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Sewells Point, VA Daily Water Report — August 23, 2026

Sewells Point is a boat-and-paddle day, not a surf day. The water is nearly a sheet, the breeze is polite, and the scores put hulls well ahead of boards: boating 8.7, diving 8.1, kayaking 7.6, wildlife 7.9, sailing a middling 6.6, fishing 5.7, and surfing 4.5. Those numbers are suitability, not a safety stamp. A representative east-northeast wind of 5 knots, gusting to 7, keeps the marine forecast almost glassy—waves only 0.0 to 0.1 meters, swell a 0.02-meter ripple from the east-northeast. The calmest water sits near 09:00 at 0.04 meters on a 4-second period, which is also when the day’s strongest gust, 15 knots, is forecast. Trade the early puff for a later launch if you want the same flat water with less shove. An ocean current of 0.4 meters per second setting toward the east-northeast is the other quiet tax on a paddle or a slow drift. Air runs 22.0 to 30.8 C, representative 25.3 C and feeling closer to 28.7 under 81 percent humidity. Marine sea-surface temperature is a bath-warm 30.6 C, 1.8 C above average—fine for a long wet day, less of a refreshment. Skies hold about 42 percent cloud, atmospheric visibility 18.2 kilometers, no rain indicated, and pressure 1014 hPa and still rising. Sunrise is 05:29, sunset 18:50. A waxing gibbous moon, 76 percent lit, rises at 16:16. Fishing stays only fair, a hair under yesterday’s 5.8, with solunar majors at 07:09–09:09 and 19:09–21:09—the later window after sunset—and minors around 01:39 and 13:39. Wildlife improves to 7.9 from 6.8 on that same solunar-and-wind mix. Compared with yesterday’s CatchWindow scores, boating and kayaking both step up from 7.6 and 6.6 in similar warmth and a 6.2-knot breeze; diving and sailing hold even, and surfing is unchanged on the same tiny swell. Through midweek the marine forecast stays nearly flat. Breeze ticks up Monday and Tuesday, then rain chances climb into the high 40s and 50s by Thursday and Friday. Best bet: take the boat or the kayak while Sewells Point is still a millpond, and leave the board at home.