Vagabundo Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what this next stretch has in store for us at Vagabundo.

Honestly, looking at the whole 16-day window, it’s a pretty grim run of surf for the most part. There’s a lot of onshore or cross-onshore wind, short-period slop, and very few windows where the conditions line up for a good paddle. The first surfable window doesn't really appear until Monday, September 14th, so we're looking at a gap of several days with nothing to recommend before that.

Vagabundo is exposed and the primary swell direction that works best is from the NNW, but we barely see that. The water temp is about average for this time of year, nothing unusual to report there.

The first real chance to get wet comes on Monday, September 14th. It’s a rare morning of glassy conditions – dead calm wind – with a clean 4ft swell from the NNE, period around 8 seconds. The combined energy is moderate, coming in at 267. It’s small, sure, but it’s clean. The afternoon holds steady with glassy conditions and 4ft. For a beginner-friendly spot like this, that’s your best and really only clean window of the first week. Get on it while you can.

After that, it's back to mediocrity. Through the rest of the week and into the next, we’ve got a mix of light to moderate onshore breezes and small, weak swells. The combined energy values drop into the 100s, barely generating any push.

There is one late-stage blip that catches the eye. On Tuesday, September 22nd, a pulse shows up. In the morning, we get a long-period 14-second swell from the NNW – the optimum direction – with a very strong combined energy of 677. The wind is a light cross-shore, which is workable, and the swell height is only 3ft. That long period means the waves will have some real shape and power for the size, but at a beach break setup like this, it might be a bit straight and tricky to find the peak. The rating is only marginal, so treat this as a promising but uncertain prospect over a week away.

The standout for the whole outlook though, has to be that Monday the 14th. It’s not big, but with glass, clean walls, and easy paddling, that’s the one to circle.

Rusty out.

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