Inlets effect on surf

Probably.

Spicoli, sandbar formation isn't an exact science. There's not mad geniuses trying to create Snappers all over the world.

Sand shifts no matter what structures are present (piers, jetties, shopping carts)

It's one of them things you won't be able to decipher and predict.

Let it go, and just go with the flow. Just be Ponce De Leon and search your areas. Watch out for privateers.

And LBCREW and MR. SWELLINFO GUY, stop giving him knowledge. Let him discover stuff on his own.

Hey, Spicoli, did you see Big Foot in the Pacific Northwest? You should become a squatch hunter.

 

Awesome post dude! Thank you for that.

 

No, Seldom, your post was awesome.

Sometimes I think Spicoli just axs questions (knowing who is likely to respond) to just suck-up and get in with the gurus. Ya know what it is that I be sayin'? There's ulterior motives behind his inquiries.

He is the inquisitive young surfer.

Seen, Harris wants to know if you got $17,000 to bail him out. Pay your child support you guys. " Aww heck yeah you man enough to #@# up in me, but you ain't man enough to take care no kid."

Aww man, I love BET.

Ok, guys I have to go to Lindenwold. I just love Lindenwold.

 

Hahahaha tell Harris that if I had 17k banked right now I'd probably be out of the country for a while...but maybe if he does enough-push ups while he's inside he'll start to look like his brother.

 

Ohhh snap !!! No matter how many curls he does, he'll still only be 5'3''. Ha ha, he's compensating for feelings of inadaquecy.

I don't like his brother. Never have. Don't really care one way or the other aboot Harris neither. Yeah, we cool and all but.............whatevs. His brother barley got out of high school and now he's a Fox News Intellectual.

Ok, I have to go to Lindenwold. Another one of them interviews with those people. God, I made a big mistake. I need to get a MAGIC 8 BALL to help me with decisions.

 

I thought the long shore current ran from North to South?

 

In Delmarva this is how it goes:
The stateline is the cutoff for the longshore current, so in Maryland it runs from north to south.
In Delaware it runs from south to north.

Now, these are just annual averages, so any given week or month, the longshore current may not follow these averages.

 

one could offer as an example of this indian river inlet. why? there might not be a better example...

 

I don't understand, is this some sort of treaty worked out between MD and DE? (that was a joke)

But really, I thought the Long Shore ran from Maine all the way down to Florida? Does Delaware Bay through it off?

 

It's called an eddie (not to be confused with a Betty on the Jetty.) What happens is for example, the current and swell are coming down from the north, and you are surfing the north side of a jetty. The water from the waves and swell, combined with the longshore current, will bump into the jetty, and some of the water ( an undetermined percentage based on the length of the jetty) will get bounced back the opposite direction for a short distance - maybe 30 yards, maybe a 1/4 mile. This helps you paddle out along the jetty and not get pushed into it, you get sucked out the rip and then deposited into the lineup.

On narrow inlets, an outgoing tide and a heavy onshore wind/swell, will send lots of water out against the incoming surge and stack up the waves in the inlet mouth. Very bad for small craft.

I do not know what happens with a reef attached to an inlet but it does not sound good for boaters. It sounds real good for surfers. Where is this fabled spot, EMass? (Answer: Ala Moana Yacht Harbor)

Inlets produce great but fickle surf. Many times I have shown up an hour late. It is much better to anticipate the best window and show up early, and watch it turn on like a light switch. Then when your buds show up late, you can look them straight in the eye and say "Duuuude!, You should have been here an hour ago!"

 

This is not the case. The longshore current is simply the average direction of sand transportation and water movement in the surf zone:
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_currents/03coastal2.html

Using delmarva as an example, you will notice after the state line the coast bends in towards the south. As you head north in Delaware the coast bends inward as well, so the beach faces more northward.

 

cool, learn something every day. Thanks!

 

haha, I was thinking the same thing!