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The Gare

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

Best of the week: Friday around 08:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now0–1ft0.1 m at 6 s from the NE, wind sea 0.3 m from the SW
Wind15mphSW · offshore · gusts 22
Tide 2.4mRising · high 22:50 (4.3 m). Works low tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0–1 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell N 7s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell N 4s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–4 ft Swell N 4s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Fri
4–6 ft Swell N 7s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sat
2–3 ft Swell N 7s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
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 0 0–1 0–1 0 0–1 0 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 3–4 3–5 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 3–5 3–5 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2
Swell 2s 2s 2s 2s 3s 2s 6s 7s 2s 3s 5s 4s 4s 5s 5s 6s 3s 4s 5s 5s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 15 13 14 17 21 16 8 7 7 7 5 6 9 9 10 11 13 14 14 14 9 9 10 10 12 16 13 14 16 15 13
Tide m 2.6↑ 1.9↑ 3.2↑ 4.3↓ 3.4↓ 2.3↓ 1.8↓ 2.2↑ 4.2↑ 4.2↓ 2.5↓ 2.1↓ 1.3↑ 3.7↑ 4.8↓ 2.9↓ 2.8↓ 0.9↓ 2.9↑ 5.2↑ 3.5↓ 3.6↓ 0.8↓ 2.1↑ 5.1↑ 4.2↓ 4.4↓ 1.2↓ 1.4↑ 4.8↑ 4.7↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way The Gare faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. 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 Thursday 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. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NENESW
NE
0.1 m at 6 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How The Gare works

Swell
Best from the south east.
Wind
South West is offshore.
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

  • Sun 16:37Low2.3 m
  • Sun 22:50High4.3 m
  • Mon 05:37Low1.8 m
  • Mon 11:56High4.3 m
  • Mon 18:21Low2.3 m
  • Tue 00:22High4.4 m
  • Tue 07:10Low1.6 m
  • Tue 13:25High4.6 m

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

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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