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Strathy Bay

★★★★★Flat
Beach break Faces NE all tides Offshore South East Best swell North West

Best of the week: Thursday around 19:00, 4–6 ft and cross-off.

Surf now0ft2.1 m at 8 s from the NW, wind sea 0.6 m from the W
Wind14mphSW · offshore · gusts 26
Tide 3.6mFalling · low 04:58 (1.7 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Sun
7–10 ft Swell N 11s Wind 1 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell N 9s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell N 7s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–7 ft Swell N 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell N 9s Wind 5 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 0 0 0 1–2 11–15 10–13 9–12 8–11 7–10 7–10 8–11 7–10 4–5 3–4 4–6 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–8 5–7 5–7 5–6 4–6
Swell 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 13s 12s 12s 12s 11s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 10 16 15 12 9 15 10 11 8 5 17 20 18 14 10 9 9 10 9 9 17 13 12 11 13 7 5 4 4 5
Tide m 1.8↑ 3.4↑ 4.0↓ 2.5↓ 1.6↑ 1.9↑ 3.0↑ 3.8↑ 2.9↓ 1.8↓ 2.1↓ 2.6↑ 3.6↑ 3.3↓ 2.1↓ 2.5↓ 2.4↑ 3.3↑ 3.5↓ 2.5↓ 2.9↓ 2.3↓ 2.9↑ 3.6↑ 3.0↓ 3.3↓ 2.3↓ 2.4↑ 3.5↑ 3.4↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Strathy 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 Scrabster 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

Strathy Bay faces north-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N round to E; 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 NENWW
NW
2.1 m at 8 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %
W
0.6 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Strathy Bay works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south east; anything with north-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Head to the village of strathy along the a838.. when you get there head for the graveyard.. there's a car park a little further along..

Sheltered beach break with good protection from W/NW winds... head here if everywhere is blown out.

Tide times

  • Sat 04:58Low1.7 m
  • Sat 11:16High4.0 m
  • Sat 17:36Low1.6 m
  • Sat 23:48High3.6 m
  • Sun 05:38Low1.9 m
  • Sun 12:01High3.8 m
  • Sun 18:26Low1.8 m
  • Mon 00:47High3.4 m

Scrabster station, 27 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Strathy Bay - geograph.org.uk - 5631513 Craggy shore on the east side of Strathy Bay - geograph.org.uk - 5631512

Peter Moore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Peter Moore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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