Wales
PENDINE SANDS
This five mile sandy beach offers flat sailing conditions in NW or NE winds and a fairly big tidal range. Although not a wave beach, Pendine Sands (…)
SAUNDERSFOOT
This large sandy beach fronts a busy tourist village so there is plenty of accommodation and amenities. Most people launch from Coppet Hall beach, which has a (…)
BROADHAVEN SOUTH
This gently shelving beach works in most wind directions and offers a wide range of sailing experiences. In SW winds cross onshore from the left normally throws (…)
FRESHWATER WEST
Being one of the best surfing beaches in South Wales, Freshwater West can get quite crowded so finding your own bit of water can be tricky. Best (…)
WESTDALE BAY
Rough seas and difficult access makes this an unpopular place with the locals. There is not really an ideal wind direction because most directions tend to bring (…)
MARLOES SANDS
This SW facing beach looks like it should be good but none of the locals use it! The reason could be that parking is a long off (…)
BROAD HAVEN
This W facing sandy beach offers excellent wave sailing conditions as Atlantic rollers meet the gently shelving beach. These waves can vary between a gentle swell to (…)
NEWGALE SANDS
Regarded as Pembrokeshire’s BIG wave beach, Newgale Sands can produce some awesome conditions and is definitely not recommended for beginners. The best conditions for windsurfing are S (…)
WHITESANDS BAY
Whitesands Bay is a small, enclosed bay and is very popular with surfers and canoeists and can be quite crowded. The best winds are S and SW, which (…)
FISHGUARD BAY
Cliffs lining Fishguard Bay limit the number of possible launch points to just two; one in Fishguard itself and the other in neighbouring Goodwick. It’s a gusty (…)
NEWPORT SANDS – PARROG BEACH
Newport Sands – Parrog Beach. This large horseshoe bay provides generally small waves and so is ideal for beginners. At Parrog Beach, it is only possible to (…)
POPPIT SANDS
Poppit Sands is a broad sandy beach where the Afon Teifi estuary meets Cardigan Bay. There’s lots of car parking in the dunes behind the beach so it (…)