Inner Cut Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, it’s Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you: if you’re chasing waves around The Cut over the next couple of weeks, you’re going to need a whole lot of patience. The Inner Cut is a point break that only breaks sometimes, and for the most part, this stretch looks pretty gutless.

We start off with almost nothing. Wednesday’s got a tiny 0.3ft northerly bump with a long 10-second period, but the energy reading is a pathetic 3. It’s glassy, sure, but there’s nothing to ride. Thursday sees a slight pulse to 3ft, but it’s still coming from the north, which is cross to the optimum NW direction, with only a moderate energy of 135. The wind’s light and the surf’s clean, but it’s “surfable” at best, not good. That’s about as good as it gets for the first week.

After that, it completely flatlines. From Friday the 15th through to the following Thursday the 21st, we’re looking at a big run of days with no swell at all – just 0.0ft and no energy. That’s a solid week of nothing. The water temp at the start is 53°, which is about average for this time of year.

A couple of tiny pulses try to show up around the 21st and 22nd, but they’re just ankle-biters at 0.3ft to 1.0ft. Not worth getting wet for.

The only real, and I mean *real* glimmer of hope, comes in on Thursday the 27th of August. That’s a full two weeks out, so take it with a grain of salt, but the models are showing something with actual push – 6ft of north swell with a 8-second period, and the combined energy jumps up to a strong 377. It’s still onshore by the afternoon, but the morning has glassy conditions making the most of that NW-angled swell direction. This is the one standout of the entire run, but it’s a long way off and far from certain. For a break that rarely fires, you’d want to be watching the charts closely. There is just nothing else on the table, so that’s where we stand.

Signing off,
Rusty

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