"I still have to figure out the best way to ride it, get the barrel and make it happen on a higher level, but what an honor!"
The New Jersey vlogger, reformed booze artist and high-end intermediate surfer Ben Gravy has again created history by riding what, I think, is easily the biggest and just as easily the roundest, wave accidentally created by a ferry.
“I’m still completely in awe of what we witnessed on this novelty trip,” Gravy writes. “This is by far the biggest and most perfect ferry wave I have ever seen in my life! I still have to figure out the best way to ride it, get the barrel and make it happen on a higher level, but what an honor it is to make a dream trip like this happen!”
Ben Gravy’s YouTube channel has almost quarter-of-a-million subscribers and so many little films you could watch them back to back on a rocket ship and not even be halfway through ’em as you touch down on Mars.
Gravy is a man who ain’t afraid to move to the beat of his own drum as he chases six-inch novelty waves that break for five hundred yards or waiting days, months, for the right conditions, tide and ferry schedules, to snatch these sorta fleeting moments.
You ever seen a boat wake this sexy? If you weren’t a Ben Gravy convert before are you now?
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Yea. They have a name for it, apparently. A Glacial Lake Outburst Flood. Triggered by the earthquake. Heavy stuff
who got the watch??
strider or joe? occy?
Gonna do a ferry surf camp boat tour somewhere on the Great Lakes or the Gulf,
or something. Week long trip to all the perfect but flat setups and blast some ferry dust all over that shit…
Some even like and subscribe!
you’ll seeing the cctv footage of the flash floods/landslides in Nepal/ Tibet/China?
I think that what I’m seeing has overtaken the Japanese footage from 2011 as the craziest shit I’ve ever seen carried out by nature. My eyes simply can’t comprehend the scale of the disaster. Can start with the Gyirong Port cctv footage.
One thing about climate change is that there is a lot of drought. The other things is that when it rains it really, really rains.
I don’t think I am prepared.
Xox
I once heard that climate change occurred back in the 1930s in places like Elo’s home state of Oklahoma and in Europe in the 1400s causing deadly hailstorms and tornadoes!
Dust Bowl proof we can and do change climate.
China’s green wall on the edge of the Goji desert has also altered the climate in that area.
Don’t argue with climate denying morons though. If they won’t listen to the majority of the world’s climatologists, and all of the IPCC, then they won’t listen to you. They’re kinda special like that.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c… One kine crop look mo’ bettah…alllriiight.
The moment i saw he was being towed in, on a ferry wave i gave his footage a fairy wave and turned it off.
weak as piss if you cant paddle
I thought this was article was about me, until I realised the FORMER part…
I think the appeal of Ben Gravy is that he offers a parasocial bro friendship. Since I grew up surfing in Orange County I know about two dozen recovering alcoholics who can surf as good as good or better than him so his content never really appealed to me.
My sober buddies tell me I was never strong enough to be an alcoholic as it takes fortitude to drink a handle of vodka daily until you hit rock bottom. So I suck at drinking and surfing.
You gotta be strong until it makes you weak.
Truer words have never been spoken!
Ms Rocks almost left me early in our relationship after a run of black out drunk episodes , was already in my 40s coming out of a rough situation w/ first marriage , overall rough times, etc
had never had substance issues before – apparently that devil was lurking in my soul and didn’t come out til later in life. Didn’t go cold turkey but did jerk the reins pretty hard , scared straight , ha
Love this and that devil is real! Mrs Madeoff was warned about me when we first started dating due to recent past deeds including my wake call event in March of ’89 I refer to as the van surfing escapade in Vegas that may or may not have involved a mixture of cocaine, shrooms and tequila.
van surfing escapades sounds like a story worth telling !!
You ever seen this website? I liked this article. Some serious history here. One to save for later
https://floridasurfmuseum.org/talking-story/very-early-florida-surfing-history
have perused it here and there , but has been a while – need to go back and read that one
And six months later I met Mrs Madeoff in a Breckenridge bar.
‘in a Breckenridge bar’ sounds like the title of a truly great song
I hadn’t considered that so I’ll write the lyrics and report back. The day began with a mtn bike ride on the Peaks trail from Frisco to Breck followed by Mexican food and a pregame featuring a 12 pack of Bud and a bottle of Cuervo for four degenerates. The future Mrs Madeoff, recent UNC Chapel Hill spring grad, met me in fine form.
I know Alchoholics that surf way better than him. Its a channel for kooks.
0:20 –
The Yarmouth, Nova Scotia to Bar Harbor, Maine ferry route is a highly scenic international marine crossing that links Atlantic Canada with the United States. Operated by Bay Ferries Limited, (BFL logo on boat) the high-speed catamaran known as The CAT cuts down hours of driving around the Gulf of Maine by directly crossing the water.
The provincial flag of Nova Scotia, Canada, which features a white field defaced with a blue saltire (an inverse of the Scottish St. Andrew’s Cross)
The boat in that clip is The CAT—It’s operated by Bay Ferries running between Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and Bar Harbor, Maine across the Gulf of Maine.
Built by Incat down in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
The Design: Twin-hull configuration with a wave-piercing center bow and heavy water-jet propulsion designed to slice through waves smoothly at high speeds (up to 40+ knots) while maintaining stability, maximizing fuel efficiency, and reducing overall resistance and motion sickness.
Look out we’ve got ourselves an evolutionary physicist here.
Xox
I called the JSC cunt out and he completely changed his post to match the the correct information I’d discovered that he had missed by a country mile. Much fingering of Anoos
If I could upvote to infinity this comment would get it
Haha well done, I can’t see the tripe that weird cunt writes as he has me blocked again.
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Bay Ferries Limited has more than one ferry . . . who would have thought!
You left the door open I couldn’t help but step through
If I am not spot-on correct the first time, I can be correct the second time –
Tow’d in?…..sigh…..no time for this.