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Bunkers

★★★★★Good
Faces NE high tide Offshore South West Best swell North East

Best of the week: Monday around 07:00, 5–7 ft and offshore.

Surf now4–6ft1.5 m at 9 s from the N, wind sea 0.2 m from the SW
Wind11mphW · offshore · gusts 20
Tide 1.9mFalling · low 00:42 (1.8 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–4 ft Swell N 8s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–4 ft Swell N 13s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell N 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Tue
4–6 ft Swell N 8s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell N 8s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–7 ft Swell N 9s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Sat 14 Sun 15 Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19
Time 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 2–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 2–3 2–4 3–4 5–7 4–6 4–5 3–4 3–5 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–5 4–5 4–5 4–5 4–5 4–6 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7
Swell 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 6s 7s 11s 12s 13s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 7 9 11 12 14 10 10 12 6 11 9 11 14 8 2 17 15 12 13 11 6 7 11 7 8 3 5 9 9 9
Tide m 4.7↑ 4.1↓ 2.3↓ 3.0↑ 5.0↑ 4.3↑ 4.4↓ 2.7↓ 2.8↑ 4.5↑ 3.8↑ 4.5↓ 3.2↓ 2.7↑ 4.1↑ 3.3↑ 4.4↑ 3.7↓ 2.8↓ 3.5↑ 2.8↑ 4.2↑ 4.2↓ 3.1↓ 3.0↑ 2.4↑ 3.7↑ 4.6↓ 3.5↓ 2.7↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Bunkers faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Scarborough above chart datum, rising ↑ or falling ↓; the rating drops when the tide is outside the window this break works on. Amber marks the sessions worth setting an alarm for. From Tuesday the swell comes from Météo-France's 10-day model, which is coarser than the 5 km German model used close in. Hours no model reaches are left blank, not shown as flat.

Exposure

Bunkers faces north-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N round to E; the brighter a wedge, the deeper the water in that direction and the more of the swell gets in. Anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NENSW
N
1.5 m at 9 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Bunkers works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
Offshore is from the south west; anything with north-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
Park Near the Holiday Camp and Walk Down to the bay… Bunkers is Located between two Second World War Gun Bunkers

Quality A frames Peaks, if the banks are good barrels aplenty.. usually adds 1ft or so to the wave height. Can be a really fast take off, and getting caught inside isn't fun! Usually very crowded, epecially in summer months!

Tide times

  • Sat 00:42Low1.8 m
  • Sat 06:50High4.9 m
  • Sat 12:45Low2.1 m
  • Sat 18:58High5.1 m
  • Sun 01:20Low2.0 m
  • Sun 07:33High4.7 m
  • Sun 13:24Low2.4 m
  • Sun 19:41High5.0 m

Scarborough station, 5 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

All 10
Nice Slide!! 3..2..1.. we have lift off! Bunkers Nice carving cutback Nice Spray! Fluids Team Rider Icky getting slotted on his New Resin8 6'1 pocket rocket Nice Cut Back

Members' own photos of Bunkers. Credits: Sie Baker.

Comments

1 Jan 2010 · m3d8 A classic when the banks are right - crowds a bit of a problem
1 Jan 2010 · silvabak concurs with the over-population concept : tubes of flesh, bone & rubber! A possible brand in the making: "fistral of the north"!
1 Jan 2010 · eightlegged Maxed out on bigger swells, and one of the most crowded waves in the north! avoid if at all possible.
1 Jan 2010 · eazyd247 Can be great, but most of the time I get there your either paddling through endless shore breaks or fighting with loads of others for average waves
5 Mar 2005 · matty when its good on a summer weekend it does a first class impression of fistral beach!not for the surf but for the ridiculous crowds!do us all a favour and dont stop till you see a sign that says saltburn!
24 Dec 2004 · d The beach at cayton is awful on a weekend..packed with allsorts of randoms..u can still get a wave at bunkers tho..
1 Sep 2003 · Sie Baker it's pretty good.. but bloody cold water in winter
8 Jan 2003 · lucky gotta agree with lucky.. So powerful

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