Beachy Head, March 2026

An early start meant that we were on the beach at Eastbourne at 10:30am, having coffee and croissants and sausage baps outside the local café next to our launch point. After a short safety briefing on the beach, we launched from the shingle beach into absolutely no waves.

Fantastic conditions to launch and not what was expected

That was a surprise as the weather forecast had been very bad, even up to the time we arrived. Wind was forecast to be NW F4 with F5 gusts and 0.7m waves every 5s.