bgreen gives you some good pointers in their post.mical wrote:Living where I do at the moment I've got 90 miles of pretty much dead straight coast, surely there's something that would cause certain stretches of it to work better than others at different times?
another idea is to find some old beach fishermen, and ask them where they find the gutters and rips at different times of the year, tides, weather patterns etc..
i learnt how to read waves while standing on the beach, and first learnt where to stand from my grandfather and his tailor-fishing mates.
cusps and tide heights can be more important than the swell itself.