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Farr Bay

★★★★★Firing
Beach break Faces N all tides Offshore South East Best swell North West

Best of the week: today around 07:00, 2–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–4ft0.9 m at 11 s from the NW
Wind5mphS · offshore · gusts 8
Tide 3.4mFalling · low 11:11 (2.0 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Thu
2–4 ft Swell NW 11s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 2 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–4 ft Swell N 7s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Thu 5 Fri 6 Sat 7 Sun 8 Mon 9 Tue 10 Wed 11
Time 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 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 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 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 3–4 2–4 2–4 2–4 3–4
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Wind mph 6 4 3 5 7 4 2 1 4 6 9 5 6 7 2 3 2 2 3 6 8 8 6 13 11 10 7 5 5 4 3 7 9 8
Tide m 2.8↓ 2.1↑ 3.8↑ 4.6↓ 4.5↑ 3.2↓ 1.8↑ 3.3↑ 4.8↑ 4.6↑ 3.6↓ 1.7↓ 2.7↑ 4.8↑ 4.5↑ 4.1↓ 1.8↓ 2.1↑ 4.5↑ 4.2↑ 4.5↓ 2.1↓ 1.7↑ 4.1↑ 3.9↑ 4.8↓ 2.5↓ 1.4↑ 3.6↑ – – – – –
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Farr 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 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 Sunday 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

Farr Bay faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W 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 NNW
NW
0.9 m at 11 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Farr Bay works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south east; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Drive along to north coast road from thurso for about 15-20 miles... you can't miss it.

Swell catching beach break with great lefts at high tide, and Hollow rights at low

Tide times

  • Thu 11:11Low2.0 m
  • Thu 17:23High4.7 m
  • Thu 23:44Low1.2 m
  • Fri 06:02High4.5 m
  • Fri 11:54Low1.8 m
  • Fri 18:09High4.8 m
  • Sat 00:23Low1.1 m
  • Sat 06:38High4.7 m

Portnancon station, 29 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Farr Bay looking from Crask

Alan Reid, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

21 Jun 2005 · davey A long-board beach. been going to torrisdale (round the corner) for years which is much better. However,left off the rocks can get quite hollow on low tide, worth a shot.

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