Pilgrim Avenue Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s have a look at Pilgrim Avenue. This is a reef and point set-up, and it’s fairly consistent, but honestly, mates, the next 16 days are looking flat as a pancake. There’s a real gap in any decent surf, with nothing but tiny, weak swells and poor surf conditions for the vast majority of the period. We’ve got a long stretch of tiny waves from Sunday, August 30, all the way through to the second week of September. The water temp is sitting around 70°F, which is about normal for this time of year.

The overall pattern is one of very low energy, with combined swell energy mostly in the 10-30 range (weak) and only a few days creeping into the low 100s (moderate). For the first week, the swell is consistently tiny, below 2 ft, and period is short, under 8 seconds. The wind is often cross-off but it just doesn’t matter when the swell is that small. There’s a small bump on Wednesday, September 2, with swell up to 5 ft, but it's a messy, short-period windswell from the SE with onshore winds. That’s going to be a write-off. The same happens again on Tuesday, September 8, with a 5 ft SE swell and combined energy of 217 (moderate), but the wind is onshore and the conditions are marginal at best. Even then, the swell direction is SE, not the optimum SSE, so it’s not lining up well.

The one standout—if you can call it that—is the morning of Thursday, September 10. We’ve got a 2 ft swell from SSE, which is the optimum direction for Pilgrim Avenue, with a cross-off wind from the SSW. The combined energy is 103 (moderate), and the period is a reasonable 9 seconds. The report says "surfable waves but very ordinary conditions." It’s not going to be epic, but it’s the only time in the whole forecast period where the swell direction lines up, the wind is clean, and the size is just about rideable. Paddling out will be easy. Crowds are possible, but with such ordinary conditions, it might not be too busy.

For the rest of the second week, it’s back to tiny, gutless swell. The morning of Friday, September 11, has glassy conditions with a 2 ft SSW swell, but again, it’s just too small to get excited about. The last few days of the forecast, from September 12 to 14, see offshore winds but swell barely registers at 0.7 ft. It’s a flat spell.

So, the honest truth is: if you’re desperate for a paddle, Thursday, September 10, in the morning is your best bet for a few clean, slow waves. Otherwise, Pilgrim Avenue is looking like a long, quiet stretch. Don’t hold your breath.

Rusty

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