Rimmers Road Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, this is Rusty, and I’ve got the full 16-day look for Rimmers Road. Let's get into it.

The surf window starts with some big, powerful groundswell rolling in, but early on, it’s just too damn big for this spot. Tuesday morning, July 7th, we’ve got an 12ft WSW groundswell rippling through with a 16-second period—that’s a long-period, proper energy swell. The combined energy reading is massive, at 5751 (strong). Problem is, that’s expert-only territory at over 8ft, and the winds are howling offshore from the east at 15 mph. The water temp is right around average for this time of year. It’s clean, but for the majority of surfers, it’s just not a goer. This pattern stays solid and oversized right through Tuesday afternoon (10ft) and into Wednesday and Thursday.

We get a little bit of a respite on Saturday, July 11th. The morning shows a 7ft SW groundswell, still with a long 16-second period, and the combined energy is still chunky at 2823 (strong). The magic here is the wind: light and cross-off from the southeast at just 3 mph, making for clean, workable conditions. This is the standout of the first week—still solid, but just about manageable for experienced surfers. The crowd factor at Rimmers Road is "sometimes," so you might have a few others out, but nothing mental.

Saturday afternoon drops to a cleaner 6ft, and Sunday morning (July 12th) goes back up to 7ft but with light offshore easterly breezes. Sunday afternoon, 7ft WSW and glassy as it gets with an ENE breeze at 3 mph. These few days are the best of the run.

By Monday, July 13th, the swell fades quickly. Morning is down to 5ft SW (combined energy low at 846), which is small but rideable for a mixed crowd, and winds are light. By afternoon, it’s really dropping, and the quality starts to fade. Tuesday the 14th is tiny at 3ft with poor onshore winds later. Then from Wednesday, July 15th, we get a nasty turn: strong onshore winds, rain, and another big pulse of swell (8ft to 10ft) but locked in with terrible onshore winds. That stretch from Wednesday through to the following Wednesday is mostly blown-out junk.

There’s a tease on Saturday, July 18th morning—an 12ft WSW swell with clean cross-off winds from the SSE at 6 mph—but the combined energy is 2467 (moderate-strong power) and that height is still too big for this break. Mostly a kite-surfing setup through that period.

So, clear best: Saturday, July 11th, morning at Rimmers Road. It’s the only window where the size, the wind, and the swell direction all align for a proper session. After that, the second week is a write-off until maybe the very last day of the forecast window where there might be a glimmer, but it’s too far out to bank on.

Rusty, signing off.

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