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Brims Ness

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

Best of the week: Thursday around 17:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now6–8ft2.2 m at 8 s from the NW, wind sea 0.8 m from the W
Wind13mphSW · offshore · gusts 20
Tide 3.6mFalling · low 04:58 (1.7 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
7–10 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sun
10–13 ft Swell N 11s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Mon
12–16 ft Swell N 9s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell N 7s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell N 8s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell N 9s Wind 3 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 7–9 7–10 7–9 6–9 13–18 11–15 10–14 9–13 9–12 11–15 11–14 9–12 7–10 6–9 7–9 6–8 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 5–7 5–7 5–6 4–6 4–6 4–5
Swell 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 13s 12s 12s 11s 11s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 14 15 16 14 11 20 15 15 12 10 11 17 17 11 7 7 9 9 8 7 14 10 11 10 10 5 4 3 3 3
Tide m 1.8↑ 3.4↑ 4.0↓ 2.5↓ 1.6↑ 1.9↑ 3.0↑ 3.8↑ 2.9↓ 1.8↓ 2.1↓ 2.6↑ 3.6↑ 3.3↓ 2.1↓ 2.5↓ 2.4↑ 3.3↑ 3.5↓ 2.5↓ 2.9↓ 2.3↓ 2.9↑ 3.6↑ 3.0↓ 3.3↓ 2.3↓ 2.4↑ 3.5↑ 3.4↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Brims Ness faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. 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 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

Brims Ness 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
2.2 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
0.8 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 21 % reaches the beach

How Brims Ness works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
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

  • Sat 04:58Low1.7 m
  • Sat 11:16High4.0 m
  • Sat 17:36Low1.6 m
  • Sat 23:48High3.6 m
  • Sun 05:38Low1.9 m
  • Sun 12:01High3.8 m
  • Sun 18:26Low1.8 m
  • Mon 00:47High3.4 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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