None of the young people wore coverings on their heads. Miss Belyea - Ocean City's star surfer who achieved a third international ranking in Australian competition as 14‐year‐old, and who prefers to be called “Barbie”-wore a newly developed two‐piece yellow rubber outfit called a “dry dock,” which permits the wearer to keep clothing on underneath the watertight suit. The young men wore neoprene, nylon‐lined wet suits. Tuesday, not as high as 6 to 8 feet, but several feet up, whipped into what surfers call a frothy “slop,” but up enough so that 16‐year‐old Barbara Belyea, Ted “Fred” Adams, 17, and Scott Schnell, 17, all Ocean City High School students, came down to the sea to surf.
But if the waves are up to 6 feet, creating curving “tunnels” as they break towards shore, then the young surfers come to the beach-before school in the morning, often before most people are awake after school until dusk-to see if the waves are up. Cold is not significant, nor is water temperature, nor is the amount of wind. In Ocean City, now regarded as the Surfing Capital of the East Coast, weather is important only as an indicator of the quality of the waves. If you're young, own a wet suit and a 6‐foot, 10‐pound finned boat‐shaped piece of plastic sheathed in fiberglass called a surfboard, then such a morning is just another morning on which to paddle out a quarter‐mile and ride’ the crests in. Shivery, blustery and wet -an average winter morning in this Cape May County resort city-a time to go inside somewhere and batten down. The gray‐green surf cresting shoreward toward the 10th Street stretch of boardwalk here was in the 30's. The wind, blowing steadily out of the north at 20 knots an hour, forced the alreadyfreezing air down to 18 degrees. A thin border of ice clung to the beach where the tide had run in during the below‐freezing night. OCEAN CITY-Last Tuesday morning at a few minutes after 6, the sky was turning from black to overcast gray.
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