Beavers Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, grab your board, it's Rusty here. We’ve got a bit of a flat spell to wade through before things get interesting, so let's break down this 16-day window for Beavers.

Right off the bat, things are pretty grim. For the first week, from now through the 9th of August, there’s barely a ripple. The swell is tiny, mostly under 3ft, coming from the west-northwest with a short period. The energy is weak—we're talking combined energy readings of 68 to 226, which is just a lackluster pulse. The water temp is a very unusual 70°F, a serious jump from the long-term average, which is a wild thing to see. The winds are light, which is the only positive, but with waves that small, it's just a flat, clean pond. It’s not worth paddling out for; you'd be floating more than surfing.

The weekend of the 9th and 10th is still poor. The swell stays small, and while the energy picks up a little into the 200s, it's still not enough to get excited about. The 10th sees the first 'marginal' call, but with an onshore SSW wind, it's still not making me want to rush out.

The next week, things start to build, but slowly. We're looking at the 15th and 16th for the real change. The energy climbs into the 300s and 400s, and the swell starts to push over 3ft. The 16th is interesting—wind straight out of the west at 9 mph, but the swell gets a jump to 5ft with a period of only 6 seconds. That short period is key; it's going to be a windswell and likely messy.

The real standout, and I mean the only one in this whole run, is the morning of the 17th of August. The swell is 5ft from the west-northwest with a bit more period, and the light, cross-on SW wind should keep it from being complete junk. That's still a mediocre period and it's only rated as 'marginal'. You'd be looking at it with low expectations.

After that, the 18th shows a drop back down to 4ft, but with a poor 8-second period and a stronger west wind picking up. It looks like the ocean just can't get its act together.

Honestly, for the first 12 days, the lineup at Beavers is not worth your time. It’s a beach and reef set-up that needs a solid, clean swell to work, and we're not getting it. The consistent pattern of small, onshore wind swell is just not doing it. There are some windows with light winds, but there's simply not enough push. To be blunt, we're in the weeds here. I'd rather talk about the solid 5ft forecast for the 17th, but that's a week and a half out, so take that with a grain of salt—long-range calls are always a bit iffy. It’s the only thing that looks like it might be worth a paddle in the whole damn 16 days.

When the swell finally gets a bit of size and the quality is poor, with the wind mostly cross-onshore, I gotta say the setup at Beavers might look more interesting for the kite surfers than us paddle surfers.

That’s the look from where I’m standing. Hang tight, keep the boards waxed, and hope that late call for the 17th comes through.

Rusty.

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