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Freshwater West

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

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft0.8 m at 11 s from the SW, wind sea 0.3 m from the S
Wind7mphS · cross-on · gusts 11
Tide 3.3mFalling · low 02:28 (2.1 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
5–7 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Sun
5–7 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–6 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Tue
8–11 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Wed
10–14 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Thu
15–19 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 16 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 3–4 3–5 4–5 4–6 4–6 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 3–5 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–5 2–3 4–5 7–10 6–9 7–9 8–11 9–12 8–11 8–12 9–12 10–13 15–19 14–19 13–18 11–15 10–14
Swell 11s 10s 4s 9s 4s 7s 8s 5s 7s 5s 8s 8s 9s 9s 5s 5s 7s 7s 8s 8s 10s 10s 10s 10s 10s 11s 11s 11s 9s 10s
Wind mph 10 13 17 15 17 6 11 11 18 15 6 3 13 16 22 15 10 10 9 7 7 7 9 7 6 16 17 18 17 15
Tide m 4.7↑ 6.2↓ 3.9↓ 2.2↑ 4.1↑ 4.0↑ 6.0↑ 4.5↓ 2.5↓ 3.6↑ 3.5↑ 5.5↑ 5.0↓ 3.0↓ 3.1↑ 3.2↑ 4.9↑ 5.3↓ 3.7↓ 2.9↑ 3.0↑ 4.2↑ 5.4↑ 4.4↓ 2.9↓ 3.1↓ 3.3↑ 5.2↑ 5.1↓ 3.2↓
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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 SWSWS
SW
0.8 m at 11 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
S
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 60 % 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 02:28Low2.1 m
  • Sat 08:36High6.3 m
  • Sat 14:52Low2.2 m
  • Sat 20:54High5.9 m
  • Sun 03:02Low2.3 m
  • Sun 09:14High6.0 m
  • Sun 15:32Low2.4 m
  • Sun 21:34High5.6 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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