Hurricane Erin
It’s going to be a hard one to top.
Opening the season with one of the largest storms recorded in the Atlantic, the East Coast season might have prematurely had its grand finale, first.
With step ups packed, clusters of cameras charged, and a handful of freshly foiled fins, LogRap’s Ryan Cannon was first on scene with Tosh Tudor and Ian Gottron, both with an eager appetite for tubes.
When the swell first popped up on the map, Hurricane Erin was looking a perfect Long Island swell without that infamous Long Island wind. As the day got closer and closer, it was looking like there was going to be a ton of surf in the northeast, our only challenge was going to be a matter of finding protection from the wind.
I decided to stray away from the pack with Tosh Tudor and Ian Gottron to test our luck at some illusive New England point breaks that we’d heard whispers of, while others decided to go to the south hoping for the wind to change. The whole time it felt like we were scoring, but we couldn’t help but be curious what it looked like elsewhere.
The grass is always greener on the other side, but hell it was pretty green on ours too.
After the show was over, we couldn’t help ourselves, and looked up and down the coast on various platforms to see what the swell looked like in other areas. This is a quick breakdown of what we saw from True’s Ames accounts up and down the coast post Hurricane Erin:
Florida
Accurately named, the Surf Station was our first in mind for any big shop that might be covering the swell. Upon arrival of the storm it seems they had similar trouble with the onshore wind but when the swell passed it left some clean 3-5 foot waves with offshore winds that would still leave any Floridian salivating. It looked fun, but glad we headed North!
Carolina's
Tosh was saying if he didn’t go to North East, South Carolina would be the call, so we were very curious to see what it looked like down there on the good days during the swell. We checked in with Micklevins Surf Shop feed to find some killer photos from local photog @Follyhood . Looked like Tosh would’ve had some fun and for sure some warmer water than what we got up North, but he was still satisfied. Up north in the Outerbanks we were seeing tons of photos of closed out roads and ocean washouts straight through beach neighborhoods. Unfortunately didn't see a ton of surf clips, but hopefully OBX will have its moments next time.
North East
To little surprise the Northeast was greeted with massive surf, but even more challenging onshore wind for the whole start of the swell. There were some fun days to be had once the swell faded but for the main event this zone was not the play this time around.
This became more and more apparent as we continued to see NJ and NY plates driving around New England looking for waves just like we were.
This was all until Thursday morning.
The wind decided to shift just enough North to allow for conditions to start cleaning up and the swell was still building. In classic East Coast miracle fashion, the winds and swell fell into place and all came together for a Thursday night to remember. We saw some incredible clips from West NY all the way up to Cape Cod. Safe to say the people who focused on this zone got lucky this time.
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