A Few Shots From The Week

Dry reef all ways makes swell break

      
       The past week supplied surf for most of the region.. Clean conditions fluctuated from the southern shores to the northern and the eastern reaches of New England. The cold is still a force to be reckoned with. Water temps are still hovering around 38* and it looks hopelessly flat for the next week or so....hoping for a double didgit swell sooner than later. I can't remember the last time I saw offshore wave heights hit anything over 12ft @10 seconds.....I opted to stay on the southcoast while the NEsurfadventures guys ran up north and scored as well. Hope everyone got some surf! Surf to Live

Photos by RJAM

60 Degrees and I got a call 10 minutes before I was off work which brought me out to play on waist high walls alone for 2hrs. 5'6x19 3/4x2 1/2 pristine warm fun. Think it's safe to say Spring is here.

SPRING-A-LING-A-LING

       I am sure we have all been getting hungry for waves by now. How hungry are you? Would you say you're hungry enough to hop in your car with a buddy, stuff it full of gas,and go exploring? Would you be willing to drive any more than you had to? I am. You've gotta be down! ESPECIALLY with all the options New England has to offer....it's overwhelming sometimes. Where to surf?!?!....Do you want a reeling point break on a sketchy ledge or would you rather have dredging perfection on concrete-packed sandbars??

       Surfing the same spots time and time again gets old. Certain people surf certain spots. Certain spots break certain ways and it just gets old after you've pulled into the same section time and time again. Swell after swell....same break over and over again. Yea, the comfort level is nice but I like stepping out of my comfort zone. Learning to surf a new break can be ultimately frustrating but so freaking rewarding at the same time.

       Imagine you scope your local break and 12 or more people are already on it....good time? I have other thoughts about that. It pays to put in the extra time on the road. No one said good waves came easily. Certainly not cheap either. Yet, imagine you leave your local break, drive an hour and find an empty lineup AND it's 3x's better than anywhere you've seen. This has happened to me more times than I can count and I'm going to keep doing it because two's company but three's a crowd.

Two was a crowd....

UPS AND DOWNS: Shots From The Weekend

I remember winters when there was overhead surf 3 times a week. I remember having the leisure of planning surf ventures days in advance. This has by far been the least sizeable and consistent winter surf season I have seen in over 6 years. I remember New England for giant swells in the middle of January and February. I remember howling offshores and blind take-offs on walls the size of buildings. I remember the Ocean scaring the crap out of me. I am sure I haven't been desensitized. I am positive I am not remembering false occaisions of epicness. I had so much anticipation for this season to out do the last. I can't complain too much, however, our Hurricane season kept us pretty satisfied.

        We can only cross our fingers and hope that our nearly swell-less winter will give way to a consistant and busy spring. I DO remember the years when all hope seemed lost in the months of January and February that the coming spring season seemed to explode with all the energy that was missed in the winter passed. Let's hope that jet stream shifts in our favor.
       On the bright side of things...there has been swell for the past few weekends and there is more forecasted for the upcoming weekend. Desperation is starting to set in. Hunger for double overhead. We can only wait, hope, and pray.

Thanks again to RJAMC for the water shots!!!!