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The Gare

★★★★★Firing
River mouth Faces NE low tide Offshore South West Best swell South East

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

Surf now3–5ft1.2 m at 9 s from the N, wind sea 0.2 m from the SW
Wind8mphSW · offshore · gusts 11
Tide 1.5mRising · high 06:16 (4.7 m). Works low tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell N 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell NE 14s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell N 7s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Tue
4–6 ft Swell N 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell N 7s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–7 ft Swell N 9s Wind 5 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 4–6 3–5 3–4 3–4 3–5 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–5 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 5–7 5–8 5–8 5–7 5–7
Swell 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 6s 9s 12s 14s 14s 8s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 9 10 14 17 13 12 11 13 10 9 11 11 11 8 1 15 13 11 11 12 9 10 10 9 8 5 5 7 8 9
Tide m 4.7↑ 3.4↓ 1.8↓ 3.2↑ 4.8↑ 4.3↑ 3.8↓ 2.2↓ 2.8↑ 4.5↑ 3.8↑ 4.1↓ 2.7↓ 2.5↑ 4.0↑ 3.3↑ 4.2↓ 3.2↓ 2.5↑ 3.5↑ 2.7↑ 4.0↑ 3.8↓ 2.6↓ 2.9↑ 2.1↑ 3.7↑ 4.2↓ 2.9↓ 2.4↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way The Gare faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at River Tees Entrance 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 Gare faces north-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N round to E; 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 NENSW
N
1.2 m at 9 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 8 % reaches the beach

How The Gare works

Swell
Best from the south east.
Wind
Offshore is from the south west; anything with north-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
low tide.
Getting there
Between Redcar and Middlesborough, drive upto the lighthouse and check it from there.

Inside the river mouth of the Tees, up stream from the light house.. only works in massive SE/E swells, but get good protect from the winds.. horrible water quality and heavy waves keep most people away.

Tide times

  • Sat 00:02Low1.5 m
  • Sat 06:16High4.7 m
  • Sat 12:09Low1.8 m
  • Sat 18:20High4.8 m
  • Sun 00:41Low1.7 m
  • Sun 07:01High4.5 m
  • Sun 12:50Low2.1 m
  • Sun 19:06High4.6 m

River Tees Entrance station, 2 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Most easterly part of South Gare Breakwater - geograph.org.uk - 1691412 Beach by South Gare Breakwater - geograph.org.uk - 6445953

peter robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Hugh Venables, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

25 Aug 2008 · shredddordie toxic, dirty, filthy amazing right hander, the hard north at its best
24 Apr 2008 · Sie Baker i get all my custom surfboards from mark at Fluid.. great service!
1 Jun 2005 · ICI MANAGER nothin wrong surfing in a few of the worlds most deadly's chemicals last time i paddled out i found this local surfer with 7 arms and 4 legs and 2 heads, get ya self in it's
21 May 2005 · swhg the most freeky place drove down past the iron works shitty coloured water!!!!!!
8 Jan 2005 · saltburnsurf.co.uk check out saltburnsurf.co.uk to see some sick pics of the gare
23 Dec 2004 · danny check out the way the water fizzes..full of surfactants from detergents- the water actually feels soapey! If that's not enough to put you off remember the ghost ships that were imported from america that caused so much concern because of how toxic they are?- well they are parked about 1000 meters up stream in Able Uk's boat yard. Nice!

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