Pilgrim Avenue Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Gutted, honestly. The next sixteen days are shaping up as one of those stretches where you’d be better off re-waxing the boards, checking your fins, and maybe taking up a new hobby. The swell’s just not showing for Pilgrim Avenue (South Coast). There’s nothing on the table that’s going to get my heart racing, and that’s the long and short of it.

Let’s break it down. Right out of the gate, from Friday the 7th through Monday the 11th, it’s a write-off. We’ve got some tiny, short-period swell – nothing over 4ft and mostly under that – coming from the SSW, but the energy is just pathetic, with weak values like 55 and 66. The wind is cross-off, but it doesn’t matter when there’s nothing to push. The size is enough for a foam board maybe, but the period is a dismal 6-8 seconds, so it’s just mushy and unorganized. You’d be fighting for scraps.

The middle of the window isn’t much better. Tuesday the 11th is pure flat. The 13th throws a tease at us with some long-period energy (14 seconds) but the swell height is a joke at 0.3ft, and the energy is barely a whisper at 15. That’s not surf, that’s a ripple. We do get a slight bump on Friday the 14th, where the afternoon pulls in 3ft SSW swell with a period of 8 seconds and moderate energy of 140. The wind goes offshore, and it will be clean, but it’s still really marginal. I’d call it a knee-high dribble at best. That’s the closest we get to a highlight, and it’s a low bar.

The second week stays bleak. Conditions remain clean for most of it, but the swell just never materializes. We get a bit more wind on the 19th and 20th, with the swell direction shifting around to the ESE, but the size stays small and the periods short. The 20th morning has some offshore wind and 3ft of ESE swell, but with a 6-second period, it’s not going to break with any sort of power.

Honestly, the only time the energy even breaks into the moderate range is on the 19th afternoon (166) and the 21st morning (112), but they’re tied to junky, short-period swells. The 21st afternoon has a bit of energy (86) with an 8-second S swell and a bit of offshore wind, but it’s still just more of the same – ordinary, weak, and uninspiring.

For the love of god, don’t bring beginners out if anything over 5ft shows up on the forecast, but that’s not a problem we’re going to have. This is a blank run, plain and simple. The spot is fairly consistent, so this is an off-period, and with forecasts this far out, things can change, but right now, this is a no-go. The kites look better than the surfboards with this kind of onshore junk and minimal swell.

Signing off with a heavy heart,

Rusty

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