Morning at Winthrop

Thursday morning looked very promising, with a forecast of wind in the low 20's from the SSE. Instead of doing the flat water things at PB, we checked the waves on MagicSeaweed and with 4ft at 5seconds we decided we'd see what Winthrop looked like in a south wind.

Jermy and Tommy arrived first and I joined them about twenty minutes later. The tide was dead low and the wind was blowing steady side-shore, coming over deer island. The jetty tip was breaking waves like a reef. It's only a foot deep over the rock pile, and waves were peeling perfect right handers along the 100 yard tip in sets. The sets were about 2 minutes apart and the waves were in the 3-5 foot range when they were coming in, walling up to about shoulder high.

Tommy was tearing it up in the flat water inside the jetty on his 9m. Jermy was out in the waves on his 11m. I got my 12m pumped and self-launched, and headed out to meet Jermy in the lineup. We got some great runs in, and I got a much better feeling for riding clean breakers. Did some runs dropping into them and did some runs using the faces for hard cutbacks.

The wind was dropping a bit and the Deer Island stacks made a whole in the wind where the breakers were, so Jermy and I headed back into the flats to work on some backrolls. Tommy self landed and hit the beach. Jermy, unfortunately, ended his session (after some nice boosted backrolls) with a good sized rip in his kite. I got a few nice ones in, and a few crashes trying to do blackrolls to toe before packing it in for the day.

Great session!

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