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The Cribber

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

Best of the week: Thursday around 19:00, 3–4 ft and cross-on.

Surf now2–4ft1.0 m at 9 s from the W
Wind5mphW · onshore · gusts 10
Tide 3.0mFalling · low 18:35 (2.7 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
2–4 ft Swell W 9s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell W 9s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–7 ft Swell N 5s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell N 5s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Fri
4–6 ft Swell W 5s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Sat
4–7 ft Swell W 7s Wind 13 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 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 3–5 3–4 2–4 3–4 3–5 4–6 4–6 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 3–5
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Wind mph 5 3 3 4 6 4 4 2 3 8 7 18 19 20 21 18 12 12 12 11 8 17 18 20 22 15 13 14 15 14 11
Tide m 2.7↓ 3.0↓ 3.3↑ 5.0↑ 5.0↓ 3.2↓ 3.5↓ 2.4↑ 4.3↑ 5.8↓ 4.0↓ 4.4↓ 1.9↓ 3.1↑ 6.2↑ 5.1↓ 5.5↓ 2.0↓ 1.9↑ 5.9↑ 6.1↓ 6.4↓ 2.6↓ 1.1↑ 5.2↑ 6.9↓ 6.9↓ 3.4↓ 0.7↑ 4.1↑ 7.2↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way The Cribber faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. 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 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 Cribber faces north-west. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NWW
W
1.0 m at 9 s (swell) · 88 % reaches the beach

How The Cribber works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
South East is offshore.
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

  • Sun 18:35Low2.7 m
  • Mon 00:36High5.1 m
  • Mon 07:20Low2.8 m
  • Mon 13:23High5.3 m
  • Mon 20:19Low2.4 m
  • Tue 02:15High5.3 m
  • Tue 08:47Low2.4 m
  • Tue 14:48High5.8 m

Newquay station, 2 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
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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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