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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: Friday around 19:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now0–1ft0.5 m at 6 s from the SE, wind sea 0.5 m from the S
Wind7mphS · offshore · gusts 13
Tide 1.9mFalling · low 00:58 (1.9 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
2–4 ft Swell N 13s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell N 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell E 8s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–4 ft Swell N 8s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–8 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Fri
4–6 ft Swell N 7s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Sun 15 Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19 Fri 20
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 0–1 1–2 2–3 2–4 4–6 4–6 4–5 3–5 4–6 4–6 3–5 3–5 5–7 5–7 2–3 2–4 2–4 3–4 3–4 5–7 5–8 5–7 4–6 4–6 3–5 4–5 4–6 4–6 4–6
Swell 6s 7s 10s 13s 13s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 5s 6s 6s 8s 8s 8s 8s 6s 6s 6s 5s 6s 5s 5s 5s 6s 6s 6s 7s 7s
Wind mph 11 13 12 9 9 13 12 12 9 10 22 20 16 13 9 14 15 15 14 14 19 20 19 18 17 13 13 14 11 9
Tide m 4.4↑ 4.2↓ 2.5↓ 2.8↑ 4.6↑ 3.9↑ 4.4↓ 3.0↓ 2.7↑ 4.1↑ 3.3↑ 4.3↑ 3.5↓ 2.7↓ 3.6↑ 2.8↑ 4.1↑ 4.0↓ 2.9↓ 3.0↑ 2.3↑ 3.7↑ 4.4↓ 3.3↓ 2.6↑ 2.0↓ 3.1↑ 4.6↑ 3.8↓ 2.4↓
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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 NESES
SE
0.5 m at 6 s (swell) · 44 % reaches the beach
S
0.5 m at 3 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 00:58Low1.9 m
  • Sun 07:16High4.7 m
  • Sun 13:08Low2.3 m
  • Sun 19:17High4.8 m
  • Mon 01:44Low2.1 m
  • Mon 08:05High4.5 m
  • Mon 13:56Low2.5 m
  • Mon 20:07High4.7 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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