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Glider Rider: Foul swell
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View my complete profile. Tuesday, 16 October 2012. Wave height: 3.5m. Period: 9.8 seconds. Swell angle: 270 degrees. The ocean is angry today. There's real menace out there as a storm rages beneath blue skies. It's my favourite kind of weather with spray and foam flying across the road and I have. To go and check the waves before hitting work, I just can't help it. Cove was looking a good 4ft today, Shit Pipe was sheltered, around 2ft. Forecast models show the current low weaken on Friday afternoon afte...
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Glider Rider: The magnificent but cold, Causeway Coast
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View my complete profile. Tuesday, 2 October 2012. The magnificent but cold, Causeway Coast. Just back from a great 3 day expedition to northern Ireland chasing two half decent low pressure systems as they tracked across the country over to Scotland. Local lad at East Strand:. I arrived on Saturday morning following a 5am start from home to catch a flight over from Bristol. Mark picked me up from Belfast and off we went in search of some swell. After driving the north coast, calling in at Troggs. We surf...
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Glider Rider: September 2011
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View my complete profile. Thursday, 15 September 2011. Calm after hurricane katia. Hurricane Katia has been battering Wales this week but sheltered spots have provided some respite even if it did mean many of us were forced to surf Coney beach :(. You can see some of the pics taken at Coney, Porthcawl here. HT 930am, 9.5m. I opted for a 'late' early today as I had the morning off, beautifully orchestrated to combine with a clean swell, decent period and SE offshore wind :). Despite the car park being ram...
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Glider Rider: February 2012
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View my complete profile. Thursday, 9 February 2012. Very light SE wind. Dropping tide from high at 7.30am. 1m on the wave buoy @ 13.2 seconds, 264 degrees. Apologies I'll stop mentioning the cold soon - once it gets bloody warm again! More snow on the way apparently for SE Wales but at least the windscreen was ice free today until.I put my wipers on accidentally and instantly lost all my driving vision on the way to the beach! It was freezing though, below 7 degs now and at times my chest felt like ther...
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Glider Rider: Monday morning
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View my complete profile. Monday, 22 October 2012. It's still good just not as big although the tide was pretty low at 7.30am. Clean 3ft waves were coming in and typically it got good just as it was time to go although was getting a bit deep too.so who knows? I'm sure other spots are all time today. The wave period is till insanely good too thanks to a 987 i Biscay and slight ridge of high pressure over the north of the UK:. First wave, aran drops in on me and falls off! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Glider Rider: October 2011
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View my complete profile. Wednesday, 12 October 2011. Not posted for a while as the surf has either been cranking or distinctly average so apologies. My last good session went down 2 weeks ago. I'd booked the friday off in preparation and hooked up with greg hill for an industrial session. Super tubes wasn't super at all, it looked small, really small so we opted for plan B which was going to be our second surf spot anyway. The waves began to go into overdrive around mid-tide and greg picked off some nic...
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Glider Rider: November 2011
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View my complete profile. Tuesday, 22 November 2011. A good winter so far. Can't complain - not much anyway! The water is still relatively warm, around 13 degs last time I checked and we've had an abundance of solid groundswell and half decent wave periods, combined with a few offshore days. The swells come and go but I've lost my mojo lately and can't say I've had a really good surf since my last session @ Morfa. I took off late on a really warping, bowly left. Didn't make the drop and slipped backwards...
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Glider Rider: December 2011
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View my complete profile. Friday, 2 December 2011. Yesterday we had a lovely groundswell, 2.7m and 10 seconds with light WNW winds so I knew the point would be pumping. The tide wasn't great, a little too low but I had a pass and enough time to squeeze into a few waves before work. I decided to don my 6mm full winter suit and boy was it hard work! It felt heavy just throwing it into my wetsuit bucket but once water was added felt like I had a monkey on my back ;). Was this guy for real? He'd only just ar...
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Glider Rider: April 2012
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View my complete profile. Monday, 30 April 2012. The flat spell continues. Not much to report at the moment other than the fact that the wind and gales have now blown through. A man was rescued off Port Talbot. Over the weekend after a kayak fishing expedition went wrong! Not ideal weather to be going out fishing from a canoe in now is it? But luckily he was picked up alive. The south coast of Cornwall has prob faired slightly better as a low was sitting just off the coast. Links to this post. Congrats t...
