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Brims Ness

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces N high tide Offshore South Best swell North West

Best of the week: Thursday around 19:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft2.0 m at 10 s from the W, wind sea 0.9 m from the W
Wind14mphSW · cross-off · gusts 22
Tide 3.6mFalling · low 22:26 (1.7 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
1–3 ft Swell W 10s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Mon
7–10 ft Swell NW 11s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Tue
4–6 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Wed
3–5 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell N 6s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell N 7s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sat
2–4 ft Swell W 7s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 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 2–3 2–4 2–3 3–5 0 6–9 4–6 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–3 3–5 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–4 5–7 6–9 5–7 4–6 4–6 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–4 2–4
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Wind mph 16 23 28 25 25 21 12 9 17 13 9 9 9 10 11 9 12 12 11 8 4 15 18 13 14 11 10 12 16 17 16
Tide m 3.2↓ 3.5↓ 2.5↓ 2.2↑ 3.3↑ 3.8↓ 3.9↑ 3.0↓ 1.9↓ 2.7↑ 4.1↑ 3.9↑ 3.6↓ 1.8↓ 2.1↑ 4.0↑ 3.6↑ 4.1↓ 2.1↓ 1.5↑ 3.7↑ 3.1↑ 4.5↓ 2.5↓ 1.1↑ 3.2↑ 2.4↑ 4.6↑ 3.0↓ 1.0↓ 2.6↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Brims Ness faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Scrabster 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

Brims Ness faces north. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NWW
W
2.0 m at 10 s (swell) · 25 % reaches the beach
W
0.9 m at 4 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Brims Ness works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
South is offshore.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
5-7 Miles West of Thurso, You'll see two big Green Silos in a farm along the road, turn down towards the farm near two bungalows. Park in the Farm, with mucho respect. the Farmer could close this break down if he wanted to no Rubbish or Agro please..

This has to be the most intimidating Set of waves on the North Coast. There are 3 breaks Here, the Cove, The Bowl, and The Point. Only one of which doesn't either actuallt run right onto the shelf or into a cliff face. The point is a Left hand Point break at the most Eastly end of Brimsness running over a Granite Reef Slab. This is the only wave than runs into open water. It's heavy wave but highly makable sections. Best on High The Bowl is a short fast barrell, which runs into deep water in front of a small cliff face.. very intimidating. Best at low to mid. The Cove is A Full on right hand barrel wave that breaks on to a serious shelf.. very skety on the inside. best at lowish.

Tide times

  • Sun 15:44High3.7 m
  • Sun 22:26Low1.7 m
  • Mon 04:51High3.7 m
  • Mon 11:04Low2.1 m
  • Mon 17:22High3.8 m
  • Mon 23:52Low1.5 m
  • Tue 06:14High3.9 m
  • Tue 12:23Low1.9 m

Scrabster station, 4 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

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Pictures From the Quarter Finals of The Brims Ness Leg of the Headworx BPSA Tour Pictures From the Quarter Finals of The Brims Ness Leg of the Headworx BPSA Tour Pictures From the Quarter Finals of The Brims Ness Leg of the Headworx BPSA Tour Pictures From the Finals of The Brims Ness Leg of the Headworx BPSA Tour Pictures From the Semi Finals of The Brims Ness Leg of the Headworx BPSA Tour Pictures From the Finals of The Brims Ness Leg of the Headworx BPSA Tour Pictures From the Quarter Finals of The Brims Ness Leg of the Headworx BPSA Tour

Members' own photos of Brims Ness. Credits: Sie Baker.

Comments

1 Jan 2010 · eightlegged This has to be one of the most full on reefs in the UK. Picks up any swell in the area. If it's flat every where else you should get a wave here!.. Worth going to visit when it's Maxed out as it can be an immpresive sight!
24 Mar 2005 · bradley lovely jubley

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