• Updated wetsuit technology does its best to keep you warm even in winter

  By BudePeeps

  Wrap up warm and with a quality wetsuit if out in the water this weekend seems to be the message!

            

   

  By Western Morning News at 08:00 on 03/12/11

  

  We are finally into December, which means there is now no shame in donning some wetsuit gloves, boots and a hood. I have been putting it off until now as we have had a fairly mild autumn, but it is definitely feeling like winter out there now, especially with the stormy conditions we have had this week at the beaches in the South West. The crowds are certainly a lot thinner in the line-ups now, but it tends to be January when things...

• Pleasure surfers queuing for huge swell sweeping up coast

  By BudePeeps

  Sounds like the forecast is good for those who ride the waves.......

            

   

  By Western Morning News at 08:00 on 26/11/11

  

  With the competition season now over, we are left to enjoy a winter of surfing purely for fun, and so far it has been a lot of fun. Last weekend saw perfect conditions in the South West, with a huge swell sweeping up the coast on the Saturday and some more manageable waves for the mere mortals amongst us on the Sunday. I drove up the coast to a fairly renowned left-hander on the Saturday afternoon to witness some of the best waves...

• Tributes swell after Roebuck dies at 55

  By nicold

  WENDYDAVEY I'm sure he was loved by all the men he assaulted!

            

   

  By Western Morning News at 08:00 on 14/11/11

  

  Friends and rivals alike have paid glowing tributes to former Somerset and Devon cricket captain Peter Roebuck, who died in South Africa on Saturday. Roebuck, 55, fell to his death from a window on the sixth floor of a Cape Town hotel. Although no inquest has been opened, Roebuck's death is being described as suicide by police in Cape Town. Roebuck, who worked as a journalist and broadcaster, was in Cape Town covering a Test match...

• Swell conditions in the Westcountry means great week for surfers is bad news for business

  By dawnrw

  Well done to Reuben Ash...........

            

   

  By Western Morning News at 08:00 on 05/11/11

  

  Although this is not official, I get the feeling the economy in the Westcountry may have suffered slightly this week. For more than ten days, the surf has barely dipped below "quite good" and has frequently been in the "very epic" region, meaning that bosses up and down the coast have had every excuse under the sun thrown at them for not being able to make it in for work. It has been a bad week for business in the...

• Unmistakable roar of Zapcats back at Cornish beach

  By Big_Ger

  Very exciting sport this is. You'd have to be very brave to get out in one of those water borne...

            

   

  By Western Morning News at 08:00 on 01/10/11

  

  The roar of the high-speed power-boats flying across the waves has become a familiar annual site on a Cornish beach. And this year sees the 10th anniversary of the National Zapcat Championships at Newquay's Fistral Beach. The exciting penultimate event in the series began yesterday and is due to finish today. Twenty boats were poised to thrash it out in the surf at speeds of up to 75mph. Often described as motorcross on water,...

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