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Murkle Point

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces N mid to high tide Offshore North Best swell North West

Best of the week: Tuesday around 08:00, 3–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft2.1 m at 10 s from the W, wind sea 1.1 m from the W
Wind15mphSW · cross-off · gusts 26
Tide 3.6mFalling · low 22:26 (1.7 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
1–2 ft Swell W 10s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–8 ft Swell W 8s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Tue
3–5 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–3 ft Swell W 7s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell NW 6s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell N 7s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–3 ft Swell W 6s Wind 10 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 2–3 2–3 0 0 6–8 3–5 3–4 3–4 2–4 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 4–6 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–3 2–3 2–4 3–4
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Wind mph 12 18 17 23 23 16 11 8 15 15 8 8 9 11 9 8 15 15 13 9 4 16 20 15 14 9 9 12 16 17 15
Tide m 3.2↓ 3.5↓ 2.5↓ 2.2↑ 3.3↑ 3.8↓ 3.9↑ 3.0↓ 1.9↓ 2.7↑ 4.1↑ 3.9↑ 3.6↓ 1.8↓ 2.1↑ 4.0↑ 3.6↑ 4.1↓ 2.1↓ 1.5↑ 3.7↑ 3.1↑ 4.5↓ 2.5↓ 1.1↑ 3.2↑ 2.4↑ 4.6↑ 3.0↓ 1.0↓ 2.6↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Murkle Point faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Scrabster 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

Murkle Point 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
2.1 m at 10 s (swell) · 17 % reaches the beach
W
1.1 m at 4 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Murkle Point works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
North is offshore.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
Drive towards lands end from Thurso... Head for murkle Bay... befor dunnet head

Left hand Reef Break.. Works best on mid -high tide

Tide times

  • Sun 15:44High3.7 m
  • Sun 22:26Low1.7 m
  • Mon 04:51High3.7 m
  • Mon 11:04Low2.1 m
  • Mon 17:22High3.8 m
  • Mon 23:52Low1.5 m
  • Tue 06:14High3.9 m
  • Tue 12:23Low1.9 m

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

Comments

2 Jan 2005 · kmb I think you mean drive towards John'O Groats from Thurso. Murkle is sign posted on the left before getting to Castletown

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