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The Cribber

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

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 5–7 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.5 m at 11 s from the W, wind sea 0.2 m from the SE
Wind6mphSE · offshore · gusts 10
Tide 2.4mFalling · low 01:26 (2.0 m). Works low to mid tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell W 11s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–4 ft Swell W 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell NW 8s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
9–12 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Wed
12–16 ft Swell W 11s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Thu
15–21 ft Swell W 12s 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 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 2–4 2–4 3–4 6–8 5–7 4–6 3–5 3–4 2–3 8–11 7–10 8–11 7–10 9–12 9–12 10–13 10–13 11–14 11–15 15–21 14–19 13–17 11–15 10–13
Swell 12s 12s 11s 10s 10s 4s 7s 7s 4s 5s 8s 8s 8s 8s 3s 6s 7s 7s 6s 9s 10s 10s 10s 11s 11s 12s 11s 11s 10s 10s
Wind mph 6 4 11 11 6 9 8 5 19 21 4 6 11 17 13 18 21 20 18 18 4 4 6 7 9 12 16 18 17 15
Tide m 5.5↑ 5.6↓ 2.9↓ 2.4↑ 5.0↑ 4.8↑ 5.6↓ 3.6↓ 2.4↑ 4.3↑ 4.2↑ 5.5↓ 4.2↓ 2.7↓ 3.6↑ 3.6↑ 5.1↑ 4.7↓ 3.2↓ 3.1↑ 3.2↑ 4.6↑ 5.1↓ 3.8↓ 2.8↑ 2.9↓ 3.8↑ 5.3↑ 4.4↓ 2.7↓
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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 NWWSE
W
0.5 m at 11 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SE
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 6 % 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 01:26Low2.0 m
  • Sat 07:28High6.1 m
  • Sat 13:51Low2.1 m
  • Sat 19:47High5.7 m
  • Sun 02:02Low2.3 m
  • Sun 08:07High5.8 m
  • Sun 14:33Low2.4 m
  • Sun 20:28High5.4 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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