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Topic Title: July 16th 2013
Topic Summary: Worst summer ever!
Created On: 07/17/2019 09:31 AM
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 07/17/2019 09:31 AM
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Tiptime

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 07/17/2019 10:02 AM
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Central Floridave

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What a tease, I just got back from Costa Rica and no surf to use my newfound paddle muscles!
 07/18/2019 11:47 AM
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Karma

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means something when the Wave Mole says it, for sure...

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 07/18/2019 12:21 PM
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daner

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I remember a bad one in the late 90s. Worst one in 20 years for sure.

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Replace turf grass with native plants that don't need irrigation and synthetic fertilizers or chemicals that can go into our waterways and ocean

 07/18/2019 12:36 PM
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Plan B

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1998 (year of the fires) was the absolute worst!... pancake flat, brown water (constant offshores) and smoke..... this year has sucked though. Look for a whale fart swell the end of the month
 07/18/2019 12:45 PM
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daner

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Yes that was the one!

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 07/18/2019 12:58 PM
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jdbman

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Bonnie
Danielle

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 07/18/2019 01:03 PM
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Plan B

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Originally posted by: jdbman Bonnie Danielle
Was a reward for 3 months of NOT surfing... at all. Worst part about that was the day Bonnie passed by and it went offshore.... St. A was all-time firing.... and I was on a plane to mexico. Ha
 07/18/2019 01:42 PM
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SurferMic

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^^ Got to suck it up and drive, scored overhead waves in Florida last weekend for solid 2 days, could not go on another surf trip via plane, (just did one to SD last month) so I took what was local to Florida, Spent about $100 total Gas/camping , brought all my food, water and beers with me...watched 15 foot faces breaking way outside a certain jetty that had no takers, would need to be towed in but no one was attempting it...R.I.P. the 67 year old who drown last weekend. Selling the dual sport/enduro Motorcycle (Suzuki DRZ400S) soon and getting a jet ski...always looking for company and share expenses, once the jet ski is bought will need someone to switch off driving/surfing with...Next swell in that area I'll hit you up Plan B, hopefully with a ski in tow.

Edited: 07/18/2019 at 01:55 PM by SurferMic
 07/18/2019 03:27 PM
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Karma

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I surfed RiceBowls last week. 4 ft 20+ seconds of swell on the buoy. First time out there...mostly shoulder hopped rights. The lefts were BIG and jacked up quickly...

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 07/19/2019 04:23 AM
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Plan B

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Originally posted by: SurferMic ^^ Got to suck it up and drive, scored overhead waves in Florida last weekend for solid 2 days, could not go on another surf trip via plane, (just did one to SD last month) so I took what was local to Florida, Spent about $100 total Gas/camping , brought all my food, water and beers with me...watched 15 foot faces breaking way outside a certain jetty that had no takers, would need to be towed in but no one was attempting it...R.I.P. the 67 year old who drown last weekend. Selling the dual sport/enduro Motorcycle (Suzuki DRZ400S) soon and getting a jet ski...always looking for company and share expenses, once the jet ski is bought will need someone to switch off driving/surfing with...Next swell in that area I'll hit you up Plan B, hopefully with a ski in tow.
HA... nice. I considered heading over there, but I thought the direction would be wrong (mostly the wind)
 07/19/2019 10:21 AM
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SurferMic

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^^ I knew the wind direction would be wrong but I didn't care just had to get some size,
it was decent wind direction Sat for a certain wave in the area...(Gulftster.com) had a few
pics from that day in the Panhandle....Sunday AM was clean..below are few early AM
shots with an empty line-up!!!..Size hard to tell w/o anyone out..Nothing like Katrina or
Rita but fun enough in this East C. flat period..Sunday pics











Edited: 07/19/2019 at 01:53 PM by SurferMic
 07/19/2019 12:05 PM
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dkaye

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anyone read anything lately about seaweed bloom in the atlantic and our lack of surf? wondering if that's all BS

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 07/19/2019 08:17 PM
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Cole

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I don't know about that, but Cocoa Beach has had algae along the shore for more than a month now.

Actually, I did hear about the seaweed, it's said to stretch from the Gulf to Africa, but they also said it was Sargasso and that it was slimy and smelled bad, which Sargasso is neither. So who knows?

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Edited: 07/19/2019 at 08:20 PM by Cole
 07/20/2019 05:31 AM
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Plan B

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Originally posted by: SurferMic ^^ I knew the wind direction would be wrong but I didn't care just had to get some size, it was decent wind direction Sat for a certain wave in the area...(Gulftster.com) had a few pics from that day in the Panhandle....Sunday AM was clean..below are few early AM shots with an empty line-up!!!..Size hard to tell w/o anyone out..Nothing like Katrina or Rita but fun enough in this East C. flat period..Sunday pics
Nice. I chose fishing offshore over spending 10 hrs in the car..... Buddy I fished with is from P-Cola and he had some footage his friends sent. I was pretty surprised how fun it looked across the inlet, but seas were flat, weather was nice, beer was cold, and snapper were chewing so I wasnt too upset.
 07/20/2019 12:33 PM
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Greensleeves

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So this is a trick thread? This is a really good summer or somewhere in between?
 07/21/2019 12:50 PM
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pompano

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we are in a solar minimum, and yes, that has classically translated into a piss poor summer for surf. Some of the years mentioned above are also juxtapose solar minimums. However, the winters provided some really good surf, but unfortunately, really cold temperatures, like freezing. Remember the three days of freezing temps? Yup, that was the last solar minimum. Just a note, the "tidal" influences on the sun look to prolong the minimum, so all bets are off as far as what typical will be for a while, like years.
 07/21/2019 02:26 PM
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grdsurf

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We all know that summers are flat in FL, it's a given. Even a "good" summer here is pretty miserable. Good waves are always a plane ticket away. The South PAC has been pumping since May...a trip to any south/west facing part of the America's is a no brainer. Take at least a couple well placed trips during the summer and you're good...no wave jonesing needed. During the summer my starting position is that I will not surf in FL for ~ 3 months.

Edited: 07/21/2019 at 02:27 PM by grdsurf
 07/21/2019 06:55 PM
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AndreaCaloiaro

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The irony of summer: no waves, out of shape, then a hurricane swell hits and we get to struggle bus it to the outside.
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