Hope your boy gets better in time for Christmas Podge. If it's any consolation, I don't think you will be missing much tomorrow.
If anyone is thinking of heading down to the Weymouth area this weekend, based on my report from yesterday, I'd give it a second thought if I were you.
I got up this morning, checked windguru to make sure the wind and swell were still travelling in the right direction, put my wetsuit on in the shower, then jumped in my car and made the 45 minute journey down to the spot I was at last night, fully expecting a decent day in the water.
What I should have done was check the Weymouth webcam, because there was a swell rolling in at my spot, from the south east, that I could have surfed on!
Because that was a non-starter I went on a bit of a drive around to see what else was happening. To cut a long story short, today there has been a wind blowing in from the north east, and a swell rolling in from the south east which have both been strong enough to wipe out the viz where they have been landing.
From Bowleaze Cove all the way round to Newton's Cove has been wiped out by swell, and the same is true all the way down the eastern side of Portland. Although there's not much wind or swell getting down the western side of the island, the viz there is less than a meter too, and that continues along Chesil beach to the point where the swell is actually getting in.
When I had a look around the harbour yesterday it didn't look too clever, and it didn't look much improved today either - no more than a meter of viz flowing into the Fleet under the Ferrybridge.
You might find pockets of viz in the harbour, if you know where to look (up in the northern corner maybe, if you are actually allowed to hunt there?), but I wouldn't bank on it. And it's a dropping/low tide for most of tomorrow too, I think, so unless you are in a boat you will probably be splashing around in fairly shallow water there.
Of course, things might be better elsewhere along the Purbecks, and things might change by tomorrow (although I doubt it on both counts)
Sorry to put a dampener on it, but hopefully this report will prove useful and help some people make up their mind about travelling down or not (might be better to leave it to the locals, for Saturday anyway - at least, if they have a wasted journey, they haven't got far to go to get back home).
I might have another look tomorrow, and will post a report if I do.
All the best,
Gaz
