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In a distant past when surf forecasting was in its infancy and magicseaweed was a new forecaster to follow, I had a habit of chasing clean North Sea swells meeting offshore winds at the Danish coast, something that the majority of surfers still considered a hoax back then. Common “knowledge” was that waves on the North Sea only break with local windswells and everything else gets blocked by the British Isles. Some Denmark regulars already knew better, but it was very difficult to predict these special swells and distinguish them on the available forecast data. That´s why we started to call them ghost swells, as they seemingly appeared out of nowhere.
Things are much different nowadays as most of the major forecast providers clearly show what will happen once a north Atlantic groundswell will make the way around Scotland and into the North Sea. Back in the clueless forecasting days I usually had these clean exceptional waves either for myself or could share them with a handful of buddies. Nowadays everybody and their uncles will know what will happen and the lineups are busy to packed most of the time, even on workdays in the middle of winter.
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