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North Bay

★★★★★Flat
Beach break Faces NE low to mid tide Offshore South West Best swell North East

Best of the week: Friday around 07:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now0ft0.2 m at 5 s from the SE, wind sea 0.3 m from the SW
Wind14mphSW · offshore · gusts 25
Tide 2.8mFalling · low 17:15 (2.7 m). Works low to mid tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell N 12s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell N 3s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell N 6s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Fri
4–6 ft Swell N 7s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Sat
2–3 ft Swell N 7s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
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 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0–1 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–4 3–5 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 3–5 3–5 2–3 2–4 2–3 2–3 1–2
Swell 2s 3s 3s 2s 3s 3s 11s 12s 8s 2s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 6s 4s 5s 5s 5s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 6s 7s
Wind mph 11 10 10 13 15 12 5 5 6 9 9 8 9 11 12 9 15 17 18 17 12 11 14 14 13 15 14 16 17 17 15
Tide m 2.8↑ 2.3↓ 3.2↑ 4.6↑ 4.0↓ 2.8↓ 2.4↓ 2.3↑ 4.2↑ 4.8↓ 3.1↓ 2.9↓ 1.6↑ 3.5↑ 5.2↓ 3.7↓ 3.7↓ 1.3↓ 2.6↑ 5.3↑ 4.4↓ 4.6↓ 1.5↓ 1.8↑ 5.1↑ 5.0↓ 5.3↓ 2.0↓ 1.2↑ 4.6↑ 5.4↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way North Bay faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Scarborough 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

North Bay faces north-east. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NESESW
SE
0.2 m at 5 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %
SW
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How North Bay works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
South West is offshore.
Tide
low to mid tide.
Getting there
Park anywhere

Fickle beach break with lots of peaks. can get busy. Hasn't really worked well in years. the marine works have done something to the sand distribution and it often closes out.

Tide times

  • Sun 17:15Low2.7 m
  • Sun 23:18High4.6 m
  • Mon 06:14Low2.3 m
  • Mon 12:33High4.7 m
  • Mon 19:00Low2.7 m
  • Tue 00:55High4.8 m
  • Tue 07:43Low2.0 m
  • Tue 14:03High4.9 m

Scarborough station, 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

All 32
I witnessed stand up barrels this day not to mention getting rides across the bay. Nice beach break with lefts and rights... gets protection from SE winds because of the Harbour wall.. North Bay Quality clean day at north bay North Bay Blandy Bustin Air Mark testing out his new 9'6" noserider..

Members' own photos of North Bay. Credits: Lanza, Col Coupland, Jamo, Sie Baker.

Comments

7 Sep 2010 · skasteppa Great place for beginner intermediates, went a few weeks back and had an ace session, locals were friendly, beginnners should steer clear of the far end of the bay toward the Castele- scary rocks. try the food at the poncy restaurant near the chalets, well tasty after a day in the water:)
1 Jan 2010 · silvabak ol' faithful
25 Aug 2008 · shredddordie northbay works brilliantly excellent spot not been at it long but scarborough holds some of the friendliest surfers around big shout out to the fluid concept boys thats where its at
22 Jul 2008 · lanza I've been enjoying it overhead, shame about the corwd, most off them dissappear when it get's bigger. Oly raves about 'rights'......
21 Jul 2005 · A Local North bay the best i luv it
26 Mar 2005 · cc moved up from devon 2 years ago love this place ne ansdwer to watergate bay
17 Jan 2005 · Shanksy Boy Since the work has finished this place has got better and is a great place for beginner surfers to get more equipped for the bigger and better waves
24 Dec 2004 · d This spot takes anything the North sea throws at it (swell from N/NE/E/SE, clean, messy- good wind options) and translates it into something ridable, can get perfect on clean 3-4ft ground swell..shame about the sea wall- those pesky victorians!

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