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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: Monday around 17:00, 3–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.2 m at 7 s from the SE, wind sea 1.1 m from the S
Wind11mphS · cross-off · gusts 17
Tide 1.7mRising · high 06:04 (4.0 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
3–4 ft Swell NE 11s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell N 8s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell SE 6s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Fri
4–5 ft Swell N 6s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Sun 15 Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19 Fri 20
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 2–3 2–3 2–3 3–4 4–6 3–5 3–4 3–4 3–5 4–5 5–7 6–8 6–8 6–8 5–7 3–5 3–5 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 3–5 4–5 4–6 4–6 4–5
Swell 6s 7s 8s 11s 5s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 5s 6s 6s 8s 6s 6s 5s 6s 6s 6s 5s 5s 4s 4s 6s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 8 10 6 10 27 15 14 14 8 7 23 23 19 16 13 13 11 10 11 15 13 13 15 12 13 9 9 10 9 9
Tide m 4.0↑ 2.8↓ 1.8↑ 3.1↑ 4.2↑ 3.7↑ 3.3↓ 2.0↓ 2.6↑ 3.9↑ 3.3↑ 3.6↓ 2.3↓ 2.3↑ 3.5↑ 2.8↑ 3.7↑ 2.9↓ 2.1↑ 3.0↑ 2.3↑ 3.7↑ 3.4↓ 2.1↓ 2.4↑ 1.8↑ 3.4↑ 3.9↓ 2.4↓ 1.9↑
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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 NESES
SE
0.2 m at 7 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
S
1.1 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 49 % reaches the beach

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 06:04High4.0 m
  • Sun 11:38Low1.8 m
  • Sun 18:04High4.2 m
  • Mon 00:18Low1.6 m
  • Mon 06:56High3.9 m
  • Mon 12:26Low1.9 m
  • Mon 18:56High4.0 m
  • Tue 01:16Low1.7 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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