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Freswick Bay

★★★★★Flat
Beach break Faces E high tide Offshore West Best swell North
Surf now0ft0.9 m at 8 s from the SW, wind sea 0.6 m from the SW
Wind19mphSW · offshore · gusts 33
Tide –Tide times arrive once the Admiralty feed has run. Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Mon
0 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell W 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell NE 5s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell SE 5s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sat
0 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–5 ft Swell SE 4s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10 Sun 11
Time 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 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 1–2 1–2 2–4 1–2 1–2 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 3–5
Swell 8s 4s 4s 4s 11s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 3s 3s 4s 3s 5s 5s 5s 5s 4s 3s 4s 3s 3s 4s 4s 4s 5s 8s 9s 3s 3s 4s
Wind mph 18 14 22 21 15 9 9 14 14 7 7 8 10 11 10 12 11 9 5 3 16 18 18 16 12 9 11 16 17 15 9 10 13 19 25
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Freswick Bay faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Duncansby Head above chart datum, rising ↑ or falling ↓; the rating drops when the tide is outside the window this break works on. 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

Freswick Bay faces east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NE round to SE; 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 ESWSW
SW
0.9 m at 8 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %
SW
0.6 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Freswick Bay works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
Offshore is from the west; anything with east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
In between Wick and John o groats... Head for Skirra and keep trying likely looking farm tracks.

Long Beach Break with bouldery sections.. Seems to catch even the sightest of SE swells, and Big Wrap round northilies when it's fully onshore on the North Coast

Tide times

  • Mon 06:09High2.4 m
  • Mon 12:36Low
  • Mon 18:25High2.5 m
  • Tue 01:25Low
  • Tue 07:38High2.5 m
  • Tue 13:50Low
  • Tue 19:42High2.7 m
  • Wed 02:24Low

Duncansby Head station, 7 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

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Members' own photos of Freswick Bay. Credits: Sie Baker.

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