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Sandy Hook, NJ Daily Water Report — September 5, 2026

Sailing is the call at Sandy Hook today. An 8.2 out of 10 sits well clear of the pack, matching yesterday and the stretch since the 3rd, while boating (6.6), fishing (6.4), and kayaking (6) stay merely workable and surfing lags at 4.6. Those numbers are rankings, not safety declarations. Open-Meteo’s current and forecast mix puts a representative north wind of 14 knots, gusting to 17, over a 0.2-to-0.3-meter sea. Sailing’s method likes that: usable breeze, small waves, and 87 percent cloud. The overnight leftover is the catch—the strongest gust, 18.7 knots, landed at midnight—and the day’s wind still ranges from a near-calm 0.4 knots up to 16.9. The water itself is quiet. Waves hold 0.24 meters at 7.55 seconds, with a 0.2-meter swell from 101 degrees at 5.9 seconds and essentially no wind sea. The calmest reading is 0.22 meters near 13:00. A 0.4 m/s current sets toward 297 degrees, a real tradeoff for paddlers and small boats even on a dry day with no rain window. Marine SST is 24.5 C. Air sits near 24 C, feels a touch cooler, under overcast with UV at zero and 28 kilometers of atmospheric visibility—not a stand-in for what you would see underwater. Fishing’s 6.4 leans on solunar majors from 06:56 to 08:56 and 18:56 to 20:56 plus stable pressure around 1011 hPa; tide data did not arrive, so that input is simply out. Wildlife is a middling 5.3 on its own mix of solunar timing and wind. Diving is unscored, so it is off the table. Versus the reconstructed week, fishing ticked up from yesterday’s 5.8, boating eased from 7, and pressure has drifted down from the low 1020s earlier in the stretch. Sunday cools slightly with a 13 percent rain chance and similar 0.2-to-0.4-meter waves; then winds ease and skies stay mostly dry through the 8th before filling back in. Best bet: put a sail up in the north breeze while this water stays this small—everyone else works the margins.