Shark River Inlet is where those photos were taken. Between Avon and Belmar. Way outside the L Jetty where Jim Phiilips almost died according to an earlier thread.
Huge NorEaster maybe about 5 years ago. Don’t worry, a good chance it will never break like that again in your lfietime.
Lifeloing NJ surfer… my family moved to Spring Lake and I took it up because I ahd really no friends at all when i moved there and it seemed like a decent way to make sme buddies which i did.
I was in Hanalei bay and was talking to a local and he was surprised that there were waves in NJ. He was even more surprised when i told him that a 4 foot top to bottom wave in Jersey was way harder to make than the 15 foot faces that were rolling in that day. Needless to say he didn’t believe me.
Surfing in Jersey kinda makes you tough. It also really makes you appreciate the better days.
The pics of my brother and I are from the L jetty on a small day, were you there for Bill ? I was, it was epic. The L is pretty much the only place I surf especially big days way outside.
Was not there when they were out in the inlet. I drove past it around lunchtime I guess from work to check the waves but did not see anyone out. I remember seeing some huge waves kinda in the center of the inlet about 30 yards past the jetty on the Belmar side .I thought that they could probably be rideable seeing as how you could simply paddle out through the inlet with little trouble.
Actually I have never paddled out at L Jetty. USed to Surf Washington Ave religiously, now I moved and live in Asbury/Ocean and surf Loch and Allenhurst religiously.
I really like that handle on your Clark Modified… How did you fabricate that?
Drew
This is is probably he biggest wave I have ever seen in ridden in Jersey.
Drew I meant Hurricane Bill, we were out till dark and it was just huge, everytime I caught a wave when it got dark all you saw was a hundred camera flashes on the beach blinding you. If your talking about the red and green resin handle, all that is is left over resin from different boards that I would put in an empty perscription pill bottle, After I get a couple filled I remove it, sand it then polish it, drill a hole in the bottom that matches the shaft on the Clark and I used spray adhesive to hold it in place so if I want to remove it I can get it off. It works really well. Thanks for the compliment.
Back around 1988 the ASP came to Casino Pier for the Garden State Pro. I "BORROWED" my father's camera gear and 600mm lense, "BORROWED" my mother's car, and headed north for the contest. These are a few of the pictures I took that day. I don't have the rest scanned to the computer. I have a bunch of Ritchie Collins, Cheyne Horan and Derek Ho from that day somewhere.
PS. I got in bigger trouble for BORROWING the camera than I did for BORROWING the car. HaHa!!!
A shot a snagged of Dean Randazzo surfing 7th street Ocean City in 1987. His surfing was way ahead of its time. Were it not for his bouts with Cancer I believe he would have had a long stay in the ASP top 44 and who knows...... Still the only surfer from the North East to crack the top 44. I believe he was riding Linden boards at that stage. At that point only Dean, Martin Potter, Tom Carrol and a few others shared that ultra aggressive approach to waves.
He rode a very long deep-red tinted gun… maybe about 9-10’. He was on the shorter side of 6 feet tall. He was. Hawaiian. Very nice guy. He told me to just shadow him and a few others when the bigger sets rolled in to not get caught too far inside for them. He was very nice to me and we were just talking about our home breaks and he seemed curious about Jersey. This was maybe 5-6 years ago.
Howzit drew, That very well may have been Titus Kinimaka since he perfers red boards and is a very nice local as long as you don't piss him off,then look out. Did you notice nobody even attempting to think about taking off on him,if so I would say it was T.. Known him since he was a teenager.Aloha,Kokua
Yeah, if he met Titus and followed him around in the water that's about as good as it gets...
Jersey suffers from a bit of an image problem, if you haven't been there you probably think it's all some of sort of industrial/tourist wasteland. Not that there aren't parts of the state like that, but there's plenty of other parts too. And some fricking barrels.....
Howzit chris,No picture comes up on my computer,so i attached it after getting it from the properties. drew is this the Hawaiian who you talked to,he's cosidered the Godfather of surfing on Kauai and you were lucky to meet such a great guy.Aloha,Kokua
Everybody should get their hands on a copy of the new movie Dark Fall. This is the definitive work on New Jersey surfing. This movie really captures what its all about. A lot of the NJ footage was shot at my home breaks. There is also a lot of good Hawaii and Tahiti footage in there as well. A must see even if you are not from NJ.
The guy was definitely younger. Probably at the time around 30 give or take some years either way. One discerning feature he had was a big gap between his front teeth and that he always had this huge inviting smile on his face…which was probably why it felt so comfortable to talk to him.
As for builders in NJ… there is ME, and my factory is my garage.
Others are Brian Wynn, who shapes and glasses a lot of the garage builders’ boards. Chaize makes some great boards as does Mahady who posts here often. But no, there really are no large operations in Jersey and that is just fine with me.
Heritage has been making boards here in NJ since 1962 and is one of the oldest and most successful surf businesses on the east coast. There is also Will Tucker of Tucker Classics and a few other small builders out there as well.
