Follow the swell. Stay for the culture.
Forecasts get you in the water. Culture is how surfers find each other. The stories, the options, the spot itself.
I. Caparica
It started in the water.
New Year’s Eve at Costa da Caparica. We were there every morning. The idea arrived the way a set does, not as a pitch, as a question. What if the surf was easy to check, and the place was easy to know. Not only swell period. The culture around the break.
The forecast is the ticket. The culture is the session.
II. The idea
Connect people who surf.
A straight call on whether you can surf today. Wave height, wind, swell, a rating. And then the rest: what happened at this break, how the lineup feels, what’s around it, the options you have once you’re there. Forecasts are how you arrive. Culture is how you stay.
The implementation
So we built PerfectWavees.
A live map and a short index of breaks across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Hourly conditions, and a culture layer for each spot. Stories, history, what to do besides paddle out. Curated on purpose. Free, no account, no ads.