SURF: Wrightsville Beach, NC: Knee-thigh and clean. Not sure how the tide is affecting it. Spot X has been killed by the outgoing lunar tide. Could be good later today on the incoming tide. Small short period wind waves this morning with seas: S 2 feet at 5 sec. This afternoon, slack wind (most likely turn south as usual)
WEATHER: Partly cloudy with isolated showers this morning…then a chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs around 90. Chance of rain 40 percent.
WIND: West winds around 5 mph…becoming northeast this afternoon.
TIDES: High Tide: 7:32:00 AM, Low Tide:1:36PM
RECCO: It’s going to rain on and off today. There should be a wave hanging around. Small but ridable. And the water is perfect.
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If you’re interested, we’re leaving at 7, meeting at Starbucks at 6:30. Email me or text me to let me know you’re coming.Should take under 3 hours. Maybe we’ll find a wave in spot X. Bring food and drink. Leisurely paddle. Fun paddle. No pressure…
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SURF: Wrightsville Beach, NC: Knee high SE short period wind swell for the morning going more E during the day. Sort of choppy becoming choppier and small.
WEATHER: Mostly sunny this morning…then becoming partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s.
WIND: Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph…becoming east this afternoon.
TIDES: High Tide: 6:07:00 AM, Low Tide:12:08PM
RECCO: It’s a beautiful morning. Banks channel will be sheltered from the east wind later.
SURF: Wrightsville Beach, NC: knee to waist and semi-clean. The wind will be on it soon. So if you’re going to go, Go.
WEATHER: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s…except in the lower 90s at the beaches. Heat index values up to 106.
WIND: Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph.
TIDES: High Tide: 7:55:00 Am, Low Tide:1:52PM
RECCO: Downwinder. D-o-w-n-w-i-n-d-e-r. Point to point paddling. two cars. Drop one car at the bend by dockside (leave towels and drinks in this car) and drive the other to trails end. Paddle north. Ride the bumps. It’s a blast. Saty out of teh way of boat traffic. And bring lots of water. It’s a 106 heat index out there.
THANKS AGAIN TO EVERYONE WHO CAME TO THE EVENT. We were able to raise alot of money for Surfers Healing and the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue Hospital. I just woke up after sleeping for 14 hours and feel great. Thank you so much to all the volunteers. Where the event lacked in organization, it made up in stoke and fun.
Races this weekend:
HI—Molokai to Oahu Paddleboard Race, Ka’iwi Channel Molokai
CA—SurfMonkey Oceanside, Oceanside Pier Oceanside
We’re paddling the 6+ miles around the south end of Wrightsville Beach tomorrow am. ICWW and Ocean course. Meet at Dockside at 5am. James and Brad are paddling. Maybe Chris.We’re goign out the inlet, around the jetty, surf in at Stone Street and walk across to Bank’s Channel. That’ll cut it to about 6. There’s a chance of thunderstorms, so wear your tin-foil helmets! And bring your shark repellent. We should be done and at the dock by 7am. The wind should be favorable. If there are waves, we might ride a few.
Weather: Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Humid with highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
Tides: Low 4:59 am, High 11:03am, Low 4:55 pm
Congrats to everyone who raced in the SUP CUP. It was one of the hardest courses we’ve had here and pushed a lot of people to their limits. I’m hoping next week, the Gulf Coast has less wind. Please. PLEASE…
It was so great to see all the mulletheads. Lake Norman crew was on hand. Spencer. The Phili family who was scarred by my grandmother 35 years ago. Gordon. Dean came up from SC. The whole group was hilarious.
The Hobie Crew didn't bring their own trophies this time, but they did get their mullet shirts.
I’ll post race results as soon as they are available. Usually, they tape them up and I take photos and post them, but they decided to post them later to their own site. Go figure. What are you going to do?
Check out photos from the Biathlon from Josh Curry:
Zenfolio | Joshua Curry Photography | Wrightsville Beach Biathalon.
Here are the WB Biathon results:
| Place | Name | Number | Time |
| 1 | Chris Curry | 367 | 1:24:11 |
| 2 | Chris Hill | 371 | 1:33:56 |
| 3 | Ian Balding | 352 | 1:34:04 |
| 4 | Bryan Batten | 358 | 1:37:08 |
| 5 | Doug Leonard | 346 | 1:42:00 |
| 6 | James Bain | 368 | 1:42:20 |
| 7 | Craig Stevens | 359 | 1:46:22 |
| 8 | Greg Hoss | 355 | 1:47:35 |
| 9 | Bryan Rich | 348 | 1:48:01 |
| 10 | Bill Curry | 365 | 1:48:51 |
| 11 | Reggie Barns | 370 | 1:49:10 |
| 12 | Clark Shay | 350 | 1:50:02 |
| 13 | Scott Kanyak | 349 | 1:55:36 |
| 14 | Jason Adams | 361 | 1:56:44 |
| 15 | Mikes Travis | 369 | 1:57:12 |
| 16 | Chris O’Neal | 351 | 1:57:32 |
| 17 | Bryan Reed | 364 | 2:01:26 |
| 18 | Katie Moore | 347 | 2:02:13 |
| 19 | Kim James | 360 | 2:02:48 |
| 20 | Mark Schmidt | 356 | 2:06:36 |
| 21 | Eric Sabourin | 354 | 2:09:18 |
| 22 | Ron Sabourin | 353 | 2:09:30 |
| 23 | Eric Gonzalez | 363 | 2:13:00 |
| 24 | Kim Sutton | 366 | 2:21:37 |
| 25 | Jenna Schmidt | 357 | 2:21:52 |
Dont’ forget the biathlon tomorrow at Bloackade Runner Resort. It should be a great event. If I am able to get back in time, I’ll be there. Most likely, I’ll be here in SC still. Kick some ass and enjoy that warmer weather and beach run.
Who: Calling all paddlers; via paddleboards, canoes, kayaks, etc.
What: Help giveback to the environment by paddling out cleaning up the spoil islands of trash that gets left behind and washes up. We need your help, if you don’t have a paddleboard let us know and you can borrow one of ours. Starbucks will be providing coffee and pastries and Sea Tow will be providing on the water support, and Surfrider will be providing trash bags and gloves.
Where: Meet at Dockside Restaurant
Calling all athletes to start training for the Wrightsville Beach Biathlon being held on March 6th at the Blockade Runner. Bring your boards and running shoes to paddle four miles and then run four miles on the official race course. Coastal Urge will clock your time and have demos on-hand.
Where: Meet at Blockade Runner on their sound front beach
Who: Calling all paddlers; via paddleboards, canoes, kayaks, etc.
What: Help giveback to the environment by paddling out cleaning up the spoil islands of trash that gets left behind and washes up. We need your help, if you don’t have a paddleboard let us know and you can borrow one of ours. Starbucks will be providing coffee and pastries and Sea Tow will be providing on the water support, and Surfrider will be providing trash bags and gloves.
Where: Meet at Blockade Runner on their sound front beach
Title: Coastal Urge Sup Cup
Location: Wrightsville Beach, NC
Race Website: Click here
Description: Harbor Island Loop
Start Time: 09:00
Date: 2010-05-15
Jason, James and I hit the water at 5:30 this morning at Dockside for a training run. I had a 9″ Quickblade elite out for the first time—Thanks William. Burn…. wow. I’m also starting to use the Garmin 310XT, which tracks your workouts through Garmin Connect. It’s extraordinary—as far as a workout tool goes. Check out the data that comes with it:
EJ, Byron and Brandi really inspired up to ramp up our training. Planning for races this spring and summer reminds me of planning triathlons back in the day. Balancing the workouts with waves and downwinders should keep this fresh and exciting.
This was one of those special chaotic times where chasing big waves fell on the same time as a big SUP race. There was a pretty solid Winter swell hitting Hawaii with perfect conditions that I really wanted to chase at the same time as the “Cold Strokes Classic” SUP race that was put on by Jeoffrey Nathan, owner of Coastal Urge in Wilmignton, North Carolina. Kialoa, my paddle sponsor, was the title sponsor of the event and had asked me to fly out and help promote and race in the event as well as teach a paddle and race clinic…
Read more at Chuck’s Blog: 2nd annual Cold Strokes Classic « Chuck Patterson’s Blog.
It’s 6:15 am. Chris, Jason and Gordon are at the dock. I’m fumbling with my wetsuit gloves. They start without me. I have 100 yards to make up already and it’s just the start. I won’t be able to draft. I’m on my own.
This is Gordon’s first time on this route and he has a huge SUP surf board. He’s just paddling to paddle. Jason and Chris are paddling to kick each other’s asses.
They pass the drawbridge, with the incoming current and I feel like I’m making up some ground. If they don’t kill me at the start, they kill me later. I can count on that.
The cold air this morning made it easy to lose focus. My mind wanders. My breathing becomes irregular. I’m holding my breath when I take deep strikes at the water. Voices tell me to stop at one lap. I imagine falling and and becoming a human popsicle. I see myself coming in dead last in the race next weekend, getting passed by a ginger dwarf paddling Bertha with a broom, dragging the Coastal Urge chase boat. My pad comes off. An oyster bed rips my fin off. I just tell myself to just finish the lap.
But I’m still digging. I’m not catching anyone, but I’m still digging. I’m ignoring the “just make it to the dock” voices. I resist the “just finish the lap and getting in the car with the heat cranked.”
I hit the Gut Buster and things turn south. The wind slaps me sideways and the chop buckles my knees. I’m pulling sand. 10-ton piles of sand and the wind is laughing at me. I can’t even see Jason and Chris at this point. They’re probably at Sea Path by now. I feel heavy. My board feels like a barge.
I can’t feel my fingers. I can’t feel my toes. Then, I start getting pissed off. Prick bastard voices. I’m not schizophrenic. I’m not slowing down. If I do, and those guys lap me? I’ll never live it down.
I make the corner and they’re about 3 minutes ahead of me. A huge gap, but there’s still 4+ miles to go. I’m overheating. I’m smothered in layers. There’s the dock and I’m through. I push the last half mile like it’s some imaginary finish, silencing the “just take it easy and finish” and then realize I’m giving up at one lap.
There’s no way. I take off my unnecessary layers and my gloves and start lap two. I feel light. I’m cold, but it’s bearable. After stopping at the dock, I have no shot at Jason and Chris, not that I had one to begin with. But I feel good. The closer you get to finishing your goals, the less power your negative thoughts have. And breathing drwons out the voices even more. You pull yourself back into the moment, back into focus, to technique, to cadence, to your line. The Gut buster part 2 is ahead and I know this is going to suck, but now I can stop at the end. I can get in the car and I’ve endured the winter bullshit. I’m not going to set any records, but I did it.
I get back to the dock, around a Yankee snow bird yacht and there’s Chris laughing at me for stripping down to a Bibjohn wetsuit and no gloves. This is the last real paddle before next week’s race. I’m hoping to do well, which for me means not last in the elite race. What it will come down to is silencing the voices and paddling my ass off. Stick to the plan, shut up and go.
Gordon, who I assumed had gotten out after a lap walks up about 20 minutes later. “Damn, that was a bitch.” We were all surprised. We didn’t know he was still out there and we were stoked for him. For a first time out there, in these conditions, he didn’t back down. He just paddled his ass off, enjoyed the morning, and did what he came to do. Business as usual. That made my morning. That and the cranked-up heat in my car.
First off, I want to extend congrats to everyone yesterday. A lot of people cut time off their last race and it was a great event.
Special congrats to Jill Riggs who finished in 50.23, four minutes ahead of the closest women’s 14′ and over and came in third overall in the 14′ and over for men and women. She smoked the course.
Also, Tara Miller fought a hard battle with Taylor, but got edged out (into the grass) at the end. I think you and Taylor are goign to have many future battles.
Mystery item: Jeoffrey, when did you get in the water? I had a double-take when you started the race on the boat then finished on a board. Nice quick change. Did you have a phone booth on the back of the boat?
Lastly, the two real ass-kickers (besides Jeremy and Justin) were Chris Hill and Taylor Stockdale who brought their A-game to the race yesterday. Very very good job.
A few more trophies, smaller ones, for top 3 in all the divisions and eliminating the lifeguard category would make it better. Staying away from yellow jerseys was great. Sorry to Seatow. They are great people, just yellow jerseys….And giving one raffle ticket to each competitor with their entrance fee would keep more people around for the raffle. But seriously, these are small things. The race was great.
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