Does anyone sometimes think New Jersey is overrated?

Hmmm, PJB = SJB???

 

Jersey can catch South swell, not SW. Bro....A SW wind blows over land in jersey. How exactly is that swell going to hit jersey? You need a long fetch. If a frontal system dips passes offshore in the Alantic, the winds are pushing waves SW which is AWAY from Jersey. Not towards it. Look at the SW fetch available to RI on a map. Hundreds of miles. SW is the prevailing wind direction most of summer and except for a hurricane that's what you're counting on. Strong frontal systems break the brutal flat spell and can deliver chest to head high swells if their strong enough

RI has more consistent waves due to that AND due to the fact that it can handle long period ground swell better and most importantly the W/SW/ AND northerly winds are offshore at spots in RI, unlike Jersey. That equal more quality consistent days just based on winds alone! A Northeast wind is onshore in Jersey, not so in many spots in RI. There's really no comparison.

 

I've surfed NJ, NY, OBX, FL (Space Coast & Gulf), and Maine. My personal experience is they all get good but OBX gets more gooder

I think NJ hold its own on the east coast for both consistancy and size. I have said this to many people I've surfed with in Cali - a NJ hurricane swell can be better than just about anywhere in the lower 48 if you get it good. September in Jersey can be just as consistant as so cal. But NJ has the warmer water...I love that 75 degree water in september when the hurricanes start moving in. There is something really awesome about that time of year. Everyone is NJ s so psyched to get a good hurricane swell, people are stoked all day, man I am smiling while typing this. I love that time of year. Its the only time of year I can say I've got one up on the so cal crew. And no one but an east coast surfer can feel that sense of appreciation. I bet I made at least a few of you smile too...cause you know what I am talking about.

 

Wondering the same thing...some strange goings on here today, this week in general.

 

Exactly 1/2 of this statement is true. Full of psychoactive substances? I bet you brought those down from jersey, because drugs are scarce and overpriced in the OBX and law enforcement is THROUGH THE ROOF. So, unless your idea of psychoactive and spiritual is the 30 beach road "Caribbean / Jamaican yah mon" bar's, no. I just don't get it. Carolina has so much of it's own culture, like Nascar and BBQ.

 

And the Gravedigger monster truck!

 

OMG, SW winds in my neck of Jersey blow South.

Dude where are these SW swells you speak of? Wouldn't they be south of RI and right at Jersey's front door. Dude, we get every swell you guys get and more. Are you sure you aren't on the west coast?

We need a long fetch? What do you mean by that? Aww man, don't be throwing out " surfin predictin' " terms on me without knowing what you are talking aboot. Dude I spent 25 years watching Bill Keenely on The Weather Channel. I don't need surf forecasting websites to know which way the wind blows. Didn't Bob Dylan say that? And I know how waves are geberated on the whole east coast.

So when a low pushes off the east coast it pushes a SW swell into RI and the rest of the east coast is flat ? You'll have to explain that one, ese.

Yes, SW winds and Second Light !!

Dude, if you think RI is more consitent than New Jersey than you have absolutely no idea of what you speak.

 

Oh I have a real easy solution to the RI vs NJ consistency battle.........

RI people provide a website with a surf cam.......

For NJ go to heritagesurf.com and check out there cam. OC isn't even the most consistent, but I'll give you guys a shot !

Ok compare the daily surf for the next month...........

 

Thread is entertaining btw, please keep it going

 

Let me put it in perscriptionive.

Kure Beach wave fake surfer

and this gay mess..


VS NJ WAVES BRAHHH!!

 

I mean winds have to blow over a large area. Your local very nearshore winds don't create swell.

"SW winds in my neck of jersey blow south?" Than their not sw winds. Their S winds. What the hell?

A low coming up the east coast is spinning counter clockwise. You can get all kinds of different swell direction from that depending on the movement of the storm. Nor'easters aren't common in summer. SW wind swells make up the majority of swell in summer and RI trumps NJ in that department. We are talking about consistency here. I'm just saying ri has more swell directions that it's exposed to.

 

Perspective. was the word i typed not sure what this thing typed. I paid over 400 for it so it should do better. might just throw it away and get anoter one.

 

You're comparing a thigh high wave to double overhead plus a couple feet?

First wave actually looked fun. I bet you can lie down on your board and bench out 400 WHILE riding that double overhead wave. You tape two sups together for the job right?

 

Do you have any real pictures of you surfing? I mean, the stolen internet pics are fun and all, but I want to believe that you are some lonely 14 year old pretending to be a surfer.

 

It's official... instant recognition. He's back!

 

end of story comparing NC and NJ.. haha! and im 24. you wish you were me!

 

Not really. Nice try. Bench pressing is lame. Real men stick to overhead pressing 400lbs.

 

Dude, this will be my last counter with you. As I said, lets check the cams for a month and see who has the surf.

Dude, nearshore winds most certainly produce waves. Dude, that's what the east coast is all about. You have a very strange look at what produces waves in the east.

The winds are blowing SW........in the southern NJ coast the winds are South because the beach faces south.......in central NJ the winds are offshore with some south in it(like diaganol offshore).......way up in north Jersey the winds are straight offshore. Jersey doesn't have a straight verticle coastline. There's different angles to it.

Again I implore you....anyone........ to just look at a map of Rhode Island. It is not swell exposed.

 

paddington is right nj wins hands down

 

Can the moderator step in(Micah I think) and please explain this to him. Very near shore winds produce chop, not swell. What the wind is doing at your beach does not translate into what is happening 175 miles offshore. And your lack of understanding of what a sw swell is really perplexes me.