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The Cribber

★★★★★Small
Faces NW low to mid tide Offshore South East Best swell West

Best of the week: Thursday around 10:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now13–18ftwind sea 5.0 m from the W
Wind29mphSW · cross-on · gusts 54
Tide 6.6mFalling · low 23:09 (0.9 m). Works low to mid tide.

Live webcam

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
15–20 ft Swell W 9s Wind 29 mph ★★★★★
Sun
15–20 ft Swell W 10s Wind 27 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell W 10s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Tue
13–17 ft Swell W 11s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Wed
7–9 ft Swell W 9s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell W 8s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–4 ft Swell W 9s Wind 13 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 14–19 15–20 14–18 12–16 11–15 9–12 5–7 5–7 5–8 6–9 7–9 10–13 11–15 12–16 11–15 13–17 10–13 9–12 8–11 8–10 7–10 5–7 4–6 4–6 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–4 3–4 3–4 3–4
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Wind mph 30 27 26 21 17 15 18 20 21 23 23 22 20 25 21 18 16 15 15 13 8 10 11 18 15 16 15 16 17 16 14
Tide m 6.2↓ 5.5↓ 1.6↓ 1.9↑ 6.3↑ 6.1↓ 6.4↓ 2.2↓ 1.1↑ 5.6↑ 6.9↓ 7.0↓ 3.1↓ 0.6↑ 4.6↑ 7.3↓ 7.2↓ 4.2↓ 0.7↓ 3.3↑ 7.1↑ 6.9↑ 5.3↓ 1.3↓ 2.2↑ 6.4↑ – – – – –
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way The Cribber faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Newquay 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

The Cribber faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SW round to NE; 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 NWW
W
5.0 m at 8 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How The Cribber works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south east; anything with north-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
low to mid tide.
Getting there
Right off Towan Headland in newquay.

One of the Souths few Big wave spots.. Shame it never breaks in a surfable way. They've tried for years to have a "big wave" surfing comp here but it's never come off..

Tide times

  • Sat 16:42High6.7 m
  • Sat 23:09Low0.9 m
  • Sun 04:02High6.8 m
  • Sun 10:25Low0.9 m
  • Sun 16:19High7.1 m
  • Sun 22:46Low0.6 m
  • Mon 04:39High7.1 m
  • Mon 11:03Low0.7 m

Newquay station, 2 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

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Members' own photos of The Cribber.

Comments

23 Jan 2005 · surfer247 amazing place to go some good waves and yer i have surfeed it
20 Nov 2004 · sleeplessrowan cracking !

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