Come On Hurricane Florence !!!! East Coasters are waiting!!!

davmo · Post by **davmo** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:56 pm

I am sitting here with my fingers crossed that Florence will develop into a hurricane and move off the coast and northward so we east coasters will have some nice waves. I am off of work Tuesday, Wed, Thurs, so I might just have a good chance to get my wish.

I did get to surf TS Ernesto. Friday after the storm was moving north I went out at about 6:00 pm. There was police, rescue people, and a lot of spectators looking at the ocean. Myself and about twenty other surfers hit it and it was double overhead crazy. We were out there until it started getting dark.

Saturday morning was smaller but it had cleaned up a lot and I KB'd for about 6 hours and then I was tired.

gogglefog · Post by **gogglefog** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:57 pm

unfortunately, the winds don't look favorable for the florence swell. hopefully the forecast is wrong.
last saturday was the day on the outer banks. well overhead and nice long lefts.
surfed s-turns down in rodanthe on sunday and it was like a mexican beach break.

Man O' War · Post by **Man O' War** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:43 pm

Down here in FL we'll be on it. I have my edges all filed.

tumak · Post by **tumak** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:45 am

Oh baby... we have some serious waves coming our way. Man-o-War, you coming up to the North Country? Uh-oh... I smell a Monster Hole session! Ponce de Leon Landing will be AWESOME too...

Kneeboards
Spoon
Wave Skaters

This is gonna be a BLAST!

Man O' War · Post by **Man O' War** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:39 pm

no caption necessary

davmo · Post by **davmo** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:34 pm

I like the way that wave map looks!!!! Nice colors.

davmo · Post by **davmo** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:39 pm

gogglefog, do you live in North Carolina???

All of us east coast should get together one day during a good swell. For most of my kneeboarding that I have done since 1975 has been pretty much by myself without any other kneeboarders. I did go to school with a couple of kneeboarders but I think they either quit, moved or died. Who knows? Well at least Fred lives in town and can be seen kneeboarding these days.

gogglefog · Post by **gogglefog** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:26 pm

davmo,
i live about an hour from you in elizabeth city, nc. any time the surf gets good i'm on it (responsibilities permitting).
i surf a lot in kdh and rodanthe.

windguru isn't calling for the winds to get good on the north side of cape hatteras for the florence swell until next thursday. sunday the swell might be real good down in frisco with a side offshore wind and twelve second swell period.

give me a call 252-548-0099 next time the waves are good and we can meet up.

john

Man O' War · Post by **Man O' War** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:05 pm

Looks like Florence has big pretty colors for everyone

Mike Fernandez · Post by **Mike Fernandez** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:40 pm

It's Saturday night, and no waves in MD, NJ, or DE. Checked down in Hatteras, no waves there either, I guess Florence isn't coming from the south.
I will wake up Sunday and check the report, it better be 4-5ft and at least fair.

K-man · Post by **K-man** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:15 pm

Looks good anyways..Hope ya'll get some good ones!
Somebody KBs The jersey shore let me know

Spent many years bass fishing,seabright to long beach island.Spent many more years carousing around seaside height,and the manasquan-point pleasant area.

A bit off post,but...nostalgia..you know

cheers

Eric Carson · Post by **Eric Carson** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:30 pm

I have off Monday and Tuesday, so I'll be free to pick and choose my break. The coconut telagraph is buzzing!! BTW, the latest pics from down under are completely inspiring!!

davmo · Post by **davmo** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:21 pm

I surfed on Sunday afternoon. It was okay.

Monday I worked but the wind was honking hard from the NE.

Today I went out at 3:00 caught some waves and had an okay time until my surf leash broke and I had to call it quits.

Tomorrow morning (wednesday) looks promising. The wind is calm tonight and is going to be light in the morning. Another local KBr and I are going to hit it at sunrise.

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Also I just sold one of my Dean Cleary Kneeboards on Craigslist. I hardly ever rode that board since I have several others that I like riding. So I listed it for sale and really didn't think I would get a response. The very next day a local Virginia Beach guy called me up and he bought it. He was also a kneeboarder. So now I can officially declare that Virginia Beach Virginia has a population of 3 kneeboarders! After selling the board we went out and rode some chest to head high waves and he turned out to be a pretty good kneeboarder. He was charging it pretty hard. He said that he really liked the board and it really suited him well. He was pretty stoked. i also talked with him about this website.

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Man O' War · Post by **Man O' War** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:12 am

Your brothers in FL all have ridiculous grins on their faces. This is what our most revered surfguru posted when he got up yesterday:

Oh my God its going off!! This morning we have an ENE ground swell at overhead to double overhead with bigger bombing sets taking everybody out, if your reading this report your missing it. By far the biggest best day of 2006.

I was one of the fortunate ones. I was out on a spoon at one of the beaches in Eric Carson's town of Melbourne. No crowds and they were all acting like point breaks:

One of the photographers at Reef Road (next to the infamous Pump House) reported guys towing into bombs of 20'+ and says he has the pictures to prove it. This is not 20' Hawaiian, I'm sure, but when he posts I'll put one up here.

I can only imagine what chasinglefts and his compadres got at OBX. It was predicted to be 3OH and up.

Somebody hoist a cold one out there.

Mike Fernandez · Post by **Mike Fernandez** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 5:29 am

Nice Man O War

I only got one mediocre day of this storm. The rest of my days off it was nukkuleear wind blown.