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Photo Derek Burritt
Local surfer making the best of conditions at Whitecrest in April. |
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Whitecrest isn’t breaking.
Banner Daily Update posted Mon. July 16
By Derek Burritt
Banner Staff
WELLFLEET — The Cape Cod Surfing Championships Round #1, part of the Eastern Surfing Association (ESA) South New England district contest schedule, was moved from Whitecrest Beach to Narragansett Town Beach, in Rhode Island, Saturday due to a lack of waves at the Wellfleet surfing hotspot.
Peter Pan, district director of the ESA, says over the winter large storms shifted the layout of the sandbars at Whitecrest Beach. Sandbars create long shallows that are essential to good surfing conditions, along with big swells and strong offshore wind.
“It’ll break for one hour at dead low tide and then go flat. It’s too deep,” Pan said in a telephone interview.
The decision to change the contest location was made late Friday night with word going out by 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Pan says. He likes to give a minimum of two and half to three hours notice to surfers when a contest is changed because “you can get to any of the contest locations [in the district] in three hours.” This year, district contests are scheduled to be held at beaches in Hull, Mass., Narragansett, R.I., and Wellfleet, Mass., although Pan says Round #2 of the Cape Cod Surfing Championships scheduled for Aug. 11 may have to be held in Rhode Island, as well.
Local surfers have found breaks this year in Truro and Wellfleet, especially at Marconi Beach. At low tide, Marconi can develop chest-high to the occasional head-high shore breaks, even when other spots aren’t breaking. The pool of potential ESA contest locations is limited on Cape Cod because Pan says the National Seashore hasn’t been interested in surfing contests being held at its beaches.
Perhaps a good storm in coming weeks will change the landscape at Whitecrest, but for now, it looks like our local men and women may have to win their surfing accolades in other towns.
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Jul 12th, 2007