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Gilly Reef

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces SE high tide Offshore North East Best swell South West
Surf now0–1ft0.1 m at 9 s from the S, wind sea 2.9 m from the SW
Wind27mphSW · cross-off · gusts 45
Tide 3.3mFalling · low 23:25 (0.8 m). Works high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
0–1 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 27 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell S 7s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Tue
3–5 ft Swell S 10s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 19 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 1–2 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 3–5 2–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 8s 10s 10s 10s 10s 10s 5s 6s 7s 7s 7s 10s 10s 10s 10s 10s 9s 6s 8s 6s 6s 6s 6s 6s 6s 6s 3s 3s 3s 3s 4s
Wind mph 27 21 20 21 13 10 22 21 21 24 24 18 15 21 18 14 14 12 13 11 7 9 11 15 14 14 14 14 14 14 14
Tide m 4.0↓ 4.3↓ 1.5↓ 1.3↑ 4.6↑ 4.6↓ 4.8↓ 2.0↓ 0.7↑ 3.8↑ 5.1↓ 5.2↓ 2.7↓ 0.5↓ 2.9↑ 5.3↓ 5.2↑ 3.4↓ 0.7↓ 2.0↑ 5.1↑ 4.9↑ 4.1↓ 1.2↓ 1.3↑ 4.5↑ 4.3↑ 4.6↓ 1.9↓ 1.1↑ 3.7↑
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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 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

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 SESSW
S
0.1 m at 9 s (swell) · 65 % reaches the beach
SW
2.9 m at 8 s (wind sea) · 4 % 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 23:25Low0.8 m
  • Sun 04:12High5.0 m
  • Sun 10:46Low0.8 m
  • Sun 16:25High5.2 m
  • Sun 23:07Low0.6 m
  • Mon 04:50High5.1 m
  • Mon 11:28Low0.6 m
  • Mon 17:07High5.3 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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