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FX

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces NE mid to high tide Offshore South West Best swell North East

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

Surf now1–2ft0.5 m at 8 s from the SE, wind sea 1.7 m from the W
Wind30mphW · offshore · gusts 51
Tide 1.4mFalling · low 07:37 (0.8 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
1–2 ft Swell NW 5s Wind 28 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell SE 7s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Tue
4–6 ft Swell SE 8s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell N 7s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30 Sat 31
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 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 1–2 0–1 0–1 0 1–2 2–3 1–2 2–3 3–4 3–5 4–6 4–5 3–4 2–3 1–3 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1
Swell 4s 5s 6s 6s 5s 9s 9s 3s 5s 7s 8s 8s 4s 3s 7s 3s 3s 3s 2s 3s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 2s 3s 3s 3s 3s 4s 4s 3s 4s 4s
Wind mph 34 31 31 28 29 11 6 14 17 15 20 27 26 22 17 17 15 15 12 13 4 4 7 8 10 14 15 17 16 14 13 13 12 8 5
Tide m 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 FX 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

FX faces north-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N round to SE; 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 NESEW
SE
0.5 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
1.7 m at 4 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How FX works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
Offshore is from the south west; anything with north-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
Turn off A1. get to Beadnell (South of Seahouses). Find "On the Beach" restaurant. Ask for someone who surfs (inside the restaurant) and say "please point me at FX". If you stand outside the chip shop and look northeast you will be able to see FX (almost in line with the Farne Islands).

A reef break found between Beadnell and Seahouses Golf Club aprrox 1 mile out to sea (at high tide). Breaks a fast left hander, but there is a right if you paddle about five minutes further north to the other side of the rock outcrop (not recomended). Can be very tubey, has large channel to paddle out in which makes access reasonable but not easy.

Tide times

  • 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
  • Mon 20:29Low0.9 m
  • Tue 02:34High5.2 m

North Sunderland (Northumberland) station, 3 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Beach north of Beadnell - geograph.org.uk - 7221973 Sands in Beadnell - geograph.org.uk - 7221977

DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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