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Oldshoremore

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Faces SW high tide Offshore North East Best swell West
Surf now6–8ft1.7 m at 9 s from the NW, wind sea 2.4 m from the SW
Wind25mphSW · onshore · gusts 41
Tide 3.2mFalling · low 03:39 (1.8 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
6–8 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Sun
0–1 ft Swell NW 13s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell N 7s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell N 8s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell N 9s Wind 5 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 6–9 6–9 6–8 6–8 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 6s 6s 6s 6s 9s 13s 12s 12s 12s 11s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 25 26 22 20 19 13 5 10 5 4 18 17 15 11 10 11 12 11 10 9 15 15 12 11 10 5 3 3 3 2
Tide m 2.6↑ 4.2↑ 3.6↓ 1.9↓ 2.2↑ 2.4↑ 3.8↑ 3.8↓ 2.4↓ 2.0↑ 2.3↑ 3.4↑ 3.9↓ 2.8↓ 2.0↑ 2.4↓ 3.0↑ 3.8↑ 3.3↓ 2.2↓ 2.6↓ 2.6↑ 3.6↑ 3.7↓ 2.5↓ 2.9↓ 2.3↑ 3.2↑ 4.0↓ 3.0↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Oldshoremore faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. 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 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

Oldshoremore faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SW round to W; 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 SWNWSW
NW
1.7 m at 9 s (swell) · 5 % reaches the beach
SW
2.4 m at 6 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Oldshoremore works

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

  • Sat 03:39Low1.8 m
  • Sat 09:44High4.3 m
  • Sat 16:09Low1.7 m
  • Sat 22:18High3.9 m
  • Sun 04:18Low2.0 m
  • Sun 10:30High4.1 m
  • Sun 16:56Low1.9 m
  • Sun 23:13High3.7 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Beach, Oldshoremore - geograph.org.uk - 7874247 Oldshoremore Beach (23295057660)

Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Lukas von Daeniken from Schweiz, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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