I think swells from Don are coming into NE with a ESE direction. I think these cannot get too far up Narragansett Bay, if at all. I doubt you will encounter breaking waves up in the Bay, especially on the east (Sakonnet River) side.
sing
Beautiful morning to get a surf session in. Some smoke haze from Canadian wildfires, but tolerable.
Mahalo!
sing
Fun session this morning! We’ve been getting days and days of 2’ plus swells from TS Don. Forecast is for it to keep going until early next week when Don hightails it up to the north Atlantic.
A slight impingement was that it got a bit crowded with kids and swimmers after 9 AM, on a Wednesday. Had to maintain good craft control and wave selection to not endanger an unsuspecting swimmer. I suspect it best to find a more quiet spot, or go really early this coming weekend to enjoy Don swells.
Mahalo!
sing
Sing - how do these look?
This is the Narrows on the Narrow River at Cormorant Point. Easy to get to by boat, but a long walk otherwise. You don’t see many surfers there, but our club used to do long-boat surfing sessions here. They haven’t done one in a while. When I was young and foolish I tried to surf that in my canoe - dumped to the shore-side and got trashed by my boat the whole way in. It was painful. Don’t think I have tried surfing since, but I need to give it a go in my kayak. Yesterday we just sat at the beach.
That first pic looks like it’s some sort of race (tidal flow). Otherwise, the waves are going over a lot of boulders.
The other pics show pretty sloppy waves. But, personally, I am much more likely to go out and paddle that than flat water. 
sing
It is small but clean waves today.
Will try for dawn patrol tomorrow. Forecast is for cloudy and cooler temps. As long as the waves are there, I’ll be good with that!
sing
The buoys have been logging in 13-14 second swells. Still small but surfable. Don may strengthen in the next few days before hightailing north and losing steam.
sing
This may be last of the swells from TS Don, as the storm is now farther up north and just east of New Foundland.
Got some easy riding in yesterday with the Cobra ReVision, just after dawn. Free parking on the street was largely taken. Thanks to my DCR senior parking pass, I got into the state lot and took a spot with with a handful of other cars. Two hours later, when I got back the entire lot was filled and the two abutting private lots – charging $25-$30 – were nearly filled!
Invest95 is heading towards the Windward Islands but likely will not develop nor have impact for the US. But the water temps in the ITCZ is pretty warm and the Saharan dry over the zone las week has lifted a bit. In other ways, good chance tropical activity will pick up again.
Mahalo!
sing
Invest96 just coalesced in mid Atlantic. Hopefully, it too will stay a fish storm Like TS Don. No damage, just fun swells for surfers on the east coast late next week!
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Here we go… 96L and I97! 96 is likely to be come Emily later in the week but will stay a fish storm like TS Don. I97 will likely disippate but with a track that brings it up by the northeast coast, there is likely a small window of surfable waves. Gotta keep an eye on the latter to not miss a quick surfing opportunity.
sing
lot of waves out there, let’s hope they stay out there (well, we’ll take the waves, just not the wet&wind).
Looks like a party out in the Atlantic Basin, with Emily, Franklin and Gert. Hopefully, these will stay on the Atlantic “dance floor” and not do a landfall.
I am beginning my three week vacation. Definitely looking forward to riding whatever swells coming my way.
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East coast surfers, here we go…
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Yup. Staying near the ocean next week to make sure I don’t miss out.
Haven’t paddle for amost 2 weeks. Going out this weekend to sharpen the bracing and rolling skills. I suspect head plus for Franklin swells.
sing
The forecast for TS Franklin is very similar in development and track as Hurricane Noel in 2007.
Had a couple of days of perfect swells and wind conditions in MassBay from Noel.
I am getting excited and butterflies in the stomach for what Franklin may bring…
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Looks like we might have something brewing in the Gulf for next week as well. It might cross over and strengthen in the Atlantic later. Unless something else forms soon, this would be the “I” named storm (Idalia this year), which I have a strong dislike for, having gone through Irene (2011, in RI), Irma (2017) and Ian (2022) already. Forecast for my area right now is showing around 40 knots, not too bad, but I’ll likely start some prep work on the sailboat as early as tomorrow.
I hope you get some good surf though, @sing ! Be safe and have fun.
Ditto! You are in a much higher impact area. Landfall in New England happens, but not to the extent of what goes on in FL.
I am keeping my fingers crossed for losts of mid-Atlantic “fish storms.” Not realistic given the HIGH sea temps in the Gulf as well as SE Atlantic.
You folks down there have more need to prep and to confront those “should I go/should I stay?” situations.
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The good thing is that Florida gets hit so frequently, and the native vegetation and lack of topography means that we don’t usually have any major widespread impacts until we get a Category 2 or greater storm. So generally we don’t even blink at tropical storm/Cat 1 storms. I’ll do some prep on my boat on Sunday - stow all cushions/sunshades/extra canvas, extra dock lines and fenders, maybe take the headsail and bimini down based on the forecast at this point, but that’s probably it. The wind direction is forecast to be south for the strongest winds, which is a great direction for my marina and my boat - I face south and the marina entrance is to the east.
We do desperately need the rain though, so I hope we get a good soaking from this storm.
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That sounds like how we approach high wind and rain out here in the desert. Same camp prep (which an amazing amount of homeowners fail at) only we have to also calculate where floodwaters will run, though there are some perks to having your floor almost 3’ off the ground.
Just in the last few weeks we’ve been hit by two tropical storms but high winds have been a staple since winter. Welcome to “future world”.