Crew,

1st...MOTO. Thanks for the invite sir! Will do. I'll be heading to Hatteras for the Sunday/Monday surf. Tuesday is still a bit up in the air as to where surf-destinational plans will plop me. May head out to some of those "out-of-the-way" places with NAT that certain PIRATE FANS who are on vacation in U of M Land visit occasionally :lol . But by all means...if I do head down your way, I WILL CONTACT you and just about everybody else I know in your neck of the Tinsel Town Woods Condo for a go-out. :D Our BLUE LAND office has worked out a schedule "should" we go into a 'CANE WATCH MODE scenario. I'd be back in the building when the clock strikes midnight early Wednesday morning. So conSEAvably...I could still catch it Wednesday! That is, if it ain't bustin' down the piers. The CEMEMT one oughta be fine though. :\

2nd...I may not be back in here for a spell due to maximum surf and NO WORK down time. Although, next week, MORE WORK may be required to get out on the horizon that is expended AT WORK.

3rd...She's BACK up to a CAT5CANE again. You'll sea.

4th...Which reminds me of some words Mr. R and Z plays/says: "Go, go, go go, she's moving in like a demon."

5th...Have a good surf. Be safe, use your head, and most of all...hit the sweet spot on the way down real good and hard.

6th...That's it.

7th (for the lucky number)...Ice

8th PS...IRONMAN did call me AFTER I had already sent this out and said it was 6-8 ft at the 1st jetty. After investigating the cam's and a few reports UP THERE earlier...all I could come up with was 4-6 ft category. And you know how stinking CONSERVATIVE in wave height-calling IRONMAN can be! So much for the "cam's". Just like I always say to meself (should have known)...HATTERAS will do whatevah HATTERAS want's to do.
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.MARINE...ACCORDING TO THE WORLD OF MSAS...THE CONTINUING SAGA AND REMNANTS OF WHAT ONCE WAS TS HENRI ARE NOW BUT A 1015MB MEMORY LOW PRESSURE AREA SITUATED OVER SE VA. THE LOW IS FORECAST TO
MOVE SLOWLY NW THRU THE MID ATLANTIC REGION THIS WEEKEND...THEN BE ABSORBED BY A COLD FRONT MOVING E BY EARLY NEXT WEEK. FORMIDABLE HIGH PRESSURE CURRENTLY CENTERED A FEW TICKS E OF CAPE COD WILL
BUILD INTO THE REGION MONDAY...THEN WEAKEN AND SLIDE E TUESDAY. LONG DISTANT/13-15 SECOND PERIOD EASTERLY SWELL ENERGY HAS ALREADY LIGHTING UP ALL MOORED OFFSHORE NC BUOYS'S FOR SOME 24 HRS. IN FACT...ISABEL'S 3-4 FT/17 SECOND LONG PERIOD FORERUNNER'S SWEPT THRU YESTERDAY BUT WERE SOMEWHAT MASKED DUE TO THE DAY'S ON END STRONG NE FLOW-FETCH-BACKSWELL FROM A COMBO FABIAN/STRONG HIGH/ HENRI SCENARIO.

PRESENT SEAS/SOUND WATERS/WINDS AS WELL AS WAVES IN THE SURF ZONE HAVE COME DOWN A NOTCH TODAY FROM FORMER DAYS PAST WITH THE PASSAGE N OF THE LOW. SURF CAM'S/LOCAL SPOTTERS REPORTING
TEXTURIZED 4-6 FT WAVES IN THE SURF ALONG THE OBX...AND 2-3 FT FOR SOUTH FACING CRYSTAL COAST BEACHES. LATEST FERRY OBSERVATIONS ALONG
THE SOUNDS REPORTING WINDS LESS THAN 10 KTS FROM THE W WITH 1 FT WAVES. A FAR CRY FROM THE 4-5 FOOTERS REPORTED A FEW DAYS AGO WITH THE STRONG NE FLOW.

FLAGS FOR THE SOUNDS WILL BE TUCKED NEATLY AWAY
DUE TO THE NON-EXISTENT P-GRAD...BUT SCA'S STAY UP FOR THE NORTHERN LEG DUE TO RESIDUAL/DAY-AFTER NE SWELL EFFECT. MARINE GRIDS ADJUSTED A NOTCH UPWARD IN THE SEA HEIGHT DEPARTMENT (EXCLUDING SOUNDS) FOR TODAY THRU MONDAY FORECAST CYCLE PERIOD FROM PREVIOUS FORECAST. GRANTED...06Z NWW3 HAS TWEAKED NUMBERS DOWNWARD FROM SEVERAL DAYS OF STELLAR NO-LOWER-THAN-SCEC CONTINUITY. SORRY...JUST NOT READY TO BUY INTO SUCH A SPIRAL DOWNWARD OF OPEN ATLANTIC SEA HEIGHT REAL
ESTATE FOOTAGE VALUES WITH ISABEL'S EASTERLY SWELL TRAJECTORY PERMEATING CURRENTLY THRU CWFA. AFTERALL...NWW3 (HURRICANE VERSION ANYWAY) PROGGED ISABEL'S FORERUNNER SWELLS TO ARRIVE IN THE 1-2 FT RANGE. THEY MADE THE SCENE AT FPSN7 BUOY 2 NIGHTS AGO IN THE 3-4 FT CATEGORY! NOT TO WORRY...THE BITE IS NOT BAD AS THE BARK. JUST DID A
"COMPROMISE" AND ONLY ADJUSTED IT UP A FOOT FOR AFORMENTIONED TIME FRAME.

SPEAKING OF NOAA WAVE WATCH III MODEL OUTPUT...BY THURSDAY EVENING NWW3 FORECASTING BUOY 41001 (150NM E OF HATTERAS) TO GET TO 48 FEET WITH 16 SECOND LONG PERIOD 130 DEGREE SWELL ANGLE INTERVALS. SOMEWHAT REMINISCENT OF PACIFIC OCEAN ALEUTIAN LOW PRESSURE POWER.

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