Aw, c’mon Huey

 

0730: marginal to flat at Dee Why this morning.

Hello Friends,

The settings this morning are pretty close to what they were 24 hours ago – not withstanding the burst of windiness with the change yesterday. Bureau’s call is for light and variable winds this morning, eventually settling to the NE and building to 15-20 kts during the afternoon. The MHL buoy is showing a bit over a metre of 8 sec period south swell. And Dee Why is, as one would expect, small to just about flat. No one was in the water that I could see, but maybe up toward the pole you might find a little tiny something… maybe…

What we all want to know is will there be swell anytime soon. So, to save you a trip to the models for a look, here’s what I reckon they’re telling us. It seems that we’re unlikely to see much improvement over today. It might possibly pick up just a touch as the swell direction gets a bit more around to the SE. But my hopes for waves are, shall we, say, modest.

Tomorrow should see the dominant windswell direction coming out of the SE and, with luck, the period might even bump up enough to make it just barely surfable. It should be another sunny day with light N-NW winds in the morning, building to 20-25 kts. Just as those winds are building to peak speed, it might just happen that the first very long period south sets could begin turning up. At least one of the models is still calling for 18 second (!) periods. Even if a wave is only a metre high, when it has a period of 18 seconds, it can turn into something with a face 2-3x that height – at least. 

But it will be a long wait between those sets. When we have 12 sec period swell, you would get around 4-6 waves in the space of a minute when a set arrives. But when the period is 18 seconds, the distance between waves is around 500 metres! Interestingly, it also means that those waves are feeling bottom once it gets shallower than about 250 metres (which means they start losing some energy to drag). Anyway, when a group of those 18 sec period waves arrives, you pretty obviously will only have three bites at the cherry in the space of a minute – maximum.

‘Too much information Don!’ I hear you cry. Sorry, getting all weather nerdy on ya. Anyway, let’s hope those long period puppies turn up – and that they don’t all happen at night. The pulse could be as short as 12 hours and some of the models calculate the arrival locally to be toward dusk tomorrow…

BTW, I’m still sniffing around for a notebook capable of running XP… if you’ve got something surplus to requirements, put a price on it and drop me a line via our contact form. And thanks in advance!

Go well with your day!

Samoan Surf Report for week 38-08 from Sa’Moana Resort

WEEKLY   REPORTS  for    2008

Report No:   38-08

Period:            Monday 20^th to Sunday 26^th September 08

Once again another fine and sunny week went down in Samoa. Combine this with a few days of no wind and it wasn’t too bad on the surf front either.

Monday. High tide 1:34pm  The boat trip to Pebbles was rewarded by overhead barrels and strong offshore winds. With the wind holding the waves up it was a perfect opportunity to take off really deep for maximum tube time. Some really nice barrels were made as well as the odd wackable section thrown up.

Tuesday. High tide 1:55pm   Despite similar conditions to yesterday our surfers chose to have a family day around the resort so no surfing today.

Wednesday. High tide 3:26pm   Wakas for the first time in a little while was the focus of the boat trip today.  At around head high with a light SE wind it had some nice sections but was a little messy.

Thursday. High tide 3:45am and 4:12pm   The pre dawn surf out the front @ Resorts saw some clean little peaks on offer. Unfortunately a strong ESE wind built up during the day stuffing any chance of an arvo boat trip.  A few of the crew went down to check out Village Lefts which was about head high in the cross shore conditions, not perfect but very surfable

Friday. High tide 4:31am and 4:54pm   A super early pre dawn boat trip to Y-Tops was the call for today. Upon arrival the crew were greeted with glassy head high surf. It was fairly peaky and the barrels were caving in on themselves rather quickly so they took the opportunity to smash out a few turns before checking out the beautiful snorkeling in the cove as the tide dropped out.

Saturday. High tide 5:15am and 5:33pm   Both the morning and arvo surfs were enjoyed out front out @ Resorts today. Both lefts and rights were on offer and the occasional peak was split in the head high conditions in which we all got our fair share of waves.

Sunday. High tide 5:56am and 6:12pm   Special K was the focus for the morning boat trip which saw some small yet perfect waves pushing down the reef. With shoulder to head high rights on offer the crew made the most of the small stuff with grommet Thomas in fine form with the smaller surf suiting him down to the ground.

Photos  Apologies but no shots of last weeks action, equipment malfunction apparently. BUT to keep the juices flowing I’ve wacked in a shot of Y-Tops from Feb 23^rd & Pebbles from March 16th

Cheers………………..George

LAST DAY for Surf is. . . Sex On Fire

What fun this has been. I stuffed up on the last day though. I forgot to get Don to change the lyric line today. So, we’ll go with the same one to finish up then. You can enter more than once if you like.

So, to win Kings of Leon Only By The Night framed album artwork, signed by the band, or a signed copy of this newly released CD, with the single Sex On Fire, check out the competition page for the last day.

Surf is . . . Sex On Fire Competition Page

Mona Vale

Mona Main has a few fun little waist to shoulder high ones this morning, it

It’s a bit fat this morning but worth getting out there!!

Narrabeen Rpt

Like yesterday, if you look hard enough you’ll find something waist high or smaller in which to get wet & mobile