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The Gantry

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces E mid tide Offshore West Best swell North East
Surf now0–1ft0.3 m at 4 s from the SE, wind sea 0.3 m from the SW
Wind12mphS · cross-off · gusts 20
Tide 2.2mRising · high 21:51 (3.9 m). Works mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0–1 ft Swell SE 4s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0 ft Swell N 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell N 5s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell N 5s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell W 3s Wind 17 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 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0 1–2 0–1 0–1 0
Swell 2s 2s 5s 3s 3s 4s 7s 7s 2s 5s 5s 5s 2s 2s 8s 8s 4s 4s 5s 5s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 3s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 12 9 13 18 18 14 7 6 7 5 4 7 9 11 11 12 14 15 17 15 8 16 13 7 9 16 16 17 20 19 15
Tide m 2.6↑ 1.9↑ 3.5↑ 3.8↓ 2.5↓ 2.0↑ 1.3↑ 2.6↑ 4.1↑ 3.2↓ 1.7↓ 1.2↓ 1.8↑ 4.1↑ 3.9↓ 1.8↓ 1.5↓ 1.1↑ 3.7↑ 4.5↓ 2.2↓ 2.1↓ 0.7↑ 3.1↑ 4.8↓ 2.7↓ 2.8↓ 0.6↓ 2.4↑ 4.8↑ 3.3↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way The Gantry faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. 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 east. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces ESESW
SE
0.3 m at 4 s (swell) · 47 % reaches the beach
SW
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How The Gantry works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
West is offshore.
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 21:51High3.9 m
  • Mon 04:24Low1.5 m
  • Mon 10:58High3.9 m
  • Mon 17:09Low1.9 m
  • Mon 23:22High4.0 m
  • Tue 05:53Low1.3 m
  • Tue 12:22High4.1 m
  • Tue 18:25Low1.7 m

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

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