The Point
Lunada Bay
The main wave of Lunada Bay. Reef/point right. A big wave spot. Needs at least 4 feet to break, gets good at 8'+. Handles size. Usually bigger than other spots in PV. Considered the premier wave of Palos Verdes. Very localized. Low tide best. Forget it if you can't handle power or don't want to deal with the locals. Still, it probably is the biggest and best wave in PV. Definitely worth it.
Both scanned figures, warped onto the map. Pins follow the chart’s own numbering while it’s shown, so they match the red arrows.
Significant wave height from the CDIP/SIO SoCal swell model, on a 0.01° grid — about a kilometre, so it reads at peninsula scale rather than break scale. The scale adjusts to the day.
Wind near the ground, drawn as drifting particles and shaded by speed. A separate forecast from Open-Meteo, fetched only while this is on. The peninsula splits the wind — what is offshore on one side is onshore on the other.
A compass over the break that is open, once you are zoomed in far enough for it to mean something. The shaded sector is the swell direction the 2003 guide says that break wants; the blue cone is where the swell offshore is coming from right now, longer for bigger and narrower for cleaner. The tick on the rim is the way the break faces.
Off keeps the map still while you step through breaks with the arrow keys or pick one from the list.
Only while zoomed out. Once you are close enough to read the break, tapping a pin leaves the map where it is.
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