🏄♀️ Beginner Surfing Trip 🏄
- Leaders
- Blox Bloxie Bloxham (she/they) (Surfing Leader), Lulu Russell (Surfing Leader), Taryn Johnson (Surfing chair)
- Program
- Boating
- Type
- Surfing
- Trip date
- Sunday, August 6th, 2023
- Difficulty rating
- Easy
- Prerequisites
- Must be able to swim
Join us on a MITOC beginner surf trip on Sunday, August 6. Depending on the wave forecast, we will go to Nahant Beach in MA (if there are no waves we will go to Hampton, NH). We will meet at 8:30am (arriving earlier than that to park) and after a lesson on the beach, we will plan to surf from about 9 to 11am.
This is a great trip for folks who have never surfed before, or beginner surfers who want to improve. We will be going over surfing basics: how to read waves, paddle out safely, pop up on your board, proper surf etiquette, and of course, riding the waves!
You must be able to swim in order to join this trip. We will have a mandatory pre-trip meeting at the MITOC boathouse (N52, not by the river) on Thursday evening at 7pm to go over the plan for the day and to rent gear. Surfboards and wetsuits both are available to rent from MITOC, but you are also welcome to bring your own gear if you have it.
Costs: • $20 rental fee for both a surfboard and wetsuit ($10 if you only need one of these items) • Parking fees & gas (shared costs for each car)
Signup
- Algorithm
- first-come, first-serve
- Maximum participants
- 6
- Signups opened at
- July 28, 2023, 10:41 a.m.
- Signups closed at
- Aug. 1, 2023, noon
- Notes
- Do you know how to swim?
- Have you ever surfed before?
- Do you have your own gear?
- Do you have a car that could transport (8-foot long) surfboards (either inside or on the roof)?
- If we move the trip to Saturday due to weather, could you still attend the trip?
- What is your favorite ocean animal?