i had two sessions today . Early longboard session in the Northend of CM for about 2 hours then got a bite to eat and went to HQ logged there for about 2&1/2 hour and they a hours on the Quad. Pretty good day Chest to head semi bumpy but still fun
It was chest high ocassional head high sets. yesterday was a average of shoulder to head. With The ocassional OH bomb. It was No DOH like forcasted but I'll take it . It could have been chest high where u were but I know what I saw where I was at
I'll have to agree with you on that one. The other day i was down in seaside heights. i stayed out for like 4 hours in low tide. went back to my car to grab a smoke since the waves were dyin down. i wasn't plannin on goin back out since it was dead, but i gave it a go anyway. high tide ended up being 10 times better then it was during low. i stayed out another 4 hours. ahhhh, now thats a 8 hour shift i don't mind so much
There was definitely no OH waves on Saturday. I was was at both ends all day. Not trying to start an argument but I just think our wave scales are way off. I was there all day Friday as well and there was the occasional OH bomb that day, but Saturday.. no way.
rgnsup is correct. i think cape may was really small because the system that generated the swell was to the north,and for cape may to have size the swell-generating system needs to be to the south of cape may. the swell the week before was head high to a little overhead in cape may at certain times thursday,friday and saturday. and 10 times better.
I dont know where u were at in CM on Sat and when but I saw a few ppl get OH waves . I got a one OH wave and a bunch of nice shoulder high waves. I caught some that were like a football field and a half long it seemed. But Sunday was a it was chest and Semi Sloppy on the average. I had 2 sessions sunday , one was at a good lowtide spot in the norht end and the other was at the normal spot . I was cleaner in the Am but as the tide came it thats when it began to get sloppier Dont get me wrong its not like on every set there was a OH wave but out of 6 hours of surfing I probally seen 3 OH waves on Sat.
wave scale norming Just curious: How many people would call the "Rockaway Beach 11/12/10" picture at the bottom of the page OH? How many would call it something else?
Solid overhead surf, but looks really ripable. Not a Jersey death bomb, although pics like that can be misleading.
psssh...chest high at best. but seriously...what a fun weekend, eh? i had pretty fun 2.5-3hr session in cape may on sat (saw some of those OH bombs that matt was talking about...didn't get one myself, but got 1 or 2 solid head high waves. it was neat to surf cape may again, since i haven't surfed there in years for one reason or another. forgot how much fun it could be...also had a great 2hr session at ***** street in oc sunday morning that netted me the best barrel i've had since i was in the maldives...such a fun session!! solidly head high w/ well over head sets & CLEAN. then i "got sick" last nite & had to drive to seaside for a saltwater treatment at ****** pier, where i found really fun chest high, really rippable waves coming off the pier. also got to watch a guy on a log blow a take off & break his board on one of the pilings. he was a good surfer, too...paddled right back out on a little hybrid fish & proceeded to tear the snot out of the place (relatively speaking...he must've been in his 50's or 60's). all in all, i found this to be a pretty satisfying little run of swell.
Rockaway Bch has an elevated boardwalk and its pretty far from the beach, so the wave is going to look smaller than it really is. Generally speaking, its a relatively easy, soft wave. If you can deal with the submerged piling with the exposed rebar and the hundreds of surfers as unskilled as they are ettiqute challenged, its a sick place to check out whenever the winds go N
Yeah I heard and was reading about a kid who almost drowned in the sticks this weekend Been wanting to go up there to check it out but never have the time to make the long drive from the cape
I surfed on the east end of the Rockaways Wednesday and Thursday and 90th st on Friday and Saturday, and been surfing there for a bit over a year. The surf is definitely mellower than the spots I surf in LBI, but it definitely still gets big and heavy on groundswells. There were sets in the well overhead range swinging wide like the one in the picture, off the big jetty, and at the Box, the break just east. When i paddled out at the Box Friday morning a guy caught a 20 yard standup right barrel right in front of me before wiping out. It was flippin sick. The current was gnarley though, lots of paddling. And yes, the quality of surfing in the Rockaways is pretty low, and very few people regulate drops ins and board ditchings. I hate surfing around crowds there because the kookiness can get dangerous, but sometimes there aren't any options. I wish the few quality surfers who frequent these spots would start regulating more. For some reason it is the underlying belief at these breaks that anything goes and there is no need to respect the rules. These spots are dangerous enough with the strong rips, random wooden structures in the water, and partially treated human waste floating around. The last thing we need is kooks acting dangerously.
