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St.Vedas

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Faces NE high tide Offshore south-west Best swell North East

Best of the week: Wednesday around 19:00, 3–5 ft and cross-off.

Surf now1–2ft0.8 m at 8 s from the N, wind sea 0.2 m from the SW
Wind10mphSW · offshore · gusts 18
Tide 2.0mRising · high 05:16 (4.5 m). Works high tide.

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St Vedas

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell N 8s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell E 10s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell N 7s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell N 8s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Wed
3–5 ft Swell NE 9s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell NE 10s Wind 8 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–4 3–5 1–2 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–4 2–4 2–4 3–4 3–5 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6
Swell 8s 8s 7s 7s 6s 6s 9s 11s 5s 6s 7s 4s 4s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 6s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 10s 10s 10s 9s 9s
Wind mph 12 15 14 13 17 22 15 12 21 18 16 15 17 11 5 23 22 20 16 16 16 14 13 12 12 8 9 11 11 10
Tide m 4.4↓ 2.4↓ 2.1↑ 3.9↑ 4.5↓ 4.4↓ 3.0↓ 2.1↑ 3.4↑ 4.4↑ 4.1↑ 3.5↓ 2.3↓ 3.1↑ 4.2↑ 3.8↑ 3.9↓ 2.7↓ 2.7↑ 3.8↑ 3.3↑ 4.0↓ 3.2↓ 2.5↑ 3.4↑ 2.7↑ 4.0↑ 3.7↓ 2.5↓ 2.8↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way St.Vedas faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Eyemouth 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

St.Vedas faces north-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N round to SE; 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 NENSW
N
0.8 m at 8 s (swell) · 76 % reaches the beach
SW
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How St.Vedas works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
Offshore is from the south-west; anything with north-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
follow sighs for edinburgh bypass and come off at a1 heading for dunbar.exit at coldingham/st.abbs.

Quiet with surf shop on site where able to hire westsuits,boards etc.

Tide times

  • Sat 05:16High4.5 m
  • Sat 10:35Low1.8 m
  • Sat 17:16High4.6 m
  • Sat 23:03Low1.7 m
  • Sun 05:59High4.4 m
  • Sun 11:14Low2.1 m
  • Sun 18:01High4.4 m
  • Sun 23:49Low1.9 m

Eyemouth station, 4 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Summer on the Sands in Coldingham Bay - geograph.org.uk - 8076417 Beach Huts at Coldingham Sands - geograph.org.uk - 6359577

Iain Lees, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Jennifer Petrie, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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