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Surf Spot Characteristics |
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Surf Quality |
| | wave quality | Standard (means good) |
| | experience | all surfers |
| | surf frequency | sometimes break |
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Wave |
| type | breakwater/jetty |
| | direction | left |
| | bottom | sandy with rock |
| | power | - hollow
- fun
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| | normal length | short (<50m) |
| | good day | short (<50m) |
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Tide, Swell and Wind |
| | swell direction | - West
- SouthWest
- South
- SouthEast
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| | wind direction | - SouthWest
- South
- SouthEast
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| | swell size | starts working at 1.5m-2m /5ft-6ft and holds up to 2.5m+ / 8ft+ |
| | tide position | low and mid tide |
| | tide movement | rising and falling tides |
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Author: Anonymous
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They surfed this spot ! (8)
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Breakwater Access |
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Drive down the A30 to St. Ives, go into the town centre, and onto the harbour front. There will be two piers, one is considerably longer than the other. Breakwater is behind the longer pier.
Limited parking on the pier. |
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distance | in the city |
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walk | instant access (<5 mn) |
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easy to find? | easy to find |
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public access? | public access |
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special access | Don't know |
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More Details on Surfing |
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week crowd |
empty |
| week-end crowd |
ok |
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dangers | - rips / undertow
- rocks
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Additional Surfing Infos |
| | Paddle out can be long and tedious due to a small rip that sweeps the length of the pier and away from the break. Easiest to jump off the rocks that are parrelel with it. If you get caught in the rip don't worry, it runs into the harbour(which is calm and not very busy).
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Atmosphere |
The surfers in St. Ives are generally a pretty tolerant lot, because of the crowds we have to put up with in the Summer. Surfer/bodyboarders relation are quite good and localism isn't really a problem. However! Because there is only one peak at this break, and when it works it is often the only surfable wave around, you get loads of snaking and dropping in going on. |
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General |
Doesn't work that often, needs quite a big swell. Is worth checking out when Porthmeor just around the corner is blown/maxed out. When it works well, it suffers from big crowd probs, so catching that early morning surf can be essential!! The lower the tide is the better it will be. The wave is non-existant at high tide, and only starts breaking at mid/low tide. |
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comment by Mole, 2006-11-25 12:04:55