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Center Breaks

★★★★★Fair
Reef break Faces E mid to high tide Offshore West Best swell North East

Best of the week: Thursday around 10:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft1.0 m at 8 s from the N, wind sea 0.5 m from the SW
Wind7mphSW · cross-off · gusts 13
Tide 1.6mRising · high 05:18 (4.2 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell E 6s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–4 ft Swell E 11s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell N 8s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell N 6s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Wed
3–5 ft Swell N 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell N 9s Wind 5 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 1–2 1–2 2–3 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–4 3–4 3–4 4–5 3–4 2–3 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6
Swell 8s 3s 6s 3s 4s 4s 7s 9s 11s 5s 8s 4s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 6s 6s 6s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 6 12 11 9 8 12 9 4 9 23 14 16 14 10 6 19 19 17 14 12 11 9 11 11 12 6 6 4 6 7
Tide m 4.1↓ 2.3↓ 1.8↑ 3.6↑ 4.3↓ 4.0↑ 2.8↓ 1.8↑ 3.1↑ 4.2↑ 3.7↑ 3.3↓ 2.0↓ 2.6↑ 3.9↑ 3.3↑ 3.6↓ 2.3↓ 2.3↑ 3.5↑ 2.8↑ 3.7↑ 2.9↓ 2.1↑ 3.0↑ 2.3↑ 3.7↑ 3.4↓ 2.1↓ 2.4↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Center Breaks faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at North Sunderland (Northumberland) 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

Center Breaks faces east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N round to S; 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 ENSW
N
1.0 m at 8 s (swell) · 84 % reaches the beach
SW
0.5 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 3 % reaches the beach

How Center Breaks works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
Offshore is from the west; anything with east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
Turn off the A1 and follow signs for seahouses. Find small village of Beadnell (just south) and then find harbour. Stand on harbour, look approx south across middle of bay and you will see the break.

A reef break half a mile out in the middle of Beadnell bay which only really works when the waves are a REAL 5 ft or more. If swell is 8-10 ft and clean out of the north, this break will be wide enough to fit a bus inside of each tube for about three hours either side of high water. not for beginners, and due to distance from shore and large quantities of rocks to hit your head off, rather unsafe. World class when good. (really!)

Tide times

  • Sat 05:18High4.2 m
  • Sat 10:59Low1.6 m
  • Sat 17:18High4.4 m
  • Sat 23:31Low1.4 m
  • Sun 06:04High4.0 m
  • Sun 11:38Low1.8 m
  • Sun 18:04High4.2 m
  • Mon 00:18Low1.6 m

North Sunderland (Northumberland) station, 4 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Beadnell MMB 08 Beach Beadnell MMB 07 Beach

mattbuck ( category ), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. mattbuck ( category ), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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