What is ho Stevie? From The Rog?
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What is ho Stevie? From The Rog?
Sounds like Le Rog in disguise...Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
I understand la rog is scoring on the vineyard right now.
Buoys looked good this morning so I ended surfing again. Smaller, chest high or so, but still some super fun waves coming through. That is a week straight at Ropes. Fun pre season we have going on.
Things go quite from here, but I could chase a S swell tomorrow and wind swell Thurs and Friday. Might just wait for next week but this surfing daily thing is feeling nice.
My good friend Diego on 9/11 at RCs. Jose is giving up the goods before he fucks us. About the only time of year I miss being in Florida.
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Saw that in the Irma thread. Looks like Jose is delivering and will keep on doing so. Nice pic. Looks fun.
Bueller...
Looks like Jose is gonna stick around and move back south. If it gets back into warm water and re intensifies it will be amazing.
Forecast outta Rhode Island right now... https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...2cfd0a0981.png
8 feet at 13 seconds with offshore wind. Wuhat?!?!?
Can't find any photo evidence but I imagine Ruggles is out of control right now.
Jose has been a strange one. Stalled down south for 4-5 days and now is taking his damn time up to NE, where it looks like he'll be spinning for a few more days. This could be good.
Maria looks heavy, and bad, but could take a similar trajectory and produce some good swell for the entire eastern seaboard. tropical storm to category 5 in about 24 hours!?!? Thats f*cked.
Hoping the protected south facing spots hold up over the next few days. Need to balance patience with still learning places to surf around here
Looks like NE to N winds for the most part up there right now. parsons to gooches and even maybe n end of wells. Not 100% sure of the winds for timber, but I think it can handle a good amount of east at outer leftys. Thats a gamble tho.
As per Ruggles. i believe it faces SE, so it might be pretty crossed up. I've surfed there once when it was truly big and as the cross wind came up it became pretty horrible. It is a thick steep drop on the right swell and you really want a smooth surface. One of the juicier waves I've surfed back east for sure.
Just check on a map. And Sheep Point (been thinking it was Green pt for 20+ yrs), just south of Ruggles, goes when it is big. Much taller wave than Ruggles, and less thick. A frame peak, with a short left and a quite long right. If memory serves me correct, it is had a nice big barrel section.
Reports of OH at O yesterday.
Yeah, Maria is amazing. She is forecast to make a good turn, but again inside Bermuda which leaves NH/ME in the shadow. NH more so. No matter what is getting past the cape with these, once they are west of Bermuda, it is diminished. With M, she starts to weaken as she turns NW, but will start at 145, dropping to 115 as she pushes NNW. More giant swell for the outer banks, then Jersey and the south facing coast. Bam.
Looking at this you can see why ME is doing well right now. That wind field is combo-ing with another to push swell into the gulf of ME, but local winds are lighter than in RI. Lucky bastards.
It is more like SC here lately...we're in the fog! Storm surf building. We'll see what happens.
Found a nice zone, new to me, that held the swell but was protected from the wind. I was the only one out! Everywhere else looked blown out.
It it be a while before you get it that good again I bet.
well may have to give it another shot today!
Balmy winds are pretty strong up here today.Quote:
Originally Posted by alev
sticky and humid for sure. winds look stronger today, but i think the protected areas may surf fine again.
I likely will. If you have time, worth looking around the headland on the other side of the river. Can get really really good. Access is kind of a pain. Park at the city beach w the playground. (mothers beach?) and walk down road toward river. Dash across private property and jump in. Can't recall if it is the first or second Cove that goes. Lefts and rights. Lords point blocks a lot of that ENE. And youll be alone again. Seems like everyone except six guys in Maine surfs only on sand bottom breaks.
Reports that north end of long sands has been good. I can recall one year that those cobble stones set up into a left point break. So much fun.
Hard to say, but since that sounds believable I think it's worth a shot in the short window I got
Alev is not Rog, so I don't think he's in ME. :smile:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ottime
I am not Rog, and I am in ME.
Rog won't drive more than 7 miles for surf. Unless he heads south. He keeps it simple. He also thinks Wells is too crowded, but from my experience there tends to be more people at Long Sands than Wells. I'm not around much any more, but my buddy lives in Wells and says that there are never people around, except right along the jetty, which 99 times out of 100 is not the best wave on the beach. Sand bars there tend to wander around, and it is hard to watch due to the homes and private land. But if you walk you dog on the beach daily, you know exactly where the best peak is working, at what tide, and probably know which driveway to park in and not get towed. But what ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
I can recall my biggest best day of surf in ME in November or December of '94. Sand had piled up nicely at the jetty mouth all fall, but the southerly swells were just closing out. Finally got a big NE swell, and as the tide dropped through mid day the peak started firing with 15' faces on the right. The left was only throwing 12' faces, but was hollower and shorter. Word got out, and the crowd grew from two of us. Me on the right, and the other on the left. As people came out they mostly stayed on the left. A little smaller, and a shorter paddle. Only one guy came over to surf with me. Eventually, I my leash plug pulled out. I ws living on Wells Beach, so I drove a half mile, grabbed some food and a smaller board and headed back. The off shores were really picking up, but the channel and jetties acted as a wind tunnel and I was watching folks just not making their drop. And in the time the crowd turned to a complete shit show. Since I was in the area, I paddle out on the beach break along the jetty. Waves were breaking pretty good for that zone. It is never nearly as big as the outside, as that wave just stands up, but it was head high to a few feet overhead. Soon, folks figured it out and started paddling in and sharing my wave. I said fuck it, and got out, and jogged down the beach. Lisa's (in front of ex-girlfriends beach home) was working. Paddled out. Three feet over head and cranking for Wells. First wave I just made sure I made. Fast down the line roping left. It was like a machine. Surfed solo until I couldn't anymore, getting wrapping cranking off the lips and barrel sections. When I was headed back to my car there was no less than 20 people surfing at the jetty. I tried to point some people in the right direction, but they wouldn't listen. It was a killer day. Only mistake was not surfing mytotubereef in the morning and instead got some big a frames at gooches. It was oddly not crowded, but it was still gooches and not something else.
Busted my ankle today surfing, so guess I'll be posting even more.
How did today work out for ya'll?
Hoping to over to Me in the next couple days.
Definitly looks like it's limited to places with good protection from N winds.
I don't mind missing the biggest and baddest; it's my first session of the season and I don't need to re,-aggrevate the usual surf injuries on my first day if it's going to be an active storm season.
Give rog a visit. He's been getting some. Or pm alev. He knows where to hide from the wind.Quote:
Originally Posted by My Pet Powder Goat
Wasn't sure if you were being facetious or not, but I did check out long sands, and it was working. Bunch of others out there. Looked like some long rides for the suppers off the cobbles, and was bigger than where I went yesterday, but certainly not any cleaner. Good for a quick piss n paddle. Gonna miss tomorrow, but Friday am and Friday pm should still be a go.
Was planning on resting tomorrow for the bike race this weekend but damn! Could be all time tomorrow. Cross wind for Higgins but could be good in the am with the low at 6:30 am.
Once I quit trying to nerd out on and understand fins I'll have to start trying to understand the spots better. Appreciate the insight OT. Honestly Higgins has been pretty consistently good and I've just been really enjoying the proximity and dependability. My buddy is all about Reid though so I wanna get up there sometome
What!? That sucks! What exactly happened?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ottime
ME ftw again today. NH is pretty messy. There might be one or two spots somewhat clean, but just to our North looks better.
Hopefully it's not too messy with people up here over the weekend...
Just enough Southerly exposure to find some good waves.
^^^there are always spots that have no one.
RD, I don't know the Portland area well. Surfed Higgins a few times and got docs once. Only been up that way a handful of times. My zone pretty much ended near OOB zone. Speaking of which, Goosefare bay has some protected spots for those looking to explore. Or the the east side of a shoal around goat island light outside Cape porpoise. Surfed one of those cobblestone islands years ago. A long small left. But there was not this much swell. I think it was on the SW side tho
Jackstraw - still unsure. Been running it over in my head. I stood up, but my front foot was too far back. I think I tried to shimmy it forward at the same time my board hit a little face chop about half way down an eight foot face. This threw me in the back seat and resulted in a sharp turn up the face. I think I was trying to correct just as I came up into the lip near my front foot and the lip threw out. I now think my foot must have still been slightly off the board and that allowed the lip to through the boards back up into the bottom on my foot and fold the ankle. I was backside (I'm goofy) the the throw of the lip would in fact fold the ankle in the direction to do this. Had I been an a similar leg it would have torn the tendons instead. So in a way, I got lucky I was going right.
Adrenaline got me up the cliff, across the field, out of my suit, a drive into town, and getting into my house. I think also had the belief that it could not actually break that way.
Fun watching my home breaks getting some. Post some cell phone pics over the next few days.
Looks solid tomorrow if you get out of those winds. Those more tucked away spots will be getting more swell into them.
Le Rog makes the news!!
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Kook with a hood on when you can practically trunk it!
Hi Rog :wave:
Haha. To be fair I am going to start wearing a hood more often. I get a lot of ear pain from cold water, and to find out the cold makes your ear bones grow and closes up your ear canal.
Looks like this weekend is off for me, but I'm planning a trip to RI next week for a date with maria
Yeah, I have to wear ear plugs, which is pia, but they say that's the best thing you can do for the ear bone thing. You need to spend a lot of time in the water for that to happen tho.
My ears fucking hurt and ache when I get cold water in em, and i think I already have narrow ear canals, as I can never get ear buds to stay in.
I wonder if a lifetime in the cold skiing can have the same affect?
No pics and thread drift into old man ear shit. Fuck guys. Come on, bring the stoke.
Guess y'all just have some sort of surf until Jose dwindles, then you get Maria.
Now that y'all brought up the ears, maybe I can get mine bored out while I'm out of the water.
Old man ear shit? Say that to Nat next time you see him in the water [emoji41]Quote:
Originally Posted by Ottime
back to long sands tonight 4-7. went from wonky and big to bigger, shitter, and even more unpredictable. jose better clean up his act...
Bigger at wrong sands means bigger at p-town and it organizes thing in there because the swell needs to work so hard to get in there. 7' on the beaches and I'm usually looking for some of my reefs to start working.
Fuck. Lee is back. Amazing. Y'all are getting hammered with swell. Maria looks like she is gonna charge up the coast.
Man. The forecast for those two storms looks ideal. Local marine forecast in south Maine next Wednesday looks like local glass. Lee swell should be there Thursday or Friday. Maybe Saturday. Don't know about LI, but Brooklyn has a mild forecast and Maria should be close enough to suck in any bad weather but likely far enough to not be in her wind field. South facing will be pumping by middle of next week. Golly.
lets go!
WHAT?Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
Hoping to be RI bound for wed-Thurs.