slipfin

12-9-14

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:15:00 +0000

the tide was crazy high and 4.6@13secs. should have been bigger. still fun if ya found the right spot

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 23:51:00 +0000

Views of the friday swell from Hurricane Gonzalo. Taken from Crystal Pier looking south oward Masonboro Jetty and North toward Johnny Mercers Pier. If ya missed it, well there is always the next one.

sa'more

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 14:59:00 +0000

MoDerN aRTist

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 15:21:00 +0000

nassau

nassau light

nassau

ilm magic

ilm

LaTe

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 14:28:00 +0000

something more

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 11:32:00 +0000

wrightsville beach flatness

farrah in the hayday, was she a nike 1.0 pro?

get up

john peck 1963 pipeline

the last few days

esa-snc sunday @ carolina beach

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:44:00 +0000

wake up early

looking bait

little snap

bottom turn

early rise sunday for 1st esa event. got down at 7:15 to find out the boy didn't surf til 1. Hum, well
went out for a surf and goodness you could taste the menhaden in the water, smell'em taste'em and feel the oil in your eyes. i am hope the guy in the yellowfin found bait with ease 'cause it seemed to be everywhere. finally 1:15 menehuenes up and little snap was worth a 5 (6.4 got him 2nd in his heat). long day to have the waves disappear under the tide and the mene's final got moved to ocean isle in a month. alrighty then.

water logged summer

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 15:56:00 +0000

grace

the way things are going better start learning it

classic at my buddys shop

born and breed

she looks serious

love it

4'10" new ride for the boy #5 for me getting better

WOW, summer is cruising by, pain and surfing. Can't say surf has been great but it has been doable almost all summer. Not sure how many days it has been but we have not missed many, feeling water logged and the back is tight. Must be growing new muscles. The kid is loving the new ride. A 4'10" fat bottom ride that i installed Future fin boxes in without a jig of any sorts. Nerve racking at best.
Here's a collection of web found favorites since i haven't been taking too many photos this summer. All (except the last one) were found on the web and I have no idea where credit belongs, sorry about that.
Enjoy what's left of the neoprene days.

schools out and so is the crowd

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 14:58:00 +0000

rooster shack lemon simmons

little wind never hurts

weeeeeee, summer time is in full effect. south end crowded as usual. couple days of flatness and several days of wind/storm driven swell. busted shoulder got me taking a few photos of the local
crowd doing their thing.

Memorial Day: The Week Before

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 28 May 2013 14:57:00 +0000

Ah, before the crowd piled onto Wrightsville Beach, we had a small swell pulse in and the remnants
hung around all weekend. It would not start breaking until late morning/early afternoon and Memorial Day madness was in full effect. Monday it was almost gone but the people were still crowding the shoreline. Hope you got some somewhere.

MOndaY&tUesDay

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:18:00 +0000

monday

tuesday

monday

tuesday

monday

tuesday

monday

tuesday

NE and E wind at 20 knots for four days, Monday was a mess but the Wrightsville Beach Pro Staff was out making the best of what the ocean had to offer. Tuesday, W wind and the Ocean was giving up some squishy gems. Lots of the Wrightsville Beach Loggers were out and getting their game on. Half way through the falling tide was about as good as it was going to get. Hope you got some.

LittLe BiTs

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 02 May 2013 11:16:00 +0000

some of this

and some of this

Late winter and early spring have dropped some good days on us whether it's been at Wrightsville Beach or a leap across the inlet to Masonboro. The last couple weeks the weather has been steadily improving and the water temp has been on the rise. Most people are out without boots and gloves and the walrus suits of winter are slowly getting thinner. Bikinis and board shorts have been along the edge of the shore and a couple in the line-up but they aren't lasting long in the 60 deg water. It won't be long and we will all be out of the neoprene for a while. Hallelu Jah.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:18:00 +0000

rode south to carolina beach today. only two guys out mostly choppy but there were some rolling in. britts donuts and the rest of the boardwalk will be crankin' soon.

D.S.T.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:31:00 +0000

daylight savings at wrightsville beach. this started friday and lasted through the weekend.
4.5'@15secs. longer waits but uncw was on spring break so the line up was not crowded. Saturday morning started out at 37degrees and nobody out. Al and I had Cstreet to ourselves from 8 til 10. fingers and feet were mostly numb when we were done. Masonboro, sunday morning and the crowd was out in full force. there were some sets breaking out passed the jetty, a couple guys on longer setups got'em way outside and had some big faces to play on. meanwhile the rest of us were scrapping it out on the inside for steep drops and trying to out run the close outs. it is still going today 3.9' at 14secs WB has 10kt NE wind so you know where you should be. get there if you can. later.

last day

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:49:00 +0000

its that time already. this is the last day before you gotta starting coughing up the cash.
damnit.

wrightsville beach wednesday woooooo

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:29:00 +0000

powering thru the spray

c street: fat tide and strong offshore wind but still fun. lots of people out that i hadn't seen in a while. another winter storm gives us something to do early in the morning.

Winter Surfing Wrightsville Beach

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:24:00 +0000

Kevin on the Hot Tuna

Ian on the Simulator

Friday was throwing up some waves as the "biggest winter storm ever" was about to pound the Northeast (biggest since 1978 anyway). Nonetheless, waves were at Wrightsville Beach for most of the morning and the lineup was semicrowded from Mercers to Crystal Pier. Turns out, I knew the guy on the yellow stand up board. Kevin was out test riding Ian Baulding's "Hot Tuna" stand up board and Ian was riding his new "Simulator." You can check out his stuff at http://ianbalding.com/
Oh, when did we starting name winter storms. Nemo? what? I don't umderstand that at all.

wednesday storm thursday swell

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:29:00 +0000

shutting down on some

smaller on others

walls on others

A deadly winter storm swept across the country and pushed some hard wind out of the S on Wednesday gusts upward of 45kts. Luckily the storm passed offshore with little ill effect on us here in Wilmington. Thursday morning the wind rolled to the West (at 20 kt) and the temp dropped down from the upper 70's and was now in the 50's. Have to say it was a little hard to get motivated. Checked a few spots and snapped a few pics at the south end of Wrightsville Beach and settled on Columbia Street for a paddle out. Now today it is flat again.

forgotten frames

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:53:00 +0000

We are stuck in the first artic blast of the season hits Wrightsville Beach . It dipped to 25 degrees with a 13kt N wind this morning. The water temp is still hovering at 50 and no waves to speak of. I decided to change up the title, not sure if i like it but it will stay for now. Also threw up a couple frames that somehow never made it off the card. These are back from October. AR how bouts some more tropic pics. hugh said, "what up?"

waiting for something

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:13:00 +0000

messing with the 0's and 1's

illustrator shapes

everyone that does this i guess get the message sometime. "you have reached to mb limit." so i got rid of some unnecessary photo albums and freed some storage and waited to see what would happen. meanwhile illustrator and photoshop experiments oh and fishing for reds, stripers and specks filled the void of surfing while the flu runs amuck in the house. water temps have finally dropped into the upper 50's. i checked the photos storage today and now its at 5100mb from 1000mg, go figure.
i guess i am gonna keep posting now. thanks for checking in. more to come soon.

phone dump

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 13:32:00 +0000

xxxx habanero is great on everything and haven't manned up to the ghost pepper yet.

beach morphology looks trouty

finally got a mini card for the phone. droppped a few here. hot sauce. there have been some random swell missed a couple of days due to speckled trout. they were calling me and most of the time ya can't do both, at least not in my world. oh tropical pepper co. is some of the best hot sauce on the world. xxxx habanero is my choice, gotta try the ghost pepper sauce next.

November Already

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:14:00 +0000

free to park at last

here trouty trout

waiting and ready

custom fcs

focus on something

Free parking at the WB at least 'til March. Seems like months since waves. The Northeast, however, is climbing out of snow from a Nor'easter one week after the destruction from Sandy.

Sunday with Hurricane Sandy

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:06:00 +0000

Sunday at Wrightsville Beach the winds came around as Hurricane Sandy continued up the Atlantic. Photos are blurry and out of focus but I am to tired to care, just got some for posting.

Hurricance Sandy Road Trip

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:33:00 +0000

wrightsville beach

kinda shutdown

crazy mess

somewhere else

kinda going off

view from the dunes

My boy Al and I made a road trip yesterday as Hurricane Sandy was cruising up the coastline. We found these slabs and had it all to ourselves for about an hour, then shared them with 15 of our newest friends for the next 5 hours. I can barely type today.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 04:46:00 +0000

35mm film pentax dale off the top

35mm pentax

pat trying to get through

pat again searching for space

north side 35mm

pat trying again to get some glory

closing down

Crystal Pier Wednesday was a treat. The forecast of 4.5ft every 14secs and NE 10-15kts had Masonboro firing but crowded while across the inlet we had the Southend all to ourselves. The wind had held off for most of the morning. There were about 20 of us spread out to the jetty. You could get all you wanted with fighting to get it. I broke out the Pentax sp500 for a couple film shots and got the rest in the Nikon D5000.