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Tresta East

★★★★★Flat
Faces SE low to mid tide Offshore West Best swell East

Best of the week: Sunday around 11:00, 3–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now0ft0.7 m at 7 s from the NE, wind sea 0.7 m from the SW
Wind19mphSW · cross-off · gusts 28
Tide 2.1mRising · high 00:58 (2.1 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell SW 4s Wind 27 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–5 ft Swell E 11s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell N 4s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell NE 9s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell NE 9s Wind 17 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 0–1 0 0 0 0 2–4 2–4 4–6 3–5 3–4 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 4s 4s 7s 7s 7s 12s 12s 11s 10s 10s 4s 4s 7s 8s 8s 7s 8s 8s 7s 7s 9s 9s 9s 9s 10s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s
Wind mph 28 30 32 23 17 3 15 17 23 24 20 21 18 15 11 12 15 18 16 20 17 15 14 16 15 17 19 20 19 17
Tide m 1.3↓ 1.6↑ 2.2↑ 2.0↓ 1.2↓ 1.4↓ 1.5↑ 2.1↑ 2.1↓ 1.4↓ 1.6↓ 1.5↑ 1.9↑ 2.1↓ 1.6↓ 1.7↓ 1.5↓ 1.7↑ 2.0↑ 1.8↓ 1.8↓ 1.5↓ 1.5↑ 1.9↑ 1.9↓ 1.9↓ 1.6↓ 1.4↑ 1.7↑ –
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Tresta East faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Mid Yell 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

Tresta East faces south-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from E 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 SENESW
NE
0.7 m at 7 s (swell) · 7 % reaches the beach
SW
0.7 m at 3 s (wind sea) · 1 % reaches the beach

How Tresta East works

Swell
Best from the east.
Wind
Offshore is from the west; anything with south-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
low to mid tide.
Getting there
park at kirk walk 20 meters to beach

this is in Shetland, the watch out for the needle like pinnacles under the east banks

Tide times

  • Sat 00:58High2.1 m
  • Sat 06:37Low1.2 m
  • Sat 12:52High2.3 m
  • Sat 19:20Low1.1 m
  • Sun 01:43High2.0 m
  • Sun 07:17Low1.3 m
  • Sun 13:34High2.2 m
  • Sun 20:10Low1.1 m

Mid Yell station, 9 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Tresta Beach, Fetlar - geograph.org.uk - 1781987 Tresta Beach, Fetlar - geograph.org.uk - 1781990

Robbie, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Robbie, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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