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Rinsey

★★★★★Firing
Faces SW all tides Offshore North East Best swell South West

Best of the week: Sunday around 11:00, 3–5 ft and cross-off.

Surf now3–4ft0.9 m at 11 s from the SW, wind sea 0.4 m from the SE
Wind8mphE · offshore · gusts 12
Tide 1.8mFalling · low 01:28 (1.5 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
4–6 ft Swell SW 12s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–5 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–5 ft Swell S 4s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Tue
9–13 ft Swell W 7s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Wed
9–12 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Thu
11–15 ft Swell W 11s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sat 14 Sun 15 Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19
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 4–6 3–5 3–5 3–5 3–4 4–6 4–5 4–5 4–6 6–8 3–5 3–4 3–5 3–5 5–7 8–11 9–12 9–12 9–13 9–12 8–11 8–11 9–12 8–11 8–11 11–15 11–15 9–13 8–11 8–11
Swell 12s 4s 4s 4s 4s 7s 7s 7s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 4s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 9s 9s 9s 10s 6s 11s 11s 11s 11s 11s 9s
Wind mph 14 15 17 17 15 15 10 11 15 12 6 9 17 20 17 26 26 24 23 21 10 9 5 1 9 17 12 14 17 19
Tide m 4.5↑ 4.2↓ 2.0↓ 1.7↑ 3.9↑ 4.0↑ 4.4↓ 2.6↓ 1.6↑ 3.4↑ 3.4↑ 4.4↓ 3.1↓ 1.8↓ 2.8↑ 2.8↑ 4.3↑ 3.7↓ 2.1↓ 2.3↑ 2.3↑ 3.8↑ 4.1↓ 2.6↓ 2.0↑ 2.1↑ 3.2↑ 4.4↑ 3.3↓ 1.9↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Rinsey faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Porthleven 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

Rinsey faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SE round to W; 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 SWSWSE
SW
0.9 m at 11 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SE
0.4 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 64 % reaches the beach

How Rinsey 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
comin from penzance towards helston go past praa sands until u get 2 ashton the b4 u get 2 da pub turn right where u see a sign sayin "rinsey" then folllow along go straight over at the junction 2 levey the follow all the way down 2 rinsey village the follow signs 2 car park go down path 2 left of car park u cant miss it its the tiny little cove in front of the mine house. p.s. dont take n e notice of the locals surfins about sharing the experience!

tiny little baby cove around the hedland from praa sands which pics up the same swell as praa and levey but it alot more hollow than praa about the same as levey but no where near as crowded

Tide times

  • Sat 01:28Low1.5 m
  • Sat 07:08High4.8 m
  • Sat 13:53Low1.4 m
  • Sat 19:28High4.4 m
  • Sun 02:08Low1.7 m
  • Sun 07:48High4.7 m
  • Sun 14:34Low1.6 m
  • Sun 20:09High4.2 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Praa Sands - geograph.org.uk - 2107652 The coastal path at Rinsey Head with a view to Praa Sands - geograph.org.uk - 6498555

Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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