Anyone Paddle out on Small Days in Winter?

Ya pulled the early and scored today. 3 ft rights. Offshore wind. Great shape. Had so much fun drawing clean lines on a 7 foot board. THere were too many good waves there was no time to rest after a ride because another good one would be there again. A few boarderline tubes/head dips.

And winters here arent cold in north NJ. Wetsuits are so good it doesnt even matter. Not hardcore at all its so warm n blissful. Im not even in my 6/5 yet.

Still an inconsistent clean wave out there now. Checkin it later.

 

This isnt winter yet....not on the calendar and not with water temps over 50 and air even warmer than that. Two toasty warm sessions this week in a 4/3. Post-session street changeouts that were comfy and pleasant. Thats just not east coast winter surfing. Still fall surfing.

 

Absolutely! If it's at least one foot, I am def going out with my longboard. It is always worth suiting up. Beats staying home and doing laundry

 

Took the longboard out today in 2-3ft surf. Surfed by myself for an hour and a half and loved it.
Water temps are around 50 right now in Delmarva, so yeah, not that cold yet. December usually isn't so bad, but January and February reach a different level of cold. But, my perspective is a bit skewed, because I haven't surfed in anything over a 4/3 in years. Maybe this year I'll invest in a thicker suit.

 

Sounds nice. It was -15 here today at noon and it's been like that for 3 weeks. I'm not even going to the beach again until temps break 10. Brutal cold snap. Only waxing I'm doing is on my skate skis...

 

Definetley. Of couse for me since I'm 12, I love it. I recently purchased a 5/4 o'neill mutant and I love it.

 

Water temp is touching 60F again here. I will probably be out Friday afternoon in a spring suit.

 

all winter.

 

That's crazy! Surfing in the NE in the winter is cold enough... Surfing in the winter in Alaska is just effing insane!!!

 

Smaller surf is a relative term. Knee high and under I am not paddling out unless its a great knee high, really fun wave shape with decent rides yeah I will go. Knee high and mushy crap windswell, not suiting up for that.

But if i havent surfed in awhile do to live type stuff, career, fam, etc then if its a sunny day on a Saturday its knee high and sorta rideable, i may go then too.

Fun Stomach high surf in winter is great, hold downs are nothing, duck dives dont require going to deep. I love fun waist to stmach high on the right stick in winter

 

Definitely!......And what better than only you being out!

 

Always worth going out. I look for those smaller days in winter that are clean. Even surfed when its snowing out. Very sureal! Nothing worse than getting trashed on a big day in the winter. that cold water just squeezes the body. The worse part of winter surf is getting out of the wetsuit outdoors when surifng at Chinco or similar spots where there is no proection from wind and cold air. But my favorite day was just after a snow storm 4ft and clean breaking off the rocks at Croatan. 35 air 34 water, snowon the beach and no wind. Like riding on ice. Got tubed til it closed out. So worth it. And being the only one out is awesome!!