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The Gantry

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces NE mid tide Offshore West Best swell North East

Best of the week: Friday around 14:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.2 m at 7 s from the SE, wind sea 1.1 m from the S
Wind11mphS · cross-off · gusts 17
Tide 1.7mRising · high 06:04 (4.0 m). Works mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
3–4 ft Swell NE 11s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell N 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell E 6s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Fri
4–6 ft Swell N 7s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sun 15 Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19 Fri 20
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 3–4 4–6 3–5 3–4 3–4 3–5 4–5 5–7 6–8 6–8 6–8 5–7 3–5 3–5 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 3–5 4–5 4–6 4–6 4–5
Swell 6s 7s 8s 11s 5s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 5s 6s 6s 8s 6s 6s 5s 6s 6s 6s 5s 5s 4s 4s 6s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 8 10 6 10 27 15 14 14 8 7 23 23 19 16 13 13 11 10 11 15 13 13 15 12 13 9 9 10 9 9
Tide m 4.0↑ 2.8↓ 1.8↑ 3.1↑ 4.2↑ 3.7↑ 3.3↓ 2.0↓ 2.6↑ 3.9↑ 3.3↑ 3.6↓ 2.3↓ 2.3↑ 3.5↑ 2.8↑ 3.7↑ 2.9↓ 2.1↑ 3.0↑ 2.3↑ 3.7↑ 3.4↓ 2.1↓ 2.4↑ 1.8↑ 3.4↑ 3.9↓ 2.4↓ 1.9↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way The Gantry faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at North Sunderland (Northumberland) 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 Wednesday 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 Gantry faces north-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NW round to SE; 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 NESES
SE
0.2 m at 7 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
S
1.1 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 49 % reaches the beach

How The Gantry works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
Offshore is from the west; anything with north-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
mid tide.
Getting there
Get to Seahouses (off the A1 at Alnwick) walk to the end of the pier, look to your right.

Another Right hand reef break that breaks outside of the South Pier of Seahouses Harbour. Fast, tubey, can handle large swells from almost all directions, but prone to an occasionally vicious rip that will tow you down to St Aidans beach (about half a mile North) if you catch it on the wrong tide. Also suffers from a back wash off the harbour wall at very high tides, so gewt in at about mid rising tide (if you think youre hard enough). Which i dont.

Tide times

  • Sun 06:04High4.0 m
  • Sun 11:38Low1.8 m
  • Sun 18:04High4.2 m
  • Mon 00:18Low1.6 m
  • Mon 06:56High3.9 m
  • Mon 12:26Low1.9 m
  • Mon 18:56High4.0 m
  • Tue 01:16Low1.7 m

North Sunderland (Northumberland) station, under 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Breaking Waves - geograph.org.uk - 6849440

David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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