Putsborough Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get into the outlook for Putsborough. I’m Rusty, and I’ve been watching this stretch of coast my whole life.

So, looking at the next sixteen days, I gotta be straight with you – it’s a pretty grim picture for most of it. We’ve got a long stretch of hardly anything worth paddling out for. The first real chance of a surfable wave doesn’t show up until the 9th, and even then, it’s really just a tease. The energy is just not there.

Let’s start with the early part of the week. Tuesday the 4th and Wednesday the 5th: we’re looking at a messy combo. The swell is there, around 3ft to 5ft from the WSW, but the wind is just wrecking it. A fresh breeze on Tuesday and a stronger one on Wednesday, all cross or cross-onshore means bumpy, lumpy lines that are no fun. The water is 65°, which is much warmer than normal for this time of year – a solid 2° anomaly – but it’s not enough to save the surf.

We drift into a real flat spell from Thursday the 6th right through to Sunday morning the 9th. These days have tiny, weak swell – we’re talking 0.7ft to 3ft – and very low combined wave energy (down to just 13 to 99 in the brackets). The wind does go glassy on the 8th and the 9th morning, which would be beautiful, but there’s nothing for the wind to groom.

The next real hope comes on Wednesday morning the 12th. We see a little 2ft swell from the west, with a light SSW cross-offshore breeze and clean conditions. The combined energy is still weak at 54, and it’s really only a small, ordinary wave. Not a standout.

Things get a little more interesting, but only just, around Friday the 14th. There’s a 6ft swell from straight west, and it’s pushing some moderate energy into the bay (311 in the brackets). But the wind is light and cross-onshore, which leaves small wind ripples on the face. The comment says “marginal,” and I’d agree – you might get a few, but it’s not clean.

The best of a bad lot, and the only real standout I can point to, is Wednesday the 19th. That’s a full two weeks away, so take it as a promising but uncertain call. We’re looking at a solid 7ft west swell, with a period of 8 seconds and a very high combined energy reading of 692. The wind is light, almost calm from the WNW, borderline offshore. That kind of energy on Putsborough with clean conditions could produce some powerful, lined-up waves. At 7ft, it’s getting into the zone that’s for experienced surfers only. If that wind holds, it’s the best shot we’ve got in the whole window. But the onshore winds on the afternoon of the 18th and the 19th afternoon are a worry, so the morning window will be key.

Honestly, for most of this period, the surf is so poor and the wind so messy that Putsborough looks more interesting for kite surfing than a proper paddle session. The 19th morning is the one to circle, but don’t plan your life around it.

Rusty.

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