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CitySurfers Journal: Fall 1998

Date: Tues, 25 Aug 1998
Score!!!!!!!
Tuesday was the day in North Jersey. Brendan and I checked Sandy Hook first where the swell was ridiculously small. We checked a bunch of breaks before settling on Loch Somethingorother which had about a dozen guys out in solid head-high swell.
We got in the water there right after high tide [...]

CitySurfer's Journal: Summer 1997

This summer has been a bust wavewise.  Although four named storms ascended past the 35th parallel, they were all short-lived and essentially weak. Spring brought many more consistent swells and we can only hope that fall will do the same. Here’s the whole grim story, as it unfolded:
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997
From: barney Subject:
Re: Sunday [...]

CitySurfer's Journal: Spring 1996

Monday, March 18: Back from Florida. Caught some good waves before the swell died. Landed in Newark with two surfboards in a 10-foot-long blue bag. Took a bus to Manhattan and then got on the subway.
It was rush hour. At each stop more people got on the train, until they were packed in like toothpicks [...]

New York Surf Beta

I hope to attend suny at stony brook starting this summer. Any help on where to surf, surf shops, etc. would be appreciated. Thanks.
From: CN
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Long Island surf
Date: 21 Nov 1995
My favorite surf spot on Long Island was Long Beach. There’s some weird surf rules during the summer as to where [...]

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