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Caves

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

Best of the week: Friday around 08:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now0ft0.2 m at 5 s from the NW, wind sea 0.3 m from the SW
Wind9mphSW · offshore · gusts 16
Tide 2.6mRising · high 23:10 (4.6 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell N 10s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell N 6s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell N 5s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Fri
4–6 ft Swell N 7s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Sat
2–4 ft Swell N 7s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 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 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–3 2–3 2–4 3–5 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 3–5 3–5 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2
Swell 2s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s 10s 9s 8s 6s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 6s 4s 5s 5s 5s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 10 10 11 14 15 14 4 3 7 8 9 7 11 13 11 11 19 20 21 19 14 16 17 15 13 17 16 17 19 19 17
Tide m 2.7↑ 2.0↑ 3.3↑ 4.6↑ 3.8↓ 2.6↓ 2.1↓ 2.2↑ 4.3↑ 4.5↓ 2.8↓ 2.6↓ 1.5↑ 3.6↑ 5.1↓ 3.3↓ 3.3↓ 1.2↓ 2.8↑ 5.2↑ 4.0↓ 4.2↓ 1.2↓ 2.0↑ 5.1↑ 4.6↓ 4.9↓ 1.6↓ 1.4↑ 4.7↑ 5.1↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Caves faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. 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 Thursday 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. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NENWSW
NW
0.2 m at 5 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %
SW
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Caves works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
South West is offshore.
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 16:55Low2.5 m
  • Sun 23:10High4.6 m
  • Mon 05:51Low2.0 m
  • Mon 12:16High4.6 m
  • Mon 18:36Low2.5 m
  • Tue 00:41High4.7 m
  • Tue 07:24Low1.8 m
  • Tue 13:42High4.8 m

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

Comments

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

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