When the wind is from the S/SW blowing sheep off Exmoor and the swell is 8'+ you might just get a wave. Don't bank on it though!
Overview
Atmosphere
Can be crowded when its working because there are very few other spots that work when this wave starts to wind off. Nice little wave though in the depths of Winter when you don't want too many duck dives.
General
Edit this page to correct or complete Porlock Weir Somerset.
I have surfed Porlock since the mid eighties and things move on and places get crowded. As for localism it's all a load of old bollocks. Are you telling me the locals don't go to other peoples local breaks. You have all been reading to many surf mags. You boys don't own it nor were you the first to surf it, nor was I.
comment by Anonymous, 2008-01-25 18:13:49
we got lucky
I'm from Holland and juli 2007 we stayed in a cottage at porlock, we heard that this spot diddn't work a lot, so every day we drove to woolacombe and putts had some good session over therte until it got blown out, so we decided to go check Lynmouth but the crowd over there was to big and than we drove back to porlock to see if something was going on, and yes there actually was a nice 6 ft wave breaking with only 2 guys in the water ( some friendly dudes from minehead) had a good session over there
comment by Mikey, 2007-03-21 18:01:13
poop
I actually spuwwed here the other day when I saw a massive turd in the water.Then I dropped in and hit my head on the shallow bottom and got hit by someone else's board. Got out and fell over the nasty stones and then got abuse from the locals who were hitting golf balls at me. One of em must have bin a single handy capper, got me rite in the snozzer!!Basically you really don't want to surf here, I won't be again man,Peace out, Fun board fran
comment by Anonymous, 2009-09-03 23:28:42