Ships Cove, Marion Island, South Africa

No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Port Alfred, is 1739 km away.

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About Ships Cove, Marion Island

Facing, offshore wind, exposure, level and swell range are estimated. Facts: verified, surf details estimated.

The spot faces NE (46°), so it takes swell from the NE. The wind blows offshore from the SW (226°). It is sheltered to the open swell. It suits intermediate surfers and up, because of a steep sea floor. It works in 6–20 ft of swell. The sea floor shelves very steeply: 10 m deep about 50 m out (1 in 1). On a typical 5 ft, 11 s swell the waves here would break hard and thick, like a slab. The sea is about 5°C in June, its coldest month (5/4 or 6/5, hood, boots and gloves), and 7°C in January, its warmest (5/4 or 6/5, hood, boots and gloves). No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Port Alfred, is 1739 km away. Within 5 km we also list 1 surf spot.

Water about 5°C: 5/4 or 6/5, hood, boots and gloves. Typical sea temperature for the time of year, not a forecast.

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Ships Cove, Marion Island does not suit intermediates. This is the forecast for experts, so you can see what it does.

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Forecast and score for expert surfers at Ships Cove, Marion Island, each day
Day	Scorefor Expert	Swell	Energy	Wind	Temp
Sun 18Oct	51, good	7 ft9 sslab	824kJ	wind from the west-south-west, 13 knots, offshore	4°C
Mon 19Oct	15, too small	5 ft8 sslab	283kJ	wind from the north-west, 11 knots	6°C
Tue 20Oct	2, too small	3 ft7 smushy	82kJ	wind from the north-north-west, 11 knots	6°C
Wed 21Oct	24, too small	5 ft7 shollow	196kJ	wind from the north-north-east, 3 knots	6°C
Thu 22Oct	16, too small	4 ft8 shollow	187kJ	wind from the west-north-west, 7 knots	6°C
Fri 23Oct	18, too small	4 ft9 shollow	191kJ	wind from the south-south-west, 20 knots, offshore	2°C
Sat 24Oct	17, too small	4 ft7 shollow	127kJ	wind from the south-south-west, 13 knots, offshore	2°C
Sun 25Oct	3, too small	2 ft7 smushy	46kJ	wind from the north, 11 knots	5°C
Mon 26Oct	10, too small	2 ft7 shollow	45kJ	wind from the south-south-west, 13 knots, offshore	7°C
Tue 27Oct	9, too small	2 ft7 shollow	60kJ	wind from the west, 12 knots, offshore	7°C

Day scores here are the conditions out of 80; a trip's score on the results is the same conditions out of 100. The journey never scores. The forecast reaches about 10 days. Energy is the swell's power in kJ per metre of wave, from its height and interval: it grows with the square of each, so a long-period swell hits far harder than a short one the same size. The word under the swell is the wave's shape, our estimate from the sea floor. Wind is in knots: 10 kn is about 19 km/h. The arrow points where the wind blows to; offshore wind, blowing from the land out to sea, is green and says so.

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6 nights from Mon 19 Oct, leaving from Chicago, for expert surfers. Change dates

Mon 19 Oct
Travel out
No way there we can work out.
Tue 20 Oct
Rest day
Too small: 3 ft at best.
Wed 21 Oct
Rest day
Too small: 5 ft at best.
Thu 22 Oct
Rest day
Too small: 4 ft at best.
Fri 23 Oct
Rest day
Too small: 4 ft at best.
Sat 24 Oct
Rest day
Too small: 4 ft at best.
Sun 25 Oct
Travel home
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