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Freswick Bay

★★★★★Flat
Beach break Faces E high tide Offshore West Best swell North

Best of the week: Sunday around 13:00, 3–4 ft and cross-off.

Surf now0ft0.8 m at 7 s from the W, wind sea 0.6 m from the SW
Wind10mphSW · offshore · gusts 18
Tide –Tide times arrive once the Admiralty feed has run. Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell S 4s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–4 ft Swell NE 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell NE 5s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell NE 9s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell NE 9s Wind 6 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 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 3–4 3–4 3–5 2–4 2–4 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 7s 4s 4s 4s 7s 5s 8s 9s 8s 9s 4s 8s 7s 7s 7s 5s 5s 6s 5s 5s 5s 6s 8s 8s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s
Wind mph 9 12 14 12 14 16 11 11 6 5 13 20 19 13 11 10 8 11 11 9 15 12 14 12 12 6 5 3 4 4
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Freswick 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 Duncansby Head 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

Freswick Bay faces east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NE round to S; 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 EWSW
W
0.8 m at 7 s (swell) · 1 % reaches the beach
SW
0.6 m at 3 s (wind sea) · 13 % reaches the beach

How Freswick Bay works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
Offshore is from the west; anything with east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
In between Wick and John o groats... Head for Skirra and keep trying likely looking farm tracks.

Long Beach Break with bouldery sections.. Seems to catch even the sightest of SE swells, and Big Wrap round northilies when it's fully onshore on the North Coast

Tide times

  • Sat 00:31High2.6 m
  • Sat 06:07Low
  • Sat 12:33High2.8 m
  • Sat 18:42Low
  • Sun 01:13High2.5 m
  • Sun 06:46Low
  • Sun 13:14High2.7 m
  • Sun 19:31Low

Duncansby Head station, 7 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

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Members' own photos of Freswick Bay. Credits: Sie Baker.

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