Tayfor Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s break it down for you in feet and miles.

It’s a bit of a slow start to the two-week run, but there’s a clear winner right at the beginning. The real standout is Saturday morning, August 29th, at Tayfor. That’s the session you don’t want to miss.

Come Saturday morning, the 29th, we’ve got a solid NW swell pushing in at about 6ft, with a period of 11 seconds. That’s a proper, meaty groundswell with plenty of grunt – you can feel the energy in the water (651 combined swell energy). The wind is a light, cross-offshore breeze from the NE at about 6 mph, setting up clean, open faces. The wave comment says “expect very good surf conditions,” and that’s a rare call. Just be aware that crowds can show up here sometimes, so get in early.

Saturday afternoon that same day, the wind swings north and picks up to about 9 mph, turning it cross-shore. The swell drops a touch to around 5ft, but the energy is still substantial (538). Not as clean as the morning, but still surfable.

Now, Sunday the 30th through to the end of the first week of September… it’s a bit of a mess. The swell hangs around, with heights between 4ft and 6ft, but the wind is consistently cross-shore or cross-onshore, often from the north or NNE at 9-16 mph. That puts a chop on everything, and the wave quality drops off hard. The scores reflect that – it’s just not good. Even the morning of Thursday the 3rd of September, which has a clean cross-offshore wind, is only 4ft with a weak 8-second period. Surfable, but very ordinary.

There’s a gap of a few days of truly poor surf from the middle of the first week through to the start of the second week. The swell drops to under 3ft, and the wind stays onshore or cross-shore, making it a struggle.

Around the 6th of September, there’s a little pulse of long-period swell (13 seconds) on Sunday morning, but it’s only 1ft. The wind is offshore from the ESE at 6 mph, so it’s clean, but it’s tiny. The energy is there (147), but you’d need a longboard to get into anything.

The next real standout, if you’re patient, is Monday morning, September 7th. It’s a glassy morning – zero wind from the WSW, and the swell is 3ft with a 11-second period from the NNW. The energy is 199. It’s small, but it’s clean. This is a dawn-patrol special for the longboard or a fish.

After that, things get a bit funky again. Tuesday the 8th sees a bump in size back to about 5ft, but the wind is cross-shore, and the period drops to 8 seconds. The rest of the week into the 13th is a mix of small, choppy, or onshore conditions. The 13th of September morning has a 3ft, 10-second swell from the NW with a light cross-breeze, but the energy is moderate (310) and the conditions are just “marginal.”

So, to sum it up: Saturday morning, August 29th is your best bet. Get on it early. After that, it’s a waiting game for a few clean sessions, with Monday the 7th being the next one worth getting out of bed for.

Rusty.

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