Category: A summary of How the Waves were

After the swell has passed, a brief description of where I surfed, or what I saw

How the Waves were Tuesday morning (7/19 week ago :), Massive Fiji swell Video is Incredible with clip of Kelly Slater, and Surf Report Thursday afternoon (at 5:30 Pm) and Surf Forecast for Cape Canaveral n Cocoa Beach (posted July 28, 2011)

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EPIC CLODBREAK JULY 2011 from IronFistMedia on Vimeo.

Okay, my Bad !

Been swamped with stuff, yeah no excuse 🙂    But if you read my forecast in my very last post before this one,  I threw down my call for Tuesday morning,  7/19.    The wind swell we had,  was providing us with potential NNW winds for Tuesday morning and it did for a few hours actually.

I surfed behind Holiday Inn cause it had to be a North wind break (anything from 4rth St North to the pier for this swell cause the Cape itself was kinda blocked by this swell).  It was stomach to chest high when I paddled out at 7 Am, only 2 guys out, and it was ripping lefts and rights.   The lefts were instant barrels cause me, a normal foot had to do rail grabber takeoffs on every one,  and you pretty much got coverage on some waves if you kept at it.   The rights were fast takeoffs, but gave you more time, and for the long boarders 100 yard plus rides.  By 7:45 some short boarders came out, and we all tore it up together, giving each other waves, and we shared a few tandems with every one coming out happy.

By 8:30 it had some bigger sets, and I caught my only shoulder high wave, a right, shoulder high almost all the way in, and took it to the sand.  Awesome session……………………………………….

Epic Day, all I can say!   My buddy Rob from Newport Beach met me there and he was going nuts surfing great Florida waves.  (he’s the guy in the picture in my very last post, surfing his Newport Beach break 🙂

Okay, as far as surf headed our way.  Really nothing.  Like Ross at cflsurf.com says maybe some knee high action, I looked at Hightowers today mid-morning and it was actually thigh to maybe waist and was ridable but I didn’t have my board.  2 guys out way North on the break but it was onshore not much of a swell so I wasn’t too upset.

The massive 50 year storm that hit the Tasmanian Sea, Australia and which made it to Fiji that motivated our own Kelly Slater to skip the ASP tour event in J-Bay so he could catch the most incredible waves at Cloudbreak and Restaurants, Fiji is shown in this incredible video posted on Vimeo by Magicseaweed.com and right here where you know I love to collect all the huge wave videos that I can find 🙂

Enjoy this epic surf with so many of the great big wave surfers including Jamie Sterling, Mark Healey, Kohl Christansen, Greg Long who won the last Eddie contest from Kelly in the last minute bumping Kelly Slater from being the first person to win the Eddie two times in a row.  (the Eddie contest is the Waimea Bay contest that must be held in 40 foot face waves in order to take place in memory of Eddie Aikau)

Enjoy the video don’t forget to click the 4 little arrows right of the HD letters in the video for full screen view, and we’ll keep the watch for a swell.   It’s almost cane time.

oldwaverider

How the Waves were Sunday morning (7/17), Surf Report Monday night (at 8:45 Pm) and Surf Forecast for Cape Canaveral n Cocoa Beach (posted July 18, 2011)

by oldwaverider, posted in A summary of How the Waves were, Brevard Surf Predictions Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach and Satellite Beach, Brevard Surfing Photos - general swells, Miscellaneous Videos, galleries, etc.

My buddy Rob surfing Newport Beach, Ca. pier on a nice left in July of 2009
My buddy Rob surfing Newport Beach, Ca. pier on a nice left in July of 2009

Awesome waves Sunday morning for those who were in the water at a North wind break by 6:30 or  7 Am.  It was waist to chest high, (started out waist) and by 7:30 Am some chest high glassy waves peeling left and right were coming in, and only 3 of us out at Lori Wilson until 8 Am.   But by 8,  the winds switched from NNW to NE and there was still some fun sets, they started closing out and the 100 yard rides came to an end.

Tuesday morning (7/19), it should be waist to chest high and the only place to surf is a North wind break.  Meaning 4rth Street North to CCB Pier and no further North if you want the size.  The winds will be NNW from 3 to 6 mph until 10 Am.  Yeah, winds can be iffy, but the weather channel hour by hour report shows 4 am the winds turn from N to NNW and stay that way till sometime between 9 and 11 am.

The swell is 3 foot at 7 seconds, and the swell on Sunday had power and nice workable walls so I’m optimistic that Tuesday morning will be a lot of fun.  The swell drops quick thru the day cause it is just a wind swell that also had some breeze from the TD disturbance down by Bahamas/Cuba.

Later,

oldwaverider

How the Waves were thru Tuesday July 12, 2011 and Surf report Tuesday night and surf forecast (8:30 Pm) for Cape Canaveral n Cocoa Beach (posted 07/12/11)

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My buddy Rob from Newport Beach surfing his home break. This is a summer September 2009 pic.
My buddy Rob from Newport Beach surfing his home break. This is a summer September 2009 pic.

Up thru today, there has been some nice glassy knee high plus waves at Lori Wilson Park.

But, it looks like for Wednesday and 6 days out,  there may be nill.   We’ve had a great summer for waves so far (because we’ve had waves 🙂 so I do believe that there will be more surprise swells, be they local wind, ground swell or whatever, and just like last summer, all before the hurricane season really hits.

 

So for now, here’s a pic of my buddy Rob that lives in Newport Beach, Ca.

 

Rob and I met and surfed at Hangers when he was in town visiting family. 

 

  This photo is Rob surfing Newport Beach in September of 2009.

 

When some more videos come in from the massive 49 foot 17 second period swell that hit Tasmania, etc. I’ll post the video.

 

The storm hammered Australia (creating the 50 year storm at Bells Beach , Australia)  and it may be sending Kelly Slater to Fiji to surf the massive waves and take him out of the J-Bay event that is scheduled for the regular ASP world tour.

 

Anyhow, stay stoked, read a surf mag, go to church or fix the dings on your board and change the wax maybe 🙂

 

Later,

 

oldwaverider

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How the Waves were Thursday July/07/2011 and Surf report Thursday night and surf forecast (9:30 Pm) for Cape Canaveral n Cocoa Beach (posted 07/07/11) and 49 feet at 17 second swell coming to Tasmania

by oldwaverider, posted in A summary of How the Waves were, Brevard Surf Predictions Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach and Satellite Beach, Miscellaneous Videos, galleries, etc., World Big Wave Events and Articles

49 foot waves on the swell chart coming to Tasmania, compliments of magicseaweed.com. Check out the chart below for Cocoa Beach for Friday and Saturday, pretty humorous :)
49 foot waves on the swell chart coming to Tasmania, compliments of magicseaweed.com. Check out the chart below for Cocoa Beach for Friday and Saturday, pretty humorous 🙂

Today was beautiful glassy waves for an hour or two near the Port,  some shoulder high drops with waist to chest high sets.  A few workable walls, lots of power, but unfortunately most were closeouts.  I decided to surf the Cape because of the morning NNW winds which are crosswinds for down South.  But I heard reports that down South wasn’t blocked out totally by the Bahamas and actually had some overhead drops.

Friday,  it should drop some in size even though it hit 7 feet at 9 seconds at the 120 buoy around 8:30 Pm tonight, but the reason I say this is the winds at the 120 are blowing direct out of the South at over 10 knots.  Plus, we should have some SSW winds for a few hours tonight at 10 mph which could also knock it down some.  But…………………

I still think Friday we should have some chest high waves down South with direct South winds in the 8 to 10 mph range, and by 8 or 9 Am they are supposed to switch to SSW in the 10 to 12 mph range until mid to late morning for both Satellite and Cocoa Beach.  Saturday we may have some thigh high leftovers with possible offshore winds.

The Cape being a North wind break would have total sideshore winds so it doesn’t make sense to surf anywhere North of Minuteman Causeway.

Get excited, it should be a fun morning, and hopefully the 30 to 40 % chance of Thundershowers will wait until 11 or 12 like weather.com says it will 😉

Cocoa Beach swell charts, coming in at 7% of the swell approaching Tasmania. I'll take it for the summer. But man, we have some great video coming in a few weeks when this one hits, Tasmania, Fiji and some other spots.
Cocoa Beach swell charts, coming in at 7% of the swell approaching Tasmania. I'll take it for the summer. But man, we have some great video coming in a few weeks when this one hits, Tasmania, Fiji and some other spots.

Okay,  the crazy first screenshot image above is a massive swell getting ready to hit Tasmania, the chart is showing 49 feet at 17 seconds, insane.   As this swell moves on, it is supposed to hit Fiji with greater intensity than the 40 to 50 foot swell that hit Fiji last year, so when the video come out,  my addiction for big wave videos will have those ready for you from YouTube, Vimeo and/or Magicseaweed.com

Have a great surf sesh Friday morn.

 

 

oldwaverider

 

How the Waves were today (Saturday afternoon) also The 10th Annual Waterman’s Challenge, June 11-12, 2011 in Cocoa Beach plus Surf report and surf forecast for Sunday morning for Cape Canaveral n Cocoa Beach (posted 06/11/11 at 7:30 PM)

by oldwaverider, posted in A summary of How the Waves were, Big Wave Video & Photo Locations, Brevard Surf Predictions Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach and Satellite Beach, Chile - Punta De Lobos, Local Events in Canaveral or Cocoa Beach, Miscellaneous Videos, galleries, etc., World Big Wave Events and Articles

Quiksilver Ceremonial Punta de Lobos 2011 from VIA DE ESCAPE on Vimeo.

Today (Saturday around 12:00 PM) at Lori Wilson Park, they had a contest and the waves were nice even with the fairly strong onshore winds.  Size was solid waist to stomach high with maybe some bigger sets.  Fairly long workable shoulders for longboarders and some nice sections for shortboarders.  Friday nite in Satellite Beach they were waist to stomach high with high onshore winds but really good form around 5:30 Pm for longboard, marginal rides for short board.

Quiksilver Ceremonial Punta de Lobos 2011contest, from magicseaweed.com, the first contest on the big wave tour event.
Quiksilver Ceremonial Punta de Lobos 2011contest, from magicseaweed.com, the first contest on the big wave tour event.

Sunday morning, it should be solid waist high plus in Cocoa Beach and further south.  At 6 Pm Saturday night it was around 4 feet at 8 seconds at the 120 mile buoy, and between 11 and 12 today it climbed up to 7.5 feet at 8 seconds, so at least its still a solid wind swell.   Oh yeah,  the winds should be NW at first light and turning NNW for an hour or so and N to NE sometime between 9 and 10 Am.

Yeah,  predicting the winds can be iffy,  but as I looked at the weather.com hourly winds for Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach and Satellite Beach, for the last 36 hours, it’s been consistently showing those wind models, so I’ll give it a 70% chance of holding true.  If I’m wrong, shoot me !   🙂

Oh,  high tide is around 5 Am Sunday morn, and as ya’ll know High going low is always better than low going high.  So get out by 6:30 to 7:30 and ya got perfect tides and good winds.

By the way,  the best breaks to surf for NNW winds are anything North of Minuteman Causeway.   That’s because direct North winds are from 2 to 6 degrees offshore for streets North of Minuteman, and when you get South of minuteman like the streets, 8th, 16th, O Club, Perkins Hightowers, those are all South wind breaks because Minuteman at Coconuts forms a bay if you will that curves out to the left or the right as you look at the ocean.  (sorry, it’s an anal-retentive thing I did by plotting Google map with Vectors and all to determine the exact angle each break faces whether it be South or North;)

I forgot, ya’ll know about my obsession with big wave surfing events, the video here is Chile,  Brazil’s Marcos Monteiro took top honours in the season’s first Big Wave World Tour event at the Quiksilver Ceremonial Punta De Lobos Big Wave Invitational in 30ft plus surf.  Many of the big name big wave surfers were there.  The list of the full cast of the 2011 Quiksilver Ceremonial were: Jamie Sterling, Kohl Christensen, Grant Washburn, Carlos Burle, Marcos Monteiro, Peter Mel, Ben Wilkerson, Cristian Merello, Greg Long (won the Eddie against Kelly Slater), Gabriel Villaran, Frank Solomon, Nic Lamb, Joao De Macedo, Eric Rebiere, Sebastian De Romana, Rusty Long, Felipe Cesarano, Andres Flores, Ramon Navarro, Diego Medina, Fernando Zegers, Reinaldo “Chacha” Ibarra, Matias Lopez, and Leon Vicuna.

Anyhow, have a great sesh Sunday, and stop by the The 10th Annual Waterman’s Challenge, June 11-12, 2011 contest at Lori Wilson or actually International Palms Resort to show support which starts at 9:00 Am I believe Sunday morning for day two.

Later,

oldwaverider

DAVE L. – GALLERY – How the Waves were (Saturday morning swell May 14, 2011) and Surf report and surf forecast for Thursday (6/10) for Cape Canaveral n Cocoa Beach (posted 06/09/11 at 7 PM & updated Friday 6/10 at 10 AM)

by oldwaverider, posted in A summary of How the Waves were, All The People and the Surfers, Brevard Surf Predictions Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach and Satellite Beach, Brevard Surfing Photos - general swells, Dave L., Miscellaneous Videos, galleries, etc.

DAVE L. – Photo Gallery  (Bio coming soon!)

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Dave throwing back a fan while surfing a waist to stomach high glassy day in South Cocoa Beach. May 14, 2011.
Dave throwing back a fan while surfing a waist to stomach high glassy day in South Cocoa Beach. May 14, 2011.

This was Saturday morning May 14, 2011 in South Cocoa Beach.

Sunny and his Dad,  Dave the Ripper as Chad likes to call him :),  along with Chad and Jim (Johnson Ave. group) caught a great surf sesh from a 3 or 4 day swell, nice and glassy for Saturday morn, yeah there were  close-outs, but definitely some great waves in the waist to stomach high range.

Here is 6 or 7 pictures of Sunny Dave ripping up the best to be had that day.   A couple of the photos below are 2 sequence shots.  I hope you enjoy the gallery, and as we get more pics, we’ll get them up here for ya.

Surf report for Friday morning is a ridable wind swell at the right breaks 🙂

Okay,  well, what we have is a wind swell (without a significant low pressure system to call it anything better than that), and as Ross at CFLSurf.com   says,  we’re gonna have 3 foot plus face

A nice backside wave, the 1st pic of a 2-shot sequence of Sunny Dave. May 14, 2011, Saturday morning.
A nice backside wave, the 1st pic of a 2-shot sequence of Sunny Dave. May 14, 2011, Saturday morning.

waves, and the further south you go (to like Satellite Beach),  the bigger and better form you’ll have.

The two days to tune in for are now Saturday and Sunday morning.   Friday could bring in some waist high plus waves south with 8 to 10 mph east winds until around 9 or 10.  The form could be fairly decent, and with low tide at 9:15 approx.,  if the 2nd punch of the swell gets here before 9,  then it could be light 9 mph winds and waist high plus.  By late morning, the winds will be increasing to the 12 to 20 mph range out of the east.

Saturday and Sunday morning it could be a little bigger with some stomach high plus sets, and close to calm winds with a chance of offshores for an hour or so from before daybreak on Saturday until 7 or 8.  By Friday night I should know the Sunday morning winds within a reasonable accuracy. (50 to 80 % ha)

Second pic of a two-shot sequence. Dave making the guys half his age look tentative by comparison. Dave the Ripper :)
Second pic of a two-shot sequence. Dave making the guys half his age look tentative by comparison. Dave the Ripper 🙂

For Saturday it’s looking moderate 10 to 15 mph winds by afternoon.   But it may be ridable and fun at the right tides.  As of now (Friday 10:00 am) I have an update from Thursday, the models show NNE winds in the 4-6 mph Saturday morning, very good for the North wind breaks like the Cape, 4rth Street North.   It shows 8 mph N winds from 7:30 to 9 Am Saturday, which means offshore winds for the Cape ranging from 3 to 7 degrees offshore depending on where you go at the Cape.  4rth street North is about 6 degrees offshore with North winds if your car is running ;(

Sunday morning, as the models stand right now (Friday 10 Am), shows 8-10 mph WNW winds at daybreak which if it doesn’t get blown flat overnight, could be an awesome waist high glassy session.   The caution is, the winds are supposed to turn NNW at midnight Saturday and slowly turn NW in the 8 mph range, and winds like that blowing all night on a wind and not ground swell could go either way on flattening out the swell or not, we’ll see.

The models change every 6 hours, and keeping in mind that this is a wind swell and not really a low pressure system to speak of,  we will have to update this tonight after 8 Pm when the models have change again.

Hey, we keep sounding like a broken record/8-track/cassette/cd/dvd/blue-ray, but we’re not supposed to have waves this time of year,  and like last summer we weren’t supposed to have pre-hurricane waves all summer but we did.  So enjoy what we get.   For now, no jellyfish except an ocassional Cannonball or a Disc (white and flat, whatever they are).

The Pacific Coast is getting a Hurricane right now Adrian, with 115 mph winds (the update is the hurricane strengthened to 135 mph but as it gets close to the San Diego parallel it starts to hit colddd water), it’s just under 400 miles west of Acapulco, so Acapulco, El Salvador and maybe Baja Mexico will be getting some great waves.  Now the Cane is only heading west at 9 mph, so Escondido must be slamming.  Acapulco rocks, deep and nice warm water.  I surfed Acapulco in November a long time ago, warm water, unlike  Baja Mexico such as Ensenanda, K-38, K-55 close to San Diego.  There it was like 57 to 60 degrees in July – August, when Cliff and I surfed there a longggg time ago 😉

Later,

oldwaverider

Another nice sequence, Chad catching a nice reflection on the face, the one that Dave is going to deliver an aerial or close to it, on the 2nd shot. May 14, 2011
Another nice sequence, Chad catching a nice reflection on the face, the one that Dave is going to deliver an aerial or close to it, on the 2nd shot. May 14, 2011
2nd shot...I hope Dave doesn't mind, but, Not Bad for an Older Guy :) ...Sunny? What up?
2nd shot...I hope Dave doesn't mind, but, Not Bad for an Older Guy 🙂 ...Sunny? What up?
Another nice backside sequence of Dave, nice shots by Chad.
Another nice backside sequence of Dave, nice shots by Chad.
Pic 2, Dave refusing to let the white throw him off the board till he can make good with the leftover face.
Pic 2, Dave refusing to let the white throw him off the board till he can make good with the leftover face.

How the Waves were today and the Jelly Fish update (Wednesday morning 4 to 6 day wind swell) Surf report and surf forecast for Thursday for Cape Canaveral n Cocoa Beach (posted 06/01/11)

by oldwaverider, posted in A summary of How the Waves were, All The People and the Surfers, Brevard Surf Predictions Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach and Satellite Beach, Brevard Surfing Photos - general swells, Dave L.

Dave, (Sunny's dad), getting ready to setup for a nice right, while surfing a glassy sesh in South Cocoa Beach, May 14, 2011.
Dave, (Sunny's dad), getting ready to setup for a nice right, while surfing a glassy sesh in South Cocoa Beach, May 14, 2011.

Great waves this morning at Hightowers. 

Solid waist high (I’m 6′ 3″ tall for the record) with an ocassional stomach to maybe a chest high wave came thru.   A 7 to 8:30 session with only 1 other person out!  Glassy, with both lefts and rights working great.

NO JELLY FISH AT ALL!

You could pass up the close-outs,  and mostly just take the ones that would hold up all the way to the beach.  (longboard)  But the short-boarder I was out with was getting long rides too, so long or short boards worked great.

Strange, it was dead high tide, and yet the waves were working great, not holding back or any problem.

Forecast for Thursday;  the winds this morning were a total fluke.  So this one’s gonna be tough.  It was supposed to be 8 mph onshore east winds at daybreak, but instead it was 2 to 4 mph wnw this morning.

The 120 buoy is telling me that we should still have some waist high waves at least down south for Thursday.  The winds from weather.com are showing 6 to 8 mph ene at daybreak, depending on the Cape to Satellite Beach.

But, with this high pressure that just slid in above us,  we may have fluke glassy waves in the morning, so the wind call is totally iffy.

Waves for the Cape,  maybe knee to thigh.   Looks like we have maybe 2 more days of this wind swell.  Enjoy it while you can.

The picture above is Sunny’s Dad,  Dave the Ripper (as Chad calls him 🙂   Also,  I will have a nice Gallery of photos of Dave from the waist to chest high day we had back on May 14th Saturday morning.

Later,

oldwaverider

CHAD GALLERY – How the Waves were (Saturday morning strong swell thru May 14, 2011) Surf report and surf forecast for Memorial Day Weekend (9:00 Am) for Cape Canaveral n Cocoa Beach (posted 05/27/11)

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CHAD – Photo Gallery  (Bio coming soon!)

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Chad coming off a nice glassy lip in South Cocoa Beach. May 14, 2011, a nice Saturday morning session with his son Chase.
Chad coming off a nice glassy lip in South Cocoa Beach. May 14, 2011, a nice Saturday morning session with his son Chase.

This was Saturday morning May 14, 2011 in South Cocoa Beach.

Chad with his son Chase, Sunny, Jim  and  Dave the Ripper caught a great surf sesh from a 3 or 4 day swell, nice and glassy, yeah there were  closeouts, but definitely some great waves in the waist to stomach high range, with maybe some bigger sets.

Chase, (Chad’s son) came along to put on a show (see photos below 🙂  along with the surf sesh.  Even if the waves were flat, it wouldn’t have been boring.

Also, the incoming wind swell for Memorial Day Weekend looks like it’s kicking in a tad more size and power.  And it may even rollover till Thursday now, and………bring in some waves Sunday morning instead of waitin till the afternoon.

By Sunday afternoon, we should see some waist high waves at the Cape here, yeah 10 to 20 mph onshores, but like I said yesterday, we aren’t supposed to have waves by now, so get excited.   Monday ought to have some fun chop, with a drop in the swell

Chad dropping in on a nice glassy right...
Chad dropping in on a nice glassy right...
Sun, glass and warm water...
Sun, glass and warm water...
same wave as above
same wave as above
A good day :)
A good day 🙂

by late afternoon/evening.

Then Tuesday, the size may kick in to maybe some chest high waves at the Cape with bigger sets down south, though the period (power) of the swell drops off until Wednesday some time where the size drops but the power kicks in a little

Chase thinking, not a care in the world...and spending a great day at the beach with the "Old Man :)"
Chase thinking, not a care in the world...and spending a great day at the beach with the "Old Man :)"
figure it out :) ...Chase
figure it out 🙂 ...Chase
Chase agrees, it's a great Day!
Chase agrees, it's a great Day!

more.  Again, I don’t see an offshore winds window yet, but if we do, we’ll pass it on.

Enjoy the pics, and the Memorial Weekend waves.

oldwaverider

SUNNY GALLERY – How the Waves were (Saturday morning strong swell thru May 14, 2011) Surf report and surf forecast for Memorial Day Weekend (4:00 Pm) for Cape Canaveral n Cocoa Beach (posted 05/26/11)

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Sunny on a nice stomach high left...
Sunny on a nice stomach high left...

The photos are of Sunny taken by Chad , I think.

This was Saturday morning May 14, 2011 in South Cocoa Beach.

Chad, Sunny, Jim  and Sunny Dave caught a great sesh from a 3 or 4 day swell, nice glassy, yeah some closeouts, but definitely some great waves.

A 3 shot sequence of Sunny, followed by a couple of miscellaneous waves.

By the way, Sunny does do rights also 🙂

Same nice left...
Same nice left...
3rd shot in a sequence of Sunny
3rd shot in a sequence of Sunny
Another nice left for Sunny
Another nice left for Sunny
Nice lip to work
Nice lip to work

Oh, guess we don’t want to leave out the incoming Memorial Day weekend wind swell for Sunday thru maybe Wednesday.

Hey, we’re not even supposed to have waves this time of year, so get pumped that we’re at least getting some wind chop waves.

Maybe, we’ll see some shoulder high sets down south, but I figure we ought to see a day or two of waist high plus at the Cape since the wind swell is direct east.

Right now, I’m not seeing a window of off shore winds, but when we get to that 3 hour window, we’ll let ya know.

Enjoy the pics, and the waves late Sunday afternoon over Memorial Day weekend.

How the Waves were today (Fri. morn) and then Big Swell Surf report Friday morning and surf forecast (11:30 Am) for Cape Canaveral n Cocoa Beach (posted 05/13/11)

by oldwaverider, posted in A summary of How the Waves were, Brevard Huge Swell and Hurricane Photos, Brevard Surf Predictions Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach and Satellite Beach

Our swell chart at 7 Am this Friday morning, compliments of magicseaweed.com
Our swell chart at 7 Am this Friday morning, compliments of magicseaweed.com

It was great this morning !  The Cape was totally blocked out by this part of the swell.   In Satellite it was shoulder  high on the drop w chest high shoulders and glassy until around 7:30 Am!   Then it dropped off to waist high for an hour and then kicked back up to waist to chest.  Still glassy when I left about 8:30 Am.

The next punch of the swell will kick in some throughout the day today (Friday) , in fact it just hit 6 feet at the 120 buoy at 9 Am this morning at 11 seconds which travels about 18 to 19 mph which would take 7 hours approx. to actually hit the beach.   Last night at 9 Pm it was 4 feet at 10 seconds. So by 4:00 Pm today, the new surge will hit.   The final punch of the swell coming in will be between 10 Pm and 1 Am tonight.  It should hit between 7 and 8 feet at the 120 buoy.

I believe in Satellite Beach it will have some 1 foot overhead drops at least with shoulder high maybe head high shoulders down the line.  The winds will be SW around 8 mph and by 11 or so turn WSW on into the afternoon.  The period will have it’s main punch from dinnertime tonight throughout Saturday morning.  It will have way more punch than it did this morning.

Saturday 1 Am morning swell chart size, looks to be around 7 to 8 feet at the 120 mile buoy. Magicseaweed.com
Saturday 1 Am morning swell chart size, looks to be around 7 to 8 feet at the 120 mile buoy. Magicseaweed.com

Sunday, it should be waist high plus down there, strong strong offshore winds, and then dropping throughout the day Sunday.

The moving swell chart pics here (frozen at 7 Am for this morning and the 2nd one frozen at 1 Am tonight), show how the swell will still be coming in until around 1 or 2 Am.

I believe the size will be as I said, the winds will be blowing offshore at 8 to 10 mph for 4 or 5 hours but I don’t think it will drop the size any yet since the swell period is still coming in.

Have a great session Saturday morning!

oldwaverider