EC pointbreaks

your break is pretty much a point an fires. juss to many people

 

It's been going off lately at the reef (oops, no reefs or pointbreaks down here).

 

lol i seriously want to surf reef with you one day,i surfed it on day and wasnt on the main peak...too many people. so i was trying to catch the shoulder didnt work out to well with the clean up sets, got hit 4 times, not much you can do when sitting that far back..it was during that massive feb12 swell last year.. drove up the sat beach that day no double doh. the reef was pretty big too.

 

The most well known one in NJ in the northern end of the coast is nothing like it used to be. The entire spot which used to be a sand point is filled in with sand pumped from further south. Yes it still breaks, and yes it's still surfed, but if it used to be a 10 on it's best days, now it is a 3.

 

I grew up on the bay, mind-surfing all the armored shorelines and submerged jettys. It would be pretty cool to actually surf those placed but the western shore would get absolutely destroyed by the waves. It was almost do-able during hurricane Isabel, but you would have to dodge peoples piers and boats that washed away.

 

We're spoiled with point breaks up in my neck of the woods. I can count five or six rock reefs just in my town that fire on the right swell. I surfed a point break Monday morning with head high waves and strong offshores and nobody out. One guy was out there when I paddled out but he disappeared pretty quickly, and then I had to wait a half hour for another guy to appear, and then a few more made it out as I was leaving. The only problem is there's a giant boot thirty miles off the coast that blocks any waves coming from the southeast. So any swell we get is going to better in either Rhode Island or New Hampshire, and the drive from Boston is the same. No one realizes how good the waves can get and I guess it's better that way. But if any swellinfo-ers wanna get a tour of the South Shore hit me up via PM.

 

In addition to everything else...a real pointbreak requires clean, long period swell with size to really wall up and fire. Anything smaller, or less than 12-13 second swell periods, is going to section off and lose a lot of size wrapping into a legit point. Even at the legit setups, our typical 6-8 feet @ 9 second windswells don't really set the place on fire.

 

Mitchell I thought you were gonna post that pic of that point up here that you love.

 

The water gets deeper about 50 yards off the jetty you can stay on it with a long board. I've had my longest waves there. 9.0 Walden magic.

 

Rye on the Rocks. So obvious it's no secret. It's on 1A. Granite State. It gets super crowded. You can't miss it. You probably will never get a set wave when it's firing either, unless you have a mustache.

 

nahh....I've caught it good the only two times I've been. One was chasing a swell, the other was pure luck on a work trip. Don't want to push it.

 

There is another point a little north, no one surfs it, its too sharky, my buddy begs me to go there with him. It's usually a foot bigger there.
Valhallala knows where I'm talking aboot. Timing is everything, if you're down here let me know.

If you go out at the reef with me on crowded day, I'll let everyone know you're a swellie, they'll give you waves.

 

Agree with others on the legit-ness of NJ points. Used to be MUCH better before the sand pumping projects changed the natural contours of the coastline and altered the flow of sand. I can think of three fairly legit sand bottom points in NJ (yes, one right, two lefts) that are NOTHING like they were. I know there are the naysayers that will tell you we have/had no points, but if it looks like a point, and breaks for 300+ yards on a good day, I call it a point.

 

Good point!!

 

There's a point in central li that fire's from time too time I've seen it peel for 400+ yards. Plus the few out east can get good lots of rocks tho.

 

No shortage of great set-ups in NE - reefs, points, rivermouths - but a definite shortage of swell to light them up. But on the day, some really incredible sessions can be had. It's why I love/hate it here.

 

Agreed. There are some sleeping breaks (some of which are 'giants') all along the coast. Couple of the old timers tell stories of the No Name Storm creating a 15 - 18 foot faces that broke 200 yards off shore for 1/2 mile rights (east side). I've seen the pictures. 5 guys and a boston wailer. It broke perfectly for 1/2 a day. Had to be massive to work. Started getting mushy and its gone to sleep since then.

 

Yeah, there's a bunch of good-looking potential but getting a swell into the bay that would actually create a ride-able wave...well that's another story.