72nd Place Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's have a look at what's on the cards for Seventy-Second-Place over the next couple of weeks. I'm gonna be straight with you – it's a bleak run.

The whole sixteen-day window is a write-off, I'm sorry to say. We're looking at a solid stretch of nothing but "poor surf conditions" from start to finish. There are no standout sessions, no hidden gems, just day after day of small, messy, and unrideable waves. The first real chance for a surf doesn't appear until Saturday the 4th of July, and even then, it's not worth paddling out for.

Right from the start on Saturday afternoon, we’ve got a tiny 0.8 ft swell (actually 2 ft, but close enough to a knee-high dribble for me) coming from the SSW with a cross-on breeze of 9 mph out of the WSW. The water temperature is sitting at 67°, which is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year. Don't get excited, though – the combined swell energy is a weak 342, and it feels like it. The wind is just making it choppy.

Sunday and Monday are more of the same: knee-high waves, poor conditions, and cross-onshore winds. You might see a little bump in period (18 seconds on Sunday morning) from a groundswell, but with only 0.8 ft of height, it's completely wasted. It's not big enough to wrap in cleanly, and the wind is junk.

The midweek period from Tuesday the 7th to Friday the 10th sees the swell just tick over to about 2 ft to 2 ft, and the combined energy climbs a bit – hitting 728 on Tuesday morning, which is moderate. But before you get your hopes up, that's still weak surf and the wind is either onshore or cross-onshore, making a mess of it.

We do get a little bit of period (18 seconds) mixed with a 3 ft swell on Wednesday the 8th, and the wind goes light and onshore in the morning – marginal at best. The notes say "marginal surf forecast or questionable tide conditions," so that's about the only time the wave quality even gets a mention. Still, with a 3 ft wave and onshore wind, it's not a session I'd bother with.

From there, it just fades. By the end of the first week and into the second, the swell drops back to 1 ft to 2 ft with periods dropping below 15 seconds and the combined energy sinks to the low 100s and 200s – very weak. The wind remains an issue, mostly onshore or cross-onshore.

Even the long period swells towards the very end of the run (17 to 19 July with 16-19 second periods) are too small – 1 ft to 2 ft – to do anything with. The combined energy spikes to 590 on Sunday the 19th, but that's still just moderate and the wind is cross-onshore again. This is a beach-and-reef setup, and with this much wind and weak swell, it honestly looks more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing.

Seventy-Second-Place is an inconsistent spot that's sheltered from most swell, and it rarely breaks properly. This blank run of poor surf is sadly pretty normal for this area. It doesn't look like it will stay poor forever, but for the next sixteen days, there's nothing worth paddling out for.

Rusty.

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