Home / North East / Scarborough

Pump house

★★★★★Flat
Beach break Faces E mid tide Offshore West Best swell North East
Surf now0ft0.1 m at 8 s from the N, wind sea 0.2 m from the SW
Wind16mphSW · offshore · gusts 27
Tide 2.8mFalling · low 17:15 (2.7 m). Works mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0 ft Swell N 10s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell N 3s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell N 5s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0 ft Swell N 7s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sat
0–1 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0 0
Swell 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 10s 13s 10s 10s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 6s 4s 5s 5s 5s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 6s 7s
Wind mph 12 12 12 15 19 14 3 5 7 9 8 7 5 9 10 7 11 13 14 14 9 10 12 15 14 15 12 14 17 17 14
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↓
Rating ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★

Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Pump house 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

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

NESWfaces ENSW
N
0.1 m at 8 s (swell) · 9 % reaches the beach
SW
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Pump house works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
West is offshore.
Tide
mid tide.
Getting there
Park Near the Holiday Camp and Walk Down to the bay… Paddle out in front of the PumpHouse building

Fickle Beach break over rocks, pretty weak most of the time, so is good for beginers and longboards. Can get really good on a low tide, but the exposed rocks have dmaged many a board.

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, 4 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Cayton bay surfing competition. Talk about picture post card… I only wish this was I sight I saw more often.. But doesn't boro look beautiful! Morning Mist Lines

Members' own photos of Pump house. Credits: col coupland, Sie Baker, SHAUN, David Reed.

Comments

1 Jan 2010 · silvabak As seen on T.V.!!
1 Jan 2010 · eightlegged Can hold a full on right hand barrel when the tide is low. Breaks over a boulder reef so it's a bit knarly!
25 May 2005 · Ry Beastly rocks right outside pumphouse, try not to fall surfing there at almost high tide, they tend to stick out a bit.
17 Apr 2005 · a longboarder Just had a right surf at pump house 6.30am 2 11.00am cool session
11 Apr 2005 · JB watch out for the rocks somone other day hit them an f**ked up there board realy bad!!!
24 Dec 2004 · d Good lefts and rights and can work thu tlow-mid-3/4s tide This spot can handle a crowd. Often closes out on smaller swells.

Log in or join to comment.

Nearby