Marazion

A huge great shallow bay popular with windsurfers, freestylers and wave riders on the days when it can produce a nice, mellow, long workable wall with perfect orientation to the cross onshore winds. Can get wild and big but usually Marazion is a relatively mellow option

South East through to South West via South provide varying angles of onshore.

Marazion is tucked right up out of the way of West swells, but a 3m plus swell with a long period (12 seconds or more) will bend in there. South West swells and South wind swells will find their way in much easier, but owing to the shallow slope of the beach and the convex refraction wave, the waves lack power – until high tide when a nasty shore break can appear.

Do not launch and land two hours either side of high tide. Plenty of space on the beach, coarse sand (tiny pebbles?) to weigh your kite down with.

 Long Rock

Long Rock is situated between Marazion and Penzance on Mounts Bay.  Take the Long Rock turn off the Marazion Roundabout on the A30.  Drive past Mexico Inn pub and then take the turning opposite Long Rock Industrial Estate.  This will take you over a Level Crossing and into the free car park.

SW, S, SE are good wind directions.  A Westerly and Easterly can give very flat water but are always gusty.

The reef of ‘Long Rock’ can shelter the water downwind of the reef from the waves and so there is often flat water at lower states of tide.  There are however, quite a number of individual submerged rocks and small reefs.  It’s a good idea to go there at low tide to check it out.  To the East of the rainwater outfall pipe there are no rocks at all.

Marazion and Long Rock are private beach, owned by St Aubyn’s Estates. The Land Agent of the Estate has agreed that private individuals may use the beach but that instructors or other organisations must request permission.  Such approval does require certain guidelines to be followed.