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Ackergill

★★★★★Flat
Reef break Faces NE low tide Offshore West Best swell north-east
Surf now0ft3.2 m at 8 s from the SE, wind sea 0.1 m from the S
Wind10mphS · offshore · gusts 17
Tide 2.2mRising · high 22:53 (3.5 m). Works low tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
0 ft Swell SE 8s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–4 ft Swell W 4s Wind 31 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell NE 10s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell SE 9s Wind 28 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 19 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 1–2 2–4 3–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swell 8s 9s 10s 3s 4s 4s 10s 9s 2s 4s 5s 8s 9s 9s 10s 3s 3s 3s 3s 4s 2s 4s 4s 4s 8s 2s 4s 3s 4s 4s 4s
Wind mph 10 13 20 43 33 30 11 9 9 19 24 19 31 26 29 24 16 14 13 15 11 10 7 15 13 19 15 11 7 5 5
Tide m 1.8↑ 1.3↑ 3.1↑ 3.0↓ 1.2↓ 1.4↑ 0.9↑ 2.8↑ 3.4↓ 1.4↓ 1.0↑ 0.7↑ 2.5↑ 3.6↓ 1.9↓ 0.7↑ 0.7↑ 2.0↑ 3.6↑ 2.4↓ 0.7↓ 0.9↓ 1.7↑ 3.4↑ 2.9↓ 1.0↓ 1.4↓ 1.5↑ 3.0↑ 3.2↓ 1.4↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Ackergill faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Wick 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 Wednesday 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

Ackergill faces north-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N 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 NESES
SE
3.2 m at 8 s (swell) · 1 % reaches the beach
S
0.1 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Ackergill works

Swell
Best from the north-east.
Wind
Offshore is from the west; anything with north-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
low tide.
Getting there
Drive upto noss head and have a nose around.

A couple of reef break between oss Head and Wick

Tide times

  • Sat 22:53High3.5 m
  • Sun 04:02Low0.7 m
  • Sun 10:29High3.4 m
  • Sun 16:14Low0.9 m
  • Sun 22:34High3.6 m
  • Mon 04:37Low0.6 m
  • Mon 11:06High3.5 m
  • Mon 16:51Low0.8 m

Wick station, 5 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Old Brick Hut by Sinclair Bay, Caithness - geograph.org.uk - 7112350 Sinclair Bay, Caithness - geograph.org.uk - 7112331

Andrew Tryon, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Andrew Tryon, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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