The nice thing about a longboard contest is that you don’t really need a whole lot of waves – especially when you’re talking vintage, ’60s longboards. In fact the ideal waves for such boards are knee to chest-high peelers with light or offshore winds. This summer on Long Beach Island has had countless mornings with clean, little surf. Last Saturday, the date slated for the Alliance for a Living Ocean/Wooden Jetty LBI Longboard Classic, just didn’t happen to be one of them.
Instead, the event was plagued with a 25-knot northeast blast, intermittent drizzle and 3- to 4-foot storm surf at…
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