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Bragar

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces N low to mid tide Offshore South East Best swell North West

Best of the week: Thursday around 17:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now6–8ft1.8 m at 9 s from the NW, wind sea 2.4 m from the W
Wind17mphSW · cross-off · gusts 27
Tide 2.3mFalling · low 02:45 (1.5 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
6–8 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sun
10–14 ft Swell N 12s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Mon
10–13 ft Swell N 10s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell N 8s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell N 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
6–8 ft Swell NE 9s Wind 2 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 6–9 6–9 7–9 6–9 6–9 15–20 12–17 11–14 10–13 9–12 12–16 10–13 8–11 7–10 6–9 6–8 6–8 5–7 5–7 5–6 5–6 5–7 5–8 6–8 6–9 7–10 7–9 6–9 6–8 5–8
Swell 6s 6s 9s 8s 9s 13s 12s 12s 12s 11s 11s 10s 9s 9s 9s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 9s 10s 10s 10s 9s 9s
Wind mph 16 15 15 9 11 15 8 6 16 5 17 12 11 9 9 14 13 13 12 11 11 13 12 10 9 4 4 3 2 2
Tide m 2.6↑ 3.7↑ 2.8↓ 1.5↓ 2.2↑ 2.3↑ 3.5↑ 3.1↓ 1.8↓ 2.0↑ 2.1↑ 3.2↑ 3.3↓ 2.2↓ 1.9↑ 2.1↑ 2.8↑ 3.3↓ 2.6↓ 1.8↓ 2.1↓ 2.4↑ 3.3↑ 3.0↓ 2.0↓ 2.3↓ 2.0↑ 3.0↑ 3.4↓ 2.3↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Bragar faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Carloway 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

Bragar 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 NNWW
NW
1.8 m at 9 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
2.4 m at 6 s (wind sea) · 50 % reaches the beach

How Bragar 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
low to mid tide.
Getting there
Easy to find on the North Coast Road

Bragar is an exposed beach break that offers various left and right breaks. Rocks and rips a hazzard but otherwise pretty nice!

Tide times

  • Sat 02:45Low1.5 m
  • Sat 09:12High3.7 m
  • Sat 15:16Low1.5 m
  • Sat 21:40High3.3 m
  • Sun 03:24Low1.7 m
  • Sun 09:53High3.5 m
  • Sun 16:03Low1.7 m
  • Sun 22:30High3.1 m

Carloway station, 11 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Beach at Port Mhòr Bhràgair - geograph.org.uk - 4229396 Windsurfer at Port Mhòr Bhràgair - geograph.org.uk - 4229386

Hugh Venables, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Hugh Venables, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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