C2C Surf update

Tues 9.3.10. This week looks excellent again with surf for all levels, offshore winds and sunshine. Tues pm, weds and Thurs see a lovely unusual long period swell in the 2-3ft range. From Friday swell increases and the weekend should see cracking shoulder to head high plus surf for all levels. Another great weekend for lessons and hires!

C2C Lessons and Hires

Our lessons are up and running at Belhaven. We will be doing 1pm lessons on the 13th/14th March 2010 and hires every day. We also have a full list of beginners weekends and sunset sessions and junior lessons click lessons to find out more. We are now accepting bookings for groups and individuals including corporate surf days, adult groups, school classes and community groups for 2010 kicking off from now.

C2C Tours 2010

The new 2010 tour schedule has gone up with some amazing tours planned. Our first tour kicks off in March with the traditional surf n snow tour, then in April its the WQS Thurso tour, mixing your surfing with the pros and then it picks up with 5 Island trips in a row through May, midsummer and through to the start of September. We return to some favourite magical islands while for our mainland based tours we continue to surf waves where possible off the beaten track. To book in 07971 990361. Two trips are already full so its best to book early!

C2C Social, Environmental & Surf Community new

Belhaven Surf club and Coast to Coast have teamed up to run a Sports Relief sponsored paddle event on the 11th of April. There will be three paddles that people can enter at Belhaven (a 1 mile individual paddle, a 1 mile relay paddle with 3 surfers and a junior 1/4mile paddle). The event is super social and for charity so be great to see a good turn out. If your interested in joining or helping please just get in touch.

Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) and Coast to Coast joined forces on the 27th/28th Feb, with over 30 turing up to help beach clean three local beaches. We collected a load of plastic and other items from the beaches and returned to Coast cafe for well earned hot drinks and an exclusive preview of SAS’s latest surf movie.

C2C Competitions

Last weekend saw the Scottish Surfing Championships in Thurso with the best swells for 5 years for a scottish comp (see photos) and a large turn out. Our East coast surfers did really well with quite a few finalists, Angus Macdonald made the longboard final coming 4th and Sam (c2c instructor) won the Longboarding title. In the seniors shortboarding Jason Burnett finished 3rd with Sam finished just ahead in 2nd and in the juniors our 14 yr old surf assistant Max came 2nd.

Unidentified in the open mens quarterfinals taking advantage of the superb conditions!!

Mark Cameron (scratch) from Fraserburgh won the open mens and seniors. Jill Noble from Fraserburgh won the ladies, Sam the Longboard and a young lad Lewy from Nairn won the Juniors. Staunch sponsored the event. They are a Scottish surf clothing brand and having won a couple of tops I can thoroughly recommend the quality!!

Jason Burnett (local shaper) surfing his own board to 3rd in Senior final (Thanks Staunch for photos)

Mark Cameron (Scratch) showing why he won the open and the seniors! (Thanks Staunch for photos

Full results and write up will follow on our website. If you want to see more photos before then check out Martina Cross photography website.Full report coming soon in our events section when I get results.

This years $125,000 WQS 6 star surf competition in Thurso runs for a week from 13th-19th April. Coast to Coast will be running a north coast tour on the 17th/18th weekend which will be a lot of fun, doing a normal tour while checking out the pros in full competition!

C2C Vouchers

Check out our surf vouchers page (click voucher header above) for choices for presents throughout the year. All vouchers are valid for a year and there are a number of courses for all ages and abilities. If you have any questions e-mail surfing@c2csurfschool.com.

Coast Cafe

Launched in Dunbar last year with over 200 people getting down to the funky tunes and watching Danny MacAskill and the Clan Mountainbike team and local skaters putting on a show!! The cafe is back open for 2010 season and we now have great selection of soups, sandwiches, quality cakes, coffees and drinks plus wonderful garden for summer and fire for the winter. The surf cafe and new surf school base are located just next to Dunbars train station EH42 1JX. For upto date events and opening times check out cafe.