Crantock Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s take a look at what’s on offer for Crantock over the next couple of weeks. It’s a pretty quiet picture overall for most of the period, but there is one big, big exception if you’re willing to wait, and you're an expert.

For most of the run, we’re looking at small, weak conditions. Through Saturday the 11th and Sunday the 12th, expect tiny waves in the 2ft to 3ft range, mostly from the N or W. The winds are cross-off or cross, but with such little energy the surf is really nothing to get excited about. The combined swell energy is low, rarely climbing above 100. For the next week and a half, the pattern is dominated by small, poor surf with scores of zero.

We have a real gap from now until the end of the third week of July with no standout surf. Then, late on Thursday the 24th and into Friday the 25th the energy finally arrives, but it comes with a serious punch.

The one true standout on the board is Friday the 24th. On the Friday morning, the swell jumps to a solid 7ft from the W, with a combined energy reading of 408, and it builds further. By Friday afternoon at Crantock, we’ve got a thumping 12ft W swell with a combined energy of 1960. That is strong to very strong wave energy. The period is short at 9 seconds for the morning and only 7 seconds for the afternoon. This is a wind-swell event with a lot of power, but the period is short, so it will be a bit lumpy and hard to handle. The wind is cross-on from the NNW in the afternoon, creating some chop on top. At that size, over 8ft, this is strictly for experts only. Beginners should not even think about it. The water temperature is a touch warmer than normal for the time of year, sitting at 64°F.

After that energy spike, the weekend of the 25th and 26th still has some size but drops quickly. On Saturday the 25th we see 6ft in the morning and 5ft in the afternoon, all from the W, with combined energy in the moderate range (699 and 384). The wind is cross-on again, so it will be bumpy. By Sunday the 26th, it’s down to 4ft. The Sunday afternoon looks interesting because the wind goes glassy, calm, from ENE at 0 mph. That will be the cleanest window of the entire outlook. The waves are still ordinary, but glassy conditions on anything over 3ft at Crantock might just be worth a paddle if you’re desperate.

Crowds at Crantock are often an issue, so on that small, clean Sunday the 26th, expect company.

So here’s the bottom line: a long stretch of tiny, poor surf, then one big, powerful, expert-only spike on Friday the 24th that will be messy but exciting. And a very clean, small end to the period on Sunday the 26th.

Rusty.

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