Fenway Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, strap in, because it’s a bit of a flat, frustrating stretch ahead for Fenway Beach. The first couple of days are a total scratch – tiny, messy, cross-onshore slop with hardly any push. You’ll be staring at dribble on Saturday and Sunday, with weak energy readings (80 and 56) and nothing but whitecaps to show for it. The kind of weekend you sleep in and fix the dings.

We get a little bump of energy early next week, but it’s not going to save us. On Monday the 3rd, the swell tries to pick up to about 4ft, and the energy climbs into the moderate range (196 and 302), but it's wind-blown and rainy. The cross-onshore wind is going to chop it all up. Not worth paddling out for unless you’re desperate.

Then there’s a tiny window on Tuesday morning, the 4th. The wind swings to a light cross-offshore, and the ocean goes clean. Swell is around 4ft from the south with an 8-second period – lumpy, but rideable. It’s a 1/10 score, but honestly, it’s the only clean waves we see for a while. Don’t expect much, but if you’ve got an hour, it’s something.

After that, we slide back into the doldrums. The rest of the first week and into the second week is just onshore junk and weak swell, with the energy sitting in the weak range most of the time. There are a few windows where the onshore wind drops – like Wednesday morning the 12th with a light north offshore and about 3ft of swell, and Friday morning the 14th with a gentle offshore and only 1ft – but the swell is too small to do anything with. You’re scratching for knee-high dribble.

The most interesting day on the board is Saturday the 15th. We get a bit of a pulse back, 3ft from the south with an 8-second period, and light cross-offshore winds. It’s still small and won’t be a classic, but it’s the cleanest surf of the whole run. It’s a promise, not a guarantee – long-range stuff can change.

The long-range window on the 16th shows a longer period swell (11 seconds) but from the east-southeast, which isn’t ideal, and it’s only 1ft. Not worth the paddle.

All in all, this is a rough 16-day outlook. The only real nod goes to Tuesday morning the 4th for the clean conditions, and Saturday the 15th for the slightly better combo of size and wind. Keep your expectations low, and maybe tune the kite gear up – some of those afternoons with 15-18 mph southwesterly winds and lumpy cross-onshore surf are way more interesting for a kite than a surfboard.

Stay patient.

Rusty

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