During a time when Mainers are usually preparing to shelve their boards for winter, surfers were gifted with exceptional late-season waves. With two named storms and a supermoon pushing in excessively high tides, the swell in Maine grew to unseasonable heights. Each event alone was enough to draw in any eager waterman, but together the results were epic. As the summer dwindled, Hurricanes Lee and Idalia, and the supermoon’s gravitational force, created epic wave conditions along Maine’s coastline.
Most of you reading this article are deeply familiar with Florida’s endless white sands, but surfing in Maine is an altogether uniquely different and special experience. Maine’s beaches are typically just over four hundred meters in length and within those narrow shorelines are rocky bottoms and large chunks of immovable bedrock. Patience is the key to successful surfing when navigating such treacherous conditions. Mainers must learn to identify and grab the best wave, then maximize it within the small window that the rugged environment allows. This was especially true during the latter part of September.
