Coastguard Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, folks, let’s get into it. Coastguard’s been flat as a pancake for days, a real test of patience. But I’m looking at the charts and there are a few little pulses of energy trying to get their act together. It’s going to be a quiet run until the end of the month, so don’t be in a rush to get wet unless you’re happy on a log cruising tiny rip bowls.

The start of this stretch has nothing worth suiting up for. We’re stuck in a run of tiny, weak, and mostly junky conditions. Just a lot of cross and onshore chop messing with what little push there is. There’s a window around the 21st where a bit more swell rolls in, but it’s coming with a strong cross-onshore wind, so the surface is going to be lumpy and basically a write-off. The following week is all about light offshore breezes but with almost no swell. You’d be scratching for knee-high dribblers on a good day.

Now, here’s the one real highlight, and it’s a long way out. On the 24th, we finally get a pulse of combo swell that pushes the energy into the moderate zone (104 units in the morning, getting up to 128 units by the afternoon). The wave heights jump to chest high, in the 4ft to 4.5ft range, coming from the ESE. The period is only around 6 to 7 seconds, so it’s a bit of a messy, windswelly thing, not a clean groundswell. But with a light offshore wind in the morning, it will likely be the most clean and rideable it’s been in ages. It won’t be perfect, but it’s surf.

The real spike, and the one true standout of the whole 16-day run, hits on the 30th. The energy jumps into a whole new league (1137 units in the morning, 1281 by the afternoon), and the swell comes up to a solid 8ft. The direction is clean out of the NE, and the period stretches out to a longer 9-10 seconds. This is the real deal. It will be powerful and pushy, but still, the wind stays cross, which isn't ideal. This is not a beginner wave – at 8ft it’s definitely in expert territory, and the short period for that size means it will be walled-up and thick. You want to be at a break that can handle that kind of raw, east energy. The water is at 66.2°, which is right near normal for this time of year, so no surprises there.

I wouldn’t bother with the rest, honestly. There’s some stuff around the 29th that might offer a clean but smaller wave (3ft to 5ft), but the wind is inconsistent. The 30th is definitely the day to circle on the calendar if you’ve got the skills and the guts. Everything else is flat, junky, or both.

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