By anonymous, 18-07-2005 An Outsider’s Opinion - I live in florida and have visited wilm-ington many times.I Back to 1967. Allison is goofy-footed and he has his weight on his back foot to stall his speed. From deep in the pit he can see light and he’s got to make it out before he gets to the boulders. With a lean forward and a cross step he feels the tube close around him. It spits him out, along with a stream of salt spray before his single fin and a protruding rusty metal scrap meet unceremoniously. Submerged four feet below the surface of what seems like a macrocosmic washing machine, he swims for the surface while his board clangs on the southern boulders, acquiring several dings that will later serve as battle scars. “No one who surfed The Cove on a regular basis came out of the water unscathed. If the coquina rocks did not get you, the southern boulders did. The more north-erly surfed crystal pier and the old center pier on good swells. I liked C.B.better because of more options like the pier on the north end and the cove and that wall on the south end. The locals were all pretty cool and not nearly as agressive as where I am from,so set waves were easly had.I caught the cove four times epic and a few times good. It is alot like stuart rocks,just not as big. When it all comes together it lines up like a point.I thought I was going to marry a local girl and move to Wilmington so the only thing I had to look forward to was surfing the cove. Well that fell through and thats for the best because the water gets way to cold up there.So thanks to her I’ll never return but I’ll never forget my surfs at the cove!!! By Your Bra, 25-09-2002 Hey Yokel - Coming out from So. Cal. Just to ride some Hurricane Swell. Looking forward to meeting you in the line up. Mid-1970s Fort Fisher Cove’s left-breaking wave. the great sea swell, the better the surfing conditions, as the wave crossed the rock reef. The left faces were unusually long, well-shaped, point break waves and I got my share of tube rapture there,” recalls surfer and surf historian Joe “Skipper” Funderburg. Funderburg is near the nose of his custom New Hanover High School Wildcat orange nine-foot, six-inch Lank Lancaster East Coast surfboard. He takes a step back and adopts
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