Special
Report:
East Coast Surfing
what it is, and what it's not.
East Coast Surfing
what it is, and what it's not.
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Special
Report: East Coast Surfing what it is, and what it's not. |
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Picture This. It's five o'clock on a weekday. Somewhere on Orange Street, an intern at a law firm in his twenties checks the surf report on his T-mobile sidekick. The website reports swells of eight feet, with waves ranging from between 3 to 5. Within minutes of getting home from work, the boards are on top of the jeep, and it's nearly time to brave the Q-Bridge Traffic. |
This Is Narragansett. An hour and a half from New Haven, there is a beach in Rhode Island that gets ocean-sized breaks, and it's called Narragansett. The
reason Lighthouse Park's waves, for example, are so weak are because Long
Island breaks all of the atlantic waves, and the Long Island Sound is
not clear to the ocean. |
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New England Surfing... Is sketcy, at best, when compared to surfing in other more suited parts of the world, but we take what we can get. The wave breaks are unpredictable, and usually not very grand in the scheme of things, but beaches like Narragansett provide some of the best surfing in the region. |
Being a surfer in New Haven... Is not so easy, especially if you are a professional. Evening sessions after work are conducted in dim light as the sun sets. Some say this is the perfect time, when the water on the surface is as warm as it's going to get. One thing is for certain: being a surfer in New Haven requires even more dedication than anywhere else, because it's even more work than most places, and the spots are not nearly as good as Hawaii or California. |
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