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Sewer Pipe

★★★★★Small
Faces NW mid to high tide Offshore South East Best swell North West

Best of the week: Thursday around 19:00, 4–7 ft and offshore.

Surf now6–9ft2.0 m at 10 s from the W, wind sea 0.9 m from the W
Wind15mphSW · cross-on · gusts 25
Tide 3.6mFalling · low 22:26 (1.7 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
6–9 ft Swell W 10s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Mon
14–19 ft Swell NW 12s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–9 ft Swell NW 8s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–7 ft Swell N 6s Wind 0 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell N 7s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sat
13–18 ft Swell W 9s Wind 16 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 6–9 7–10 7–9 9–13 10–14 14–19 8–12 7–11 7–10 7–9 6–9 6–8 5–8 5–7 5–8 5–8 7–9 6–9 6–8 5–8 5–7 2–4 2–3 3–4 4–6 4–6 6–9 8–12 10–15 12–17 13–18
Swell 10s 10s 6s 7s 7s 12s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 5s 7s 6s 6s 6s 7s 7s 5s 5s 5s 6s 7s 8s 8s 9s
Wind mph 13 19 22 21 22 15 12 9 15 15 9 9 9 10 10 9 14 13 11 8 2 16 19 14 14 10 10 13 16 17 16
Tide m 3.2↓ 3.5↓ 2.5↓ 2.2↑ 3.3↑ 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↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Sewer Pipe faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. 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 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

Sewer Pipe 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 NWWW
W
2.0 m at 10 s (swell) · 98 % reaches the beach
W
0.9 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 52 % reaches the beach

How Sewer Pipe works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
South East is offshore.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
Breaks in front of the main harbour wall on the left hand side of the river mouth.

Slightly more mellower a wave than thurso east.. an A-frame set-up for those that can't handlw thusro east proper!!

Tide times

  • Sun 22:26Low1.7 m
  • Mon 04:51High3.7 m
  • Mon 11:04Low2.1 m
  • 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

Scrabster station, 3 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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