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Southboune

★★★★★Fair
Faces S all tides Offshore north Best swell south

Best of the week: Thursday around 12:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.3 m at 11 s from the SW
Wind4mphN · offshore · gusts 7
Tide 1.2mRising · high 00:22 (1.2 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–4 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Tue
3–5 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–3 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 9 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–3 2–3 2–3 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–4 3–5 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 2–3
Swell 11s 12s 3s 3s 3s 4s 5s 6s 6s 6s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 5s 6s 6s 5s 8s 8s 9s 9s 7s 9s 8s 8s 8s 7s 9s
Wind mph 5 7 12 10 7 11 11 14 8 11 3 3 7 9 10 15 14 13 11 10 9 7 5 6 5 10 7 9 8 8
Tide m 0.9↓ 0.9↑ 1.4↓ 1.2↓ 0.8↓ 0.9↓ 0.9↑ 1.3↑ 1.1↓ 0.9↓ 0.9↓ 0.9↓ 1.2↑ 1.1↓ 0.9↓ 1.0↓ 0.9↓ 1.0↑ 1.1↓ 0.9↓ 1.0↓ 0.9↓ 0.9↑ 1.1↓ 1.0↓ 1.1↓ 0.9↓ 0.9↓ 1.1↑ –
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Southboune faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Christchurch (Tuckton) 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

Southboune faces south. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from E 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 SSW
SW
0.3 m at 11 s (swell) · 97 % reaches the beach

How Southboune works

Swell
Best from the south.
Wind
Offshore is from the north; anything with south in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

big dumpers when the swells right can get pretty dodgy but is still fun nightmare to paddle out though

Tide times

  • Sat 00:22High1.2 m
  • Sat 07:52Low0.8 m
  • Sat 11:57High1.4 m
  • Sat 20:17Low0.7 m
  • Sun 01:02High1.1 m
  • Sun 08:37Low0.8 m
  • Sun 12:06High1.3 m
  • Sun 20:58Low0.7 m

Christchurch (Tuckton) station, 2 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

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Comments

24 Mar 2005 · bradley A board breaker in heavy swell

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