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Sandwood Bay

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces NW all tides Offshore South East Best swell West

Best of the week: Thursday around 17:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now7–10ft2.2 m at 11 s from the W, wind sea 1.9 m from the SW
Wind25mphSW · cross-on · gusts 38
Tide 3.3mFalling · low 21:06 (1.9 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
7–10 ft Swell W 11s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–8 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 30 mph ★★★★★
Tue
8–11 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell N 6s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell W 4s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sat
11–15 ft Swell W 6s Wind 19 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 7–10 6–8 6–8 9–13 12–17 13–18 8–11 7–10 7–10 6–9 6–9 6–8 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–8 6–8 6–8 5–7 4–6 3–5 2–3 1–2 3–5 3–5 3–5 8–11 10–14 11–16 13–18 11–15
Swell 11s 7s 7s 7s 7s 12s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 7s 7s 8s 8s 7s 6s 6s 6s 7s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 20 30 27 28 26 26 18 15 18 18 15 14 14 13 12 11 12 13 8 4 5 15 14 18 18 16 16 18 20 20 20
Tide m 2.8↓ 3.2↓ 2.3↓ 2.7↑ 3.9↑ 3.5↓ 3.8↓ 2.5↓ 2.1↑ 3.6↑ 4.1↓ 4.3↓ 2.9↓ 1.6↑ 3.1↑ 4.5↑ 4.4↑ 3.5↓ 1.4↓ 2.4↑ 4.6↑ 4.3↑ 4.0↓ 1.5↓ 1.7↑ 4.5↑ 4.0↑ 4.5↓ 1.8↓ 1.2↑ 4.1↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Sandwood Bay faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. 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 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

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

NESWfaces NWWSW
W
2.2 m at 11 s (swell) · 98 % reaches the beach
SW
1.9 m at 5 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Sandwood Bay works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
South East is offshore.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Look at the directions for oldshoremore... when you get there drive to Blairmore.. when you get there.. start walking towards Sandwood bay along the coastal path.

A good old walk from olshoremore... but pretty impresive... a mile of golden sand with upto seven breaks working.. reefs at either end beach breaks in the middle... If you find any body else here when you visit then god help us all!!

Tide times

  • Sun 21:06Low1.9 m
  • Mon 03:35High3.8 m
  • Mon 09:39Low2.2 m
  • Mon 16:03High4.0 m
  • Mon 22:43Low1.7 m
  • Tue 04:58High4.0 m
  • Tue 11:05Low2.0 m
  • Tue 17:13High4.2 m

Kinlochbervie station, 10 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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