Massachusetts North Shore Questions - Stoneaxe?

[stoneaxe]

Arthur Beauchesne....cut and pasted from FB...weird.

[sponger42]

Found him with google. Thanks!

[abmatt]

Spent several years there in the early '80s and caught many good waves. Won't be much in the summer, but fall, winter and spring it can fire. Would have loved to have SUPed back then ... Lived in Beverly. New Hampshire beaches are a nice day trip, and Gloucester has a couple spots, but spent much of my time in Marblehead ... there's a spot that's offshore (howling offshore) during the frequent nor'easters. Can hold considerable size too. Swampscott has a break or two, and Nahant can be really fun on a southwest wind. Then there's a spot closer to Boston that can only be mentioned under penalty of death ... just look for a big northeast swell, a low tide and southwest/west winds and keep driving! When I lived there, the few locals would mutter about the spot but wouldn't tell me about it ... I had to find it myself, and got grins from them when I finally did.
Long story short: You'll be stoked. It can get really good, but the fun of living there is in the hunt through all the nooks and crannies in the coast. You'll quickly learn what spots work, and the good news is that, when there's a swell, there's almost always someplace working.

[spookini]

Sponger:

Well to the Hub, Beantown, Red Sox Nation, etc etc etc!

SUP surf spots, order of proximity to north shore...

Nahant
Winthrop
Nantasket beach (Hull)

Heading north, supposedly York Beach (Maine) is good, and folks surf it YEAR-ROUND.

(Can you say "shrinkage"??)

[JC50]

If you end up in NorthShore, stay NorthShore. Better off traveling to NH (NH gets a broader swell window) than slogging through the city to SouthShore, unless of course you wanna meet some new pals...

[sponger42]

I hear that. I hate driving to surf. Especially crowded surf. In 5 years of SoCal living, I bothered to drive down and surf Trestles once.