Ditch Plains, Montauk NY
David Ryan
David Ryan is a boat builder and USCG licensed master captain. He is the owner of Sailing Montauk and skipper of Montauk''s charter sailing catamaran MON TIKI You can follow him on Twitter @CaptDavidRyan
Thanks to your generosity, we were able to upgrade our service plan. Hopefully this will help us address some of our performance issues.
Devcat is done with rearranging local software extensions. If anyone notices any problems, say so :^)
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Brrrr.Report
Historical sea surface temperature plot for NOAA buoy 44025:
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/view_climplot.php?station=44025&meas=stReport
I say again: brrrr.Report
Awesome pic!
I got a chance to get in a couple of hours of surfing this AM too. Of course it was in the mid sixties and sunny in SoCal (Encinitas) and the water was mid fifties. I cannot even imagine surfing the north Atlantic in the winter.Report
I bought my first hooded 5/3 Thanksgiving weekend of 1996. By the end of January ’97 my wife and I were married and we had a bid in on the house where we live today. Never would have considered buying a house in Montauk — except that with a 5/3 you could surf year ’round.
I blew out my booties and gloves around the same time I spent the Winter on INTEMPERANCE in the Caribbean. 83 degree water will spoil you. When I got back I was in no hurry to buy new ones.
But a couple days ago I was down at Ditch. It was clear and cold, with just a hint of an offshore breaze and a clean waist-high line. Two people were out, but were hapless. Wave after wave was rolling through, gentle and unridden. Yesterday I went down to Air & Speed and got new boots and gloves.Report
We’ve been getting a ground swell from North of Japan. Hiked down the cliffs to Black’s beach today. Gorgeous day. But I had forgotten it was a holiday. Big crowds and long lulls.
Half the fun is just being out there though.Report
You really know how to frame a photograph. Great visual balance, dynamic lines, and rich color. Me likey.Report
Thanks, James. 🙂
We’re doing a rebuild of the SailingMontauk.com site, and my wife and I have been studying travel and tourism sites. A lot of the ones we like use very exaggerated horizontal aspect ratio photography. These sorts of “wide-screen” shots are good for scenic images, but don’t fit so well into the aspect ratio of a magazine, so we’re not accustomed to seeing this sort of framing.
They do seem to work well in a browser window, so I’ve been experimenting with 16:9, 2:1, 2.35:1 (cinemascope), and even 3:1. Combined with a wide lens, the exaggerated perspective (that’s what makes the dynamic lines) and a sight-line that stays near the horizon (not too much sky or too much foreground) does a pretty good job of capturing the emotional feeling of “Wow, this place is gorgeous!” that you get when you’re at a gorgeous place at a nice time of day.Report
Seconded, that is a beautiful photo.Report