An archetypal Jersey swell; Hurricane Michael waves were in an out in less than 48 hours. It was pretty good though… And there were tubes–not a bad Friday in October. The first frightening, Falltime winds blew offshore and into head high swell that decreased to nearly half the size by nightfall. Barrels large […]
When waves are fun on Sundays in Jersey, you can expect the crowds. It’s something you just can’t fight–especially when it’s 80 degrees, sunny, and offshore. However, when the waves are good and the crowd is made up of your closest 20 homies, there isn’t much to complain about (other than the low-key anger […]
About a week ago (WEEK AGO), I paddled out to (what I thought was) an empty lineup. There weren’t many people driving around, on the beach, or on the boardwalk–strange for a beautiful late-Spring morning. The surf looked aight and the rest of the week’s forecast suggested surfboarding wouldn’t be an option in […]
Here we go again. Ladies, gentlemen, and mermaids, the Spring 2018 Edition of Rambler Surf Magazine has been sent to print. We’d like to make it a customary news item to personally thank every single one of our contributors. The response we got with this mag was in-fucking-sane. People hit us up from […]
Sunday’s forecast called for three-foot swell and thunderstorms later in the day. Swell started to blossom as the sun warmed the soggy ground. Weather and waves turned on, but were set to be ousted by cracking thunder and terrential rain. However, at five o’ clock as I sipped from my sandy PBR can […]
Today was cool. Looking at the forecast during the days prior, no one would have bugged out. Swellinfo called for 3-4 foot swell and “red” conditions. The wind was forecasted to be out of the North, which is very scary for surfers on the Northern Jersey Coast. These North (or “devil”) winds usually […]
The Winter 2018 Edition of Rambler Surf Magazine has been sent to print. The publication’s creators and contributors are pretty frickin’ amped to get its pristine pages in between the readers’ grubby fingertips (not to say the reader is dirty or anything–but, they’re probably reading RSM on the toilet, or between bites of […]
From Saturday to Wednesday, Jersey received almost a week’s worth of waves. Although, that statement sounds a lot sicker than the waves turned out to be. Saturday was supposed to be “the day”, and it was for many… Southern winds kicked Friday night, but quickly turned North mid-morning. Any South-facing region enjoyed some sort […]
There has been a few waves in Jersey the last few days–And for surfers that have been paying attention, the ducks have been charging. Not sure if this is prime time surf season for the NJ duck population, but we’ve seen them in the lineup, on the beach, and charging shorebreak. The guys in […]
On January 4, 2018 the East Coast of the U.S. experienced one of the worst winter storms the area had weathered in decades. Blizzard conditions and major coastal flooding brought way to a narrow window for winter surf. But, what the fuck is a “bombogenesis”? Why were meteorologists throwing this word around? And how did […]