Surfed 20 ft at the Southside of Pt Judith around 98-99...not for me.

Was out in 15+ ft swells in our 22 ft center console in vineyard sound, big lumpy rollers. Lots of fun.

Newport, RI Sunday morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11NCnYSjBW4

I watched three guys on two jet skis Sunday a.m. venture out to massive offshore waves off of Newport...one of the jet skis was towing the surfer up onto the crest of these enormous swells and the guy was surfing them and then quickly picked up before the subsequent wave could crush him and dragged around for another ride, it was an incredible sight, they were much bigger than the waves in the video and these guys were either supremely confident or completely nuts...

I bet they were on Elbow ledge.

Yup - it's sort of Newport's answer to 'Jaws', the cloud-break that was in Riding Giants

They've been surfing it for over a year now from what I understand although I haven't seen it 1st hand yet

The spot in the video is Around the Corner at Ruggles Avenue off Cliff Walk - the outer reef at The Point was bigger

I've got some Kodachrome transparencies from Hurricane Bob at Ruggles I oughta dig out and scan

pic from Elbow Ledge

http://www.wannasurf.com/spot/North_...rfing-5344.jpg

Sleep feet forward in your bunk incase the bow gets stuffed at high speed. Broken necks have resulted from sleeping head forward.

Back in '86 when I was in the Navy...there was one that worked over in Payroll, Had to be 7 foot tall and 300 lbs, if she was an ounce. Could chop a man in half with her thighs. Rumor had it she ate a bowl of Testicles every morning for Breakfast.....she was big and she was mean....


Oh...Ocean Wave...Sorry.....I digress :hee:

Similar to Nebe in my youth I was part of a crew on a 52 foot racing sloop coming home from the southern circuit to NY, caught outside Haterous in what was the remnants of a downgraded hurricane in September. Rain so hard it hurt, waves that swallowed the boat between the troughs, 2 men on for 2 hours max....all you could physically take. Not that going below was much of a rest, never heaved, but it was impossible to sleep.

Middle of the night and while on watch, the small storm jib stay breaks. My mate and I called up a second set of crew, so we could go forward and haul it in, making sure our life lines were clipped in as we went. Remember sitting on the deck and watching this f***king huge wave cresting as we get to it (taller than our boat was long), then watching the ocean disappear as we are lifed high into the air. I remember falling somewhat slower than the boat saying Hail Mary's on the way down, followed by a wall of water burying us as we plowed through that wave. If we weren't clipped in with life lines, I'd not be typing this.

Flew back to Ft. Lauderdale after that trip, to join a crew delivering a 42 foot catch to San Fran. On that trip we had one hell of a ride in a storm off Costa Rica with 30 footers, but nothing to compare with the monsters we road of Hatterous the previous trip.

I still love the E ticket rides:).

Eh... We just call the off bow to come up and help the bowman with stupid crap like that.

Oh wait.
Thats usually me. :wall:

And sail changes.
And peels.
And going up the rig.
And kite gybes.
And anything else stupid that the back of the bus has no desire to do.
Love it.

ps: %$%$%$%$ FLYING FISH

40' on my very first trip on a cod long liner in the Bering sea, once the first mate had convinced me we weren't going to sink, the ride from up on the bridge became kinda fun.

good pictures from the East Coast.

http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/br...coast_29904/1/

that pic is pretty sick and ballsy

who knew people on the east coast could surf that well! that was an awesome vid!

Walsh is from Hawaii.
His dad is from RI though.