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Torresdale

★★★★★Good
River mouth Faces N high tide Offshore South Best swell north

Best of the week: Thursday around 14:00, 5–7 ft and offshore.

Surf now4–6ft2.1 m at 8 s from the NW, wind sea 0.9 m from the W
Wind14mphSW · cross-off · gusts 24
Tide 3.8mFalling · low 04:21 (2.1 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
5–7 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Sun
10–13 ft Swell N 12s Wind 1 mph ★★★★★
Mon
12–16 ft Swell N 9s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell N 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–8 ft Swell N 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–7 ft Swell N 9s Wind 2 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 3–4 3–4 5–7 3–4 4–6 15–19 13–17 12–16 11–15 10–13 12–17 11–15 9–12 8–10 6–9 7–9 6–9 6–8 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–8 6–8 6–8 6–8 5–8 5–7 5–7
Swell 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 13s 13s 12s 12s 12s 11s 10s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 9s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 12 18 18 13 9 17 8 13 7 1 13 16 15 11 7 6 6 8 8 7 12 11 10 9 9 4 3 3 2 3
Tide m 2.6↑ 4.4↑ 4.1↓ 2.4↓ 2.0↑ 2.5↑ 3.9↑ 4.3↓ 2.8↓ 2.0↑ 2.5↑ 3.5↑ 4.3↓ 3.3↓ 2.2↓ 2.7↓ 3.1↑ 4.0↑ 3.8↓ 2.5↓ 3.0↓ 2.8↑ 3.7↑ 4.1↓ 2.9↓ 3.4↓ 2.6↓ 3.2↑ 4.2↑ 3.5↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Torresdale faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Portnancon 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

Torresdale faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NW round to NE; 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 NNWW
NW
2.1 m at 8 s (swell) · 76 % reaches the beach
W
0.9 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 4 % reaches the beach

How Torresdale works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
Offshore is from the south; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
Along the North coast road for about 25 miles past bettyhill

Long sandy beache with river mouths breaks at each end..

Tide times

  • Sat 04:21Low2.1 m
  • Sat 10:09High4.6 m
  • Sat 16:54Low1.9 m
  • Sat 22:52High4.1 m
  • Sun 04:57Low2.3 m
  • Sun 10:53High4.4 m
  • Sun 17:40Low2.0 m
  • Sun 23:49High4.0 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Nice March Evening on the North Shore!! Lovely Sunset on a Brisk March Evening! Head an 1/2 Sets with a beautiful sunset! A hairy place to jump... especially when there's double head sets out there!! A shot up the Valley

Members' own photos of Torresdale. Credits: Sie Baker.

Comments

1 Jan 2010 · m3d8 The name speaks volumes!
1 Jan 2010 · silvabak Seldom surfed & under-rated: it's a closeout! -Honest!!
27 Jun 2005 · davey turn left at the shop in bettyhill, then left again at the 't' junction, follow the road to the end.My 'local' break. When the rights are working can be a bitch to get back out. spend most of your session paddling, or try the gorgeous barreling long lefts at the far west end. Takes nw/n/ne swells. We've regularly seen double and triple overhead days here, with an absolute monster, mid beach, when its huge, pwc needed there.

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