The Harbour Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let's talk about what's cookin' at The Harbour over the next couple of weeks.

Look, I’m gonna be straight with you. The next 16 days are lean. Real lean. We’re looking at a big stretch of nothing special, so don't get your hopes up for any epic sessions.

It’s all happening at The Harbour, a beach and groyne setup that's pretty exposed to the swell. For the first week and a half, we’re stuck with tiny, weak waves. Monday the 10th kicks things off with a measly 0.7ft from the SSE, a 5-second period and a combined energy of just 3—that’s barely a ripple. A stiff NW cross-shore at 16 mph doesn't help. This junk continues through Tuesday with zero surf.

We finally see a pulse on Wednesday the 12th. The swell nudges up to 4ft from the SSE, but the period is a short 6 seconds, so it’ll be weak and crumbly. The energy reading is a meager 113, which is still on the low end. It stays clean with a cross-offshore wind, but the quality just isn’t there. Thursday the 13th drops back to 3ft with even less energy (51), and that’s the peak of the whole outlook.

The only real standout, and I’m being generous here, is the early morning of Saturday the 15th. We get a tiny 1ft swell from the ESE, but the wind goes glassy. Complete glass. For a few hours, if you’ve got a longboard, that little bump might be the most fun you’ll have all week. It’s not going to be pumping, but it’ll be clean.

After that, it’s a desert. From the 16th of August all the way through the 22nd, we see a whole lot of zeros or ankle-biters under 1ft. The wind is mostly junk too—cross-onshore, onshore, you name it. There’s a tiny flicker on the morning of Saturday the 22nd with a 3ft NE swell and a 7-second period, giving us an energy reading of 64. It’ll be clean with a slight cross-offshore wind from the south, but it's so far out (a week and a half away) that I wouldn't book the day off work. Tuesday the 25th afternoon shows a little bump to 3ft from the east, but we’ll have to wait and see if that holds.

So, what’s the call? The only time worth paddling out is that glassy Saturday the 15th morning, and maybe have a look at the 22nd or 25th if the forecasts shift in our favour. For now, it’s a longboard or a day off. The water temp is about 57°, which is pretty normal for this time of year.

Rusty.

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