Exmouth Sea front is fun, the swimming area and behind the sand bar can provide some nice flat water for freeriding and freestyle and waves can be found further out. Due to the strong tides it’s a bit more of an advanced spot.

 

Tides: -

 

The sea front is hugely tidal, around 7 knots and therefore the best times to windsurf are an hour or two either side of slack water. At low tide a nice shallow flat water spot opens up in the swimming area, although this is only really usable in the winter due to bathers in the summer.

 

 

 

 

Wind directions: -

 

                                   A southerly wind is cross on heading up the channel

 

 

                                   A south easterly is pretty much cross shore heading up the                                        channel 

 

                                  A south westerly is dead on shore 

 

                                  A westerly is cross on heading out of the channel. This                                               combined with an outgoing tide can be fairly sketchy as you                                       can easily get swept out to sea. HOWEVER if you are                                                   confident, this can mean some EPIC wave conditions!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parking and Launching:

 

You can park along the road or in the car park behind the beachhuts. Check parking prices as it is seasonal pay & display. The best place to launch is by the dunes/ volleyball nets half way down the beach. The beach can get quite busy with walkers even during the winter so careful with launching and landing.

 

Other useful info:

 

 

Drive time from Exeter - 25 mins

 

Train - 30 mins