How long do you stay out?

Yeah man...if the water's 55 or above, and it's fun or better, I'll stay out for aboot 7 hours. Winter sessions are rarely longer than 2-3 hrs for me personally.

 

2.5 in 5 mil if having good time
3.5 in trunks

but I can surf 8 hours a day, but I need to eat (and deuce, but I have no problem with aquadumping in certain scenarios). if someone ferried nachos to the lineup, I'm sure I could surf longer.

 

Ill stay out as long as I have a free day if its good or even ok in summer sometimes ill get in and out of the water 3-4 times and just bring supplies with. Winter if I have a free day sometimes 2-3, if its good enough ill do the same thing as summer but there's less light in the day and ill do warm up breaks in the car or ill drive home real quick and warm up there. Gotta take advantage when swell is here cause its not always here.

 

Wourd. I have to break for lunch during a marathon sesh also, then irie of course..but fortunately I'm pretty much a once a day schitter, first thing a.m. Unless its Thanksgiving or something.

 

Gotta figure out that nacho thing MIS, I like that. On a small day last summer me and my buddy anchored a cooler full of pbr cans out past the takeoff zone maybe we can incorporate the 2...

 

seems like its usually 2 hours.
first half hour dial-it-in...
then an hour of righteous riding.
then prob a mistake; perhaps another...
end it/no injury/win column.

 

In the suite?!?!

I'm not even mad, Baxter, I'm amazed.

 

Spot on

 

certain situations dont include suites

and the best I can figure out is power bar in the pocket, but that's only a 30-45 minute countermeasure so arms aren't gnawed off

 

I think I have stayed out almost 7 hours once. But that was my max. Probably average closer to 4 or 5 depending on what shape im in and who came with me. This includes water breaks. I usually try to eat something before and then chow down afterwards.

 

Typical week in the states: 60 to 90 minutes during lunch most weekdays. (4-5 times a week)
When travelling in the far east: 2-to-4 hours for the two days a week or so when I can get out to the coast.
On a surf trip: 12 hours in 2-to-4 hour increments to eat, chit, change gear, reapply sunscreen and whatever else.

When I lived in frozen-ass MA, I'd do 60-to-90 minutes during lunch too.

I don't poo in the water and I try not to piss in my suite if I'm wearing one. Just surf through muscle cramps and such. It's not like going to the beach is going to make them get any better.

 

in the winter, i don't stay out until i feel numb anymore. 2 hours tops in the dead of winter. once you get to that point, surfing isn't fun.
shoot, now that i think about it, i rarely surf longer than 2 hours at a clip no matter what time of the year it is. i got too many familial commitments and shizznit. even when i'm on vacation, someone is always looking for/needs me. lol.

 

The fact that I'm an hour from the break is what makes me pull marathons...I imagine if I were closer there would be more 2 hr strikes. But when it's good and I'm on it I gotta get as much as I can.

 

I stay out until the tide kills it.
I stay out until its too dark to see.
I stay out until I start blowing take off after take off.
I stay out until I'm hungry.

 

That sucks.
I'm 15 mins away from the beach, so I can afford the hit and run missions. If I lived an hour away these days, I wouldn't surf at all.

 

Yeah man, far from ideal, but could be a lot worse. Just requires a little more planning, plus my work commute is minimal so I got thAT going for me.

 

You know I've lived an hour away from any break for almost my entire surfing journey...From south philly to now living in the northeast burbs...good thing Belmars always DOH and the closest break...up Rt 1 north and a skip across 195 and I'm getting slotted....I still make it out atleast once a week but in the winter a sesh maxs out at 2 hours for me...

 

#Belmar
#AlwaysWorthTheTrip

 

After 2 hours or so I start to suck so I start saying to myself, 'time to catch one last wave." Then I get all picky and sh!t and end up staying out for another 30 minutes trying to get one more decent ride. Even if the winds and tide have f@cked it all up, I still fill the need to convince myself that one more good one is coming my way.
Lesson: If you are nearing the end, and you can sense that you or the conditions are fading and you end up getting a ripe one, get out!