East Coast Surf

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Originally Posted by Mr brownstone

heh, my experience was opposite as far as school goes. High school was like a prison sentence. Working to afford play while going to school was tough. I can remember my last final halfway thru my senior year. Walked out of the school, got in the car with bags/boards packed, wrapped my 18 year old hands around the steering wheel of my 81' chevette, squeezed the wheel and said, "thank fucking god that's over with", and hit the road.

Working and playing the last 23 years has been so much easier. And way more funner.



it's "on the cape", fyi:)

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I got a lot of surf in college. A few semesters suffered but over all I did well and learned a lot. It helps that you can schedule your own classes. By my sophomore year I was taking most of my course load on T/Th with M/W completely off to work or play. Work in some some paying, flexible odd NYC jobs and you can even pocket good money for little effort. It helped that decent surf was a 50-70 minute subway ride away. You could even study on your commute.

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Originally Posted by Ottime

I got a lot of surf in college. A few semesters suffered but over all I did well and learned a lot. It helps that you can schedule your own classes. By my sophomore year I was taking most of my course load on T/Th with M/W completely off to work or play. Work in some some paying, flexible odd NYC jobs and you can even pocket good money for little effort. It helped that decent surf was a 50-70 minute subway ride away. You could even study on your commute.

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College is nice I suppose if you're motivated for it. The only way I was going to college is if I worked full time year round to pay for it. That leaves WAY less time for recreation which has always come 1st for me so I said fuck it and didn't bother with it.

Lil longboard waves today with thigh sets and super clean. Took a much needed rest day and stayed dry. Thursday could be chest plus and clean.

I worked my ass off most summers since I was 14 to save up money. I was motivated still surfed every day there were waves. Then while in college I only needed to piece together high wage/ short hour jobs in NYC during the school year.

A few examples. Walking a dog to the dog walk for one hour each day M-F. Had to do it some time between 10:30 and and 2, and getting $60 cash on the table of Friday. Coffee included.

Or house sitting a soho loft for two weeks at $150 per week.

Or polishing Mrs. Blacks silver at $20/hr. Or weeding her garden. Or sanding her stairs. She like the boy labor.

Then you would have plenty of cash flow and still have time for school and surf.

Oh, a big fat grant sure helped shave of the hurt from a NYU education bill.

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Originally Posted by Ottime

I worked my ass off most summers since I was 14 to save up money. I was motivated still surfed every day there were waves. Then while in college I only needed to piece together high wage/ short hour jobs in NYC during the school year.

A few examples. Walking a dog to the dog walk for one hour each day M-F. Had to do it some time between 10:30 and and 2, and getting $60 cash on the table of Friday. Coffee included.

Or house sitting a soho loft for two weeks at $150 per week.

Or polishing Mrs. Blacks silver at $20/hr. Or weeding her garden. Or sanding her stairs. She like the boy labor.

Then you would have plenty of cash flow and still have time for school and surf.

Oh, a big fat grant sure helped shave of the hurt from a NYU education bill.

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I'm not busy right now.. I'll polish some silver for $20

Wednesday PM/Thurs AM looks like it may be a winner

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Originally Posted by Pudge.

Wednesday PM/Thurs AM looks like it may be a winner

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ESE Winds Wednesday PM, sounds like chop for those picky folk. Going in late to work Thursday!

Last minute I decided to Head down to RI last week from VT to get in on the Bertha hurricane action. leaving at twilight I got into Point Judith around 1230am Wednesday morning and quickly found a place close by to sleep in the back of my car for a few hours.

Next morning I spent about a minute taking these pics before excitedly heading out.
https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/...45&oe=5480BC99
Sorry about the resolution I used Facefuck to host. They blow. This guy getting tubed does not.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...7dc7985430cb97
https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/...18&oe=5469B01F


Sick of the crowds and being goofy-foot I'm a big fan of K's so I headed over to check it out for an hour. It was much smaller, but peeling clean. A longboarders heaven. You just had to dodge the SUP kooks. ...and I brough my retro fish:nonono2:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...81959585_n.jpg

Well, I'm not R:wink:g, I don't like little waves. If I wanted that shit, I'd have gone to ME. So I headed back to PJ even though it was like:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...22727187_n.jpg

every once in a while...
https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/...89018259_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...65278765_n.jpg
You can go left. (If you dare...)
https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/...27&oe=547E60CF

By 3pm the tide was rolling in and the winds were switching to onshore. A time for sea-gazing, bodyboarding(apparently) and personal reflection as I sipped a cold Oregon IPA and burned some stanky trainwreck
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...60061805_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...91190413_n.jpg
And don't forget
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...46265264_n.jpg
(though I was a little disappointed with their lobster roll)

Nine hours of driving and almost 8hrs in the water I was finally back home. A couple days later the Chiropractor discribed the release in my back as "intense"

Well, ya weren't in Maine so how da fuck did ya think the lobsta roll would taste. Fucking kooks. :)

Love the sunrise glass shot. I had a similar adventure chasing a 'cane about eight summers ago when I was back costing Maine. The good ones weren't gonna make it around the cape. Judith, and RI in general was my go to surf trip destination. With the reefs west o the K harbor, the dock, and Ruggles and others in Newport, the place goes off.

Oh, and Pudge head to O if the tide is out. Between the cliffs, the river valley and the pare red beds, the place is damn well protected. Especially if the e component fades out.

Finally some real stoke! Way to go Goat!!

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Originally Posted by Ottime

Well, ya weren't in Maine so how da fuck did ya think the lobsta roll would taste. Fucking kooks. :)

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Any New Englander knows you go to Maine for lobster, New Hampshire for meth, Vermont for heroin, Massachusetts for cod and RI for quahogs!

Nice mini TR, PPG

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Originally Posted by BigDaddy

Any New Englander knows you go to Maine for lobster, New Hampshire for meth, Vermont for heroin, Massachusetts for cod and RI for quahogs!

Nice mini TR, PPG

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WTF is a quahog? I'm not much of a seafood guy....

Thursday morning looks promising, once the wind shifts. However, I have a bachelor party to attend on wednesday, and if I can even get out of bed on thursday I should probably get some work done.

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Originally Posted by My Pet Powder Goat

WTF is a quahog? I'm not much of a seafood guy....

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"Iceman" is the quahog king. Let me know next time you go to RI and I will meet you for some.

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Originally Posted by My Pet Powder Goat

Last minute I decided to Head down to RI last week from VT to get in on the Bertha hurricane action. leaving at twilight I got into Point Judith around 1230am Wednesday morning and quickly found a place close by to sleep in the back of my car for a few hours.

Next morning I spent about a minute taking these pics before excitedly heading out.
https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/...45&oe=5480BC99
Sorry about the resolution I used Facefuck to host. They blow. This guy getting tubed does not.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...7dc7985430cb97
https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/...18&oe=5469B01F


Sick of the crowds and being goofy-foot I'm a big fan of K's so I headed over to check it out for an hour. It was much smaller, but peeling clean. A longboarders heaven. You just had to dodge the SUP kooks. ...and I brough my retro fish:nonono2:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...81959585_n.jpg

Well, I'm not R:wink:g, I don't like little waves. If I wanted that shit, I'd have gone to ME. So I headed back to PJ even though it was like:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...22727187_n.jpg

every once in a while...
https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/...89018259_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...65278765_n.jpg
You can go left. (If you dare...)
https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/...27&oe=547E60CF

By 3pm the tide was rolling in and the winds were switching to onshore. A time for sea-gazing, bodyboarding(apparently) and personal reflection as I sipped a cold Oregon IPA and burned some stanky trainwreck
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...60061805_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...91190413_n.jpg
And don't forget
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...46265264_n.jpg
(though I was a little disappointed with their lobster roll)

Nine hours of driving and almost 8hrs in the water I was finally back home. A couple days later the Chiropractor discribed the release in my back as "intense"

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nice stoke!!!!

Tom Carrol is at our local shop today.

During the early part of my back recovery I watched a four episode series with Tom and Ross. Tom is a fucking muscle head stud at 50 years.

The Quahog is a big fat bitch of a mother clam. Scrub that beard well. We dug a bunch up not too long ago. In RI of all places. Sandy point. Yum.

Nice stoke mppg, but uh, fins first mkay? Only kooks load boards on roof with fins back;).

Nice work working it thru school ott.

Thursday is looking kind around here, as is friday and saturday.

May buy a new board for the occasion, tomorrow, unless i can hold out for the lost shapers night at pioneers on sunday night.

rog

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Originally Posted by Mr brownstone

Nice stoke mppg, but uh, fins first mkay? Only kooks load boards on roof with fins back;).

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I did not know that? why?

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Originally Posted by Mr brownstone

Nice stoke mppg, but uh, fins first mkay? Only kooks load boards on roof with fins back;).

May buy a new board for the occasion, tomorrow, unless i can hold out for the lost shapers night at pioneers on sunday night.

rog

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Well yeah, if you don't know how to tie it down. The fins for the save.

Another new board...whoa! Aren't you getting all crazy with a kid on the way. :)

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Originally Posted by My Pet Powder Goat

I did not know that? why?

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it's just the way it has always been. And ya the fins thing too. The quebexicans are finally getting it right. Some of them anyway.

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Originally Posted by strawjack

Another new board...whoa! Aren't you getting all crazy with a kid on the way. :)

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i only get about 8 months out a board before they feel dead/flat. Poly boards ride best, imo, but are only good for 100-120 sessions which is really only 4-6 months for me, but i push mine past a bit.

Wifey is cool with it. She gets it. Plus she got a house so she's happy:).

thinking about this one in a 5'8 (29 liter). my current 5'8 monkfish has similar range, but a vee throughout vs a big single to double concave. the vee is great for rail to rail transition carving and handles bumpy conditions like it's glass, but i'm interested in the concave for increasing lift which means more speed down the line. the monkfish is 20 wide with a nice pulled in tail so it handles o-head no prob, but i'd like to go back to 19.5 wide like my old rocket for a quicker flicky feel in small surf.

http://www.lostsurfboards.net/surfboards/v3-rocket/

If it were the way it has always been you you have one fun sticking out the back of your woody. Damn kids these days with the way it has always been.

If you are worried about a dead bored perhaps you need livelier waves. :roll eyes:

In all serious, I get the new boar thing, but in usually happy with mine for years. I'm enjoying my epoxy flex quite a bit. But I weigh 185 and have super human strength. I also like how the flex is more consistent over time.

OTOH, I do feel like skegs die a bit after a 100 good days or so.

Got a nice multi second barrel last night for my first hour in the water back on the not so east coast. So, really, nothing much to complain about.

I too am ready for some new boards. A small wave groveler and a step up to help fill the quiver back up and cover 90% of days. Will need to wait a while and earn some cash before I get I replacing my mini guns.

Fuck i'd never put a board on my roof. Always inside. The crv has a tilt glass rear window for when i'm carrying the longboard the mile down the road and don't feel like angling it in.:)

epoxy does hold feel longer, but still rides like epoxy;)

The fact that you ride a few different boards helps with longevity. Im pretty much just riding one all of the time cept for the dozen longboard days a year.

Stoked yer getting some dood.

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Originally Posted by Mr brownstone

thinking about this one in a 5'8 (29 liter). my current 5'8 monkfish has similar range, but a vee throughout vs a big single to double concave. the vee is great for rail to rail transition carving and handles bumpy conditions like it's glass, but i'm interested in the concave for increasing lift which means more speed down the line. the monkfish is 20 wide with a nice pulled in tail so it handles o-head no prob, but i'd like to go back to 19.5 wide like my old rocket for a quicker flicky feel in small surf.

http://www.lostsurfboards.net/surfboards/v3-rocket/

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surfsnob

That is what you come back with after my fighting words. Guess that lobotomy worked.

Yeah, quiver does help. Still the most often replaced board is the daily driver. Some of my guns are 15 and 20 years old. The log is 51.

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Originally Posted by strawjack

surfsnob

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you betchah!:D