Come Explore “The Sandbar” With Geiselbros And Mike Dunphy.

What are the components of a great day of waves?

This is a question that, despite the bounty of historical and forecast data that can be mined, detailed, and applied, remains something of a mystery.

The same swell angle, period, and size combined with the same tide and wind might be great one in one instance and average in the next. 

This could be due to bathymetrical factors like sand movement, or, uh… sand movement, but the fact remains that even at reef breaks you’ll find variance in consistency, size, and shape across similar “looking” swells.

As fate would have it, on this particular day in North Carolina, eight feet at eight seconds of SE swell with stiff west winds did just the trick.

Watch as Michael Dunphy, Evan and Eric Geiselman stuff themselves in pits of quantitative alignment.