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rest bay

★★★★★Small
Faces SW all tides Offshore North East Best swell south west

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 3–5 ft and cross-off.

Surf now11–15ftwind sea 4.3 m from the SW
Wind29mphSW · onshore · gusts 52
Tide 9.4mRising · high 17:56 (9.5 m). Works all tides.

Live webcam

3 cameras

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
14–19 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 32 mph ★★★★★
Sun
14–18 ft Swell W 9s Wind 28 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Tue
12–16 ft Swell W 8s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell W 8s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–5 ft Swell W 8s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell W 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
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 13–17 14–18 12–17 11–15 8–11 7–9 3–5 3–5 6–8 6–8 6–8 10–13 11–15 12–16 12–16 11–15 8–11 8–10 7–10 6–8 6–9 4–5 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–4 2–4
Swell 8s 9s 8s 8s 7s 6s 8s 8s 6s 6s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 6s 6s 6s 6s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 8s 8s 8s
Wind mph 31 28 25 23 20 19 12 13 19 19 17 21 19 22 19 17 18 15 15 14 7 5 8 12 14 16 8 8 9 9 11
Tide m 9.5↓ 9.3↓ 4.0↓ 1.6↑ 6.9↑ 9.9↓ 10.0↓ 5.4↓ 1.1↑ 5.4↑ 10.2↑ 10.0↑ 7.0↓ 1.1↓ 3.9↑ 9.8↑ 9.3↑ 8.4↓ 2.0↓ 2.6↑ 8.7↑ 8.1↑ 9.4↓ 3.4↓ 1.8↑ 7.1↑ – – – – –
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way rest bay faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Porthcawl 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 Tuesday 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

rest bay faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SE round to NW; 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 SWSW
SW
4.3 m at 8 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How rest bay works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
Offshore is from the north east; anything with south-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
left and right

Pretty much left and right. Best on the high tide push and gets up to 7feet before it blows apart

Tide times

  • Sat 17:56High9.5 m
  • Sun 00:01Low1.4 m
  • Sun 05:16High9.5 m
  • Sun 11:18Low1.4 m
  • Sun 17:35High10.0 m
  • Sun 23:39Low1.0 m
  • Mon 05:55High10.0 m
  • Mon 11:56Low1.1 m

Porthcawl station, 3 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Nice backside ride for me with a calm sunset. Nice shallow beach dumps rest bay

Members' own photos of rest bay. Credits: Adam turner.

Comments

27 Jun 2005 · Jinx (porthcawl) This place rocks check it out also near by coney but rest needs to be 5ft or so for coney to work

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