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Skirza Harbour

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

Best of the week: Sunday around 09:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now13–17ft4.8 m at 8 s from the SE, wind sea 1.3 m from the S
Wind16mphSW · cross-off · gusts 25
Tide –Tide times arrive once the Admiralty feed has run. Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
13–17 ft Swell SE 8s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sun
6–8 ft Swell E 10s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–8 ft Swell SE 5s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Tue
3–4 ft Swell SW 4s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell S 4s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell SE 2s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell SE 4s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 19 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 13–17 7–10 6–8 5–7 3–5 1–2 0 0–1 1–2 3–5 7–9 8–10 9–12 9–12 6–9 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 0–1 0 0 0 0 0–1 1–2 2–3 2–4 3–4 3–4
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Wind mph 16 15 19 30 35 35 10 12 12 24 26 19 31 26 29 24 16 14 13 15 11 10 7 15 13 19 15 11 7 5 5
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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 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

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 ESES
SE
4.8 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
S
1.3 m at 5 s (wind sea) · 90 % 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 21:38High3.1 m
  • Sun 02:52Low
  • Sun 09:14High3.0 m
  • Sun 15:04Low
  • Sun 21:19High3.2 m
  • Mon 03:27Low
  • Mon 09:51High3.1 m
  • Mon 15:41Low

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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