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Waves at last!
Posted:
Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:57 pmby Broosta
Should be a wave at my local in the morning(Gorleston). Magic Seaweed is giving it 14ft with 11secs
.... and 35mph cross shore winds
! But with the harbour wall sheltering it could be ok.
Local news is saying loads of houses are being evacuated in fear of being flooded due to impeding storm surge with the spring tide. I'm alright 'cos I bought my house at the top of the high ground and it was deliberate and for this very reason. Some say this may out do the floods of '53
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/understanding/1953_flood.shtml.
See you on the other side dudes - I haven't been in the water for 5weeks so could get hairy!
Posted:
Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:10 pmby essex sucks
man i would join u but too far too go for a day and don't have alot of cash lowerstoft will be ofshore but its still high winds
Posted:
Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:37 amby Broosta
Just checked it out and its about 3-4ft and clean with 5 people in the water. high tide not til 08:20.
Sky news are down there and the police are advising everyone to get away from the beach cos a big surge is on its way down from the north.
I'm now getting suited up!
Posted:
Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:47 amby libby
Looks massive up here today
Posted:
Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:55 amby northswell
Broosta we've had quite a bit of late and surfable since last Thursday.
Enjoy it.
Deep shelter required up here tho, and i can't get back on it till Sunday. But i did get in on Weds.
Posted:
Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:32 amby kitesurfer
Libby wrote:Looks massive up here today
I know ur nose is big Libby but i wouldn't describe it quite as massive!
KS
Posted:
Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:08 pmby Sillysausage
awesome waves up here now
Posted:
Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:20 pmby rich r
Be safe folks - they're talking hurricane force winds in the area. Best to wait until the swell cleans up a bit and the storm moves more offshore towards the nordic lands.
Posted:
Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:21 pmby Sillysausage
i've got some awesome photos, but can't post them till i get home, its about 8ft this evening, absolutely maddness! got nailed a couple of times when i was out, but couldn't surf longer than 45mins because darkness and the fact that i was so tired
Posted:
Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:24 pmby Sillysausage
winds are strong and offshore, but ok for surfing if you're carefull, never seen the waves break that far out here yet!
Posted:
Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:36 pmby Broosta
It was not bad really. More like 3ft with the odd bigger random wave popping up.
Bit strange having so many spectaters and 2 helecopters taking footage, even had a Pit Pilot photographer turn up with Sam Smart from Sennen to test the waves but it was a shame they got in too late after the tide had gone out too far and it turned to sh*t like it normally does at Gorleston!
The Sky News team vehicles.
Police and spectaters waiting for the big storm surge which never came.
Buttons dk trimming
A bit of one of the larger waves taken by my g/f and she doesn't surf! I was in the water for the best waves so didn't get any good shots really.
Clip from sky news with some hele' footage
http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,30000-1292218,00.html
Times online front page story
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2839078.ece
News 24
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7086620.stm
Posted:
Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:02 pmby Sillysausage
deffo wasnt 3 foot when i was there, the waves were also breaking much further out than normally, and look far bigger in my pictures than yours, what beach were yours taken at?
Posted:
Sat Nov 10, 2007 12:17 amby northswell
Yorks pretty much maxed out today by all accounts, apart from deep shelter.
Middens up your way SS was sposed to be of size n clean.
Did anyone see the surfers stranded on the news down in Kent.
Posted:
Sat Nov 10, 2007 4:04 amby ANZAC
Some nice clear photos there.
Bloody Coooolddd looking over there..... F that!
Posted:
Sat Nov 10, 2007 9:54 amby Broosta
Sillysausage wrote:deffo wasnt 3 foot when i was there, the waves were also breaking much further out than normally, and look far bigger in my pictures than yours, what beach were yours taken at?
These phptos were taken at Gorleston near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. And the beach faces east so the swell has to wrap around about 100 degrees to get round the harbour wall meaning its always the smallest and cleanest spot on this coast that never has a rip. So I reckon probably everywhere else would have been loads bigger but perhaps not so clean with a hell rip going south.
Posted:
Sat Nov 10, 2007 9:59 amby Broosta
ANZAC wrote:Some nice clear photos there.
Bloody Coooolddd looking over there..... F that!
Yeah it was a bit chilly actually! Last time I got in I wore a 3mm suit no and no gloves, but yesterday it was 5/4/3mm with 5mm boots and no gloves but I'll be wearing gloves from now on since my hands got a bit cold with that 'can't straighten fingers' thing going on
.
Posted:
Sat Nov 10, 2007 12:48 pmby Broosta
Another link Times Online - Surf Nation about Sam Smart this time
http://timesonline.typepad.com/surf_nation/
Posted:
Sat Nov 10, 2007 5:40 pmby Sillysausage
oh right cool, up here was blazing, went out today as well, wearing my 6/5/4 now, but no boots gloves and i pull the hood over, its not too cold yet apart from at the start, but get used to it after 2mins
Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:07 pmby long_man
god i wish we had some on the SW coast, absolute pants last weekend
no surfing for me last weekend
Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 4:06 pmby essex sucks
man i wish i was there but still had a really good time at brighton lol