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I surfed the beach today at Westport. Great conditions. Solid overhead waves with double overhead sets. Sunny with an offshore breeze.

Buoy 46041 was showing 6.6 feet at 13 seconds, WNW swell. Winds ESE at 6 knots.

About 20 guys out. Tough paddle to get out, but tip of the day was had when I followed a local out my second paddle–I stuck close to the jetty where tide took me directly out with little pain, though a bit scary close to the rocks… The Groins didn’t look like much. The Cove was pretty small but surfable.

Another great session at the Cove.

A little windy and stormy, but the winds were mostly offshore, so it was ok. The set waves coming through were a bit sporadic, but worth the wait–really good shape and decent size. I did check the Groins which was pretty big and ugly. Because of the high tide, everything was washing up on the rocks.

West swell 8 feet 11 seconds. I was out on a high tide of 7 feet. The wind was 17 knots from the South.

All data was from Station 46041 – CAPE ELIZABETH.

Epic, epic surfing today at Westport. Just about as good as any day I’ve seen at Ocean Beach, SF–I didn’t realize the surfing could get that good in Washington.

The night before the swell was 14′ & 13 seconds at bouy 46041 at Cape Elizabeth. Swell direction was West. Swell was forecasted to drop and though the night before was stormy, winds were forecasted to drop to 8mph out of the South.

Tom Romary and I showed up at 8:30 and checked the Groins. It was high tide and the waves were huge, but the other options were looking pretty grim so we decided to suit up. As we were about to jump in, sanity stepped in and we realized that it was a deathtrap we were walking into with the heavy surf washing right up onto the rocks within each jetty. So we drove to the Cove and surfed there.

Winds were offshore, skies were blue and the waves couldn’t have been much better. It was about 2 feet overhead, hollow, throwing top to bottom–perfectly shaped waves breaking nearly right on shore. Several locals were ripping it up getting deep barrels. Tom & I were merely trying to survive.

The bouy read upon return was: Winds out of the ESE at 9 knots. Waves 10′ at 13 seconds from the West.