East Coast Surf

[alev]

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.

[Ottime]

It it be a while before you get it that good again I bet.

[alev]

well may have to give it another shot today!

[jackstraw]

well may have to give it another shot today!

Balmy winds are pretty strong up here today.

[alev]

sticky and humid for sure. winds look stronger today, but i think the protected areas may surf fine again.

[Ottime]

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.

[alev]

Hard to say, but since that sounds believable I think it's worth a shot in the short window I got

[jackstraw]

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.

Alev is not Rog, so I don't think he's in ME.

[alev]

I am not Rog, and I am in ME.

[Ottime]

Alev is not Rog, so I don't think he's 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.

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?

[My Pet Powder Goat]

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.

[Ottime]

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.

[alev]

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.

[WaistDeepGroomers]

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

[jackstraw]

Busted my ankle today surfing, so guess I'll be posting even more.

What!? That sucks! What exactly happened?

ME ftw again today. NH is pretty messy. There might be one or two spots somewhat clean, but just to our North looks better.

[alev]

Hopefully it's not too messy with people up here over the weekend...

Just enough Southerly exposure to find some good waves.

[Ottime]

^^^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.

[WaistDeepGroomers]

Le Rog makes the news!!

[jackstraw]

Kook with a hood on when you can practically trunk it!

Hi Rog

[My Pet Powder Goat]

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

[jackstraw]

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 Pet Powder Goat]

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?

[Ottime]

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.

[jackstraw]

No pics and thread drift into old man ear shit.

Old man ear shit? Say that to Nat next time you see him in the water [emoji41]

[alev]

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...