Learning to Windsurf at Polkerris
There is no sport quite like windsurfing; the thrill, freedom, challenge, versatility, fitness, travel and people. Riding an ever-changing sea you can forget your worries and feel exhilarated.
The waters of the sheltered cove and bay of Polkerris are an excellent training ground for first-time and more experienced windsurfers. The bay is a perfect spot to find out if windsurfing is for you, windsurf with the family as well as progress your skills.
Polkerris Beach is an RYA recognised training centre: your assurance that we are equipped and managed to provide you with quality and safe experiences.
We provide all equipment, including a full wetsuit and buoyancy aid, and have changing room facilities with showers, a cafe and shop all on site.
Windsurfing Taster Lesson
An introduction to windsurfing and the perfect way to find out if windsurfing is for you. The lesson will get you out on the water quickly and can be tailored to suit your needs.
Duration: 1.5hr
Requirements: No experience necessary
Age: 8+
Price: £40 per person or 1:1 lesson £65
Windsurfing One to One Clinic
A one to one tailored session to allow you to achieve your personal goals. Ideal for those who want to focus on perfecting a new move such as gybes, tacks or earlier planing, or for improving all round skills, such as better upwind performance or water starts.
Duration: 1.5hr
Requirements: Some windsurfing experience
Age: 8+
Price: £65
RYA Stage 2 Youth Windsurfing Course
These sessions will teach you the practical skills to get you sailing around a course practising tacking and gybing, enabling you to make progression towards and away from the wind.
Duration: Typically 3 half days
Requirements: Stage 1 Standard
Age: 8 - 15
Price: £160
RYA Stage 3 Youth Windsurfing Course
Stage 3 introduces the RYA's Fastfwd coaching formula. Your instructor will help you to correctly set up your board and rig, improve your stance on all points of sailing and introduce basic harness techniques in stronger winds.
Duration: 2 days (or equivalent 3 sessions)
Requirements: Competent Stage 2 Standard
Age: 8 - 15
Price: £160
RYA Stage 4 Youth Sailing Course
In Stage 4 you will be blasting around and getting in the footstraps. After this stage you should have a confident ability to tack and gybe and sail in your harness, with an introduction to basic footstrap technique. You will be a pretty hot windsurfer by this time!
Duration: 2 days (or equivalent 3 sessions)
Requirements: Competent Stage 3 Standard
Age: 8 - 15
Price: £160
RYA Adult Start Windsurfing Course
This course teaches you the basics of windsurfing; using the right equipment, sailing to where you want to go and back to where you started. The course is predominantly water-based coaching but includes theory and practical sessions ashore, such as rigging and de-rigging a sail.
Duration: 8 - 10 hours
Requirements: No experience necessary
Age: 16+
Price: £160
RYA Adult Intermediate Windsurfing (Non-planing) Course
Learn skills which prepare you for windsurfing in stronger winds. After the course you'll be able to windsurf on all points of sail in stronger winds, using beach starts, faster tacks and gybes. The course includes plenty of windsurfing, along with theory and practice ashore on our simulator.
Duration: 8 - 10 hours
Requirements: Skills and knowledge to Start Windsurfing standard
Age: 16+
Price: £160
RYA Adult Intermediate Windsurfing (Planing) Course
Focus on harness and footstrap techniques combined with the Fastfwd formula to improve your stance and get the board planing, giving you the exhilaration of speed and improved theory knowledge. As tuition at this level requires a reasonable amount of wind, we generally arrange sessions as 2-hour 'clinics' at fairly short notice.
Duration: 8 - 10 hours
Requirements: Skills and knowledge to Start Windsurfing standard
Age: 16+
Price: £160
