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Ackergill

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces NE low tide Offshore West Best swell north-east

Best of the week: Sunday around 19:00, 2–3 ft and offshore.

Surf now0–1ft0.3 m at 7 s from the NE, wind sea 0.3 m from the SW
Wind10mphSW · offshore · gusts 18
Tide 2.8mRising · high 01:46 (3.0 m). Works low tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
0 ft Swell E 6s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell NE 8s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell NE 4s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–3 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–3 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Sat 14 Sun 15 Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19
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
Surf ft 0 0 0 0 0 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2
Swell 6s 2s 2s 2s 2s 5s 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s 6s 6s 6s 6s 5s 5s 4s 4s 4s 4s 8s 9s 7s 7s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 10 14 15 15 17 16 15 13 8 7 13 20 19 13 11 10 8 11 11 9 15 12 14 12 12 6 5 3 4 4
Tide m 1.6↓ 1.7↑ 2.9↑ 3.0↓ 1.7↓ 1.9↓ 1.7↑ 2.6↑ 3.1↓ 2.0↓ 2.2↓ 1.7↑ 2.3↑ 3.0↑ 2.4↓ 2.5↓ 1.8↓ 2.0↑ 2.8↑ 2.7↓ 2.6↓ 2.1↓ 1.8↑ 2.5↑ 2.8↓ 2.7↑ 2.4↓ 1.7↓ 2.1↑ 2.9↑
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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 Tuesday 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 NENESW
NE
0.3 m at 7 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 1 % reaches the beach

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 01:46High3.0 m
  • Sat 07:17Low1.4 m
  • Sat 13:48High3.2 m
  • Sat 19:52Low1.3 m
  • Sun 02:28High2.9 m
  • Sun 07:56Low1.5 m
  • Sun 14:29High3.1 m
  • Sun 20:41Low1.4 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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