Horseneck Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s cooking at Horseneck Beach. I gotta be straight with you – we’ve got a long, quiet stretch ahead. This sandbar setup needs a solid push from the southeast, but for most of the next two weeks, we’re staring down small, choppy, cross-onshore slop. There’s a good gap of nothing from the start until late August.

Saturday the 22nd and Sunday the 23rd – tiny, messy waves, cross-off wind early Saturday but the swell is basically flat at 1 ft to 2 ft with no energy to speak of. Not worth paddling out. That carries on through the whole week, with mostly south-west winds chopping up any little bump.

Monday the 25th afternoon sees the swell just tickling 3 ft from the SSW, but the period is a weak 4 seconds – that’s windswell junk. The wind is cross-off from the west at 12 mph, so it’ll look clean on the surface, but there’s no power behind it. The water temp is sitting around 72°F, which is about normal for this time of year.

We finally get a tiny window of hope on Saturday the 29th of August. The swell bumps up to 3-3 ft from the south with a period of 7 seconds, and the wind turns cross-off from the northwest and west-northwest. The combined energy reads a moderate 83 to 100 – still just small, surfable waves but very ordinary. It’s clean though, so if you’re desperate, it’s a chance for a grovel. The water temp anomaly is only 2°F above normal, so nothing weird going on there.

After that, it’s back to tiny dribble. There’s a moment on Wednesday the 2nd of September afternoon where the combined energy jumps to 128 (moderate wave energy) with a 2 ft SSE swell and an 11-second period, but the wind is directly onshore from the south. That’s a no-go for paddle surfing – if you’ve got a kite, maybe it’s interesting.

The best-looking day in the whole run is Thursday the 3rd of September morning. A clean 4 ft south swell with a 6-second period, cross-off wind from the north-northeast at 6 mph, and a combined energy of 103. It’s small, but it’s the only time we get a clean waist-high wave with some puff. This is for the longboard or a funboard. Crowds are possible here, but with conditions this average, it might just be you and the gulls.

That’s it, folks. A lot of flat and choppy days. Don’t sell the wetsuit just yet, but don’t get your hopes up either.

Rusty.

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