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Oldshoremore

★★★★★Small
Faces SW high tide Offshore North East Best swell West

Best of the week: Monday around 16:00, 4–5 ft and cross-on.

Surf now6–9ft3.2 m at 12 s from the W, wind sea 2.1 m from the SW
Wind24mphSW · onshore · gusts 39
Tide 1.6mFalling · low 16:46 (1.5 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Thu
6–9 ft Swell W 12s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell NW 11s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell SW 4s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–5 ft Swell NW 12s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell NW 11s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Thu 15 Fri 16 Sat 17 Sun 18 Mon 19 Tue 20 Wed 21
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 6–8 2–3 1–2 2–3 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 3–4 3–5 4–5 4–5 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2
Swell 12s 11s 11s 11s 11s 11s 11s 11s 11s 10s 10s 9s 8s 8s 3s 4s 4s 13s 13s 12s 12s 11s 11s 11s 11s 10s 10s 10s 10s 10s 10s
Wind mph 20 7 12 11 11 7 6 5 11 11 8 9 13 16 17 16 9 8 10 8 6 8 9 12 12 10 3 5 6 6 5
Tide m 1.8↑ 1.9↑ 3.5↑ 4.0↓ 2.6↓ 1.8↑ 2.1↑ 3.1↑ 3.9↓ 3.0↓ 2.1↓ 2.4↓ 2.8↑ 3.6↑ 3.4↓ 2.4↓ 2.8↓ 2.6↑ 3.3↑ 3.6↓ 2.9↓ 3.2↓ 2.5↓ 2.8↑ 3.7↑ 3.4↓ 3.6↓ 2.6↓ 2.3↑ 3.5↑ 3.8↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Oldshoremore faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Kinlochbervie 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

Oldshoremore faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SW round to W; 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 SWWSW
W
3.2 m at 12 s (swell) · 55 % reaches the beach
SW
2.1 m at 5 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Oldshoremore works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
Offshore is from the north east; anything with south-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
Follow the winding north coast road through some beautiful countryside.. head back down the coast from durness.. then up the B801 to Oldshoremore and blairmore

Sheltered SW facing bay.. give good shelter from north to westerly winds.

Tide times

  • Thu 16:46Low1.5 m
  • Thu 22:48High4.1 m
  • Fri 05:01Low1.7 m
  • Fri 11:05High4.2 m
  • Fri 17:26Low1.8 m
  • Fri 23:36High3.8 m
  • Sat 05:39Low2.0 m
  • Sat 11:56High3.9 m

Kinlochbervie station, 4 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Beach, Oldshoremore - geograph.org.uk - 7874247 Oldshoremore Beach (23295057660)

Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Lukas von Daeniken from Schweiz, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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