Surfing Waves

-Some one told me that there are people who surf the great lakes is this true

Not only true, but it can get really good.....if your into cold water.

http://www.greatlakesurfing.com/

you gota be having a laugh, how would you get a decent swell in a lake???

I saw a DVD a while ago (cant remember name tho Unsalted rings a bell) and they had some quality waves. Good DVD well worth watching, must be strange not having the salty taste whilst surfing tho.

Surfing in the Great Lakes is "Great".
Check this out!

I'm new to surfing and should be catching my first wave any time now!

BTW- Yes, "Unsalted" is the title of the DVD.

-dude thats amazing i will think twice when my prehistoric parents invite me to the lake

that is awesome

Thats insane. I freak out when the water is cold enough to wear a shortie.

FormosanSurfer wrote:Thats insane. I freak out when the water is cold enough to wear a shortie.

Same here. If its colder than 60 degrees, my @ss stays on the beach.

Bringing this back from a few months ago...

From Chicago and some great surf in October and November so far.

Anyone else surfing the great lakes lately around here. I have another forum been chattin on but looking to see if any of us knuckleheads are in here as well

cheers-

Does anyone have any actual pictures?

There is a lot of speculation about it..and maybe some sold photo's might settle it.

bluesnowcone wrote:you gota be having a laugh, how would you get a decent swell in a lake???

because collectively, the great lakes are roughly the same size as Britain!!!

I have done Body boarding on lake Ontario !!!

Take this all of you fancy shmancy ocean surfers...I live on the great lakes...you can almost surf year round...except for the ice in the middle of the winter. That is when we cut wholes in it, and go scuba diving.
There is a reason you can get drysuits made for surfing.





Only the hardcore go out surfing in the snow.

WOW, That looks as cold as the North Sea in February. Not sure of the size of these lakes, but the North Sea and English Channel aren't huge expanses of water, and we get a lot of localised windwaves which is what i presume these are.

Nice photos, which lake are you on ??

georgian bay, so I have to drive anywhere I want good waves. Normaly ontario, but sometimes I go south.

Looks cool, but thats normal all year weather for the uk. Is there any other type of surfing, Cold water surfing rules, empty beach`s and empty waves

Don't forget that the Great Lakes are significantly large bodies of water - hundreds of miles across and therefore able to have fairly large fetch areas to build up waves.

The more significant part is that because of the surrounding land, weather is much more unpredictable - the Great Lakes challenges many dangerous ocean shipping areas for number of shipwrecks. 'Lake effect' weather spawns blizzards that just suddenly pop up out of nowhere and dump 3 feet of snow at a time in the New England area.

It's widely appreciated in the shipping industry that the Great Lakes can be a fairly dangerous place in comparison to open water in the ocean.

rite... i went to the south of France 2 years ago on a Mountain Sports Trip and we went to this lake random and it wos about 100metres wide ... u cud c the other side.... and ther wos this guy who had a long board and he paddled and then jumped up on his board and then jumped off again... paddled a bit more then jumped up again and just carried on doing that for about 1 hour... does anyone no why?! it totally confused me... ther was no waves at all.

Lisa.x