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Caves

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces NE low to mid tide Offshore South West Best swell North East

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 3–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.6 m at 8 s from the SE, wind sea 2.0 m from the W
Wind29mphSW · offshore · gusts 50
Tide 5.5mRising · high 02:42 (5.5 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
3–4 ft Swell NW 5s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell N 11s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell SE 7s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell N 5s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
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 0–1 0 0 0–1 0–1 3–5 3–4 3–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 5s 5s 6s 6s 5s 11s 10s 10s 4s 7s 4s 3s 4s 4s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 3s 3s 4s 3s 7s 6s 6s 5s 7s 7s 6s
Wind mph 33 31 33 27 26 11 12 14 18 16 22 24 28 25 19 20 19 18 14 11 11 10 11 13 13 21 20 17 16 15
Tide m 3.2↓ 1.1↓ 3.1↑ 5.5↑ 3.7↓ 3.9↓ 1.1↓ 2.3↑ 5.4↑ 4.4↓ 4.7↓ 1.4↓ 1.7↑ 5.0↑ 5.0↓ 5.4↓ 2.1↓ 1.3↑ 4.4↑ 5.4↓ 5.7↓ 3.0↓ 1.2↑ 3.6↑ 5.5↓ 5.5↑ 3.9↓ 1.6↓ 2.9↑ 5.2↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Caves faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Whitby 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 Wednesday 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

Caves 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 NESEW
SE
0.6 m at 8 s (swell) · 49 % reaches the beach
W
2.0 m at 4 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Caves 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
low to mid tide.
Getting there
Park in the carpark below Lythe Bank. Sandsend is Just North of Whitby

Found in the far northly end of Sands end Beach, Right upagainst the Cliff wall. Easy clean wave that runs and runs, but it only works on a low to mid tide so it works for only a short period.

Tide times

  • Sun 02:42High5.5 m
  • Sun 09:08Low1.1 m
  • Sun 15:15High5.5 m
  • Sun 21:23Low1.3 m
  • Mon 03:20High5.7 m
  • Mon 09:45Low0.9 m
  • Mon 15:51High5.6 m
  • Mon 22:01Low1.2 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Wave-cut platform and Sandsend Ness - geograph.org.uk - 3584941 Wave-cut platform, Sandsend - geograph.org.uk - 3584922

Pauline E, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Pauline E, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

5 Apr 2005 · freerider is it a beach break???

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