Boneyards Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here, lookin' at the charts for the next couple of weeks. The swell window is open, but it's gonna be a real battle with the wind for most of it. The first week is a write-off, but there's a glimmer of something special if you're patient and can handle a heavy wave.

Alright, let's break it down. This whole forecast revolves around Boneyards, a heavy, advanced reef break. The early part of the run is a mess. Thursday the 3rd through to the end of the first week, we're dealing with a lot of onshore wind, mostly from the ESE and SSE, and the wave comment says it all: "poor surf conditions". The combined energy is high, hitting 1262 on Thursday and even 6729 on Sunday the 6th, but it's all that fresh cross-onshore wind making it lumpy and ugly. Not worth paddling out.

Things start to shift on Monday the 7th. The wind backs off, but the conditions are still just "marginal". The real glimmer comes on Tuesday the 8th of September. The morning is gonna be a standout. The swell is 4 ft from the SW with a period of 13 seconds, which is a nice, solid groundswell. The wind is a glassy 6 mph from the east. That's the magic word: glassy. The combined energy is a solid 1180, but the real story is the clean, smooth conditions. The wave comment says "excellent surf conditions for experienced surfers". This is a heavy reef, so it's not for the faint of heart, but for the advanced crew, this is the best moment of the whole outlook. It's a short window, though; the afternoon gets a bit onshore again.

The following week is a mixed bag. There's some clean, cross-off wind on Wednesday the 9th and Thursday the 10th, but the swell is small, under 4 ft. Then we get another pulse of energy, but it's mostly blown out again. The next real potential window is Monday the 14th of September. The afternoon is looking prime. The swell jumps to 10 ft from the SSW, with a period of 15 seconds, and the wind is a light cross-offshore from the SW. That's a heavy, powerful groundswell hitting a reef with clean conditions. The combined energy is a massive 4149, so there's a lot of juice in the water. Again, this is strictly for experts; 10 ft at this spot is serious business. The morning of the 14th is also decent, with 6 ft and clean cross-off wind, but the afternoon is the real highlight.

The rest of the week after that looks like average conditions, with onshore winds creeping back in by Friday the 18th. So, the two standouts in this whole run are the glassy morning of Tuesday, the 8th, and the powerful, clean afternoon of Monday, the 14th. If you're a charger, those are the sessions to mark on the calendar.

Rusty.

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