The NE swell that lit things up yesterday was on the fade this morning. But it wasn’t gone and Northy the patient crew were still jagging a few sweet ones on a sunny, offshore start to the day. I shot for an hour or so…
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One of the best days of the 2010 winter surf season, so I blew off writing responsibilities, grabbed the camera and went looking for firing waves. First stop was North Narrabeen where the NE swell was unloading into an offshore wind much to the delight of the assembled crew.
A tiny but very clean little east swell combined with a low tide, offshore winds, and nice late afternoon light to create a good picture-taking opportunity.
Lotta bods in the water, but there were some surprisingly good looking waves. As usual, if you see yourself in one of these high res shots and want to get one without the watermark, just double click on it and look for the add to cart link to check out the ultra reasonable pricing!
If you were in the water at North Narrabeen whilst I was shooting late Friday morning, it is highly likely I caught a few of your moves. Conditions weren’t huge, but there were some very fun and crunchy sets and although the crowd was healthy, it was reasonably consistent. As usual if you want to get a high res version without my watermark, just double -click on the pic and look for the add to cart link (which shows you the prices/sizes).
North Narrabeen turned on some very clean and often punchy sets on Thursday morning. The crew was on it, so I took pictures before I couldn’t stand it any more and joined them! While it was nearly flat along many of Sydney’s beaches, spots that liked the little east swell on Thursday definitely had their moments.
Dripping skies this morning and still a little bit of east swell. Not too big, but you should find up to waist high at those places that have picked up something over the last couple days. If your favourite stretch of beach doesn’t pick up east swell, you can forget finding anything. The rain is set to clear up later, but it looks as though the swell will not be picking up. I’d expect it to gradually fade away over the next 24 hours and for things to be very quiet come Monday morning.
The models suggest we’ll have a brief 12-18 hour pulse out of the south on Tuesday before slumping back to smallness through the rest of the week. Looking out to next weekend, the predictions have been swinging around a fair amount, but in the latest run of the models they seem to have settled back to predictions of a steady supply of small but surfable, mainly se to e swell.
Enjoy your Saturday!
TIDES: H @1130, T @1715 Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards: Strong Wind Warning Saturday until midnight: Wind: North to northwesterly 10 to 20 knots tending westerly 15 to 25 knots around midday then increasing to 20 to 30 knots during the afternoon, chiefly offshore.Sea: 1 to 2 metres increasing to 2 to 3 metres in the afternoon.Swell: Northeasterly about 1 metre. Sunday: Wind: West to northwesterly 15 to 25 knots, reaching 30 knots at times, tending west to northwesterly 20 to 30 knots during the afternoon.Sea: Up to 3 metres.Swell: Northeasterly 0.5 metres. Monday: Wind: West to southwesterly 25 to 30 knots becoming southwesterly 30 to 35 knots during the evening.
If you were in the water at North Narrabeen from about noon to 1pm, there is a good chance I got a shot or two of you on a wave. As usual I don’t just shoot the hottest people – I try to get everyone looking their best.
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We had a fair amount of east swell on Friday 5 Feb, so yours truly got out and about with the camera.
I ended up shooting at Curly in the late morning, then North Narrabeen in the early afternboon and finally, at Dee Why point as the sun was going down. In all three cases the swell was dead east at about 9 seconds apart and with an average height at sea of 2.5 metres.
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ASP Surfers Mick Fanning (Kirra), Taj Burrow (Yallingup), Joel Parkinson (Snapper Rocks), Tom Whitaker (Bronte), Chris Davidson (North Narrabeen) and Josh Kerr (Snapper Rocks) all confirmed starters
The 2009 Jim Beam National Surftag final is set to be the biggest surfing showdown in Sydney in over a decade with many of the world’s best surfers set to line up for the love of their club and big prize money.
Sixteen of Australia’s top Boardriding Clubs have qualified from the regional eliminations and all will be chasing bragging rights as Australia’s premier Boardriding Club along with the richest prize pool in Club surfing in Australia with $12000 allocated for 1st place.
No other event in Sydney can boast a field that includes the likes of 2007 ASP World Champion Mick Fanning along with super stars of the sport like Joel Parkinson, Tom Whittaker and Josh Kerr and with club passion driving these surfers the action is certain to be amazing.
North Narrabeen are the defending Jim Beam Surftag champions and with local knowledge again in their favour will go into this year’s event confident they can win three in a row, but, never has a field of this quality lined up and this years winning club will legitimately lay claim to being Australia’s top boardriding club.
Former ASP World Tour surfer Toby Martin will head up the Dee Why team and Toby commented on his clubs chances by saying, “The boys are pumped for this event, they have been training hard and I really think that making the final four is very possible and once a team is in the final then anything can happen – It’s great to have qualified for the finals and as a team we are looking forward to the challenge.”
In conjunction with the Jim Beam Surftag Final, Friday March 13 will see 60 elite Boardriding Club champions from all over Australia compete for the Jim Beam Boardriders Cup – an individual championship national field selecting surfers from Boardriding Clubs. This field will include surfers like Luke Dorrington (Snapper Rocks), Toby Martin (Dee Why), Dion Atkinson (Seaford South Australia) and former world number three Dave Macauley (Margaret River WA).
The FCS Manufacturers Cup will also make up a part of the action which will see Surfboard Labels JS (QLD), Warner (NSW), Murriginals (WA) and Island (VIC) go head to head for the $3000 winners cheque along with the title of being the best manufacturers surfing team in Australia!
The big one however is the Jim Beam National Surftag title and the sixteen qualified teams set to line up are –
NSW –
·South Coast – Werri and Ulladulla
·Sydney South – Cronulla
·Sydney City - Bronte
·Northern Beaches – Queenscliff, Curl Curl, Dee Why and North Narrabeen
Spent a fair amount of time driving around this morning to get a good sense of the conditions. As I’ve already noted below, the conditions are pretty similar to yesterday, but maybe a touch better. There just seem to be a few more waist high sets, and it looks like slightly more of them are standing up on the inside.
The Collaroy-Narrabeen stretch is about where it was yesterday afternoon, ie sort of rideable at Northy and less consistent but not much smaller down the beach where the NE’r is getting into it more.
The call is for the wind to build up to 20-30 kts by the close of play and I reckon that should mean that your fave NE windswell spot should be showing a little more than this morning. Could be a plan…
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The models suggest we’ll have a brief 12-18 hour pulse out of the south on Tuesday before slumping back to smallness through the rest of the week. Looking out to next weekend, the predictions have been swinging around a fair amount, but in the latest run of the models they seem to have settled back to predictions of a steady supply of small but surfable, mainly se to e swell.
