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Oldshoremore

★★★★★Small
Faces SW high tide Offshore North East Best swell West

Best of the week: Friday around 06:00, 2–3 ft and cross-off.

Surf now5–7ft2.0 m at 11 s from the W, wind sea 1.7 m from the SW
Wind23mphSW · onshore · gusts 38
Tide 3.1mFalling · low 21:06 (1.9 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
5–7 ft Swell W 11s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–8 ft Swell NW 11s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Tue
3–5 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–4 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell N 6s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell SW 4s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Sat
4–6 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 20 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 5–7 8–11 8–11 6–9 6–8 5–8 3–5 3–4 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–4 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 2–3 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 3–5 4–5 4–6 4–6 4–6
Swell 11s 6s 6s 6s 11s 11s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 7s 7s 7s 8s 7s 6s 6s 6s 6s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 8s 9s 10s 10s 10s
Wind mph 22 29 23 25 25 24 19 17 17 21 15 14 14 13 12 11 12 13 8 4 5 15 14 18 18 16 16 18 20 20 20
Tide m 2.8↓ 3.2↓ 2.3↓ 2.7↑ 3.9↑ 3.5↓ 3.8↓ 2.5↓ 2.1↑ 3.6↑ 4.1↓ 4.3↓ 2.9↓ 1.6↑ 3.1↑ 4.5↑ 4.4↑ 3.5↓ 1.4↓ 2.4↑ 4.6↑ 4.3↑ 4.0↓ 1.5↓ 1.7↑ 4.5↑ 4.0↑ 4.5↓ 1.8↓ 1.2↑ 4.1↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Oldshoremore faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Kinlochbervie 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

Oldshoremore faces south-west. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces SWWSW
W
2.0 m at 11 s (swell) · 52 % reaches the beach
SW
1.7 m at 5 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Oldshoremore works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
North East is offshore.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
Follow the winding north coast road through some beautiful countryside.. head back down the coast from durness.. then up the B801 to Oldshoremore and blairmore

Sheltered SW facing bay.. give good shelter from north to westerly winds.

Tide times

  • Sun 21:06Low1.9 m
  • Mon 03:35High3.8 m
  • Mon 09:39Low2.2 m
  • Mon 16:03High4.0 m
  • Mon 22:43Low1.7 m
  • Tue 04:58High4.0 m
  • Tue 11:05Low2.0 m
  • Tue 17:13High4.2 m

Kinlochbervie station, 4 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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