Bay wave!!! Insane!

Is it worth surfing these sh!tty little waves for this?

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/261352...a-found-in-chesapeake-bay-nearly-kills-md-man

 

Good to see ya' postin lately Koki, hope all is well in the Koki Powers kingdom. KP code!

No surf is worth a flesh-eating bacterial infection. Except for maybe a penile surf in Gisele Bundchen Bay.

Between occasional sinus infections after a surf and a bacterially colonized wetsuit, I have to wonder what else is lurking on the other side of a healthy immune system.

I imagine the LI Sound breaks more often than the smaller bays in the Tri-State area. After a winter or spring North wind is howling at 20+ mph for three days, there's got to be something. There's a kiteboarding spot near Stony Brook that has a sandbar which could work wonders... Kitecrew, Seldom, and Northshore people, please weigh in!

 

Could never get anyone to surf it with me based on this logic. However I say it all depends on your outlook. When the wind is still kicking and the ocean is still all churned up OH junk ... at buckroe you are enjoying fun size, shallow (requiring no intense ice cream headache inducing paddle out), peaky, and rippable waves while everyone else is waiting on the clean up. If you catch grandview as the wind turns you won't be disappointed (it straightens itself out and lines up pretty easily compared to the Atlantic) even if its twice the size in the ocean.

Bunch of times I did double duty and surfed Hampton in the morning and hit the ocean front for the afternoon/late clean up. Of course I had the time to do it because I worked for Isle of Wight public schools where it floods/ freezes easy so we were always guaranteed to have NEsters and Topical storms off...that and Hampton was the closest surf spot. Most all the guys that surf there are from the Peninsula. No one is driving 45 minutes from Virginia Beach regardless of photographic evidence. Added to that, its a tricky spot with a high skunk factor and takes considerable effort to get dialed in. I don't know that I ever surfed it more than 6-10 days in a year but Hampton has some occasional gems. From the first time I surfed it in '99 ...Floyd(?) was throwing stand up barrels... until the last time I surfed it in 2009 the crowds still consisted of 3-5 dudes.

 

Driving the Bay Bridge Tunnel a while back there was a perfect point break breaking on the North side. Don't know if its accessible but it was going off and about chest high. Would have been a hell of a longboard wave.

 

Yea, it gets surfed. My biggest problem with these novelty waves and exploration around here in general, is that the 'good window' can be so small that I am not wasting time checking five spots or anything...more like quickly changed and it's on. I like seeing Ryan's pic here but I doubt I'd have the patience for them, at least the way I feel now, if there is any, ANY, energy left, I am in the hurry to paddle out.
I bet on what I know..

 

Man I love these Bay threads and pics. So as far as the LIS on my side(CT)...I've definitely seen it rideable, for CT we need a sustained South wind at 20-25...more of a novelty thing than actual wave-y goodness, but I've seen dudes paddle out at Hammonasset with waist high waves...also some dude posted a pic of a while back from the East end of LI, in the Sound, of a spot that looked really good, I'll see if I could dig it up...

 

That's Fishermans Island. You can surf it (and people do) provided you don't set foot on the protected land there. You have to anchor a boat off the beach and paddle to the break.

 

I actually do this all the time. Like you said, when a big nor'easter is blowing, it can get really fun in grandview.

 

Chix beach

 

The north jetty of the Lake Worth Inlet is Pumphouse, and has a sand transfer plant that pumps sand over to Palm Beach to the south. A few hundred yards south of the south jetty is Reef Road, which gets the best waves on good sized swells. If you go into the inlet and head due west you will run into Peanut Island. It has an old Coast Guard Station and an underground bunker where JFK planned on going during the Cold War if he was visiting Palm Beach and war broke out. On the west side of Peanut Island is the Port o f Palm Beach, and a shipping channel runs through the inlet and just south of Peanut Island. It is a spoil island built when they dredged the Intracoastal way back when.

If it is all blown out, victory at sea conditions, with a big groundswell, and a shifting component of northeast to east, a swell will come straight in the inlet and break on the eastern side of Peanut Island and peel for 200 yards from the shipping channel to the boat dock on the east side of Peanut. It gets waist to chest and is very tide dependent. It has to be outgoing low to mid. Once the tide quits pushing against the incoming surge, it stops breaking. It is a novelty wave, because the ocean side of the south jetty , called The Cove, will still break in large chunks. But this is a great family friendly spot that is usually empty.

 

Ive actually surfed this. It's in South Jersey. Calling it a bay spot is not really accurate. I faces the open ocean. It is definitely sketchy as **** though.

 

Its a different feeling wave, like I have only found a few other places... gulf coast-ish or if anyone has surfed the bay at San Juan Del Sur Nica on the vary rare onshore day. I think half the allure for me was surfing where there seemingly should not be waves. My all time favorite "bay wave"... a bellow-sea-level drainer caused by a instant depth change of over 200 feet to waist deep water on a horseshoe shape reef. It sat over a mile-and-a-half inside a protected harbor with a small entrance of less than .4 of a mile letting waves in and faced a less than optimal direction...but when it was on it was a "micro Teahupoo" (locals description not mine).

 

i surfed josiah's bay in tortola

does that count?

 

I can't believe I'm not getting any love for my bay pic

I just dropped a nugget a of bay wave on you guys...

 

That was a nice bay wave. I've been tossing around the idea of joining one of the boat clubs so I can chase a few of those swells around hampton roads and eastern shroe.

 

Here is a pic of grandview for good measure. Not my pic, but I was there that day.

The problem with that pic, is that where that wave is breaking is basically suicide so surf. There is these gnarly roots/sticks that poke out of the water, waiting to impale you

 

Surferkabobs

I thought drowning would be an awful way to go. But, now I think being impaled on a stick under water til you drown tops that.

 

Yeah Magoo, I've surfed the eastern shore twice, once actually scored it pretty good. In all honesty, a jet ski seemed to be what was needed there. A lot of places there got super shallow, and navigating back there on a boat would be a nightmare. With the ski, you could just toot around, and beach the ski when your surfing.

It just seems so fickle there. But I will say, I did score the south end of Cobb Island going pretty mental one time, looking like a mini (much) shorter version on skeleton bay.

That wave from my pic isn't on the eastern shore though, and doesn't require any kind of boat. Its in VB proper, and just sitting under everyones nose.

 

Isn't that the same place that I originally posted? Or right next to it?