Boscombe Pier Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's have a look at what's on the cards for Boscombe Pier over the next couple of weeks.

To be straight with you, it’s a pretty grim outlook. We’re looking at a long, quiet stretch before anything even remotely rideable pops up. The first solid recommendation doesn't show up for nearly two weeks, so we've got about 12 days of tiny or messy conditions to sit through before we see any real hope.

Right now, the water is a very unusual 71°F, much warmer than normal for this time of year. But that's about the only good news. For the rest of the first week and into the second, wave heights are mostly below 3ft with weak swell energy, and winds are all over the shop – mostly cross or onshore. There's a glassy morning on the 7th of August, but with swell at just 1ft, you’d be floating around on a lake.

We finally get a flicker of life on the morning of Monday, 17th of August. The swell jumps up to 10ft from the WSW, with a moderate cross-offshore wind blowing from the NW. The wave energy is strong, but the period is short at 8 seconds, meaning it'll be a bit fat and crumbly. This is expert-only territory; for a beach break setup like Boscombe Pier, that short period and size is going to dump heavy and fast. The guides reckon it’s only marginal, so don’t expect perfection.

That morning on the 17th is the only standout in the whole 16-day window, and it's a long way off. The rest of that Monday and the following days drop back down into weak, short-period junk. The morning of Thursday, the 20th of August, offers a clean 2ft wave with light winds, but it's ordinary at best.

So, to sum it up: there is literally nothing worth paddling out for until Monday the 17th of August, and even then, it's a raw, powerful, short-period wave only for the brave. For the rest of us, it’s a solid two-week waiting game. Don't hold your breath.

Rusty.

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