West Witering

West Wittering Beach is proud to be a Blue Flag Beach with its associated high standards of cleanliness, safety and public information.

From March to October, Kitesurfing and windsurfing from the beach is restricted to members of the West Wittering Windsurf Club only. Kitesurfing is restricted to WWWC members throughout the year. Board hire, tuition and rescue service available. See www.2xs.co.uk for details or telephone 01243 513077.

Bracklesham Bay

The long, empty beaches between Bracklesham Bay and Selsey provide an idyllic and beautiful location to learn kitesurfing. We’ll use our safety boat to ferry you to a quiet spot on the beach, away from other beach users, so that you can practice in a safe, fun and relaxed environment.

North Easterly is off shore.

Usually best 2-3 hours before high tide. Can be a bit sporty getting in and out on a big swell at high tide (head for the launch ramp), generally the waves turn into a shore dump at high tide, so most people are out by then.

groynes down to the left as you look out to sea from the car park

www.northkites.co.uk/beachguide.pdf

Worthing

First off unlike many other beaches, Worthing is quite easy to get to from most inland conurbation, though obviously if you live on the M3 / M4 you wouldn't agree! Once in and around Worthing there are numerous spots where people launch from.

Worthing is world famous for its seaweed - often after gales in the summer it's ripped up off the seabed and dumped on the beach at high tide, if this happens during "springs" it can hang around and begin to rot, and give off a very pungent smell - that said the last 5 years or so has not been so bad

Low to mid tide is excellent for beginner and intermediates, and in the summer as the tide comes back in over the warm sand the sea is almost bath like.

Sailing in an onshore Southerly at high tide, as there's no way you can get out pass the groynes which do have a habit of getting in the way

Lancing

Lancing Green has really come into its own for kitesurfers, as the majority of windsurfers tend to sail either at Shoreham or Worthing, though all credit to the kiters for sussing out a good location as the tide does not go out half way to France on big spring tides!

The prevailing wind is from the SW, and even though in the summer the wind might start off in the NE with the local sea breeze kicking you'll find that the wind will swing round to the SW and blow a steady F5+

You will not find major problems with currents, though at spring tides there tends to be more of a rip in the shallows - low tide is good as the tide does not go out to far, leaving plenty of sand and shallow water providing plenty of small ramps that are either wind or swell driven.

The Swin Zones buoys have now been rmoved for the winter months. We still suggest you launch and land in the same place but you can now sail upwind close to shore. There are some swimmers who train all year round so do keep an eye out for them. Swimmers have as much right to the beach as kiters so please show them the respect you'd want them to show you. Parking is not permitted on any part of the beach.

The carpark is free from October through to March then there's a charge.

Shoreham by Sea

Shoreham has been a major location for the past 20 years and can boast some formidable locals - from the Baker Bros, Nick & Ant through to Danny Seales!

Both windsurfing and kitesurfing take place along the whole of the beach at various sites, though the most popular is at wide water, though at the time of writing, the new rock sea defenses have just been completed and it's not known how these will affect the sailing / kiting here.

The prevailing wind is from the SW, and even though in the summer the wind might start off in the NE with the local sea breeze kicking you'll find that the wind will swing round to the SW and blow a steady F5+

Anything from the North West, though that can be gusty through to ENE will work, though in the winter and early spring anything with East in them should have a health warning as quite a considerable wind chill goes with them