{"id":40793,"date":"2015-12-07T10:26:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T10:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carvemag.com\/?p=32859"},"modified":"2015-12-07T10:26:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T10:26:48","slug":"surf-explore-sylt-germanys-best-surf-location-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carvemag.com\/2015\/12\/surf-explore-sylt-germanys-best-surf-location-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Surf &amp; Explore Sylt, Germany\u2019s best surf location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words by\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Niklas\u00a0Capelle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32860\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carvemag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Sylt-Source-vidicom.jpg\" alt=\"Sylt-Source-vidicom\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">At the end of July I went with my family to the German island Sylt. It is just 2 hours away from our home and we hoped for nice weather and some waves before our trip to Cornwall beginning of August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sylt is an island in the North Sea \u2013 quite close to the Danish border. It is 99 square kilometres big and very narrow. Each year thousand tons of sand are washed up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sylt is the epicenter of the German surf scene but the waves are fickle \u2013 especially in summer. The forecast for the first days did not look great.\u00a0 I took along my 5\u00b410 small wave groveler.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But all in all I experienced one of my best surf experience in Germany ever. My first surf took place at a sport called \u201cBrandenburger Strand\u201d. \u201cBrandenburger Strand\u201d is located directly in Westerland, Sylt\u2019s only city. The spot can even handle big onshore wind because there are two small groynes. The bottom of the spot is sand with some boulders inbetween. The waves had 6 foot faces and broke even with a hard onshore wind for German standards really nice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The following day I went to \u00b4\u00b4Weststrand List\u00b4\u00b4. It\u2019s the northern-most surf spot in Germany. A lifeguard told me that later there would be some good waves with offshore wind. The surf was good and there were some 4 foot faces and the waves were relatively clean. But there was a strong sideshore current. The next day was really good. In the morning everybody was talking about the evening because \u00b4\u00b4Windguru\u00b4\u00b4 forecasted offshore-wind<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Around 3 pm I went in for a surf at \u201cHauptstand Rantum\u201d. This year the beach break is a shore break but a windswell brought some head-high waves with incoming tide. The waves were a little punchy quite similar to the smaller ones in Hossegor, told a friend. It was definitively my heaviest surf-session ever in Germany. Later in the evening I went to surf at the \u201cOsteria Westerland\u201d. The wind swung to offshore and 4 beaufort to 1. It was a nice arvo-session with the cleanest waves I have ever seen in German water. The next days were onshore but still okay. However then the wind dropped and I surfed clean 3-foot faces at \u201cTadjem Deel\u201d, Rantum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I was happy to score Sylt that good and never expected waves of such quality in the German sea.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_slider et_pb_slider_fullwidth_off et_pb_gallery_post_type\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_slides\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words by\u00a0Niklas\u00a0Capelle. At the end of July I went with my family to the German island Sylt. It is just 2 hours away from our home and we hoped for nice weather and some waves before our trip to Cornwall beginning of August. Sylt is an island in the North Sea \u2013 quite close to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[1101],"class_list":["post-40793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-2","tag-sylt"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Surf &amp; Explore Sylt, Germany\u2019s best surf location - Carvemag.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.carvemag.com\/2015\/12\/surf-explore-sylt-germanys-best-surf-location-3\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Surf &amp; Explore Sylt, Germany\u2019s best surf location - Carvemag.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Words by\u00a0Niklas\u00a0Capelle. 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