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ShitPipe

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

Best of the week: Thursday around 19:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft2.3 m at 8 s from the NW, wind sea 0.6 m from the W
Wind12mphSW · offshore · gusts 21
Tide 3.6mFalling · low 04:58 (1.7 m). Works mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sun
9–13 ft Swell NW 11s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Mon
10–13 ft Swell N 9s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell N 7s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–5 ft Swell N 9s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell N 8s Wind 2 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 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 11–15 9–12 9–12 9–12 8–11 9–13 8–12 7–10 7–9 6–8 6–9 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–5 3–5 4–5 4–5 3–5 3–5 3–4 3–4
Swell 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 13s 12s 12s 11s 11s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 6s 7s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 12 13 17 13 12 20 13 14 11 11 12 19 18 12 9 8 9 9 9 9 15 11 11 11 11 6 5 4 3 2
Tide m 1.8↑ 3.4↑ 4.0↓ 2.5↓ 1.6↑ 1.9↑ 3.0↑ 3.8↑ 2.9↓ 1.8↓ 2.1↓ 2.6↑ 3.6↑ 3.3↓ 2.1↓ 2.5↓ 2.4↑ 3.3↑ 3.5↓ 2.5↓ 2.9↓ 2.3↓ 2.9↑ 3.6↑ 3.0↓ 3.3↓ 2.3↓ 2.4↑ 3.5↑ 3.4↓
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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 NNWW
NW
2.3 m at 8 s (swell) · 20 % reaches the beach
W
0.6 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 4 % reaches the beach

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 04:58Low1.7 m
  • Sat 11:16High4.0 m
  • Sat 17:36Low1.6 m
  • Sat 23:48High3.6 m
  • Sun 05:38Low1.9 m
  • Sun 12:01High3.8 m
  • Sun 18:26Low1.8 m
  • Mon 00:47High3.4 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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