I'm an eternal optimist and think the best is coming. A little late maybe but still on its way. Looking back over the summer I think it has been one of the most consistent I can remember. Not big by any stretch but surfable more often than not. I bought a new groveler at the beginning of summer and it made all those small days super fun. How anyone one can complain about the last 3 days I don't know. I surfed 16 hours in waist to chest high peeling waves with small crowds. What's better than that other than maybe last Friday that was chest high and ripable for 5 clean hours in the morning and then again with the light winds before dark. Big clean non close out surf is rare here big storm or not.
Saw a pic from the outer banks the other day- it had some good looking waves in it... It's the east coast... We get these here times and seasons of small waves... Just think of your memories when it was going off and get all your work done so you can surf when it happens... Until then hold tight - get your rubber ready- and at least get out there and have fun on the small days... Get a log!
Let internet surfers continue to complain when they see a graph to tell them when to surf. Lineups have been empty due to internet forecasting sites...I love it. Back when we had phone reports, the reports would be waaaaay more positive so people would come to the beach and surf thus buying more **** in their stores. Times are good.
You shouldn't be worried Zach, you should be bummed. Hurricane season quite probably ended today with the Humberto leftovers. Yes, the last couple of days were good, but I can't remember the last time I caught a head high wave.
Mother nature biffed it this season. I'm still satisfied from that gigantic swell we had last winter, Never seen the bouys that big in my life. Still have a screen shot of the bouys ringing 14ft@16seconds 2 miles off the coast of nh
I spent 6 weeks in centro this summer in june and july and caught a lot of fun waves. If it wasn't for that I would be losing my ****e right now. Def an awful tropical season. Folks who are saying that its been consistent and blah blah blah come on, that's not what we are looking for. Also, all that NE flow lately has to be killing water temps......we might not get even one real tropical swell this fall. Flip side is farmers almanac is saying this should be a super cold winter so hopefully a bunch of lows will peel of the coast...or it will just be crap hard offshores for three months---nooooooooooo!
Sage brah, you know how to make me emerge from the walls. Been indisposed with some great wholesome fun the last few days most of which did not involve surfing but some of it did. Each month has its redeeming factors and upon request I can provide SI forumites with weekly to monthly anecdotes of what the days will offer. Kind of like a stoke-oscope. October looks to be kick ass times for you PB&J, not only because it's the Chinese year of the snake (you can snake everyone's waves!) but also because Uranus is residing in your galaxy and it represents wisdom, optimism, and progress. I agree with you sage, that this desire for gigantic swell may not be fully supported with what everyone here may do with it. If you're really chasing bombs, you're probably off in S. Africa or another guaranteed-to-be-hollow location abroad when Deal and OCMD and OBX aren't giving you the oversized hula hoop in the water. What most here really would enjoy, I'd think, are clean waves accessible for several hours a day of the waist to chest and up variety. Clean waves with faces that give you speed and let you maneuver. Aside from plentiful shacks, what else can you ask for? And brahs, lastly...those of us in New England have had it the driest of anyone this summer. If you're seeing decent waves more than once a week in the last three calendar months, you're doing a lot better than us. Maybe it's a worldwide epidemic because I've spent half of the last month at El Salvador and Lower Trestles and while I saw some excellent waves, it wasn't an everyday occurrence in either place. I had several quality sessions that were difference makers in my development, but just as many that were spent sitting, watching, waiting or getting closed out on. Spend a lion's share going to destinations you may think are going to have waves to write home about on the reg and encounter different and then we can sing a sad song together. As for acting shocked at EC summer flatness, that's like blaming chestnuts for being lazy or Starchy for being paranoid - they're a given. Take what you can get wherever and whenever you can get it. If that's not good enough, the Carver guarantees that the asphalt will always break well at constantly optimal rides. Flow barrell locations also want your money. And since yous guys love watching paint dry on surf forecasts 7-10 days out, baseball postseason is about to begin and you'll have professional paint drying on prime time television nightly for 6 weeks.
Hurricane noel, circa whatever year that was, didn't let it's juicy peaks hit the shores of VA/OBX until November 3/4. The seasons not over. Anyway hurricanes are rarely the best swells. It's the winter noreasters that gives us the goods. I hope I jinx it but every year since I've surfed either the day before thanksgiving, the day of thanksgiving, or the day after thanksgiving there is a legit 8-9 second period head high plus swell. Count on it. Btw sandy didn't hit until nearly halloween. Ya'll needs to get some other hobbies. You can only be a hardcore surfer for like 3 or 4 years on the east coast. Eventually you realize there is way more important things to do than paddle out in any rideable slop. I wait for the canyon to send me a text message alert that a swell of at least 10 feet at 8 seconds is passing over. That means it might actually be head high when it hits the beach. Of course it will be triple over head at the canyon but you have to be able to hold your breath for at least 10 minutes to even consider making the drop. Emass write a novel bro
Brah, your post was no cryptic fortune cookie itself. I use my words sparingly these days on here and that was a good post braddah man.
I wouldn't worry till calendar says December 1st, and we still haven't seen head high waves, and we begin to hype noreasters to turn into "snowacanes".
That's all you got out of the past ten days? Wow, you should move, but then what would become of Amy Fisher? Hey did you used to buy ca-caine from Joey Buttafuoco? Dude, you need to start heading to Puerto EsconLido or something, dude. Don't you know Eric Eichen? Man, it was 2-3'+ down here. Like, people on here would call it a solid waist to chest. I'm more of a number's guy than a body guy. It was an epic day for all of those who can trim and throw weak cutbacks to feel superior. The inside dump sandbars have faded away and yesterday allowed for easy entry, and plenty of easy shoulders to throw a cutty. The warm weather crew was on it. My spot's ten times more crowded in Septemeber than during those past three months we just had. Anyways, I don't like it. It seems like these people won't go away until they get a solid hurricane swell. I swear it seems that they usually go away after that. Please, go away. Cold..........Cold.........Cold.........bring on the next ice age.
I've surfed almost every day for 2 weeks, I actually started to feel tired yesterday. Surfed some incredible beach break yesterday, wave count must have been in the high 50's. I'm stoked, may not be the best swell, but I'll take rideable days any day.
You caught 50+ waves in a single sesh? How many hours and how many seconds were the rides? That's a lot of face time brah. Nice score!
So this is what I’ve gotten out of this thread: Walkingonh2o: “get your rubber ready” Northendcanyon: “legit 8-9 second period…swell” Pretty funny stuff. Helps assuage the pain of looking at the forecast…
That's pretty sweet, 2 weeks straight. 50+ is def real. We didn't have quite that steep a wave count but for sure in the 35 range Friday on the incoming low; it was really clean & a lotta fun (just down the road from you, amigo). Didn't think yesterday would be worth the trip....wrong, it appears. Glad you caught it good. This summer was a lot of fun waves, and amazingly many of those days were weekends. Nothing epic, true dat. Fun is where you find it, though. Always better in the ocean than in the office. Speaking of which ....Manana afternoon looks better than decent...trekkin' over!
