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Center Breaks

★★★★★Fair
Reef break Faces E mid to high tide Offshore West Best swell North East
Surf now7–10ft2.9 m at 8 s from the SE, wind sea 1.3 m from the S
Wind17mphW · offshore · gusts 28
Tide 1.3mFalling · low 20:14 (1.2 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
7–10 ft Swell SE 8s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell W 5s Wind 33 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell SE 5s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell SE 8s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell N 4s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell S 2s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 19 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 7–10 1–2 0–1 0–1 0 0–1 1–2 1–2 3–4 5–7 5–7 5–7 4–6 3–4 2–4 2–3 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 8s 5s 6s 6s 6s 6s 9s 9s 4s 5s 5s 8s 8s 4s 4s 7s 3s 3s 2s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s 7s 4s 5s 5s 2s 2s 2s
Wind mph 17 33 36 34 30 33 11 6 15 16 15 22 27 27 24 18 11 14 14 15 14 7 6 11 12 12 14 11 9 7 7
Tide m 1.5↓ 1.4↓ 1.3↑ 4.0↑ 4.5↓ 1.9↓ 1.9↓ 0.8↑ 3.5↑ 4.9↓ 2.4↓ 2.6↓ 0.7↑ 2.9↑ 5.0↑ 3.0↓ 3.4↓ 0.8↓ 2.2↑ 4.8↑ 3.7↓ 4.1↓ 1.3↓ 1.7↑ 4.4↑ 4.3↓ 4.6↓ 2.1↓ 1.4↑ 3.7↑ 4.6↓
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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 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

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 ESES
SE
2.9 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
S
1.3 m at 5 s (wind sea) · 34 % 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 20:14Low1.2 m
  • Sun 01:19High4.8 m
  • Sun 07:37Low0.8 m
  • Sun 13:53High4.8 m
  • Sun 19:51Low1.0 m
  • Mon 01:56High5.0 m
  • Mon 08:15Low0.7 m
  • Mon 14:27High5.0 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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