Boreas Wreck

The Boreas sits in the mouth of the Bay of Palamos, just seaward of the harbour and beside the Llosa shoal, with the town, beach and breakwater wrapping the site from the northwest through north to northeast. That landmass shelters it from the dominant Tramuntana (N-NW), which in any case blows offshore here, and the harbour mole and the eastern headland partly shadow the NE-ENE sector. The exposed window is the open Mediterranean across the bay mouth to the southeast, south and southwest, so the site is most affected by Migjorn/Scirocco (S-SE) fetch and by easterly Llevant storms wrapping in from the E-SE — the classic Costa Brava wave-maker — which build surface chop and can force the dive to be cancelled. There is no true ocean swell, only wind-sea over the local fetch, and the SW headland at La Fosca gives partial shelter to the WSW.