After the wind.....stand up paddle where?

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Originally Posted by The Kite House

hello all, great to get more wind, hope every one enjoys. Can anyone recomend a good place for me to catchsome waves not far out of miami, i stand up paddle board alot, train on it in no wind, just did 20 miles the other day, looking to tune some fins out and i have to be up there next week. Any ideas? I know jupitor and further is better, but i dont have lots of time.

aloha

Paul Menta

Wow, 20 miles, Laird, Paul is bring on some heat from the SE. As you know between shallow gradual bathymetry, mutliple reef terraces and the Bahamas most of Miami-Dade and Broward Counties usually have chop, short wavelength sets with some exceptions. Of course if a northerly breeze comes up you might have a wind swell to work parallel to the coast.

A narrower coastal shelf, the absence of substantial shallow reef terraces and a hole in the Bahamas allow some nice swells to setup in Boca Raton and Delray. We also get some fairly wide sand bars that can setup waves 200 ft. offshore at times. Further than that in heavier stuff. So, you could park at Spanish River Blvd. in Boca or near Causurina Rd. in Delray and go out and work the swells if any are running.

Jupiter is good but Ft. Pierce might be even better. It certainly is for wave kiting when a strong northerly wind is on.

I can recall one kiting session during the Air Sea Show year before last starting just north of the Dania Pier. I recall there were some low swells setting up about 100 ft. offshore for reasons that I am not fully clear on. This is a lot closer to Miami than Boca but maybe more probamatical. Why not head up to Boca, let me try your rig and I'll take you out to dinner?



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