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Bunkers

★★★★★Small
Faces NE high tide Offshore South West Best swell North East

Best of the week: Thursday around 18:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now0–1ft0.2 m at 9 s from the N, wind sea 0.4 m from the W
Wind18mphW · offshore · gusts 31
Tide 2.8mFalling · low 19:00 (2.7 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Mon
0–1 ft Swell W 3s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell N 11s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–3 ft Swell N 6s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell N 5s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell N 6s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell N 7s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell N 6s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10 Sun 11
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 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 3–4 3–4 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 2s 12s 11s 8s 7s 7s 3s 3s 4s 4s 4s 5s 4s 5s 5s 5s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 3s 3s 3s 6s 5s 4s 6s 6s
Wind mph 14 6 6 7 7 7 11 19 16 10 7 10 11 10 8 8 14 14 16 15 12 11 12 14 13 9 7 9 12 13 15
Tide m 2.8↓ 2.4↓ 2.3↑ 4.2↑ 4.8↓ 3.1↓ 2.9↓ 1.6↑ 3.5↑ 5.2↓ 3.7↓ 3.7↓ 1.3↓ 2.6↑ 5.3↑ 4.4↓ 4.6↓ 1.5↓ 1.8↑ 5.1↑ 5.0↓ 5.3↓ 2.0↓ 1.2↑ 4.6↑ 5.4↓ 5.8↓ 2.7↓ 1.0↑ 3.9↑ 5.7↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Bunkers faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Scarborough 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

Bunkers 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 NENW
N
0.2 m at 9 s (swell) · 80 % reaches the beach
W
0.4 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Bunkers works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
Offshore is from the south west; anything with north-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
Park Near the Holiday Camp and Walk Down to the bay… Bunkers is Located between two Second World War Gun Bunkers

Quality A frames Peaks, if the banks are good barrels aplenty.. usually adds 1ft or so to the wave height. Can be a really fast take off, and getting caught inside isn't fun! Usually very crowded, epecially in summer months!

Tide times

  • Mon 19:00Low2.7 m
  • Tue 00:55High4.8 m
  • Tue 07:43Low2.0 m
  • Tue 14:03High4.9 m
  • Tue 20:14Low2.4 m
  • Wed 02:09High5.1 m
  • Wed 08:48Low1.6 m
  • Wed 14:59High5.2 m

Scarborough station, 5 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

All 10
Nice Slide!! 3..2..1.. we have lift off! Bunkers Nice carving cutback Nice Spray! Fluids Team Rider Icky getting slotted on his New Resin8 6'1 pocket rocket Nice Cut Back

Members' own photos of Bunkers. Credits: Sie Baker.

Comments

1 Jan 2010 · m3d8 A classic when the banks are right - crowds a bit of a problem
1 Jan 2010 · silvabak concurs with the over-population concept : tubes of flesh, bone & rubber! A possible brand in the making: "fistral of the north"!
1 Jan 2010 · eightlegged Maxed out on bigger swells, and one of the most crowded waves in the north! avoid if at all possible.
1 Jan 2010 · eazyd247 Can be great, but most of the time I get there your either paddling through endless shore breaks or fighting with loads of others for average waves
5 Mar 2005 · matty when its good on a summer weekend it does a first class impression of fistral beach!not for the surf but for the ridiculous crowds!do us all a favour and dont stop till you see a sign that says saltburn!
24 Dec 2004 · d The beach at cayton is awful on a weekend..packed with allsorts of randoms..u can still get a wave at bunkers tho..
1 Sep 2003 · Sie Baker it's pretty good.. but bloody cold water in winter
8 Jan 2003 · lucky gotta agree with lucky.. So powerful

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