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Gap

★★★★★Small
Faces NE mid to high tide Offshore West Best swell North

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 4–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.9 m at 8 s from the SE, wind sea 1.0 m from the W
Wind22mphSW · offshore · gusts 38
Tide 2.1mRising · high 03:01 (5.7 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell W 3s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–5 ft Swell N 9s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–5 ft Swell N 11s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell SE 7s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell N 5s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 23 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 1–2 3–4 2–3 4–5 3–5 3–4 2–3 2–4 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 3s 4s 4s 5s 5s 9s 11s 11s 10s 4s 7s 7s 7s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 3s 4s 4s 3s 6s 6s 5s 5s 5s 5s 4s
Wind mph 22 33 28 30 28 22 12 12 18 18 18 23 23 28 22 17 17 17 19 14 10 10 10 12 13 13 17 17 16 14 13
Tide m 1.8↑ 3.6↓ 1.0↓ 2.6↑ 5.6↑ 4.2↓ 4.4↓ 1.1↓ 1.8↑ 5.3↑ 4.9↓ 5.1↓ 1.6↓ 1.2↑ 4.8↑ 5.4↓ 5.6↓ 2.4↓ 0.9↑ 4.0↑ 5.7↓ 5.8↓ 3.4↓ 1.1↓ 3.2↑ 5.7↑ 5.6↑ 4.4↓ 1.7↓ 2.5↑ 5.3↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Gap faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Filey Bay 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

Gap 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
0.9 m at 8 s (swell) · 50 % reaches the beach
W
1.0 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Gap works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
Offshore is from the west; anything with north-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
follow the coast road south from scarborough then turn left at the junction that goes to hunmanby

nice and hollow right breaking of a sand bar. can be awsome on its day

Tide times

  • Sun 03:01High5.7 m
  • Sun 09:31Low0.9 m
  • Sun 15:35High5.7 m
  • Sun 21:47Low1.2 m
  • Mon 03:38High5.8 m
  • Mon 10:09Low0.7 m
  • Mon 16:11High5.8 m
  • Mon 22:27Low1.0 m

Filey Bay station, 5 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Reighton Sands - geograph.org.uk - 8012977 Low tide at Reighton Sands, Filey Bay - geograph.org.uk - 5785672

habiloid, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

3 Oct 2005 · local hunmanby gap is one of the best spots on its day if you come down come down with a good attitude and show some respect for the locals (most of which ripp) if you are a nob be ready for stink eye and wax on ya windscreen!! so be nice
9 Mar 2005 · yon local a directions are wrong,,, you need to take the turn to hunmanby gap not just hunmanby, common mistake but a drastic one as turning to hunmanby takes you inland.
9 Mar 2005 · yon local just a lil warning for you first timers at the gap the current is that of filey as in it will drag you about 20 miles of where you intended to be in the first plave this usually happens when you are least expecting it like a spider landing on ya head

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