Surfing Oregon Inlet

[GromsDad]

My home inlet can get pretty bad on an outgoing tide. Years ago there was a good striper bite in December and I took my father out late on a Sunday afternoon. We were probably the last boat to head in right at dark. In the channel at the start of the inlet I got caught from behind by a wave which pushed the bow of the boat into the back of the wave ahead. In a split second we were up to our shins in 45 degree water. The entire deck of my boat was awash with nearly two feet of water. Thank god the engine didn't stall and that I had enough horsepower to avoid the next wave coming and to get the water to go over the transom notch. That was a near death experience that sticks with you.

 

[hammies]

Outgoing tide... Looks ugly.

Just spent a week at Westport, WA. Outgoing tide and 6-7 @10 seconds with additional onshore 15mph, makes conditions that can sink boats. I only ran our boat in and out at slack tide and it was still kinda messy.

If you want to read a good story about CG rescue, check out the book The Finest Hours. My dad was a kid in Chatham when that rescue occurred.

The movie was good, too.

 

[One-Off]

What's the deal?

This seems a little more hardcore

Seems to me they sere just having fun. They didn't have to be at the peak. There was wide open channel just south.

 

[Drumsurf]

Oregon Inlet is North Carolina. It's shallow. We rode a shoulder-head high left through there once in the face of a building Gale we had to do the intracoastal waterway Atlantic Ocean-Oregon Inlet-Pamlico-Neus River route on the way to Florida way back early 90's. Depthfinder was blowing up 13, 11, 8, 5, 3' !! I stood on deck doing my best Alex Knost impression as it happened. People who live/fish there have it wired, but to the unsuspecting or uninitiated... I don't know.
Oregon State? I wouldn't wanna find out what their bad days are like.

Exactly. NC not Oregon State. I grew up coming in and out of Bouge Inlet. You learn how real quick. The alternative isn’t pretty. Bailed out more than a few times and went north to Morehead and took the ICW back.

 

[potato-nator]

Outgoing tide... Looks ugly.

Just spent a week at Westport, WA. Outgoing tide and 6-7 @10 seconds with additional onshore 15mph, makes conditions that can sink boats. I only ran our boat in and out at slack tide and it was still kinda messy.

If you want to read a good story about CG rescue, check out the book The Finest Hours. My dad was a kid in Chatham when that rescue occurred.

also good CG book COMING BACK ALIVE.
the helicopters get the job done.

 

[gbg]

I have an October trip on the OBX. STOCKED!

 

[Subway]

Yo me and missus subway were just talking about an OBX trip in October

 

[GromsDad]

I have an October trip on the OBX. STOCKED!

I usually spend a couple of weeks a year down there. Covid F-ed that up for me. I usually do a week during hurricane season and a week for spring break. Waiting to see how the school thing shakes out. If school goes virtual I'm thinking about renting a house down there for the whole month of October and just go back and forth and let my boys stay down there and chase waves.

 

[Subway]

yeah i think you can travel there now without a 14 day quarantine right? once the summer is over?

 

[Mr Doof]

View going out of the same harbor on a calm day with a bunch of whackjobs

^ Was that Rev. Jim Ignatowski hanging off the bow at the end?

The 2011 tsunami impact on Depot Bay was both interesting and pretty damaging.

 

[dunnder]

The movie was good, too.

pffff