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Shichirigahama Surf Photo: 'classic right' by Steve marriott
| 3 hours earlier |
Peak Waves | Wind | Wind Waves | Swell 1 | Swell 2 | 3 hours later |
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| 17 s | off | 6 s | 17 s | 12 s |
Open ocean wave model on 25 September at 3 pm
Forecast wind and swell just offshore from Shichirigahama around the time the photo was taken
Image captured 2 hours and 43 minutes after low water (rising ordinary tide). Tide height was 1.1m (3.5 ft). Range 1.66m (5.4 ft). Toggle tide graph
classic right
Japan | Shichirigahama
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Sweet rights and lefts breaking over a sand rock reef
Recent comments
| 2015-12-31 | |
| Teimu | Shichirigahama is the name, not shi-chi-ga-hama. Shichi means "seven" in Japanese. "Ri" is a measurement of length, roughly translated as a "league", as in 20000 leagues under the sea. Hama means beach. So "ShichiRI ga Hama means "Seven League Beach" in English. I should know because I lived and surfed there every day there was waves from 1987-1995. My wife is Japanese, my daughter is Japanese and I am fluent and literate in Japanese. By the way, technically, this wave looks like Minegahama which is a couple of hundred yards west of "Shichiri". It's a little horseshoe reef that only holds swell up to about 4 feet before it closes out. When the crowds got bad I pulled out my 9' Mabo Royal and sent them home. Then got back on a short board. |
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