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Skirza Harbour

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces E high tide Offshore North West Best swell east

Best of the week: Sunday around 17:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now0–1ft0.8 m at 7 s from the W, wind sea 0.6 m from the SW
Wind12mphSW · cross-off · gusts 20
Tide –Tide times arrive once the Admiralty feed has run. Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell S 4s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–4 ft Swell NE 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell NE 4s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–3 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–3 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 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 5–6 5–7 4–5 3–5 3–4 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3
Swell 7s 4s 4s 4s 7s 5s 8s 9s 8s 9s 4s 8s 7s 7s 7s 5s 5s 4s 5s 5s 5s 8s 8s 7s 7s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 11 16 17 14 18 21 16 15 9 9 13 20 19 13 11 10 8 11 11 9 15 12 14 12 12 6 5 3 4 4
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Skirza Harbour faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Duncansby Head 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

Skirza Harbour faces east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N round to SW; 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 EWSW
W
0.8 m at 7 s (swell) · 2 % reaches the beach
SW
0.6 m at 3 s (wind sea) · 39 % reaches the beach

How Skirza Harbour works

Swell
Best from the east.
Wind
Offshore is from the north west; anything with east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
Head down the coast from John o Groats towards wick.. follow signs to skirza harbour.

Left hand reef break from the eand of a Skirza Harbour.. Works best in wrap round swell from massive northely swells.

Tide times

  • Sat 00:31High2.6 m
  • Sat 06:07Low
  • Sat 12:33High2.8 m
  • Sat 18:42Low
  • Sun 01:13High2.5 m
  • Sun 06:46Low
  • Sun 13:14High2.7 m
  • Sun 19:31Low

Duncansby Head station, 6 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Skirza Harbour - geograph.org.uk - 2568771 Skirza pier at Freswick Bay - geograph.org.uk - 6202615

Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. John Ferguson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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