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Freshwater East

★★★★★Flat
Faces SE high tide Offshore North West Best swell South West
Surf now0ft0.1 m at 8 s from the S, wind sea 4.3 m from the SW
Wind31mphSW · cross-off · gusts 51
Tide 7.5mRising · high 18:00 (7.6 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
0 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 31 mph ★★★★★
Sun
0–1 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell S 5s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 28 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell W 6s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
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 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 2–3 1–2 0 0 0 0 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 9s 11s 11s 10s 10s 9s 5s 6s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s 10s 6s 6s 10s 10s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 6s 6s 7s 8s
Wind mph 26 25 26 27 20 14 24 23 25 26 28 29 28 32 28 25 23 20 20 15 13 14 20 23 22 23 23 22 21 20 18
Tide m 7.6↑ 7.4↓ 3.3↓ 1.5↑ 5.5↑ 7.9↓ 8.0↑ 4.5↓ 1.1↑ 4.4↑ 8.2↑ 7.9↑ 5.8↓ 1.1↓ 3.2↑ 7.8↑ 7.3↑ 7.0↓ 1.8↓ 2.2↑ 6.8↑ 6.3↑ 7.7↓ 3.0↓ 1.6↑ 5.6↑ – – – – –
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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 SESSW
S
0.1 m at 8 s (swell) · 50 % reaches the beach
SW
4.3 m at 8 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

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 18:00High7.6 m
  • Sun 00:00Low1.3 m
  • Sun 05:21High7.6 m
  • Sun 11:17Low1.3 m
  • Sun 17:41High8.0 m
  • Sun 23:38Low1.1 m
  • Mon 06:02High8.0 m
  • Mon 11:56Low1.1 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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