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Oldshoremore

★★★★★Fair
Faces SW high tide Offshore North East Best swell West
Surf now3–4ft1.4 m at 9 s from the W, wind sea 0.4 m from the S
Wind12mphS · cross-on · gusts 20
Tide 4.7mRising · high 18:51 (4.8 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
3–4 ft Swell W 9s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–4 ft Swell W 9s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell W 8s Wind 37 mph ★★★★★
Wed
3–4 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
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 3–4 3–4 7–9 18–23 15–20 13–18 2–3 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 7–9 13–17 17–22 9–13 15–20 3–4 3–4 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 1–2
Swell 9s 9s 9s 11s 12s 12s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 7s 8s 8s 9s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 6s 7s 7s 9s 10s 5s
Wind mph 12 24 43 45 42 38 21 12 9 11 20 26 38 40 38 38 25 21 21 23 23 23 21 13 15 16 13 14 15 12 10
Tide m 4.6↑ 4.7↑ 3.3↓ 1.1↓ 2.5↑ 4.9↑ 4.8↑ 3.9↓ 1.2↓ 1.8↑ 4.8↑ 4.5↑ 4.4↓ 1.6↓ 1.2↑ 4.3↑ 3.9↑ 4.8↓ 2.2↓ 0.9↑ 3.5↑ 3.1↑ 4.9↓ 2.9↓ 1.0↓ 2.6↑ 2.4↑ 4.6↑ 3.6↓ 1.4↓ 1.9↑
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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 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. 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 SWWS
W
1.4 m at 9 s (swell) · 80 % reaches the beach
S
0.4 m at 3 s (wind sea) · 12 % 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 18:51High4.8 m
  • Sun 01:16Low0.9 m
  • Sun 06:19High4.8 m
  • Sun 12:34Low1.0 m
  • Sun 18:26High5.0 m
  • Mon 00:51Low0.7 m
  • Mon 06:51High5.0 m
  • Mon 13:10Low0.8 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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