Seal Point

Another great day in Sweden with headhigh waves, sideshore wind and a bit of current. Compared to recent sessions this one wasn't much, even though this was a worthwhile session with heaps of good rides.



This late summer and early autumn has been amazing. We have had some epic days both in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. If you asked me one year ago I would never believe that you could find conditions like these in Scandinavia. I would probably say "nah you are kidding me, to surf you'll have to go to Hawaii". But here we are, in little sheltered Denmark and we have had more than a handful of good sessions in one month. That is incredible, though you could get even more good days if it wasn't for the work and family responsibility. Most of the time it is only weekend surf as the weekdays are spent working. So who said that you cannot surf in Denmark?

Vince throwing a big snap off the lib.


Rider: Vincent Bakker

Must be viewed large. It's a shame, this shot had been much better taken from down the line.

Aerial time!!!


Rider: Vince Bakker

And here is the proof, we got headhigh to over-headhigh waves.


Rider: Vincent Bakker

Notice that this dude is a 2 m man!

Here's some more pics

Lets hope that the autumn and winter offers similar conditions.

Tomorrow I'm off to Portugal for 10 days. See you ;)

Hossegor or Agger

Friday night at 04 am the alarm clock buzzed and it was time to get up. A 5 hours drive was awaiting and the forecast was looking quite good. No problem getting up knowing that we soon would get some waves. When we arrived it was nearly flat and a long and painful waiting period started. First in the late afternoon the first surfable waves arrived and we hit the water even though it was a messy onshore wind swell. A little is always better than nothing!

(haven't got a single photo of the crappy conditions)

Sunday morning we woke up at sunrise and hit straight to Agger.



This was our first sight!

We had 1.5-2 m swell and 0-2 m/s offshore wind all day.


Rider : Olaf

A semi barrel


Rider: Vincent Bakker

Radical takeoff


Rider: René Brask (me)

Have to admit that I got wiped on this one after the first buttomturn.

Massive cutback


Rider: Vincent Bakker

And the big question, Hossegor or Agger?



Floater?


Rider: Vincent Bakker

End of session



After 6 hours in the water it was time to head back to Copenhagen. A super way to spent a Sunday. Believe it or not, this weekend the Quiksilver DM Championship was suppose to go off but it was canceled!!! why ?

More pics here

Summer swell

It has been three weeks without waves at the northsea due to a prevailing high pressure above Denmark. Now things are back to normal with continuous incoming front systems from the west and we got a reminder of how good the northsea can get.



This was one of the bigger waves, not too bad huh?


Rider: Unidentified

The sandbar both delivered good lefts and rights


Rider: Unidentified

The rights was really good, fast and super hollow. Some of the guys got some tube time :)


Rider: Unidentified



All photos are shot before we went in and I think it's mostly Germans in the lineup.

Whitsun in Hanstholm

Here's a few photos from our last trip to Thy. We had 2 days with something close to epic windsurf. Two days with good wind, big waves and sun :)



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This is from Sunday afternoon just before we got in the water, at this time the waves was still quit small. During our session the waves got bigger and the wind got better and we surfed until dawn... This was the best session of the season until now!



Really like this one with the spay from a pier in the foreground and the lone windsurfer in clear blue water

Monday the wind stated blowing again in the afternoon and within a hour it changed from nearly wind still to gale force. We sailed 4.2 which was our smallest, even though we could easily have sailed 3.7. Here is a few shots from Monday.







It was quite hard to hold the camera still in 16 m/s thus I had to discard most of the photos as they was unsharp.

Glassy Northsea

The winter has kicked in and the classic NW swell has announced it's arrival. During the winter period it is common with very light or no wind at all along the danish west coast while an arctic low simultaneously is placed over northwest Norway. Which is exactly the conditions that is needed to bring on a big smile during the dark short winter days.



Roelf Hans and me quickly arranged a trip to the west coast to see if 0.5-1 m swell with a 12-14 second period and dead offshore wind could produce anything worthy.


This is from a place south of Thyborøn with several nice sandbars.



And these mini barrels belongs to Bunkers.



The short winter days in combination with a need for all you can get feeling didn't leave much time for photography, sorry :)

There is a few more pics here, and a slideshow here

And not to forget, happy Christmas!!!

Full Moon Surfing

Once again a high-pressure has stabilized over south west Sweden and the Baltic sea has been awoken.



To appreciate the real beauty of this lineup shot it must be viewed large. Look for the two small black dots.

We spent yet another weekend with some decent surf. Ranging from shoulder to headhigh waves and a shifting wind between offshore and side-shore.


Rider: Vincent Bakker


Rider: Anders Krygell

After 6 hours of good surf we made a fire and had a nice barbie just in front of the lineup while watching the waves in the moon light.


Our camp fire is in the center of the lower part, super nice spot.

Sunday delivered a little bigger waves early in the morning thought the wind picked up after a few hours and turned side-shore. The waves quickly became messy and less hollow. It didn't matter too much as we all got our share and couldn't stop smiling while leaving the messy conditions for those that could not get out of bed for the early morning session.


Rider: Anders Krygell


Rider: Vincent Bakker

Checkout all the pics here (new high resolution slideshow)

A rare righthander

Until now the danish autumn has been rather strange. The prevailing wind direction has been from a easterly direction and it has been unusually cold. Normally the wind is westerly to north westerly during autumn and winter and more diverse with the incoming lows giving more surf.

The good thing about all this easterly wind is that the Baltic sea spots has been firing more frequent than normally.



This early Thursday morning me and a few buddies skipped work in the morning to catch a nice east swell.





Look close, the two small dots aren't ducks

Around Denmark it's often hard to come by a good solid righthander like this one. Most spots are lefthanders and as being a goofy footer it not that big an issue :) But still it nice to do some backside surfing at times.




Rider: Vincent Bakker

Another day of clean headhigh surf with no crowd. We where only 4 buddies in the water :)



Cheers

Ike leftovers

It's not only the Caribbean shores that harvest the waves of tropical hurricanes. After Ike has been destroying large parts of the US it moved on toward Greenland and sent long period swell down toward the Nordic Sea.

This is the wave and swell height in the morning of the 19. of September.

Which by itself does not look as much, but topped with the long period of 10-12 seconds it got very interesting.

After a few quick calls a short and intense trip was arranged. We left Copenhagen Thursday night and was back in Copenhagen Friday night. 6 hours of drive, 3 hours sleep, 8 hours surf and 6 hours drive back to Copenhagen. And it was all worth it!!!


This is what we was rewarded with.


We started with a sunrise session at bunkers where we got overhead-high waves.



The duck setting up for a barrel


Rider: Anders Krygell


Rider: Mads Ejstrup

Around noon the wind shifted and picked up a bit thus Bunkers vent messy. We had a quick lunch and continued to Nr. Vorupør where the wind still was offshore. The waves wasn't as high as at Bunkers but way cleaner and total glassy. We had an amazing afternoon session with head-high waves and no crowd to speak of.

This is the lineup, just perfect!



Glassy lefthander


Rider: Anders Krygell

A decent drop


Rider: Rasmus

In every way a worthwhile trip...

Here is some more pics

11.22m

The Baltic sea has awakened after a long period without any noticeable waves. A low pressure has stabilized to the east of the Baltic sea producing strong N-NE winds over large parts of the Baltic sea. During Wednesday night a offshore bouye measured 11.22m waves in the south of the Baltic sea. That's big!!! and for a small sea as the Baltic sea, it's HUGE.



Thursday morning there where some big sets rolling in at one of our favorite spots for this wind and swell direction. It was some of the biggest I have seen on this spot and it was on the edge of maxing out.



The water level and a strong rip made it challenging surf. Due to the high water level the waves was kind of flat and lacked some hollowness. For the longboarders it was paradise. Big flat waves that could be surfed all the way in from the outside reef.



Of cause there where exceptions, like this nice double overhead wave



During the day the size was dropping a bit and both the water level and current was falling a bit.



There where some nice steep takeoffs in between.



And some Dutch action


Rider: Roelf Hans


Rider: Roelf Hans

Hadn't it been for the high water level and strong current it would have been an epic day. There was a good size ground swell with a long period and the wind was offshore. Even though it was well worth a day off work and we ended up surfing for a good 5 hours.

I heard from a friend that conditions became better later on the evening just before dark. As usual "just before dark", such a shame, we really need to setup some light out there.

We never saw any 11.22m waves :(