Linkys Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let's have a look at what's on offer for this stretch.

Honestly, it's a pretty quiet run. The whole 16-day window is a flat spell for Linkys. There's nothing to get excited about, no waves worth paddling for. We're looking at a blank run that starts now and just keeps going. It’s just one of those periods where the ocean takes a nap.

For most of the first week and well into the next, we're talking tiny dribbles. Tuesday afternoon the 11th, you're looking at a 0.3ft dribble from the SE with a short 9-second period – that's not surf, that's a ripple. The combined swell energy is a weak 4. Wednesday the 12th through to Sunday the 16th, it's all 0.3ft to 1ft junk. Even with some glassy conditions on Wednesday morning, Thursday afternoon, and Saturday afternoon, there's just no power in the water to make it worth the walk down the rocks. The wind is light or glassy at times, but it doesn't matter when the swell is that small.

We don't get a sniff of anything until the 19th of August, Wednesday morning. There’s a glimmer of hope with a 2ft SE groundswell, period a decent 11 seconds, and combined energy finally ticking up to 59. The wind is offshore from the WSW, which will clean it up. But the guidance tells me this is an inconsistent, advanced reef and point break that only works with swell out of the NE, so the SE direction is off its game. The forecast says "surfable waves but very ordinary conditions," which is generous. I'd call it a small, weak option for the experts who know the place.

After that little bump, it flatlines again. The 20th through the 25th of August is all 0.7ft to 1ft dribble. The combined energy is weak, stuck between 30 and 40. The wind is cross-off or clean, but it's a waste of good wind on barely-there waves. Even the longer-period 13-second swell on the 22nd of August only gives us 0.7ft – a long-period groundswell with no height is just a bigger, slower ripple.

The best you could call it is Wednesday the 26th of August morning. We get a 3ft swell from the east, but with a choppy 5-second period and combined energy of only 45, it's weak windswell. The wind is cross, so it won't be clean. It's more interesting for the kite crew than anyone with a paddle.

So the long and the short of it? There are no standouts here. It's a flat, quiet 16 days. Sometimes this area just has a run of nothing, and this is one of them. Keep the board in the bag and watch the forecast.

Rusty

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