Are you making the most of our forecasting tools? This year’s Surf Forecast Workshops will give you skills to score the best waves, plus the chance to sip free Stone & Wood beer and chat with our ...

Hey everyone, come and meet Ben Macartney. He’s Coastalwatch’s Chief Swell Forecaster AKA the guy who dropped in on me one time when I had the perfect line to backdoor a tube at Little Avalon. I’ll ...

Maybe it was during this past weekend when many of us who live and surf between the Sunny Coast and, say, Merimbula, began to realise: this was better than we’d thought. The small ENE swell so bravely ...

Offshore and Pumping. That’s what Surfline forecaster Ben Macartney told us would happen, and well, it did. This has to be one of the great autumns, especially in central and southern NSW. Things just ...

Photography by Ian Bird, Andrew Shield and Swilly. Long weekends are always good, especially when our forecasters-in-chief Ben Macartney and Katie Jackson give ‘em the thumbs up. This one was falling ...

Late last week a solid, long-period pulse of SSE groundswell hit the NSW coast at Indo-esque peak intervals of 16 to 17 seconds. “The source,” says Surfline Forecaster Ben Macartney, “was a large ...

Look, we don’t mean to be accusatory or whatever, but … If you live in eastern Australia and you didn’t score this past weekend, you really weren’t trying. Western Vicco and the Surf Coast had a fun ...

Filming by Ben Bagley, Shane Blue, and the amazing Surfline cam array, editing by Hannah Anderson. Big Ben Macartney has been warning us about this for over a week, and on Thursday it really began to ...