Troia Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right, folks, Rusty here. I’ve been staring at the charts for Troia, and I’ve got to be straight with you: it’s looking flat as a pancake for the next couple of weeks. There’s barely a ripple to get excited about. The whole 16-day window is a write-off, but let’s walk through it anyway so you know what you’re missing.

The trouble starts from the get-go. Saturday the 5th and Sunday the 6th offer nothing but tiny, dribbly lines – we’re talking 0.3 ft of swell, if you can even call it that. The combined energy is a measly 6, which is barely a whisper. A light S wind on Saturday morning will mess up the surface, and by Monday the 7th, the swell flatlines completely. The wind swings to a cross-offshore N, but it doesn’t matter because there’s no wave to surf.

We stay in drought mode right through until Wednesday the 9th, when a tiny pulse of NW swell shows up. It’s just 2 ft first thing, with a weak 5-second period. The combined energy climbs to a still-puny 16, but the wind is clean cross-offshore from the NNW. It’s a small window of clean, knee-high slop for the absolute beginner, but it’s not really surfable. By the afternoon, the wind swings cross-shore and the period drops further, making it a total mess.

After that, it’s back to nothing. The 10th, 11th, and 12th are flat again. A few tiny pulses of 0.3 ft to 1 ft come and go, but with combined energy figures of 10 or less, they’re not worth paddling for. The wind is sometimes clean, sometimes head-on, but it doesn’t matter because there’s no wave.

The 13th of September brings a glassy morning with a whisper of S swell at 0.3 ft and a 12-second period. The water is calm, and it’s dead flat. The 14th is the same story. The 15th, 16th, and 17th are completely flat again – no swell at all, just clean, empty water.

Then, on the 18th of September, we get the most interesting moment of the whole outlook. A glassy morning with a 2 ft swell from the WSW, a 7-second period, and combined energy of 34. It’s still small, but the wind is glassy, so conditions are clean. The afternoon pushes it to 3 ft, but the wind swings cross-onshore and chops it up. It’s not a good day, just the least bad of a terrible run.

The final day, the 20th, is a write-off with a fresh 19 mph cross-offshore wind and 0.3 ft of swell. The whole stretch is a dud, plain and simple. For Troia, a blank run like this is more normal than a surprise. Don’t hold your breath; the charts can change, but right now, you’re better off doing something else.

Rusty.

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