. Dare I say it? I actually had quite a bit of fun on the boogie! That might be my new go-to small wave boart. Maneuvering a 12' SUP in those crowds is just too much trouble.

 

And irresponsible, c'mon man you know better.

Sorry Peajay, I had to say something. (Toonces, if you disagree PM me so we don't derail this thread).

 

Nah man, I agree with you. They rent SUPs right there on the beach, so there are quite a few clueless people in the lineup on those things. I'm actually pretty competent on a SUP, but I know my limitations on it and I am not willing to surf it around other people where I might hit them. I moved down the beach quite a ways, looking for breaks in the people who were swimming in the shore break. Eventually, though, it was just too much trouble trying to continually navigate to a clear piece of beach, so I bagged it and grabbed the boogie.

I completely agree with you that taking a SUP into a crowd is, or can be, very dangerous. I'm probably overly cautious in that regard.