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Freswick Bay

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces SE high tide Offshore West Best swell North

Best of the week: today around 17:00, 2–3 ft and cross-off.

Surf now2–3ft0.9 m at 6 s from the S, wind sea 0.4 m from the SW
Wind16mphSW · cross-off · gusts 28
Tide –Tide times arrive once the Admiralty feed has run. Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
2–3 ft Swell S 6s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell S 7s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell W 7s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell N 4s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell S 4s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Sat
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
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 2–3 1–2 1–2 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2–3 2–3 1–2 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0
Swell 6s 7s 7s 4s 4s 9s 9s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 3s 3s 4s 2s 4s 4s 5s 5s 5s 4s 4s 5s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 11 18 17 22 20 17 10 10 13 11 8 8 9 11 9 9 16 15 13 10 5 17 21 15 15 10 10 12 16 17 15
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Freswick Bay faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Duncansby Head 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 Wednesday 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

Freswick Bay faces south-east. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces SESSW
S
0.9 m at 6 s (swell) · 92 % reaches the beach
SW
0.4 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Freswick Bay works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
West is offshore.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
In between Wick and John o groats... Head for Skirra and keep trying likely looking farm tracks.

Long Beach Break with bouldery sections.. Seems to catch even the sightest of SE swells, and Big Wrap round northilies when it's fully onshore on the North Coast

Tide times

  • Sun 16:57High2.5 m
  • Sun 23:59Low
  • Mon 06:09High2.4 m
  • Mon 12:36Low
  • Mon 18:25High2.5 m
  • Tue 01:25Low
  • Tue 07:38High2.5 m
  • Tue 13:50Low

Duncansby Head station, 7 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

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Members' own photos of Freswick Bay. Credits: Sie Baker.

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