Rodanthe Pier

the end is gone. 2/3 of it are still there.

 

lol no **** they lost part of the pier?

 

whoa!

 

I haven't surfed there in over 20 years, but I never had those problems. I would mostly keep some distance from the pier because they were always chumming off the end, and you would see shark fins in the slick.

One night, with the help of a friend, we filled the cab of a fishermans pick up truck with ghost crabs, just for fun. I always wondered how that turned out.

 

Pictures from Mickey McCarthys FB page.




and one from TV 12 news

 

don't worry.
oil rigs won't do that.

 

I was there yesterday and almost drove by to check the waves....wish I had now. Who the hell buys anything oceanfront at the OBX without insurance? That's just ****ing dumb! I will say it was gnarly yesterday!! I'm positive I saw some 20 ft waves breaking on the outer bar. I've been surfing 15+ years and those might of been some of the biggest, glassy, rideable waves I've ever seen on the east coast. I'm not always in the Outer Banks so I'm sure the locals have definitely seen bigger but it was crazy to me. Kinda had a Hawaii feel to it. I almost got swept away taking a few pics not paying total attention. I'll post a few later but I'm pretty sure they won't do it justice. Got a late session in and rode maybe a handful of waves? More an experience than anything.

 

omg!

they build oil rigs out of wood?

 

no.
concrete and re-bar.
that dropping out thing.....is catching up to you.

 

whatever

another day goes by and i haven't needed algebra

 

As for the insurance, considering a house is ungodly expensive to insure on the Banks imagine the premium on a wooden structure that actually sticks out in the ocean. We have only a few carriers that will write them if they are wood and the main one is Lloyds of London. Unless they have been updated completley in the last 10 or so years they are virtually uninsurable.

Typicaly we will see premiums around $150,000 or greater to insure the structure for say $5,000,000 coverage (excluding wind coverage). We then go to the NC Wind Pool through the state and get the wind and that would run another $50,000 or so. Compare that to a $38,000,000 building I just wrote in Wilmington with wind coverage and their liability for a total premium of $45,000. It's easy to see why pier owners sef insure the property risk.

 

Was watching the cam yesterday and there were two guys standing at the end right where the rest of it broke off. Bravery or stupidity? I'm leaning towards the latter.

 

It was intensely big. breaking a mile out. bout a 100 yards past the pier it seemed.
Matt Lusk is a straight up OG, dude SWAM out there with a big ass camera. to the outside bar. mental sh!t. water had to be under 40 too. I wanted to entertain the thought, but getting worked in that deep, cold, water, was not something to do alone.
here's a shot from Duck Village Outfitters. Avalon looking like 3rd reef pipe.
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came back to va beach and got a couple surprising barrel runners out front at Johnny Mananas. stoked.

 

I thought I saw a couple of those that broke way out on the cam.

Yeah that is pretty f'ing hardcore man!

 

Bro... we care very little about the pier, those waves look firing.

I surfed rodanthe pier last summer... kind of a good thing it's half gone. The only thing it brought were tourists and fishermen.

 

A thick one in Nags Head


best wave I saw yesterday


breaking super far out and pic does it absolutely no justice


coming up on high tide and washing through all oceanfront homes in this area

 

Best wave? Me likey^^^^^^^