Surfing Rhode Island, especially on a day such as this, is not for the faint of heart. Bob Mancini and Andrew Wright were at Narragansett Town Beach on Thursday at the crack of dawn, hoping to ride the waves without so much as a surfboard. Laura Fontaine of Burrillville was content to watch from the safety of the parking lot at Camp Cronin, iPhone in hand, struggling to capture the spray as the big waves crashed onto the rocks. “Every time I come to Rhode Island there’s a hurricane off the coast,” she said, laughing. He added: “When waves are like this down in Narragansett, you always see a lot of people come out.