"TROPICAL STORM IRENE" - OUT THERE: Northeast's cold waves draw summer surfers in mainstream sport (Newsday.com)

OUT THERE: Northeast's cold waves draw summer surfers in mainstream sport (Newsday.com)
WELLFLEET, Mass. -- Four boys emerged from the small crowd of surfers floating 40 yards out, paddled hard for five or six strokes, jumped up on short boards and slid fast down the smooth hump of water as it broke into white foam.