Peace boat canceled for tomorrow...BUMMER!

[drbill]

Gale force flags up today here on the island. Catalina Express cancelled boats. Both dive shops cancelled all dives the last two days.

"Perfect" day to work on taxes and edit existing video.

 

[Leejnd]

The thing that kills me is, I've been trying to get my husband out on a dive boat in SoCal since we got certified in August! I've been out a number of times, but he's just not as obsessed with being underwater as I am, and the timing just hadn't worked out for him yet. FINALLY I get him signed up on a boat...and wouldn't you know it, this is the absolute worst day for diving I've seen since I started diving. It's not just bad, it's like... EPICALLY bad!

Such luck. :bonk: LOL!

 

[Empty V]

I've been out every morning this week. It's not as spectacular as the media makes it out to be. It was definitely double overhead on the bigger sets; more like a couple feet overhead on average. Solid but fun sized ! ......

Well I drove down to Surfrider and it was completely blown out. I think I'll pass on making the trek down to the trails. These waves seem to be moving much faster than normal too. I'm repairing my funboard right now and don't think that my 9'2" Corky Carroll would handle too well in these conditions. Looking out the window at the surf? You lucky son of a %$@#!

Billy

 

[riguerin]

I grew up in Connecticut, and we didn't HAVE surfers there ...

Sure they do, they're just all busy doing something else for 9 months out of the year.

I was born and raised here in coastal So Cal, but I spent a few years in New England; 2 years in CT and 4 years in Mass. That area gets some of the best waves I've ever seen.

Ruggles (near Newport) is one of the premier east coast big wave breaks; their version of Mavericks. New Hampshire only has a few miles of shoreline, but has some of the nicest point breaks that I've ever surfed in the US. All those little coves north of Hampton Beach just light up when the hurricane season kicks in.

The only problem is that the season is so short. It's like a lake till late Aug, early Sept. Next thing you know it's too cold. And I mean freak'n COLD ... full-on ice cream headache COLD ... way wicked COLD !

 

[CompuDude]

Sure they do, they're just all busy doing something else for 9 months out of the year.

I was born and raised here in coastal So Cal, but I spent a few years in New England; 2 years in CT and 4 years in Mass. That area gets some of the best waves I've ever seen.

Ruggles (near Newport) is one of the premier east coast big wave breaks; their version of Mavericks. New Hampshire only has a few miles of shoreline, but has some of the nicest point breaks that I've ever surfed in the US. All those little coves north of Hampton Beach just light up when the hurricane season kicks in.

The only problem is that the season is so short. It's like a lake till late Aug, early Sept. Next thing you know it's too cold. And I mean freak'n COLD ... full-on ice cream headache COLD ... way wicked COLD !

So just to be clear... cold?

:mooner:

 

[Leejnd]

So just to be clear... cold?

:mooner:

LOL!

Yeah, I suppose there are some folks in CT who surf...in that ten-minute window when you've got waves without icycles forming on them :14: . I guess I was trying to explain why I have absolutely no comprehension of "surfer lingo." In my highschool we had our various cliques...the geeks, the jocks, the cheerleaders, the stoners, etc. etc....but we didn't have any "surfer" clique. Now my kids are in highschool, and they've got all these cliques there that we just didn't have! The surfers, the skateboarders, the Halo game players...

 

[CompuDude]

LOL!

Yeah, I suppose there are some folks in CT who surf...in that ten-minute window when you've got waves without icycles forming on them :14: . I guess I was trying to explain why I have absolutely no comprehension of "surfer lingo." In my highschool we had our various cliques...the geeks, the jocks, the cheerleaders, the stoners, etc. etc....but we didn't have any "surfer" clique. Now my kids are in highschool, and they've got all these cliques there that we just didn't have! The surfers, the skateboarders, the Halo game players...

I assume you mean "Halo game players" as a synonym for "highschool kids", and the surfers, skateboarders, etc. are sub-groups.

 

[riguerin]

So just to be clear... cold?

:mooner:

Dude, you don't even know what cold is till you've toughed out a New England winter. Little things we take for granted, like jumping in your car and driving to work, take on a whole new level of effort and complexity.

But as far as the surf goes ... when NE is good, it can be really good. It can be so good, in fact, that the very thought of missing one of the magic Fall days is enough to make a grown man cry. Then again, so is the onset of hypothermia.

 

[Leejnd]

Dude, you don't even know what cold is till you've toughed out a New England winter. Little things we take for granted, like jumping in your car and driving to work, take on a whole new level of effort and complexity.

Try doing it in -7 (that's negative 7!) degrees, in a 1974 Triumph TR-6 rag-top convertible with a broken choke, so that every morning I'd have to lift the hood and yank a wire connected to the choke and wrap it around something to hold it open while I started the car...and then drive to work with the cold air blowing in through the gaps in the rag-top...oh man, just remembering that is making me shiver!!!

And THAT'S why I moved to SoCal....

 

[CompuDude]

Dude, you don't even know what cold is till you've toughed out a New England winter. Little things we take for granted, like jumping in your car and driving to work, take on a whole new level of effort and complexity.

But as far as the surf goes ... when NE is good, it can be really good. It can be so good, in fact, that the very thought of missing one of the magic Fall days is enough to make a grown man cry. Then again, so is the onset of hypothermia.

Well... I did go to college in Colorado, lived in Manhattan for three years, and spent a winter break in Champaign, Ill (20 below (with the wind chill) that year!). So I'm not entirely unfamiliar with the cold, despite having grown up, for the most part, in Hawaii and SoCal.

But I'll admit I never once considered getting into the water in any of those first three locations, with the exception of a hot spring or two.

(Snow camping, OTOH, is one of my favorite activities, although again, I prefer to stay above the water level when doing so!)