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Vallay

★★★★★Flat
Beach break Faces N low tide Offshore South West Best swell North

Best of the week: Sunday around 17:00, 2–3 ft and offshore.

Surf now0ft1.9 m at 8 s from the W, wind sea 0.9 m from the SW
Wind13mphSW · cross-off · gusts 23
Tide 1.9mFalling · low 02:39 (1.4 m). Works low tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
0 ft Swell W 8s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell NW 11s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell N 8s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell W 12s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell SW 12s Wind 7 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 0 3–4 3–5 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 8s 8s 9s 8s 8s 13s 12s 12s 12s 11s 10s 10s 10s 10s 9s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 11s 11s 11s 12s 12s 12s 12s 11s 11s 11s
Wind mph 17 15 13 9 25 13 7 4 11 6 20 14 13 14 18 21 18 17 18 17 14 13 15 13 11 7 7 7 7 8
Tide m 2.5↑ 3.3↓ 2.3↓ 1.4↓ 2.1↑ 2.2↑ 3.2↑ 2.6↓ 1.6↓ 1.8↑ 1.9↑ 2.9↑ 2.9↓ 1.9↓ 1.7↑ 1.8↑ 2.5↑ 3.0↓ 2.3↓ 1.6↑ 1.8↓ 2.2↑ 2.9↑ 2.7↓ 1.7↓ 1.9↓ 1.8↑ 2.8↑ 3.0↓ 2.0↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Vallay faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Scolpaig 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

Vallay faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N 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 NWSW
W
1.9 m at 8 s (swell) · 2 % reaches the beach
SW
0.9 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 2 % reaches the beach

How Vallay works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
Offshore is from the south west; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
low tide.
Getting there
Go to North Uist via Lochmaddy. Head north to Vallay turn right to beach.

Beach break. Rights and lefts with good shape. Benefits from facing north and thus tending to shape up well given the prevailing south westerly winds.

Tide times

  • Sat 02:39Low1.4 m
  • Sat 08:42High3.4 m
  • Sat 15:09Low1.4 m
  • Sat 21:15High2.9 m
  • Sun 03:16Low1.5 m
  • Sun 09:31High3.2 m
  • Sun 15:53Low1.5 m
  • Sun 22:15High2.7 m

Scolpaig station, 6 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Flat sands - geograph.org.uk - 4599507

Stephen Darlington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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