Moody Point Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s take a look at what’s cookin’ for Moody Point over the next couple weeks. Honestly, I gotta level with you – it’s a pretty bleak stretch. This spot is an advanced reef break, and it’s inconsistent as all get out. We’ve got a 16-day window, and there is barely a single session I’d paddle out for.

The water’s sitting at 68°F, which is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year. That’s about it for the good news.

The whole run is plagued by small, weak swell. We start on the 16th of August with a tiny 0.7ft SSE swell, period at 9 seconds. The combined energy is just 9 – that’s weak, flat energy. On top of that, we’ve got onshore winds and the comment says it all: poor surf conditions. This sets the tone.

Monday the 17th and Tuesday the 18th aren’t much better – still under 3ft, mostly from the SSE, with cross-onshore winds. The energy climbs a bit to 145 on Tuesday afternoon when we hit a 4ft SE swell, but the wind is straight onshore and the period is a low 8 seconds. It’s messy and uninviting.

We roll through the rest of that week and into the next, and it’s just more of the same. The swell barely tops 4ft on the 25th, but it’s a short-period 5-second wind swell from the ESE, with cross-onshore wind. The energy hits 101, but it’s a lumpy, ugly combo.

The only glimmers come on the 21st of August morning and again on the 29th and 30th of August. On the 21st morning, we get a glassy 1ft SE swell with 9-second period. It’s tiny but clean – surfable but very ordinary. Same story on the 29th morning and the 30th morning: glassy or clean conditions with 1ft to 2ft SE swell. These are the only sessions where the score even reaches a 1 out of 10. If you are desperate for a longboard and just want to feel the glide on a tiny ripple, those are your moments. But it’s not proper surf.

There’s a long gap in anything worthwhile. From the 16th all the way through to the end of the month, there isn’t a single standout. The swell energy values are almost all two-digit numbers – weak to barely moderate. The only time it climbs to three digits is on the 18th afternoon (145), the 25th afternoon (101), the 26th afternoon (151), and the 27th morning (181), but each time the wind is wrong or the period is short, killing any quality.

Moody Point is an exposed reef that wants a decent SE swell with clean winds, and we aren’t getting that combo. The optimum direction is SE, and the swell does come from that direction sometimes, but it’s just too small and wind-affected. With it being inconsistent, this blank run isn’t totally shocking for the area.

Bottom line: leave the board in the car. The 21st morning and the 29th/30th mornings offer the only clean, glassy conditions, but the swell is tiny. Nothing here gets me excited. The forecasts can always change, but right now, it’s a flat spell.

Rusty.

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