Cape Young Husband Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s cookin’ for Cape Young Husband.

We’ve got a serious run of solid-to-big SW groundswell on the way, but the problem is, this break is an exposed point that just can’t handle it when the swell gets too big. The water is 60°, which is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year, so the wetsuit might feel a touch more comfortable than usual.

For the first week, the swell is massive and mostly out of control for this spot. Wednesday the 2nd kicks it off with a 10ft SW groundswell packing very long 16-second periods and a huge 4657 wave energy for the morning. The wind is a clean W cross-off, so it looks beautiful, but the truth is, this wave is just going to be too much—pitching and closing out. It’s likely only for the brave and the experienced. The afternoon ramps up even more to 12ft, still clean but still too big.

Thursday the 3rd through Sunday the 6th is a washout of junk, with howling cross-onshore winds and swell heights pushing 13ft to 18ft and wave energy going nuclear into the tens of thousands (17839 on Saturday afternoon). This is not paddle surfing territory; if you’ve got a kite, that big cross-shore wind on Saturday might look interesting, but for a surfboard? Forget it. The water temperatures are missing from the data for most of these sessions, which is odd, but the message is the same: stay on the beach.

The first real glimmer of hope doesn’t show until the morning of Monday the 8th. The swell drops to 12ft, still too big for this break, but the wind is a light SSE cross-onso it’s ugly. That pattern of too-big swell continues right through until Wednesday the 10th.

Now, if you’re looking for the standout in this whole 16-day window, you have to skip way ahead to Friday the 11th of September. For the morning, we finally get a drop to a manageable 8ft SW swell, with a clean, moderate N offshore breeze blowing. The wave energy is down to a more reasonable 2367, and the conditions are noted as excellent for experienced surfers. This is the session to circle. The afternoon dips to 7ft with the same clean offshore, but it’s more marginal.

After that, things get messy again. Saturday the 12th has a cross-shore wind and a 8ft swell that’s lumpy, and Sunday the 13th turns onshore and lumpy again too.

Looking into the second week, there are a couple of promising little windows. Monday the 14th morning offers a clean 6ft SW swell with a light NE cross-off breeze and glassy conditions, rated excellent for experienced surfers. Then, Tuesday the 15th morning serves up a 5ft SW groundswell with a very long 17-second period and a clean NNW offshore. That long period will make it wall up, but with the clean wind, it’s a definite goer. Later that afternoon pushes to 7ft, still clean.

The final few days of the forecast (16th and 17th) see the swell ramping back up to 10ft to 15ft with poor to marginal conditions, so those earlier windows are the ones to chase. Overall, it’s a long wait for the payoff, but the 11th, 14th morning, and 15th morning are worth holding out for.

Rusty

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