who here has been surfing this week?

Looks like the view over to Mt Washington from Wildcat. Looking into Huntington and Tuckerman's (not the break)

 

We hit 44deg the other day - 4/3 Bodyglove was barely ok with 5mil booties and 2mil gloves with hoodie... paddling like a maniac against a solid sideshore kept me warm but water down the neck and closeouts in the face were ice cream central

 

A friend took a couple shots of me (on a mini simmons i shaped a couple years ago) on a soft righthander yesterday morning. Really fun session first thing monday morning. I love the shape of this board but man.....airbrushing aint my strong suit

 

Had a few fun ones yesterday, bit drifty but easy paddle out so just made loops.

 

I've got jury duty today.

I'm looking at the cam right now, and it is effing GOING OFF.

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH

 

Nice turn off the top, Mitch. Looks clean. You rocking quads on that simmons?

 

This tread is approaching 10,000 posts! Easily the most popular and longest lived tread on this here wave predictin' websuite. I have posted multiple times as have many others. It's the one sacred tread on here that fortunately has yet to be crapped upon or derailed completely off topic. I hope it remains that way.

Anyway, I was thinking it would be kinda cool if the original poster, Peajay4060, were to be the one to make that 10,000th post. I know it's just a number and maybe it's not that important. But I would like to ask folks here to refrain from making that 10,000th post and leave it for Peajay4060 himself.

Maybe it's silly but I thought it would be a propre way to honoure this most august of treads and it's author.

To it's their own and needless I say more?

 

Thanks...yeah larger fronts, smaller rears. I've had a couple minis with keel twins and just feel like they don't come around as smoothly.

 

Nice shots!

 

No no no no, thank you sir.

 

Get past the first bit and this is what we had for dawn patrol last week... this guy is local and makes all kinds of funny vids and catches some great swell and surfing too. This is what it looked like for BassMon but nastier wind and more exposed area... made a huge pile up mess inside and ruined what could have been this. Above my pay grade but he’d have ripped. 3:20 is our local shaper Roger Beal on one of his Cougars - my green “fish” just a shorter version.

 

Looks really fun and user friendly, i’d hit it!

 

That particular spot can get REALLY big with the right swell direction and period. There’s a few others that nuke on occasion 2-3’ taller but it’s on rare swell.

 

Yeah it looks like it can hold for sure.

 

Haven't posted on here in ages, but in the spirit of 10,000 posts.... I surfed for 4 hours yesterday in Jersey.

First spot, well known but oddly empty with the main peak grabbing a nice head high wave every so often. Surfed a little 5'11" round tail fish which I could never surf here if there were others out. It paddles terrible and I mostly do no or limited paddle late takeoffs under the lip jamming the tail into the face on this thing as I am nearly 200 lbs. It was quite odd I caught it to myself, but was super glad. Had the masses paddled out I would have been forced to snag a longer board from the minivan, but was glad it didn't come to that.

Second spot, smaller and in a bit of a crowd, but lucky for me it was a crowd of people that didn't seem to surf particularly well. Now I'm no superstar, but everyone seemed to want to sit way on the outside and fight for the bigger rare set wave that seemed to only roll through every 10-15 minutes. Most people sat too far outside to catch waves anyway, seemingly afraid of the prospect of potentially taking one on the head, but it was waist high wind swell, and 60 degrees out so it was all a little odd. It was fine by me though, I sat a little inside and caught my fill of nice chest high waves using my patented lazy man no paddle takeoff. I'm a weak paddler these days, but I was uncontested, which was bizarre given the number of people in the water. Rode about half of the waves I caught all the way in to the sand only to trot down the beach to the rocks, paddle back out duck dive free, inch over to the peak and do it again.

Eventually it got too deep, my old arms got too tired, and I knew I had to take my daughter to karate lessons, so I bailed with 4 hours of much needed surfing under my belt. Stopped for a pork roll egg and cheese sandwich on the way home and the nice lady on the grill who I was chatting with gave me a dozen free bagels to boot (winning).

Anyway, super nice way to waste an extra vacation day I had to use or lose, and 10k posts to this thread is sweeeeeet.

 

Both north and south! Not sure how many hours I’ll get for surfing, but hoping to get some time in the water in LA/Orange County and Santa Cruz!

 

First sesh of the new month was yesterday for my lunch hour off Dam Neck. Nothing special...maybe knee-thigh high. Water in low 50s, air temp mid-upper 60s. There were about 5 of us out.
Still getting used to the added rubber. Borrowed my son's 8-6 Austin (he's in Texas).
Less than a month until retirement.

 

airbrush is fine, backhand stylee looks good. Gotta ask, what are the dims on this stick?

 

Surfed a few days between turkey and this past Monday. Surf was good at both sp and oc...tho really deep at sp halfway towards the high. Fun times.