Hurricane Noel

It was one heck of a weekend once again. Hurricane Noel flew by the Banks Friday and Saturday, which made for some fun in water.

Friday. I spent Shooting video and photos. I headed up to waves to follow Slezy, Ryan and colin on a downwinder from S turns to the shop. The wave were massive and the wind cranking. Colin was riding a 3m Waroo! Yeah it was that windy. After that I headed down the washout to catch up with the rest of the locals. GS, Dimitri, George and Tommie were out riding some very large tubes. After some intense action it was back to the shop where we learned there was no power on the island.

Saturday. The power was back on and so were the wind and the waves. It was too off shore to go kite anywhere and have a decent chance of survival so Tommie, Zack, nick and I went to the bathhouse in frisco for the day. The waves were Huge, so huge zack and Tommie headed out to surf the second break, which is a couple hundred feet off the end of the pier. They were catching some very long rides. Nick and I decided to head out later that day on the Standup Paddleboards. It was pretty tough getting through the first breaks but once threw there it was smooth sailing other than the couple feet over head waves that were coming at you. I paddle around for a while with no luck of catching any waves due to the amount of wind coming off the face of the waves. Nick managed to catch a few. The ride back to shore was nothing less than a miracle. I dropped in on a head high barrel nose-diving the board and had the paddle ripped out of my hand. I made it back to the board and started paddling into shore and the paddle popped up right in front of me. After that I called it a day.

Sunday. We headed back down to the washout for some surf action. It was pretty much the same deal as yesterday but with out the wind. I scored some of the largest waves ive ever seen let alone rode. It was a great session to say the least. I headed to the Lighthouse in the afternoon to scope out the waves. They finally looked good, but they were way to massive for me so I decided to shoot some stills. Nick grabbed the camera and shot some video and i did a quick 10 minute edit. The surfers were killing it, getting some large tubes and rides on the largest waves ive seen in person. It turned out to be a fantastic weekend.

This is the video from surfing at the lighthouse

This is a video from Lane Du Pont of Friday’s session