Surf

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Tween night

Another Friday Tween night with the girls at Good Harbor. They made great progress, even started paddling into small waves, and had some seriously long rides to the beach, really impressive! I didn't have much luck on that beach. Cannot figure it out, wherever I am, it feels

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Glorious

What a glorious morning it was! I had planned of using my work-close-to-the-beach strategy, stay at the coffee shop for the array of morning meetings, and then over lunch sneak out to the beach, but the forecaset changed in favor of the early morning hour. So I went out to

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4ft

It was a warm early fall day. I had planned to get out to the beach first thing in the morning, but the forecast changed slightly overnight, and was updated with winds dying down towards the end of the day. I peeked through the surf-cam in the morning, and it

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Brisk morning

It was cooler than I wanted it to be, just like 8ºC. Still being September, I thought I can do it without boots. Which was true, the really cold part was walking over the cold beach sand into the water, and then back. Once the toes dipped into the water,

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Tween night

A local surf shop is host Teen/Tween nights to get kids on boards. It was a great opportunity to get our daughter and a friend of hers introduced to surfing. She likes being in the ocean, or water in general, and enjoys playing with a boogie board in the

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Meeting break

I was on the fence of applying my coffee shop/beach routine today again, but instead, went straight to beach after a meeting, and got back in time for the next one. It's kind of amazing, and encouraging, how many people were out there. It made me happy

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Surf-Work balance

I have put a new trick up my sleeves: there's a coffee shop in the town next to the beach. I can squeeze in a drive there between meetings, then setup in the coffee shop, take a few calls or work check-ins there. Getting over to the beach

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Glassy morning

I guess this is what they call "glassy conditions", what a fun morning! First time I did "dawn patrol", got out right at sunrise on a random weekday. There was practically no wind, and clean 3ft sets were rolling through one after another. I was able

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Labor beach day

I did it. It was labor day weekend and we had the perfect beach day. Not boiling and humid, just nice and hot, with a little breeze going. Perfect conditons to bust out the new spring suit, that's what we're here for! The beach was packed,

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Small morning

There was not much on the forecast, but I had to go. Just get into the water and get used to the new board. It was OK, got a few 2ft rollies, it's always fun being out there!

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Afternoon surf

I re-scheduled my afternoon today, packed as much as I can into the moring, so that I can head out to the beach. The water was much colder that I anticipated, and I actually put my boots on. In August! Waves were good to me, a little bit choppy, but

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Loggerhead

After 4 seasons on my Torq 9'6 Pinline I thought I'm ready for a change. I had my eyes on this one at the end of last year. Mostly because it's one of the few single fin longboards they have in stock at the

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Surf Summer Start

Don, a tropical system, brought some swell to the east coast and made it all the way up here. It was a great quick morning session. I didn't have much time, maybe an hour max, but it was so worth it! The sets were super clean, practically no

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Another warm November day

The forecast looked better than it really was. At most there were some knee-high windswell bumps, here and there, pretty unpredictable conditions overall. The zipping by kite surfers didn't really add to the fun. I've found them a little bit dangerous at times. It was often

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Pre Work Session

Got out early this morning. According to the forecast, it's not until the end of next week until we see any swell again in Nahant Beach. And I wanted to try out the new 5mm wetsuit. It was gorgeous, although only with really small half Meter waves. I

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Pre Halloween Surf

The waves were so good today! Knee to thigh high bumps, no wind and super clean conditions. I stayed for an hour or so and caught 8 waves I'm happy with. I really feel like progress is being made since the start of this season in September. For

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Beautiful Nahant Fall Day

It was such a gorgeous Saturday at Nahant Beach, warm temps and practically no wind. I'm getting closer to actually surfing. Now I'm hanging out at the "real" take-off spots, and standing up on as much as other beginners. I'm still struggling

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A Nahant Thursday

It was too hard not to go to Nahant today. The forecast looked great, small bumps, no wind, with temps were super warm for fall. I first tried a few small broken white wash waves close to the beach. It worked, it was OK. Then I tried to get out

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Danielle and Earl

It's a big surf weekend on the East coast. Hurricanes Danielle and Earl are working in tandem somewhere out in the Atlantic, and sending decent swells our way. There was practically no wind and waves amounting up to about 1.5 Meters I would say, chest high or

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Mellow morning

Surf forecast was true to its predictions this morning: mellow 2-3ft bumps, well spaced sets and practically no wind. It was good morning session! I'm also getting the hang of it. Except for a few pretty bad attempts on the first few waves, I think I'm

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Onshore waves

Not as good as last weekend, but still great to be in the water on a board! As I learned today, those conditions are called "onshore". The cleaner (smallish) waves were really close to the beach, hence the name "onshore" I guess. I think I caught

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Surfing Larry!

Best day ever!! Since I started surfing, which was about 12 months ago, today we had by far the best conditions I've ever seen, it was amazing!! I went out last night to look at the waves at the peak of Hurricane Larry's swell. They were

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Wind swell

Henri left us with some waves on the East cost, but way to wild for my abilities. Today there was a little bit of wind swell. Not great, really rough and choppy, and didn't get on the board a lot, but still good to be in the water

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A cold 4th

A cold and rainy 4th of July weekend this year has trapped us inside for most of the time. But, on the bright side, the cold weather system also produced some waves along the New England coast this weekend. Just the right size for me, about 1m high, according to

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Heatwave bumps

We have a couple of days where temperarures are climbing up way past 30C (~90F), water is still freezing though, around 14C. There were only sme small chin-high bumps today, but I took the board out anyways. My intention was to at least paddle around a little bit, build up