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Freshwater West

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces SW all tides Offshore East Best swell South West

Best of the week: Friday around 19:00, 4–6 ft and cross-off.

Surf now17–22ft0.1 m at 7 s from the S, wind sea 6.0 m from the SW
Wind33mphSW · onshore · gusts 58
Tide 6.8mRising · high 17:49 (6.9 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
18–24 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 30 mph ★★★★★
Sun
16–22 ft Swell W 9s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–8 ft Swell S 5s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Tue
15–19 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Wed
7–10 ft Swell W 9s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
4–6 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 10 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 18–23 16–22 15–20 13–18 11–15 9–12 6–8 8–10 10–13 11–14 11–15 15–19 14–19 13–18 13–18 14–19 9–12 9–12 9–12 8–11 7–9 4–6 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–5 3–4 3–4 3–5 4–5 4–5
Swell 9s 9s 9s 8s 10s 10s 5s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 9s 8s 9s 10s 6s 6s 10s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 6s 6s 7s 7s 8s
Wind mph 33 26 28 28 22 18 21 21 23 23 26 22 22 25 21 17 18 15 17 12 9 11 17 21 22 21 21 22 21 16 11
Tide m 6.9↓ 6.6↓ 3.1↓ 1.3↑ 5.0↑ 7.1↓ 7.2↓ 4.0↓ 1.0↓ 4.0↑ 7.4↑ 7.2↑ 5.0↓ 1.1↓ 2.9↑ 7.1↑ 6.8↑ 6.0↓ 1.7↓ 1.9↑ 6.4↑ 5.9↑ 6.7↓ 2.7↓ 1.4↑ 5.3↑ – – – – –
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Freshwater West faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Milford Haven 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 West faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from S round to NW; 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 SWSSW
S
0.1 m at 7 s (swell) · 56 % reaches the beach
SW
6.0 m at 9 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Freshwater West works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
Offshore is from the east; anything with south-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Once in Pembroke,follow the road west for about 10 miles passing a power station for about 10 miles.Closer you get,it will become sign posted.

A series or reefs link the two bays together,with particularly good sandbars in the summer months at the extrems of the tides.The southernmost beach is M.O.D and firing times are indicated by the red flags. The best waves tend to break on the jagged rocks to the south end of the beach,giving good hollow rides of up to 100mtrs+ in length.

Tide times

  • Sat 17:49High6.9 m
  • Sun 00:10Low1.2 m
  • Sun 05:09High6.9 m
  • Sun 11:27Low1.2 m
  • Sun 17:27High7.2 m
  • Sun 23:48Low1.0 m
  • Mon 05:47High7.2 m
  • Mon 12:06Low1.0 m

Milford Haven station, 5 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Freshwater West Welsh Nationals 2001

Members' own photos of Freshwater West. Credits: Richard Livock.

Comments

3 Dec 2004 · Sheepsqueezer Gets blown out easily, but when it rocks, it fucking rocks!!!

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