who here has been surfing this week?

Took a day off from work today and it was so worth it. Up there with the best swell of 2016 for me. Clean and chest high in MD. Waves were fast and powerful.

 

Pretty mediocre up north, waist to chest mostly, but bit gutless with silly waits between sets. Still good excuse to get in the water.

 

went hard south right when i finished work but took what i could get around 6-dark in cnj and was definitely stoked on the size for once! saw a dolphin ride a wave for the first time too, very awesome. slept through the alarm this morning which was only downside today but redeeming myself with a propere dp tomorrow & hoping for size to still be there

 

Disappointing today... half as good and twice the crowd. Still got a few chunks in, though. Super stoked to get three solid days of surf.

 

Perspective. After 10 days surfing fun waves in Buxton. But now here at the jersey overrated shore this bs high tide shorebreak crap followed by bs midday onshore chopped bump bounce crap. It was pretty good a couple times for a couple hours, but this summer desperation at the joisey shore has everyone overrating a big swell that mostly really sucks, so i call bs. And you know it's true.

 

3 days of fun...one of them had some decent juice...may add one more day to it.

 

Good to see everyone scoring this week! Stuck in PA at work all week but did sneak 18 holes in yesterday. Got some decent waves over the weekend down in Avalon. Maybe stomach high with some fun walls.

Hoping to score some early waves tomorrow.

 

East nooks delivered yesterday. AM was inconsistent but some nice sets came through. Afternoon session a little more consistent but some side texture to it. So nice to grab some warm water sessions. More on tap through the weekend.

 

Ho Brah how you gonna have time for 18 holes of golf and no surf

I mean the infamous 23' footer zone is only an hour from were you live

Man I been on it since Sunday

This morning still had some fun ones out there in ocean county

My skin is finely pigmented, my hair is bleached by the sun and salts and my body is "surfed out"

Ah I'm feeling all kinez truckin' surfy today

Ah mo' swell on the way from my favorite direction

 

I surfed a couple days ago. Local beach break. Sandbars are sh!t. And a got cruised by a 6ft whitey. Ooooo good times nor cal.

 

Scored yesterday DP as well as this morning. Swell was diminishing, however, very clean this morning, and even though the size was smaller (waist-stomach), some real fun waves. The lefts at the spot had a little more punch, so it was good to put in some work on the back side.

It's good to surf some decent waves 3 out of the last 4 days.

 

Bad to good to Fock me in VB yesterday afternoon.

Went out to my goto high tide spot after work. Mushy double ups, ugh. Said screw this after 4 waves. Pedaled a few blocks south of the pier and found a NICE bowling midway-shorebreak peak. Had it all to myself as everyone was over the high tide blues. Was going backside on a nice bowl. Hit the lip and when I came around the bottom just dropped out. Nose dive.... said "fck me!!" as I heard 9" of my nose snap under water.

After a trip to WRV for supplies I was still waiting for the 2nd coat of resin to harden at 4am. Worst part was wifey was asleep so no power tools or air compressor. 1st world problems suck.

 

2nd best dp of the summer today, shoulder high and pure glass but got too deep. fun long views while it was good though, onshore and knee high now

 

Superb waves four days this week at TPTSNBN. OH on Tuesday morning. HH several other sessions. Waist to chest & clean peeling on the small day.

Sure, there were challenges with the wind or whatever. But duble sessions every day & high wave count = very, very happy. Surfed 6'6, 9'2, 9'6. A blast on every boart.

My experience was that the most on-target fucast was via windguru. Surfline & noswellinfo were also accurate. There were sometimes last-minute fucast changes, but all good cause it was shifty at times.

Great week

 

This post ****ing rocks.

So today I went to the DP prepared for anything; I had the SUP on top, fish, boogie board, fins and hand plane in the trunk. If there was a wave, I had something to ride it.

Packed up the car, including breakfast and lunch for work and work clothes last night. Set alarm for 0500 for a 0540 nautical twilight. Alarm goes off, check wunderground and Newport cam. Huge thunderstorms moving in and not much discernable on cam. Check buoy...3.6' sig wave height....hmmm, should be knee-waist, but damn, that blob on the radar looks ominous. **** it, might as well bag it and just go to work.

Half hour later, still up, dwelling on missing surf. **** it, I'm just gonna go and look at it. If it sucks, hey, I'm an hour early into work and can get caught up.

Get to the beach just as it starts to rain. About knee high, clean, but nobody at all out. Water looked dirty. **** it, I'm here, got the ****, might as well paddle out.

Paddle out into the nasty seaweed debris ****, star working my way down the beach and see a flash. Wait...one, two, three, four, five...BOOOOOOOM!!11!!! Ok, so I'm on a SUP, alone, in the middle of the ocean and there's a thunderstorm coming in. This is stupid. Another flash and I'm gonna head in. Lightning don't discriminate, yo.

But there was never another flash. Surfing on the SUP is like cheating. I caught more waves in 10 minutes than I have in the last 3 days of surfing. Probably got 10 waves in 30 minutes before the outflow from the t-storm blew everything to ****, and besides I had to get to work anyway.

Fun little session. Not epic, but I got some waves, a lot of waves actually. WTF.

 

This post ****ing rocks.

So today I went to the DP prepared for anything; I had the SUP on top, fish, boogie board, fins and hand plane in the trunk. If there was a wave, I had something to ride it.

Packed up the car, including breakfast and lunch for work and work clothes last night. Set alarm for 0500 for a 0540 nautical twilight. Alarm goes off, check wunderground and Newport cam. Huge thunderstorms moving in and not much discernable on cam. Check buoy...3.6' sig wave height....hmmm, should be knee-waist, but damn, that blob on the radar looks ominous. **** it, might as well bag it and just go back to sleep.

Half hour later, still up, dwelling on missing surf. **** it, I'm just gonna go and look at it. If it sucks, hey, I'm an hour early into work and can get caught up.

Get to the beach just as it starts to rain. About knee high, clean, but nobody at all out. Water looked dirty. **** it, I'm here, got the ****, might as well paddle out.

Paddle out into the nasty seaweed debris ****, star working my way down the beach and see a flash. Wait...one, two, three, four, five...BOOOOOOOM!!11!!! Ok, so I'm on a SUP, alone, in the middle of the ocean and there's a thunderstorm coming in. This is stupid. Another flash and I'm gonna head in. Lightning don't discriminate, yo.

But there was never another flash. Surfing on the SUP is like cheating. I caught more waves in 10 minutes than I have in the last 3 days of surfing. Probably got 10 waves in 30 minutes before the outflow from the t-storm blew everything to ****, and besides I had to get to work anyway.

Fun little session. Not epic, but I got some waves, a lot of waves actually. WTF.

 

Got out late afternoon Wed and early AM Thurs. May squeeze in a sesh Friday before Hermine arrives.
We were going camping this weekend in Sandbridge. Already bought the beer for Friday night. Playing it by ear now.

 

Toonces: Cool story, bro. Like, srsly.

Monday was okay. Pretty fun waist-chest peaky south. Wore a 3/2 that I didn't need.
Tuesday was better. Cleaner, skinned it, and paddled south at the end to pick off a classic wave at the end. Got some nice little in-and-outs.

The rest of the week sucked, and it's flat until late next week, looks like. Have fun with your tropical stuff.

 

Enjoyed the tale, Mr. T.

 

Superfun sesh this morning ...clean thigh high with waist highs rolling through, so many fun rides and four standouts that had s nice drop to them, and finally have enough skill to stay on the board through the drop. The lighting was spectacular too. Occasionally wind kicked up to about 18 mph from the south adding some texture to the water but not making the wave any worse. It was way better than predicted.

. Not too crowded since it was a work day, and I think a lot of the locals took off to surf the shoulder high clean waves until yesterday, I guess today was the leftovers of Hermine

Life is good!