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Gilly Reef

★★★★★Fair
Reef break Faces SE high tide Offshore North East Best swell South West
Surf now2–3ft0.7 m at 10 s from the S, wind sea 0.4 m from the SE
Wind7mphNW · offshore · gusts 10
Tide 1.8mFalling · low 01:45 (1.4 m). Works high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell S 3s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell S 6s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell SW 5s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 0 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 12 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 2–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 2–3 5–7 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0–1 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0
Swell 3s 4s 4s 4s 4s 6s 6s 6s 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s 4s 5s 5s 5s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 10s 4s 5s 12s 8s 4s 8s 11s
Wind mph 5 15 16 17 13 11 10 12 13 17 3 3 13 18 12 20 20 17 17 15 5 1 1 3 4 15 14 11 14 16
Tide m 4.2↑ 4.4↓ 2.2↓ 1.6↑ 3.7↑ 3.7↑ 4.5↓ 2.7↓ 1.6↑ 3.2↑ 3.2↑ 4.4↓ 3.2↓ 1.8↓ 2.7↑ 2.7↑ 4.1↑ 3.7↓ 2.2↓ 2.3↑ 2.3↑ 3.7↑ 4.1↓ 2.8↓ 2.0↑ 2.1↓ 3.0↑ 4.3↑ 3.3↓ 1.9↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Gilly Reef faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Falmouth 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

Gilly Reef faces south-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from E 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 SESSE
S
0.7 m at 10 s (swell) · 73 % reaches the beach
SE
0.4 m at 3 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Gilly Reef works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
Offshore is from the north east; anything with south-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
gylingvase beach. on the right. i dont know much about the leftside

reef, doesnt work much, but when it does it can be cool. not to big though. maybee 5ft max but not often. rocks stick out in places

Tide times

  • Sat 01:45Low1.4 m
  • Sat 07:38High4.8 m
  • Sat 14:03Low1.4 m
  • Sat 19:57High4.4 m
  • Sun 02:12Low1.6 m
  • Sun 08:15High4.6 m
  • Sun 14:34Low1.6 m
  • Sun 20:39High4.2 m

Falmouth station, 2 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Gyllyngvase Beach (8188053195) Falmouth Blick aufs Gylly Beach Café - panoramio

Reading Tom from Reading, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Jürgen Regel, Marian…, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

28 Sep 2005 · tom hardly eva works,but when conditions r right can b well worth a ride

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