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Farr Bay

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

Best of the week: today around 11:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now5–7ft2.1 m at 8 s from the NW, wind sea 0.9 m from the W
Wind16mphSW · cross-off · gusts 26
Tide 3.8mFalling · low 04:21 (2.1 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
6–8 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Sun
10–13 ft Swell N 12s Wind 2 mph ★★★★★
Mon
12–17 ft Swell N 11s Wind 27 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell N 7s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell N 9s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–7 ft Swell N 9s Wind 7 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 6–8 6–8 6–8 6–8 6–8 15–19 13–17 12–16 11–15 10–13 12–17 11–15 9–12 8–10 6–9 7–9 6–9 6–8 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 6–8 6–8 6–8 6–8 5–8 5–7 5–7
Swell 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 13s 13s 12s 12s 12s 11s 10s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 9s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 11 18 17 11 10 19 11 14 10 4 27 29 25 19 15 16 15 15 13 14 24 22 20 19 19 11 10 7 7 7
Tide m 2.6↑ 4.4↑ 4.1↓ 2.4↓ 2.0↑ 2.5↑ 3.9↑ 4.3↓ 2.8↓ 2.0↑ 2.5↑ 3.5↑ 4.3↓ 3.3↓ 2.2↓ 2.7↓ 3.1↑ 4.0↑ 3.8↓ 2.5↓ 3.0↓ 2.8↑ 3.7↑ 4.1↓ 2.9↓ 3.4↓ 2.6↓ 3.2↑ 4.2↑ 3.5↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Farr Bay faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. 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 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

Farr Bay 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
2.1 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
0.9 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 31 % reaches the beach

How Farr Bay 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
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

  • Sat 04:21Low2.1 m
  • Sat 10:09High4.6 m
  • Sat 16:54Low1.9 m
  • Sat 22:52High4.1 m
  • Sun 04:57Low2.3 m
  • Sun 10:53High4.4 m
  • Sun 17:40Low2.0 m
  • Sun 23:49High4.0 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Farr Bay looking from Crask

Alan Reid, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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