Google seems to think Ultima Thule is Shetland or Orkney or Faroe or something? I was under the impression sand is rare and there's lots of cliffs that go from 200' high to 200' feet deep in the space of a lateral foot.Except for "perfect conditions", what would you choose if you could only have one feature to make a beach surfable?
Ultima Thule has quite a few beaches with various features and is exposed to both shitswells and better ones. The one thing lacking is tide difference. Being the magnetic center of the universe with the moon right above it like the sun at equator, there is no tide. Rivermouths, rocks or corner at the end of the beach, nothing seems to be able to get a respectable wave going.
The Moon orbits the Earth and the Earth rotates once every 24 hours. Ain't no place the moon is right above it all the time. I thought the more convex the coastline, the less dramatic the tide swing was.
Am I being trollolololololed, or is this an actual place, and you've done real beachbreak-level homework on it, and it has sand that touches water 12 months of the year, and it's not sea ice during swell season and patrolled by starving polar bears the rest of the year?
If you are offering a cliff that drops into the ocean, and I need to ask for the sand, then I'd pick the sand. If there's already sand, and the spot just kinda sucks, I'd pick a jetty that both blocks wind and causes sandbar formation and refraction resulting in constructive interference. Close second would be some sort of underwater canyon that causes refraction resulting in constructive interference.
Ehukai Beach Park and some beachbreaks in Mainland Mexico both have tiny tide swings.