Huge swell coming!

Well forecast Friday looked good ...have to put in for vacation in advance so is chancy sometimes

 

Zipper? No offense but screw it. Seriously. One time i forgot to zip my suit up. During the winter vortex a few years back. Temps below 0 and ocean close to freezing. Was i cold? Hell yeah. But it honestly wasn't that bad. If it's firing, just go man. Don't let a zipper hold you back

Took the day off tomorrow already. Still looking well OH but with much lighter offshores then the past 3 days. Stoked. Might head west to LB after hearing some of the guys saying how good it was out there these past few days. We will see. Regardless, looks like the last of this swell and I'm going all out. This was a good one. No regrets. Going to surf this swell till my arms fall off

 

Brah it was Skeleton Bay out!

 

Did you pee in your buddies suite? Or aqua-bomb-it?

Is the suite Witt the broken zipper newish? If so, check into the warranty- I have used companies warranties on a lot of stuff, camping and surfing stuff. Had a couple of wetsuits fixed in the past... it's usually pretty easy, check for instructions online- fill out a form, write a nice letter to slip in the box about how the zipper broke etc and send it out... don't really have anything to lose.

Kinda off subject, but a few outdoors companies that I will continue to buy from always honor their life time warranty- LL bean and the north face. One time got a new pair of waders from LL bean, no questions asked. actually that one was real easy, just went to the retail store...

Anyways- look into sending it back if it's semi new

 

Time to bust out the ski

 

Made a quick run to the north shore of MA after school. In retrospect I should have driven to RI even though I would have only had an hour to surf. My normal spots were all blown out.

I started working my way up the coast taking random pull offs looking at google earth. Found a couple possibility but I was alone and wasn't going to risk it surfing overhead waves, especially at new spot. Without enough daylight to get a meaningful session in, I went full exploration mode.

Eventually I ended up in Gloucester. I saw a crazy A frame wave with a perfect right and left each running well over 200 yards. It was out near eastern point lighthouse, do people ever surf there? I saw it from across the bay, and that whole area seems heavily privatized. I ended my quest at Good Harbor beach, it was totally surfable. There was a massive 10+ feet right with a crumbly take off that reformed into steep and fast barreling wave. Might wake up early and hit it up before school. Are any of you guys from around there? Would love to know if it's a popular spot, don't really want to paddle out alone.

 

i scored some semi clean chest to shoulder high groundswell. not bad considering it was blowing 20mph and just under offshore and sideshore. the other spots hate that north/east wind. i had to longboards skate half a mile (sailed uphill w my board in fact) and walk a little. my buddy and i took days off of work and claimed a new spot pretty cool for march. snapped my leash on my last end of ride bail and was luck to get my hands on board 20 ft away because it was ripping pretty good around a river.

 

I don't live there but have been there before. I don't know the spots and would really have to look on a map to find them, but there is a good right up there that ppl surf, it sounds like what you discribed. I kinda remember there being a public parking lot there, kinda a longish walk on a trail/board walk with rails and a long paddle out and also a cliff on the right with mansions on top where the wave breaks... it was years ago so I don't remember, have a Photo of it somewhere - you know, like a 35mm photo...

 

I have seen some really good spots up there... you guys don't know how good you have it! Come here and it's all beach breaks... that is, except for Belmar.. best break on the continental east coast of USA

 

Belmar is a riddle and an enigma wrapped in delicious chocolate; not even Kelly can understand it.

 

Best day of the swell. I'm literally shaking with adrenaline as i type this. And iv been out of the water for almost two hours.

Going to do a write up of the sesh in the proper thread again. But man. This swell.... Still 2-3 feet OH. I don't know if it was the swell or the lack of the strong offshores that we've had the other days, but today had some serious power. I'm honestly not sure if i ever surfed a day with that much power. It was insane. Lefts peeling for well over 100, maybe 200 yards. Beach is really in shambles though. This one did a number on us. Imagine if it was a south swell.

I surfed my home break. Thought about heading to LB but it was good at home, and home is usually a little bigger. Wanted to head to LB for a second sesh since i took the day off but i just can't. I said ill surf this swell till my arms fall off. And i did. I no longer have arms.

 

Hogwash, Mr, Belmar. Breaks north of Boston are all blown out last 4 - days. The point breaks are always weak crappy waves. I have no idea why surfers think NH is a surf destination. Oh, wait, yes I do....surfers are morons.

 

That must have made typing that post quite difficult.

 

It's all in the toes

 

That's EXACTLY my point!

The BEST waves are in Belmar, NJ... all surfers should just head straight to BELMAR

 

2 words, Skeleton Bay!

 

exactly..ive had the same thing done on a couple of chest zip wetsuits at places that do clothing alterations. $25 to completely remove and replace a zipper on an old suit seems easier than sending back and trying to get the manufacturer to fix a suit that is out of warranty.

 

day 5 of the buoy still being above 12ft at16 seconds... washed out here still. tomorrow might be the day

 

Wrong Barry- this was from Monday afternoon, north of Boston. Sometimes, you have to look harder. Was a little windy when we pulled up (pictured). No one in the water. We suited up and sure enough 4 other people came out of nowhere. We had 1-2hrs of calmer pre-sunset wind. Bombing

 

I'm with Barry, it's been largely wonky onshore/side-shore winds in NH. But if you kept going north, you would have found big perfect offshore conditions in Maine.

 

I have deployed clowns to all of the NH spots. Their instructions are to wait for unsuspecting surfers to suite up and then bum-rush the lineup. Glad to see some of the clown patrol have earned their balloon-animal pay.