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ShitPipe

★★★★★Fair
Faces N mid tide Offshore West Best swell North West

Best of the week: Monday around 11:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft1.3 m at 11 s from the NW, wind sea 1.2 m from the SE
Wind28mphSE · offshore · gusts 47
Tide 3.1mRising · high 20:17 (4.6 m). Works mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell NW 11s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–4 ft Swell W 5s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–6 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell W 8s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Wed
3–4 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell W 8s Wind 14 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 2–3 2–4 2–3 4–6 20–26 19–25 6–8 4–6 4–5 3–5 2–3 0–1 0 0 0–1 1–2 4–6 5–8 3–4 3–4 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 11s 14s 6s 9s 12s 12s 11s 9s 9s 9s 9s 3s 4s 4s 5s 8s 8s 7s 9s 7s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 9s 9s 10s 10s
Wind mph 23 24 23 37 40 39 14 10 11 11 23 19 31 29 32 26 16 14 12 17 11 10 8 15 13 16 14 11 7 6 5
Tide m 3.5↑ 3.9↑ 4.2↓ 1.9↓ 1.4↑ 3.9↑ 3.4↑ 4.6↓ 2.3↓ 0.9↑ 3.4↑ 2.8↑ 4.8↓ 2.9↓ 0.8↓ 2.6↑ 2.1↑ 4.7↑ 3.6↓ 1.0↓ 1.8↑ 1.6↑ 4.2↑ 4.1↓ 1.5↓ 1.3↑ – – – – –
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way ShitPipe faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. 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 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

ShitPipe faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NW 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 NNWSE
NW
1.3 m at 11 s (swell) · 55 % reaches the beach
SE
1.2 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How ShitPipe works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
Offshore is from the west; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
mid tide.
Getting there
go to thurso go straight passed the bridge and turn right follow the road untill you come to a pier, shitpipe is at the end.

A break that goes left and right at the end of a pier. Breaks almost any swell direction and is off shore on almost all winds apart from south winds.

Tide times

  • Sat 20:17High4.6 m
  • Sun 01:35Low0.8 m
  • Sun 07:45High4.6 m
  • Sun 13:56Low1.1 m
  • Sun 19:54High4.8 m
  • Mon 02:12Low0.6 m
  • Mon 08:21High4.7 m
  • Mon 14:34Low0.9 m

Scrabster station, 3 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Thurso Beach - geograph.org.uk - 6658713 Thurso Bay looking westwards - geograph.org.uk - 5922024

Julian Paren, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Robert Eva, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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