Jennette's Pier Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s look at what’s cookin’ at Jennette’s Pier. Gotta be straight with you – it's gonna be a long, quiet stretch before we see anything worth paddling out for.

For the next week or so, honestly, it’s flat and frustrating. We’ve got barely a ripple, with combined swell energy stuck in the weak zone (under 100) and junk wind messing up what little there is. From Tuesday the 25th right through to the end of the month, every session is either tiny or blown out. You’ll see a few clean-ish moments on Friday the 28th afternoon with a light offshore, but with waves only around 2 ft, it’s barely a knee-high dribble. Not worth getting the wetsuit wet for.

We finally get a little bump in energy around the 1st of September, with a 15-second period groundswell pushing in, giving combined energy of 98 on the Tuesday morning. But at 1 ft, it’s still tiny and tricky. By Wednesday the 2nd, things get interesting for a blink – glassy conditions on the morning with a 2 ft, 12-second E swell (108 energy). It’s surfable but very ordinary. The real tease comes Friday the 4th: a sudden spike of 6 ft NE swell, but the period drops to 8 seconds and the wind is cross-on, making it a messy, choppy mess. The combined energy jumps to 754, which is moderate-to-strong, but the quality is "marginal." For a beach/jetty setup, that short-period, onshore junk is more of a kite-surfing afternoon than a proper paddle session.

The one true standout comes on Saturday the 5th of September. The morning looks like the best window in the whole 16-day period. We’ve got a solid 3 ft of E swell, but the period stretches out to 12 seconds – that’s a proper long-period groundswell bringing shape and energy (366 combined energy). The kicker is the wind: a light NNW cross-offshore. That’ll clean up the faces real nice. This is the one to circle on the calendar. The swell direction is from the east, and for Jennette’s Pier, which is exposed and optimised for NE, this easterly still works fine. It’s an intermediate-level wave, and with “sometimes” crowds, you might see a few others with the same idea. Just be aware, a long-period swell like this can make beach breaks a bit straight and fast, but the pier structure often helps sort it out.

After that, the swell fades fast. Sunday the 6th and Monday the 7th get hammered by strong onshore easterlies (up to 19 mph) with waves in the 3-4 ft range, but the wind will make it a washing machine. Avoid. The second week fizzles out with weak, onshore slop.

Hang tight, save your energy for that Saturday morning session on September 5th. Might be worth a dawny.

Rusty.

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