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Farr Bay

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces NW all tides Offshore South East Best swell North West

Best of the week: Thursday around 19:00, 3–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now5–8ft1.6 m at 11 s from the NW, wind sea 1.0 m from the W
Wind13mphSW · cross-on · gusts 21
Tide 3.9mFalling · low 21:56 (1.9 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
6–8 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–8 ft Swell W 5s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Tue
7–10 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–7 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–5 ft Swell N 6s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell W 4s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sat
10–15 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 5–8 5–8 5–7 8–12 10–14 11–16 7–10 6–9 6–8 5–8 5–7 5–7 4–6 5–7 5–7 5–7 6–9 5–7 4–6 4–6 3–5 2–3 1–2 3–4 3–5 4–6 7–10 7–10 9–13 10–14 11–15
Swell 10s 5s 5s 10s 11s 11s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 7s 8s 8s 8s 7s 6s 6s 6s 6s 7s 7s 4s 5s 5s 5s 6s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 13 15 12 20 19 15 8 9 13 12 10 9 10 10 11 9 12 13 10 6 4 15 15 13 13 11 11 12 13 13 13
Tide m 3.3↓ 3.9↓ 2.8↓ 2.8↑ 4.0↑ 4.0↓ 4.3↓ 3.2↓ 2.3↑ 3.5↑ 4.5↓ 4.4↑ 3.7↓ 2.1↓ 2.9↑ 4.7↑ 4.3↑ 4.3↓ 2.1↓ 2.3↑ 4.6↑ 3.9↑ 4.7↓ 2.3↓ 1.7↑ 4.2↑ 3.4↑ 4.9↓ 2.7↓ 1.3↑ 3.6↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Farr Bay faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Portnancon 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

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

NESWfaces NWNWW
NW
1.6 m at 11 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
1.0 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 59 % reaches the beach

How Farr Bay works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
South East is offshore.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Drive along to north coast road from thurso for about 15-20 miles... you can't miss it.

Swell catching beach break with great lefts at high tide, and Hollow rights at low

Tide times

  • Sun 21:56Low1.9 m
  • Mon 04:23High4.1 m
  • Mon 10:31Low2.6 m
  • Mon 16:42High4.3 m
  • Mon 23:21Low1.6 m
  • Tue 05:52High4.3 m
  • Tue 11:48Low2.3 m
  • Tue 17:55High4.5 m

Portnancon station, 29 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Comments

21 Jun 2005 · davey A long-board beach. been going to torrisdale (round the corner) for years which is much better. However,left off the rocks can get quite hollow on low tide, worth a shot.

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