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Sinclair's Bay

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces SE all tides Offshore West Best swell South East

Best of the week: Sunday around 07:00, 3–4 ft and cross-off.

Surf now1–2ft0.4 m at 7 s from the SE, wind sea 0.9 m from the SW
Wind10mphSW · cross-off · gusts 17
Tide 2.8mRising · high 01:46 (3.0 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell S 4s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–4 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell N 4s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell NE 5s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell NE 8s Wind 6 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 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 3–4 2–4 3–4 2–3 1–2 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 4s 5s 5s 5s 5s 6s 8s 9s 8s 8s 3s 4s 7s 6s 7s 5s 5s 5s 6s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s
Wind mph 9 12 14 14 15 15 11 10 7 6 13 20 19 13 11 10 8 11 11 9 15 12 14 12 12 6 5 3 4 4
Tide m 1.6↓ 1.7↑ 2.9↑ 3.0↓ 1.7↓ 1.9↓ 1.7↑ 2.6↑ 3.1↓ 2.0↓ 2.2↓ 1.7↑ 2.3↑ 3.0↑ 2.4↓ 2.5↓ 1.8↓ 2.0↑ 2.8↑ 2.7↓ 2.6↓ 2.1↓ 1.8↑ 2.5↑ 2.8↓ 2.7↑ 2.4↓ 1.7↓ 2.1↑ 2.9↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Sinclair's 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 Wick 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

Sinclair's Bay faces south-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NE round to S; 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 SESESW
SE
0.4 m at 7 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
0.9 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 9 % reaches the beach

How Sinclair's Bay works

Swell
Best from the south east.
Wind
Offshore is from the west; anything with south-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Between Wick and John o'Groats on the A9

Long beach break with bouldery reefs at one end. visable from the a9 so easily checkable.. the last surf sopt before Lossiemouth on the way home.

Tide times

  • Sat 01:46High3.0 m
  • Sat 07:17Low1.4 m
  • Sat 13:48High3.2 m
  • Sat 19:52Low1.3 m
  • Sun 02:28High2.9 m
  • Sun 07:56Low1.5 m
  • Sun 14:29High3.1 m
  • Sun 20:41Low1.4 m

Wick station, 11 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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