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Sandwood Bay

★★★★★Fair
Reef break Faces NW all tides Offshore South East Best swell West

Best of the week: Thursday around 07:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now6–8ft1.7 m at 9 s from the NW, wind sea 2.5 m from the W
Wind24mphSW · cross-on · gusts 38
Tide 3.2mFalling · low 03:39 (1.8 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
7–9 ft Swell W 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Sun
13–17 ft Swell N 13s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Mon
10–13 ft Swell N 9s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell N 7s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Wed
3–5 ft Swell N 8s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell N 10s 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 4–5 6–8 6–9 6–9 7–9 13–18 12–16 11–14 10–13 9–12 12–17 11–15 9–12 7–10 6–8 6–8 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–5 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–5 3–5
Swell 6s 6s 6s 6s 9s 13s 12s 12s 12s 11s 11s 10s 9s 9s 9s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 8s 9s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 26 26 25 19 5 18 12 13 8 7 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 Sandwood Bay 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

Sandwood Bay faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W round to NE; 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 NWNWW
NW
1.7 m at 9 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
2.5 m at 6 s (wind sea) · 50 % reaches the beach

How Sandwood Bay works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south east; anything with north-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Look at the directions for oldshoremore... when you get there drive to Blairmore.. when you get there.. start walking towards Sandwood bay along the coastal path.

A good old walk from olshoremore... but pretty impresive... a mile of golden sand with upto seven breaks working.. reefs at either end beach breaks in the middle... If you find any body else here when you visit then god help us all!!

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, 10 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Surf, Sandwood Bay - geograph.org.uk - 7872248 Beach, Sandwood Bay - geograph.org.uk - 7872148

Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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