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Freshwater East

★★★★★Small
Faces SE high tide Offshore North West Best swell South West
Surf now0–1ft0.5 m at 10 s from the SW, wind sea 0.4 m from the S
Wind9mphS · onshore · gusts 15
Tide 3.6mFalling · low 02:18 (2.2 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–3 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell SE 5s Wind 27 mph ★★★★★
Tue
4–5 ft Swell SE 5s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 22 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 2–3 2–3 1–3 1–2 2–3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2–3 5–7 2–4 0–1 0–1 0 0 0–1 1–2 1–2 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swell 10s 4s 4s 8s 4s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 9s 9s 9s 8s 5s 4s 7s 7s 7s 8s 9s 10s 10s 10s 9s 11s 11s 10s 10s 9s
Wind mph 15 18 22 19 21 9 10 11 16 17 8 7 16 24 27 22 17 16 12 9 10 12 12 11 14 22 23 24 22 20
Tide m 4.9↑ 6.8↓ 4.4↓ 2.4↑ 4.4↑ 4.3↑ 6.4↑ 5.0↓ 2.7↓ 3.8↑ 3.8↑ 5.8↑ 5.5↓ 3.2↓ 3.4↑ 3.4↑ 5.2↑ 5.7↓ 3.9↓ 3.1↑ 3.2↑ 4.5↑ 5.7↑ 4.6↓ 3.1↓ 3.3↓ 3.6↑ 5.6↑ 5.5↓ 3.3↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Freshwater East faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Stackpole Quay 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

Freshwater East faces south-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from E 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 SESWS
SW
0.5 m at 10 s (swell) · 29 % reaches the beach
S
0.4 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 67 % reaches the beach

How Freshwater East works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
Offshore is from the north west; anything with south-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
from pembroke head for manorbier then take the fresh east turn off.

Needs a massive swell to work, but offers protection from the winds that generate it.. best on the push

Tide times

  • Sat 02:18Low2.2 m
  • Sat 08:57High6.8 m
  • Sat 14:42Low2.3 m
  • Sat 21:13High6.4 m
  • Sun 02:52Low2.5 m
  • Sun 09:31High6.5 m
  • Sun 15:22Low2.6 m
  • Sun 21:49High6.0 m

Stackpole Quay station, 4 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

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Comments

4 Sep 2005 · adie On the rare occasions when its going off this is a board breaker and a bone snapper. Don't come here unless you know what you're doing. And the water quality is very poor in winter.

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