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Postby tomcat360 » Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:04 pm

yeah tommorow or the next. Do you know when all this wind is gonna get outta here?
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Postby justloafing » Sat Oct 07, 2006 4:40 pm

Wilmington, NC

Wrightsville and Carolina Beach.
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Postby tomcat360 » Sun Oct 08, 2006 9:43 pm

Ausin, I'll be down that way tommorow. If you see me paddle over and say hi.

Did you surf today? Still looked blown out, but I'm hoping the wind will calm down during the night.

I might finally get to bust out the shortboard :D
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Postby Driftingalong » Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:02 pm

It was a big junky mess the whole weekend in MD... :x
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Postby tomcat360 » Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:34 pm

Same here. Just blown out. Really pissed me off.

Tried for a while, shortboard is too small, can't duck dive the longboard, didn't have anything in between, and I was surfing like crap, so I left. :(

But whatever, a bad day in the water beats a good day at work.
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Postby NOVASurf » Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:02 pm

Live in backwoods of VA. Surf in N.C. around Duck, Corolla...
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Postby tomcat360 » Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:33 pm

Long drive. Been surfing long?
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Postby cisurfer39 » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:32 pm

I live in central Jersey. Surf all Longbranch all the way down to Belmar.
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Postby miamisurfer » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:51 pm

miami, florida
flatness capital of the US
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Postby Bub » Sat Jan 20, 2007 1:37 am

I live in Fredneck Co MD. Very new to surfing but will be surfing Indian River Del, OC and Assetegue when I can make the roadtrips. 31/2 to 4 hr drive for me to get to beach. I've got 2 kids playing soccer this spring (thru June) so my Saturdays are shot. Thats ok..right now I've only got a 3/2 wetsuit so I'm pretty much out of the water til late May anyway (water gets back into the low 60's???) I have alot of sickleave built up at work (like I'd waste my vacation leave) so you'lll probably see me surfing/playing hookey in the water Monday thur Friday more than likely!!!! My wife and kids will tag along a few times over the summer...I'm trying to get my kids into it as well so it can be a "family thing" and won't get nagged as much from the Mrs. Wish me luck! :-)
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Postby tomcat360 » Sat Jan 20, 2007 1:34 pm

Nahhhh you can get back in the water in eh....beginning of April with a 3/2. I used to water ski last weekend of March with a 2/1 shortie. ok, that was cold, but I didn't die :lol:

Apparently the currents change between Virginia and Maryland, so VaB would be like 15 degrees warmer than the eastern shore.

And I might have to challenge the flatness capital of the world....if we have waves the size of a johnboat wake we're on it.

Sucks to be 4 hours away from waves....I feel your pain. I guess you have to go down to the bay bridge?
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Postby NOVASurf » Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:21 pm

Drive from Warrenton to beach = pain in my arse! Grew up in CA. (Dana Point, San Clemente) and used to surf & body board every day....sigh..... Now I get out maybe once or twice a year for a week or so. In Sept. going to have 7 days in Duck, NC!!!
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Postby tomcat360 » Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:34 pm

Ever try some northern beaches? Bunch of NoVa people on swaylocks, I think most of them surf eastern shore/MD
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Postby Bub » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:34 am

tomcat360 wrote:Nahhhh you can get back in the water in eh....beginning of April with a 3/2. I used to water ski last weekend of March with a 2/1 shortie. ok, that was cold, but I didn't die :lol:

Apparently the currents change between Virginia and Maryland, so VaB would be like 15 degrees warmer than the eastern shore.

And I might have to challenge the flatness capital of the world....if we have waves the size of a johnboat wake we're on it.

Sucks to be 4 hours away from waves....I feel your pain. I guess you have to go down to the bay bridge?
Yeah I cross the bay bridge at Annapolis. That's about the midway point of my drive. Man I don't know about the 3/2 wetsuit in early April. I was at my low-end of tolerance in 70 degree air w/ sun and 59 degree water temp in early November. I think if I had boots that would really help. My feet were is serious pain for the first 5 minutes until they went totally numb. Then I was ok for about an hour max.
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Postby Bub » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:48 am

NOVASurf wrote:Drive from Warrenton to beach = pain in my arse! Grew up in CA. (Dana Point, San Clemente) and used to surf & body board every day....sigh..... Now I get out maybe once or twice a year for a week or so. In Sept. going to have 7 days in Duck, NC!!!
Warenton has to be a hike worse than my Frederick, MD hike to the waves. I think you're 1-2 mountain ranges farther west. I surfed at Nags Head (rented a house right across street from pier...wish I was a much better surfer though) for 7 days last summer. OBX rocks. Its a great surfers vacation site. Even though I was trying to surf for the 1st time, I talked to alot of surfers while I was down there, all were very courteous and gave me lots of helpful hints and encouragement...no attitude. I've never stayed up in Duck. I've stayed in Kill Devil Hills Nags Head area whenver I've gone. I hear Duck is nice. We took a drive down to the cape. South of Oregon Inlet is like entering another world. If I take the family down to OBX again, I'd like to rent a place down in Avon, Corrolla or somewhere further south. Its a longer drive but its soooo laid back! Water is much warmer at the Cape as well where the warm gulf stream slams into it. Water temp was 10 degrees warmer at the Cape than Nags Head which was only around 70 miles north or so.
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Postby Driftingalong » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:33 pm

Hey Bub you can get away with a 3/2 in April, but you will need boots and gloves. I'm okay in a 3/2 w/ boots & gloves once the water is above 50°F and the air is fairly warm.
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Postby tomcat360 » Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:54 pm

I checked the surf last Sunday (possibility of going, despite the utter coldness) and it was crap knee high mush. Checked it Monday outta sheer curiosity and it was clean head high!!!!

I didn't see that one coming.....at alll.....
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Postby Bub » Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:26 pm

tomcat360 wrote:I checked the surf last Sunday (possibility of going, despite the utter coldness) and it was crap knee high mush. Checked it Monday outta sheer curiosity and it was clean head high!!!!

I didn't see that one coming.....at alll.....
Hey Tomcat, do you actually live near the beach (i.e. get to walk out and see the conditions?) or did you get the info from website (Magicseaweed etc.)? I've always been curious if the websites are accurate or not if there is a sudden unexpected change in the forecast.
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Postby tomcat360 » Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:20 pm

Nope, I don't live at the beach, I base all of my stuff off of NOAA data off of the bouys and occassionally get a hand from wetsand.com

And then I try to compare what my prediction is to the atual thing, which I check on numerous cameras and such. I've got it worked out decently, but really I'm limited to surfing the weekends and such. I think I usually can predict what the surf is like around 3/4 of the time. (I mean, to a degree, such as, waist high clean, or whatever)

In the summer time, we usually get very similar waves to Wilmington Beach, only a day later, which is super convienent, considering that there is a great site that always puts up pictures of the day and also has the report, water temp, wind speed, and also a live streaming camera that can stream all day if you want.

www.wblivesurf.com if you were curious.
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Postby Bub » Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:19 am

tomcat360 wrote:Nope, I don't live at the beach, I base all of my stuff off of NOAA data off of the bouys and occassionally get a hand from wetsand.com

And then I try to compare what my prediction is to the atual thing, which I check on numerous cameras and such. I've got it worked out decently, but really I'm limited to surfing the weekends and such. I think I usually can predict what the surf is like around 3/4 of the time. (I mean, to a degree, such as, waist high clean, or whatever)

In the summer time, we usually get very similar waves to Wilmington Beach, only a day later, which is super convienent, considering that there is a great site that always puts up pictures of the day and also has the report, water temp, wind speed, and also a live streaming camera that can stream all day if you want.

www.wblivesurf.com if you were curious.
It sounds like you have a system worked out pretty good. I've been checking Magicseaweed.com for swell heights etc from the NOAA bouys and such. Mid-Atlantic area has been getting no reports the last few weeks. I'll have to checkout wetsand.com. I haven't been on that site yet.
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