Category: News

A Note on American Unity

By: Bella Costa, RSM Intern In the aftermath of the capitol insurrection in Washington D.C., leading to deaths, arrests, and a larger sense of discord and grief sweeping the country, we would be remiss not to address and unpack some of what our readers may be feeling. What happened earlier this year and what has […]

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South Swell & Combo Swell Light Up NJ

Back to back: NJ and the greater East Coast surf community got some sizable surf as the Winter Solstice date grew closer. It started on the 1st of December with a large two-day South swell event. It got big and scary with some offshore-ish conditions that made everyone assume it would be an easy surf. […]

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Hurricane Teddy in NY and NJ

The wave machine has been on for a while now. Finally, there has been some time to go through photos. We bring you the Hurricane Teddy swell gallery from the URN / RSM lens. Teddy was the biggest storm of the season, sending swell to the East Coast for a full week. There were before […]

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Hurricane Paulette Swell Gallery

September 2020. This is most certainly the future, ladies and gents, a strange one at that. This month’s weather has been iffy due to five (count em) five tropical cyclone systems hanging around. Already, the 2020 Hurricane season has used all storm names on offer and will continue using the Greek alphabet (Alpha’s coming). Even […]

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Turn the Tide: Protect our Oceans

August 25, 2020 Philadelphia Artist collaborates with CBD start-up AllayBox to support LoveBlueInc. PHILADELPHIA — AllayBox, a leader in online retail, offering a personalized and convenient way to shop for CBD, today unveiled their August subscription box shining a light on ocean clean up and marine restoration. The August Box, titled “Turn the Tide,” is […]

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August’s Post-Tropical Cyclone: ISAIAS

There’s no denying the Tropical Storm Isaias era of this Summer 2020 provided for East Coast surfers. In the week before Isaias, there was a 12-second, ESE swell that ignited an end-of-July & early-August surf fest. Isaias was lighting up Florida & the Southeast as NJ received fun, chest-high South swell conditions before the day […]

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MDW Beer Chugg Surf Contest

The now-annual Beer Chugg Surfing Competition on Rambler Road in Wildwood Crest, NJ has run for two straight years. The competitors have enjoyed sunny, offshore conditions and 2-3 foot surf both years–signaling that the gods are smiling upon our high-performance activities. In the end it was Ryan Gallagher (Rambler Surf Mag Editor and this year’s […]

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Vote Today: RSM’s East Coast Board Builders Roundup

We’ve been wanting to increase our coverage of East Coast board builders for a while now. So, in that spirit we’re holding a voting period to determine who RSM will cover in our next print issue. Using initial suggestions and some of our own research, we chose board makers from up and down the East […]

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Weekend Surf Bender

Anyone else spend 10+ hours in the water this weekend? It was there for the taking with a Wintertime swell that mimicked Hurricane Season’s posterboy–Dorian. This long period, East swell delivered in a big way for New York and New Jersey. What’s more, the Cold War surf contest ran on Long Beach Island, NJ–syncing the […]

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RAMBLER RELEASE PARTY: VOL. 2 ISSUE 3

Last weekend, the only American East Coast surf publication in print debuted the magazine’s latest edition. Saturday, February 22, 2020 was another Rambler Release party for the books. RSM Vol. 2 Issue 3 was officially unveiled to a supportive crowd at the Asbury Park Yacht Club. Party goers came from their local Monmouth County, NJ dwellings, from nearby cities like Philadelphia & […]

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