38 Line Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right, sit down and listen up. Rusty here.

Look, you’ve come to me about 38 Line, and I ain't gonna sugar-coat it: right now, we’re in a bit of a dry spell. The whole 16-day window is looking pretty flat and generally poor. There’s a long stretch here where the waves are just not worth paddling out for, so we're talking about a big gap with no real recommendations. For a spot that’s fairly consistent, this is a quiet run, but don’t let it get you down – these things never last forever.

We start off with a few days of tiny swell and messy winds. Saturday morning (4 July) is glassy but it's a pathetic 0.3 ft from the SE with no energy (combined energy only 12). That’s not surfable. The whole first week is essentially a write-off. The combined swell energy is mostly under 100 (weak), the waves are under 3 ft, and the periods are short. It’s just not on.

Then, we get a little flicker of hope on Wednesday morning (8 July). The combined energy hits a moderate 137 and the swell bumps up to 3 ft from the ESE. The wind goes cross-offshore from the SW, so it’s clean. That’s the best we see for a while, but the break is exposed to E swell and we’ve got that ESE direction with a short period (6 secs). It's a poor quality wave, honestly. This is surfable, but very ordinary, not a stand-out.

After that, we drop straight back into flatness and poor conditions right through until the end of the second week.

There is one more tiny pulse on Saturday the 18th of July – 4 ft from the NE with a combined energy of 77 (weak). It’s early in the morning, the wind is cross-offshore (NNW) so it’s clean, but again we're looking at a short period (6 secs) and the size is just borderline. The rating is a 1/10 for a reason. It's not a day to get excited about.

So what’s the call? The only two days where you might get wet are Wednesday the 8th and Saturday the 18th. Out of those, the Wednesday morning (8 July) has the cleaner conditions but the swell is small. The 18th has a touch more size but it's further out. Neither are standouts. For a better bet, you need to keep watching the charts because what we have on offer is meagre at best.

For beginners, the swell is under 5 ft throughout, so if you could find a wave, you'd be fine, but there are no waves to be found. For experts, there's nothing to hunt.

Rusty

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