Anyone else get some today...?

[icelanticskier]

ogt was excellent this am. maine surfers were awake this time. had they not i think i would have really freaked out. chest/head high with good power, clean and about 10 of us nicely spread out.

i chose to work the left (backside) as most others were too deep for the left and were trying to race the rights. took a few rights that i was able to race track and stay ahead of, but the lefts allowed for more top to bottom surfing. lefts were not slouching

was surprised at the size and quality of the waves. a friend from nh said waist high and nothing too special. maine serves it up again.........and again.

maybe some leftovers tomorrow before maybe more activity gets stirred up for monday and beyond.

FUCKING LOVE IT!!!!!!!!

off to work

rog

[strawjack]

ya, nh is prolly knee at best now. although, i think i'm going to buy you a tape measure

[Ottime]

Duh. Turns out rog is only 4'10". And a half. Now I understand everything.

Gotta call my buddy. Wonder if ya surfed with home this morning.

I always preferred the left there. It was a rare treat in my time, but when it showed, it was the superior wave. Shorter, but on the entire time.

[icelanticskier]

Duh. Turns out rog is only 4'10". And a half. Now I understand everything.

Gotta call my buddy. Wonder if ya surfed with home this morning.

I always preferred the left there. It was a rare treat in my time, but when it showed, it was the superior wave. Shorter, but on the entire time.

what's yer buddys name? watched a friend on a longboard take a couple set wave drops. def close to a foot overhead at the peak. no lie. if i was gonna lie i'd say it was sandspitting double ohead and standup shacks

glad i cut work short this afternoon. after strawjack^^^ left the shop, i pulled up the webcam and decided to leave work 4.5 hours early. went right to york and had one of the most fun sessions in a loong time. solid waist with plus sets, just 2 others out down the beach from me. winds were perfect, wave shape was perfect and were waaaaaay more rip-able and longer than ogt this am. pop up and just do whatever ya wanted. hardly ever had to race em, but the racy ones were super fun!

nice cold double session day. buoy is now 5' @ 10/11 seconds. morning should be fun!

rog

[Piggity]

If I scored the waves and snow that Rog does then I'd move back East

[icelanticskier]

If I scored the waves and snow that Rog does then I'd move back East

c'mon back! lonely over here

rog

[Ottime]

got in two days this week, hidden behind points to get out of the wind. not super great surf, but uncrowded. tuesday the one other guy out left after 20 minutes. i think 5 or 6 were out at the point tonight. about head high. maybe a bit bigger. hard to tell with the jumble. but nice enough long waves none the less.

[Piggity]

Shoulder high and glassy yesterday, first time I surfed in a week. Got a few head dips including a fun double cover up on the low tide, woulda made it if I didn't get greedy on the 2nd one. Still fun, only 2 other guys within 30 yards of me. Switched it up and did a 3 day tour last weekend, rehab is going slow but no setbacks yet.

[icelanticskier]

^^^^nice pigs!

got an unexpected bonus sesh in this am. got a good ole noreaster happinen here. was hoping to get my ski on this am, but only a coupla inches had fallen. figured a walk to the beach with the dog wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. figured i'd see waist high chop. as i crested the rise to street level above the beach i was flabbergasted to see waist/chest clean short period a-frames coming in with zero folks out, anywhere, at 830am. litterally ran the 1 mile back to the house with the dog who was stoked to get back in front of her woodstove. don't blame her as it was 14 degrees out and snowing. suited up and drove back down to the beach and had good fun for close to an hour and a half. the rights were kinda flat faced but fun and cruisy.
was the only one out. not surprised

tomorrow will be double/triple ohead with nuking winds so a ski will be the call. sunday looks chest/head plus with perfect offshores all day. can't believe there will be waves on one of my days off from work. in a 200+ day surf year, that only happens less than 10% of the time for some reason. no lie.

keep on keepin on y'all!

rog

[Ottime]

I miss the ole snow storm sessions. But not really. My young self misses them. I can still recall my first. Narragansett on Black Friday with two little girls and their dad building a snow storm. I was wearing a rented dive dry suit with an air lock on the chest. Lucky my Aiken was a molded plastic board and could take the pressure. My chest was not so lucky. I wore jeans and a wool sweater under the suit. Good stuff.

[icelanticskier]

I miss the ole snow storm sessions. But not really. My young self misses them. I can still recall my first. Narragansett on Black Friday with two little girls and their dad building a snow storm. I was wearing a rented dive dry suit with an air lock on the chest. Lucky my Aiken was a molded plastic board and could take the pressure. My chest was not so lucky. I wore jeans and a wool sweater under the suit. Good stuff.

heh, i had an aiken once

rog

[Ottime]

It was what I learned on. A 6'4". Spent two summers on it before buying a glass board. A Bushman. Man what a difference. It took several sessions to get used to the looseness, but once mastered I was stoked. The Aiken was a perfect board for a 13 yr old to get. Durable as hell. Learned a lot from my buddies mistakes (board in the trunk, jumping off jetties, nose in the sand like on North Shore) before I ever needed to worry about this.

[icelanticskier]

i used a 6'4 as well

35 feet at 13 seconds was as high as i saw the buoy get today the inside reformers were easily double ohead no one out of course.

tomorrow we're lookin at chest/head all day long with offshores at 15-18. perfect. should get in a majority of the days this week. love it

rog

[icelanticskier]

as expected. lovely morning for a 2 hour sesh at york. chest/head, light offshores, sunny, 3 degrees f for 8am paddleout, 25 degrees f when i finished at 10am. felt like the tropics nice shape and just a handful of guys out.

waves will last all day and my gal and i will be paddling back out for the lower tide and surf from 3-5pm.

fucking so nice..........

rog

[icelanticskier]

sesh#2 today with the lady was even bettah than this am. a bit smaller, chest high, glassy and way better tide closer to low. temp was about 35 degrees warmer then this am's paddle out which was nice. great wave shape that allowed for full on vertical off the top surfing. ski tomorrow, surf tuesday and hopefully a few more days this week.

hows the left coast been?

rog

[Ottime]

Excellent.

Spent the late morning getting cold on the mini gun waiting out the back for the bomb that rarely came. And when the set of two showed up more than a half hour into the session, I was out of position. When I missed the next set of two a half hour later I decided to paddle in. Caught an 8 footer, and went to the beach to grab a smaller board.

As I was running back to the car, the wind started to come up so I drove to a protected point and grabbed my new(ish) 6'0" and processed to have my best session ever on it. Long, lined up, rip panel two foot overhead. Not grinding barrels, but fun, fast, down the line 100 plus yard waves. And I was killing it. Until I got so tired I could barely catch anything. Best session in a long time. Can't wait for the mrs to get home tonight so I can go back out.

[icelanticskier]

Excellent.

Spent the late morning getting cold on the mini gun waiting out the back for the bomb that rarely came. And when the set of two showed up more than a half hour into the session, I was out of position. When I missed the next set of two a half hour later I decided to paddle in. Caught an 8 footer, and went to the beach to grab a smaller board.

As I was running back to the car, the wind started to come up so I drove to a protected point and grabbed my new(ish) 6'0" and processed to have my best session ever on it. Long, lined up, rip panel two foot overhead. Not grinding barrels, but fun, fast, down the line 100 plus yard waves. And I was killing it. Until I got so tired I could barely catch anything. Best session in a long time. Can't wait for the mrs to get home tonight so I can go back out.

AWESOME!!!

rog

[Ottime]

Took the short board out again, and while the session was decent, it was no Sunday. Having fun seeing how big I can go on this board. It seems to be best at just about head high, but I grabbed a few in the 3-4' OH range on it, and it did okay.

Session had cleaner surf, but folks finally showed up at the break, and it is funny to see guys with their serious face on out there. Anyway, surf was maybe bigger, and definitely clear and more organized, but waves were not connecting through like yesterday. An I was not as synced with the surf.

Today is nice. Calm. Mid 60s and OH. Can't get in. Maybe tomorrow.

[icelanticskier]

nice to try a particular board in many wave type/sizes

after sundays blissful double session feast, monday skiing was awesome while snow fell. softer as the day went on.

woke up yesterday early and got a text from the nh boys and they were finally gonna take my word for it and come check out what i've been telling them in my daily reports that they never really believe. they leave knee/thigh and upon coming over the big hill in the ogt, their jaws dropped to the floor when they saw perfect chest high sets, perfect winds and nobody out. i paddled out ahead of em and caught some perfect rights. they couldn't believe how good it was and stated that they'd NEVER doubt me again. love that

my 4th wave started like very other. perfectly walled up with a nice taper, slight angled take up to deep bottom turn, and then it happened........my back went crazy town on me. totally siezed up and left me completely unable to stand up on my board again. ah well. paddled in, hobbled bent over up to my car and painfully drove home. i was so stoked for them tho and my one bud, a VERY good surfer said it was the best sesh he's had since november, and surfs em all.

hopefully i'll be back in action in a week or so. looks flat/tiny for the coming days. getting old sucks!

get some, ott! ever ask yer bud if he knows me? not micheal is it?

rog

[jtran10]

Haven't been posting in this thread much, but have been getting out 1-3 times a week recently. Yesterday morning waves looked super nice as I headed out, offshore shoulder high, but after 1 wave early in my quick pre-work session they just died out where I was sitting. Didn't have enough time to go paddling looking for a different peak, so just called it unfortunately.

Have a friend in town as of yesterday so didn't go out this morning, but waves looked super nice again on my ride in to work. Bought a board rack for my moped. Super stoked on being able to still surf when gf needs the car!

[Ottime]

rog, heal up. If you've never gone through this before send me a PM. It is old hat for me. And mine goes out in the oddest moments. Such as answering the phone. Anyway, take care of that back. And my buddies name is Jason. Runs a campground in Wells. I think he has been out skiing at Gunstocks with his mrs. more than getting in the water. And he rarely makes it south of Moody Point due to the unbearable crowds, even though I have always said that the river mouth was often worth it.

[icelanticskier]

THANK YOU^^^^^^^

i have done this to my back before. last time i was skiing bumps at the loaf and got it good. popped some vitamin I and kept skiing. but i was 37 then. this one was a tad more severe, altho i could get around doing normal people stuff pretty well right after. i think the combo of long hours of surfing, shoveling a ton of snow, running, and skiing hard all within a few days time just smoked me. having not skied in a month didn't help me much. may as well have starting the season all over again. legs fucking hurt big time today my gawd.

don't know jason, but sure i'll meet him at some point. in all the times i've surfed ogt thus far, it has not been crowded cept for a couple times with 10-12 guys out. but it was spread pretty well. but compared to moody, it must seem like nh

rog

[Piggity]

Hope your back heals up soon. I'm in the back club from time to time myself, most of them come from the slightest movements.

Need surf. Couple days of surfing the wrong place at the wrong time and definitely a few waves were had but sounds like everyone I know but me was at the right place the past couple days. Today was small on the high tide, about 2' dumping on the inside sandbar. 2 corners were found and that's about it. Tried out a gopro wrist mount since it was small and no one out, not impressed with the overall design and functionality.

[jtran10]

Had a fun session this morning. Several real nice lefts, waist high, at Tamarack.

Friend from HS is visiting; he took out my LB, i had the smaller board. Fun to catch some waves, give some tips, and watch him do pretty well. He stayed out after I left for work and says he caught 3 waves in the morning session. He went back out after taking a nap for an afternoon session. Thinking he'll be surfing the rest of his 1.5 weeks here.

Surfing's addicting

[icelanticskier]

Surfing's addicting

it's truly rediculous. thought it'd be easier buying a house one mile from the surf. easier, yes, less amped to get on it? nope, worse i hit many windows of swell now that i never ever woulda driven to the beach to check just in case.

thanx pigs^^^^! back is feeling better. after a 2 foot snowstorm at the beach last weekend, it looks like another 8" or so for this weekend. fml, more waves to make use of..........

skiing was an addiction for many years, been surfing for longer, but the addiction has shifted to surfing over the last 5 years to levels that skiing could never even come close for me. now i ski when there are no waves.

maybe i'll be healed enough for chest/head clean sunday.......

rog