Jeffreys Bay might be off the Championship Tour, but the waves are still chugging in as if the event never existed. While we’ll be deprived of CT surfers carving up the faces at Supertubes this season, South African ripper Adin Masencamp has shown that he can do a pretty damn good job at filling in.
When a rare summer swell jolted the slumbering point break, Masencamp decided to strike J-Bay from Cape Town. Summer time meant extra hours of surfing, and minimal crowds in the offseason. He wasn’t disappointed in making the drive.
“A solid swell developed off the coast of South Africa — and this was one of those forecasts I watched obsessively… right down to the final update before pulling the trigger,” said Masencamp. “Summer swells here can be fickle. They look perfect on paper…and then disappear.”
“There was plenty of debate. Plenty of ‘what ifs,’” he added. “But we rolled the dice and committed to the seven-hour mission from Cape Town — and wow, Jeffreys Bay absolutely delivered. Scoring Supertubes firing in peak summer?”
Masencamp said it was a special trip. I think anyone would be grinning after laying as much rail as he did during the swell. Adin — and other South African surfers will certainly be making the most of this CT-less season at J-Bay.
