Surfin’ the Canadian Riviera – Buffalo in the background
When I first moved to southern California, the locals used to say “what on earth could you possibily know about sailing in heavy weather – it never blows on the Great Lakes”.
Oh really?
Forget the mecca’s of SoCal surfing like Trestles, The Wedge, Huntington, or Malibu – come to the Canadian Riviera and surf the Palmwood break – it was happening the past week. Above pic of some dudes from Toronto who came to surf the Canadian south shore – 7 footers happening in 43 knots of breeze. Sounds to me like this was the same front in which the J-24’s NA’s sailed in the next lake over in Rochester, where a couple of them sunk.
Then it got windy and the 9 footers at the Palmwood break made The Wedge look tame.
Nice story in the Washington Post here on local Great Lakes surf action.
And if you think this is a good place to surf – you should see the windsurfer’s in this area – several locals who also sail the Hawaii big water live for days like this around here. I’m sure the crew was out en force.
Won’t be long now and we’ll be sharping the runners on the ice boats for these very same waters.
Surfin’ Canada at the Palmwood – who knew?
