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Gills Bay

★★★★★Small
Faces N all tides Offshore South Best swell North West

Best of the week: Monday around 19:00, 4–6 ft and cross-off.

Surf now0–1ft1.9 m at 10 s from the W, wind sea 0.9 m from the W
Wind15mphSW · cross-off · gusts 26
Tide 3.5mRising · high 16:38 (3.5 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
1–2 ft Swell W 10s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–6 ft Swell NW 11s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell W 9s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell W 8s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell W 8s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 28 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell W 5s Wind 25 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 0 0–1 4–5 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 0–1 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 10s 9s 6s 7s 7s 11s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 3s 5s 4s 5s 4s 8s 5s 6s 7s 7s
Wind mph 13 17 13 19 21 17 11 11 14 18 21 17 17 17 17 17 24 20 16 12 7 28 34 25 26 24 24 25 27 29 31
Tide m 3.4↓ 3.5↓ 2.9↓ 2.3↑ 3.0↑ 3.7↑ 3.6↑ 3.3↓ 2.2↓ 2.5↑ 3.7↑ 3.3↑ 3.7↓ 2.2↓ 2.0↑ 3.5↑ 2.9↑ 4.0↓ 2.5↓ 1.6↑ 3.1↑ 2.4↑ 4.1↑ 2.8↓ 1.3↓ 2.6↑ 1.9↑ 4.0↑ 3.2↓ 1.2↓ 2.1↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Gills Bay faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Gills Bay 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

Gills Bay 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
1.9 m at 10 s (swell) · 12 % reaches the beach
W
0.9 m at 4 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Gills Bay works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
South is offshore.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Follow the Gills ferry sign once your in Thurso area.. once the head to Gill.. park in the nearest graveyard and walk across the fields.

Massive Left hander when a big swell hits.. really bad rips.. bewarned...

Tide times

  • Sun 16:38High3.5 m
  • Sun 23:04Low1.9 m
  • Mon 05:55High3.5 m
  • Mon 11:48Low2.3 m
  • Mon 18:15High3.7 m
  • Tue 00:30Low1.7 m
  • Tue 07:08High3.7 m
  • Tue 13:00Low2.1 m

Gills Bay station, 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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