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Brims Ness

★★★★★Fair
Reef break Faces N high tide Offshore South Best swell North West

Best of the week: Tuesday around 18:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now11–15ft3.3 m at 12 s from the NW, wind sea 3.4 m from the W
Wind22mphW · cross-off · gusts 36
Tide 3.8mFalling · low 23:52 (1.5 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Mon
13–17 ft Swell NW 12s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–7 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–5 ft Swell W 8s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Fri
6–8 ft Swell W 8s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sat
8–11 ft Swell W 7s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–5 ft Swell W 8s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10 Sun 11
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 12–16 8–11 7–10 6–9 6–8 6–8 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–8 5–8 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–5 3–5 2–3 4–6 4–6 5–6 6–8 7–9 7–10 8–10 10–13 11–15 10–13 9–13 7–10 6–9 4–6
Swell 12s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 5s 6s 6s 6s 6s 8s 8s 9s 9s 8s 7s 9s 8s 7s 8s
Wind mph 22 12 11 13 16 9 9 10 10 12 9 7 6 4 3 7 18 19 17 17 15 14 17 18 18 12 9 10 11 10 8
Tide m 3.8↓ 3.9↑ 3.0↓ 1.9↓ 2.7↑ 4.1↑ 3.9↑ 3.6↓ 1.8↓ 2.1↑ 4.0↑ 3.6↑ 4.1↓ 2.1↓ 1.5↑ 3.7↑ 3.1↑ 4.5↓ 2.5↓ 1.1↑ 3.2↑ 2.4↑ 4.6↑ 3.0↓ 1.0↓ 2.6↑ 1.9↑ 4.5↑ 3.6↓ 1.1↓ 2.0↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Brims Ness faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Scrabster 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 Thursday 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

Brims Ness 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 NNWW
NW
3.3 m at 12 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
3.4 m at 8 s (wind sea) · 50 % reaches the beach

How Brims Ness works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
5-7 Miles West of Thurso, You'll see two big Green Silos in a farm along the road, turn down towards the farm near two bungalows. Park in the Farm, with mucho respect. the Farmer could close this break down if he wanted to no Rubbish or Agro please..

This has to be the most intimidating Set of waves on the North Coast. There are 3 breaks Here, the Cove, The Bowl, and The Point. Only one of which doesn't either actuallt run right onto the shelf or into a cliff face. The point is a Left hand Point break at the most Eastly end of Brimsness running over a Granite Reef Slab. This is the only wave than runs into open water. It's heavy wave but highly makable sections. Best on High The Bowl is a short fast barrell, which runs into deep water in front of a small cliff face.. very intimidating. Best at low to mid. The Cove is A Full on right hand barrel wave that breaks on to a serious shelf.. very skety on the inside. best at lowish.

Tide times

  • Mon 17:22High3.8 m
  • Mon 23:52Low1.5 m
  • Tue 06:14High3.9 m
  • Tue 12:23Low1.9 m
  • Tue 18:31High4.1 m
  • Wed 00:53Low1.1 m
  • Wed 07:11High4.1 m
  • Wed 13:18Low1.6 m

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

Photos

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Pictures From the Quarter Finals of The Brims Ness Leg of the Headworx BPSA Tour Pictures From the Quarter Finals of The Brims Ness Leg of the Headworx BPSA Tour Pictures From the Quarter Finals of The Brims Ness Leg of the Headworx BPSA Tour Pictures From the Finals of The Brims Ness Leg of the Headworx BPSA Tour Pictures From the Semi Finals of The Brims Ness Leg of the Headworx BPSA Tour Pictures From the Finals of The Brims Ness Leg of the Headworx BPSA Tour Pictures From the Quarter Finals of The Brims Ness Leg of the Headworx BPSA Tour

Members' own photos of Brims Ness. Credits: Sie Baker.

Comments

1 Jan 2010 · eightlegged This has to be one of the most full on reefs in the UK. Picks up any swell in the area. If it's flat every where else you should get a wave here!.. Worth going to visit when it's Maxed out as it can be an immpresive sight!
24 Mar 2005 · bradley lovely jubley

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