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Farr Bay

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces N all tides Offshore South East Best swell North West

Best of the week: Tuesday around 09:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now4–6ftwind sea 2.7 m from the W
Wind17mphW · cross-off · gusts 28
Tide –No tide station near enough. Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Mon
12–16 ft Swell NW 12s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–5 ft Swell N 6s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–5 ft Swell W 5s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Sat
9–12 ft Swell W 8s Wind 31 mph ★★★★★
Sun
6–8 ft Swell W 8s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10 Sun 11
Time 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 4–6 8–11 7–10 12–16 7–9 6–8 5–8 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–5 2–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 4–6 5–8 6–9 7–9 8–11 9–12 8–10 6–9 5–7 4–6 3–5
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Farr Bay faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Amber marks the sessions worth setting an alarm for. From Thursday the swell comes from Météo-France's 10-day model, which is coarser than the 5 km German model used close in. Hours no model reaches are left blank, not shown as flat.

Exposure

Farr Bay faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W round to E; the brighter a wedge, the deeper the water in that direction and the more of the swell gets in. Anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NW
W
2.7 m at 6 s (wind sea) · 63 % reaches the beach

How Farr Bay works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south east; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Drive along to north coast road from thurso for about 15-20 miles... you can't miss it.

Swell catching beach break with great lefts at high tide, and Hollow rights at low

Photos

In the gallery
Farr Bay looking from Crask

Alan Reid, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

21 Jun 2005 · davey A long-board beach. been going to torrisdale (round the corner) for years which is much better. However,left off the rocks can get quite hollow on low tide, worth a shot.

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