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Thurso East

★★★★★Small
Faces NW all tides Offshore South East Best swell North West

Best of the week: Thursday around 19:00, 5–7 ft and offshore.

Surf now6–9ft2.0 m at 10 s from the W, wind sea 0.9 m from the W
Wind15mphSW · cross-on · gusts 25
Tide 3.6mFalling · low 22:26 (1.7 m). Works all tides.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
6–9 ft Swell W 10s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Mon
14–19 ft Swell NW 12s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–9 ft Swell NW 8s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–7 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 0 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–4 ft Swell N 7s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sat
13–18 ft Swell W 8s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 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 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 6–9 7–10 7–9 9–13 10–14 14–19 8–12 7–11 7–10 7–9 6–9 6–8 5–8 5–7 5–8 5–8 6–9 6–9 6–8 5–7 5–7 3–4 1–3 3–4 4–6 4–6 6–9 8–11 10–15 12–17 13–18
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Wind mph 13 19 22 21 22 15 12 9 15 15 9 9 9 10 10 9 14 13 11 8 2 16 19 14 14 10 10 13 16 17 16
Tide m 3.2↓ 3.5↓ 2.5↓ 2.2↑ 3.3↑ 3.8↓ 3.9↑ 3.0↓ 1.9↓ 2.7↑ 4.1↑ 3.9↑ 3.6↓ 1.8↓ 2.1↑ 4.0↑ 3.6↑ 4.1↓ 2.1↓ 1.5↑ 3.7↑ 3.1↑ 4.5↓ 2.5↓ 1.1↑ 3.2↑ 2.4↑ 4.6↑ 3.0↓ 1.0↓ 2.6↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Thurso East faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. 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 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

Thurso East faces north-west. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NWWW
W
2.0 m at 10 s (swell) · 98 % reaches the beach
W
0.9 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 52 % reaches the beach

How Thurso East works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
South East is offshore.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Heard of John O'Groats? just to the West of there. The break is to the East of the river Thurso infront of the Castle.

The premier Wave in the UK.. One of the Fastest Barrelling waves in the world and recently voted in the 10 ten waves of europe is Surf Europe. This Place Rocks. If you've never been the Massive drive to the tip of northern Scotland can produce some of the best waves your ever likely to get. Add to that a small extremely friendly group of local surfers ( who are usually shit hot! ) who make it a pleasant place to be at Low tide, and provide a Spectical at High tide when House size barrells regually fire off.

Tide times

  • Sun 15:44High3.7 m
  • Sun 22:26Low1.7 m
  • Mon 04:51High3.7 m
  • Mon 11:04Low2.1 m
  • Mon 17:22High3.8 m
  • Mon 23:52Low1.5 m
  • Tue 06:14High3.9 m
  • Tue 12:23Low1.9 m

Scrabster station, 3 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

All 17
Morning glass at thurso Thurso East Get than arn dug in. White Lines!! Thurso East Thurso East Get your arm as deep as you can and hold on!! thurso perfection on a Warm and Sunny March Morning!

Members' own photos of Thurso East. Credits: Oly - 899prod, Sie Baker.

Comments

1 Jan 2010 · eightlegged At high tide this has to be one of the fastest, biggest barreling waves in the UK. At low tide it will still kick your arse, but you might just make one!! unless your used to these kind of waves of course.
25 Sep 2005 · Tony Went Kayak Surfing on 15 foot waves yesterday. WOW FANTASTIC but a little busy with lots of boardies
26 Mar 2005 · a local good but very innconsistent brimms is way better
27 Feb 2005 · jd from sa livin in london. been wanting to surf thurso for a while now. need a spot to sleep for a few days of surf and in exchange youll always have a place to sleep in sa on the lower south coast near a lot of wicked spots (got the land - saving up now to build so you might have to wait 2 years before you can stay over - you always welcome to crash on my land in a tent while im in london. jaydeemarx@yahoo.co.uk by the way - footage is unreal
27 Oct 2004 · GROM Absolutly unreal, it's a diffrent world, just quit your job and go
13 Oct 2004 · Rick A new cool surf shop on the harbour too.
30 Sep 2004 · nick thurso east rocks

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