Bill's OBX Beach Life: 2008-04-12

About Me

Name: Bill

Location: Nags Head, North Carolina, United States

Longer hair (my wife's choice, though short now?!!), tan complexion, heart rate at 58 BPM. I live in shorts, a t-shirt, and slaps, and drive a 2002 black Nissan Frontier with cap and boards/foil hanging out the back.

2008-04-12

Warm SW Has Returned With a Bang!

UPDATE: 04/14/2008: A few more photos added from Charles Lategano. see below!

UPDATE: 04/13/2008: Found some photos by Billy Epp
click on any photo to enlarge!

Today SW winds ramped well into the 30s and blasted the OBX with 4.0m strength! The call today was Ego beach, and the waves were quite fun with set size ranging chest to overhead high! I ended up rigging/launching from the Old Road, and with two upwind tacks was with the crew at Ego. My truck remains semi-offline, at least for running hard on the beach sand; therefore I parked at the Old Road to ease the gear hike to the ocean. 4.7m was my size today since I did not want to risk being underpowered as happened during the last SW Ego sesh. However, today I could have easily been on the 4.2m! Regardless, the 4.7m 2008 Maui Sails Legend worked quite well, and I was able to maintain control both in the wave zone and in the air! Lots of big wave hits and delayed forwards in preparation for the Hatteras Loop Fest's "Loop Off" coming June 20-22!

All in all, bright sunshine, warm air, strong winds, nice surf, and a ton of fun!! With all the spectators on the beach today, there are bound to be some photos of the action. If I find any, I will let you know!