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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 10:00, 5–7 ft and offshore.

Surf now8–10ft2.4 m at 10 s from the E, wind sea 2.5 m from the SE
Wind24mphSE · onshore · gusts 42
Tide 3.4mFalling · low 04:02 (0.7 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
8–10 ft Swell SE 7s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Sun
5–7 ft Swell E 10s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell SE 6s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell SE 8s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell SE 2s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell SE 4s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 23 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 8–10 7–9 5–7 4–6 2–4 1–2 0 0 0–1 2–3 5–7 6–8 2–4 5–7 3–5 2–3 0–1 0 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3
Swell 7s 9s 10s 4s 6s 7s 9s 9s 3s 4s 6s 8s 6s 7s 6s 5s 4s 3s 3s 4s 4s 3s 3s 3s 4s 2s 4s 3s 4s 4s 4s
Wind mph 24 18 39 39 35 35 12 7 11 20 24 19 31 26 29 24 16 14 13 15 11 10 7 15 13 19 15 11 7 5 5
Tide m 3.5↓ 1.3↑ 3.1↑ 3.0↓ 1.2↓ 1.4↑ 0.9↑ 2.8↑ 3.4↓ 1.4↓ 1.0↑ 0.7↑ 2.5↑ 3.6↓ 1.9↓ 0.7↑ 0.7↑ 2.0↑ 3.6↑ 2.4↓ 0.7↓ 0.9↓ 1.7↑ 3.4↑ 2.9↓ 1.0↓ 1.4↓ 1.5↑ 3.0↑ 3.2↓ 1.4↓
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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 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

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 SEESE
E
2.4 m at 10 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SE
2.5 m at 7 s (wind sea) · 54 % 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 22:53High3.5 m
  • Sun 04:02Low0.7 m
  • Sun 10:29High3.4 m
  • Sun 16:14Low0.9 m
  • Sun 22:34High3.6 m
  • Mon 04:37Low0.6 m
  • Mon 11:06High3.5 m
  • Mon 16:51Low0.8 m

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

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