WaveExpectations

So this is something of a surprise, as much to you as it is to me to be honest, as I hadn’t been planning to post any further articles – well not before lockdown eased and certainly not before Spring – however there is news… In December 2019, about six months after I...

So, it was a typical late November Saturday evening in Scotland – days getting shorter, weather getting colder, surf season pretty much coming to an end and thoughts inevitably turning towards Christmas. I’d been out on my board for a couple of hours earlier on and caught some decent waves at Belhaven Beach and as Jenny, my other half,...

As a kid growing up near Blackpool in the 70s and early 80s, I was always going to be a fan of the sea – be it paddling, wave-dodging or swimming. However, despite its famed miles of beaches and gently sloping shoreline, its location on the Irish Sea meant that waves for surfing were just not available....

For this next part we fast forward a number of years – a lot of years actually – to 2009. As mentioned earlier, I’d tried out a number of watersports throughout my teenage years before location and other priorities intervened and it wasn’t until I had my own family that the opportunity to get Back to the Water came...

Hudson Bay Sea Ice Jeez, it was cold on Sunday morning walking to the terminal at Edinburgh Airport – admittedly it was 7am and still quite early – but even so it came as a shock. Last night at home was really relaxing – pizza, beer and a movie (avid reader of this column may...