Hoosic

A fun park and play surf wave in a section that is mostly flat or fast moving water. Hard eddy lines, boils and a bouncy surf are there at higher levels.

Put in by walking across the train tracks on a well-beaten track.

The wave (sometimes more of a hole) stretches across the entire river, with two powerful eddies on river right and river left that provide eddy service and will essentially carry you back up. It is formed by a shelf that drops off at the bottom. Great place to practice combat rolling, as if you don't roll right away, you'll be swallowed up in the boils/small whirlpools below and need to wait it out before rolling.

At levels from 250-350, the wave is a bit more retentive, and can be side surfed.

At 350-750 cfs on the Williamstown gauge, the wave is a fun, bouncy, surf, with strong boils and funny water in the runout. It's possible to catch the wave from either side, good practice to surf in on the V from river right. At this level, a playboat is much preferred for surfing as longer boats tend to get caught in the downstream flow and flipped. At medium to low levels a fun seam opens up on river right, where you can side surf and practice flat spins.

At 1500+ cfs, the surfing wave becomes a cycling monster, where it switches from a glassy wave to a monster breaking wave in ~15 secs. Haven't tried to surf it yet, but I'm hesistant to say it'd be surfable, as the monster breaking wave is pointed downstream and looks super flushy.

Note: I'm still working out the correlation between these two USGS gauges, one downstream (Eagle Bridge, NY) and one upstream (Williamstown, MA). For now, I have more beta on the upstream gauge correlation, but the downstream gauge may be a better indication of actually how much water is in the river. Neither gauge is great though, as there are multiple dams in

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