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Gills Bay

★★★★★Good
Faces NE all tides Offshore South Best swell North West

Best of the week: today around 06:00, 2–3 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft1.8 m at 8 s from the W, wind sea 0.6 m from the W
Wind12mphSW · offshore · gusts 21
Tide 3.5mFalling · low 05:25 (1.8 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–4 ft Swell N 9s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell NW 5s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell NE 5s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 9 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 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 5–7 4–6 3–5 3–4 2–4 2–4 3–5 3–4 3–4 2–4 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1
Swell 8s 8s 9s 9s 8s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 7s 7s 5s 5s 5s 4s 4s 5s 7s 9s 9s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 10s
Wind mph 11 14 16 12 12 19 14 15 10 11 20 29 26 18 18 17 16 17 16 18 26 20 19 20 19 13 12 9 9 9
Tide m 1.8↑ 2.9↑ 3.8↑ 2.8↓ 1.6↓ 2.0↓ 2.7↑ 3.7↑ 3.2↓ 1.9↓ 2.3↓ 2.5↑ 3.4↑ 3.4↓ 2.3↓ 2.7↓ 2.4↑ 3.1↑ 3.5↓ 2.7↓ 3.1↓ 2.4↓ 2.7↑ 3.4↑ 3.2↓ 3.4↓ 2.5↓ 2.3↑ 3.2↑ 3.5↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Gills 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 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 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

Gills Bay faces north-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NW 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 NEWW
W
1.8 m at 8 s (swell) · 42 % reaches the beach
W
0.6 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 2 % reaches the beach

How Gills Bay works

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

  • Fri 23:52High3.5 m
  • Sat 05:25Low1.8 m
  • Sat 12:03High3.8 m
  • Sat 18:03Low1.6 m
  • Sun 00:40High3.4 m
  • Sun 06:08Low2.0 m
  • Sun 12:48High3.7 m
  • Sun 18:56Low1.8 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
The pier at Gills Bay - geograph.org.uk - 3585869 Pier at Gills Bay - geograph.org.uk - 7800656

Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. don cload, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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