Was this swell a complete bust in RI???????

Haha ur right I am just sick of the crowds ! Swell was mediocre anyways

 

Cosigned as well…

 

OTE=HighOnLife;260280]5-8 ft. @ 13 seconds!?! Come on! I looked at the cam and it was chest high![/QUO

 

Had 6hrs of beautiful waves, warm sun, and friendly heads at Narr, can't say is saw an 8'er today, but occasional 6'-7'and steady stream of 4'-5'. Certainly beat working today.

 

don't know what cam you were checking but Deal ,Loch Arbor , Asbury Park and I'm sure Belmar were way overhead super long lines , big fun drops ..sorry you missed it .

 

Close out city where I was. Im sure every single person scored but twas not working at my locals.

 

Firing where I was. Pics later.

 

Right on. Crowds in Rhodey can go either way. Today was very functional and I was pleased. Too crowded not for the paddle into waves but in the impact zone during cleanup sets. Guys getting thrown into each other and there were A LOT of high volume boards in the water. Didn't realize til my third session that my deck got a major gouge in it and it had to have occurred on one of those instances. I pissed while sitting on the board after, does that mean piss was absorbed into the foam? Doesn't piss have a higher density than water due to the urea?

Size got considerably bigger in the evening. 8'+ easily on the plus sets. There was one jacker that had to have been double digits. An LBer found himself perfectly on the peak and was so pitched on takeoff it was great - looked like an XXL contest in the snapshot of my mind lol. He screamed down the face and had it but must have got the willies when he saw how fast he was going on the steep and jumped off before the trough.

My performance was inversely proportionate to my fatigue level throughout the day. However, that third sesh was a hell of a lot of fun paddling into every wave in sight on the inside no less and getting spun at will. Haven't been spun like that since El Salvs.

 

yea I concur 100%.the cane swells don't really do any justice in nj.I was just disappointed because everyone was hyping this swell,the westcoast scored beyond fukin epic,i thought we were gonna see some legit sets.when every site is calling 6-8ft and its really 3-4 ft with occasional 5 footers,and its not even barreling.last Wednesday was epic cause it was a typical low pressure short period swell which is the best for jersey.i cant wait til the short periods start rolling in around november

 

this

 

yes there were overhead bomb sets and the occasion long line but it was not clean/epic in monmouth county. walled up closeouts was the theme here.. even LI was not working that well this morning. you south NJ peeps have been mighty quiet tho from what I hear it was going off in a couple snj spots

 

LI was working just fine this morning.

 

not in south jersey.
best swell of the great summer in a good year.
(damn - its good and california still making us look bad...)

 

Best sesh in a while for me, best barrels of the year for sure. Heaving. Good vibe in the water, straight barrel fest.

 

Meanwhile south of Seaside:

The north winds put a little texture on things, but there some nice ridable faces and barrels to be had. There were only occasional closeouts and around the time of the high tide push the sets really started to gain in size (solid 6'). Also near high tide the winds softened and were a little more westerly. Epic? No. But better than the Bertha swell and almost as great as that windswell from two weeks ago.

 

NoMoCo definitely better Wed pm IMHO, but then given the direction of the swell (vs. Thursday), that wasn't a surprise.

Gimme 3-4ft speed walls and a dozen hungover, dawn patrolling dweebs over an over-hyped, over-crowded, mid-afternoon, "overhead" 'cane swell any day...

Kids back in school starting next week too...ahhh bliss...

 

it seems like a lot of spots in my area in MOCO where going off.... and of coarse BELMAR was bigger then any where else with makeable barrels....

it was just finding the right jetty. NJ does not always handle the longer period swells, but there are a few spots that will.

more so then finding the right spot in the summer, I struggle with the crowds on these swells- since its so easy to paddle out, everyone goes out! Then when a bigger set comes and ppl are not paying attention, they get caught inside, making the take off area littered with ppl... a few more days and hopefully some of the crowds will diminish...

 

oh man.... im really going to miss those ol summer pros.....

 

Windswell from two weeks ago was far better solid overhead and better wave quality. Even people in south jersey that I talk to say the windswell was better than this swell. People on this site are calling it swell of the year. LMFAO! There were plenty of better days this year. I'm sure the next hurricane swell will be the best ever too.