Boscombe Surf Reef

The official website for the Boscombe Surf Reef!

Bournemouth Borough Council is proud to have built Europe’s first artificial surf reef at Boscombe, Bournemouth. The reef is 220m offshore and just east of Boscombe Pier.  The reef is made up of 55 giant sandbags and is the size of a football pitch.

The reef is not a wave machine. It doesn’t create waves from nothing, but acts as a ramp, pushing existing waves upwards and shaping them into better quality surfing waves.

Join in the new Surf Reef Photography Competition and win super prizes worth up to £700!

Surfer ready to catch a boscombe wave

This mini-documentary tells the story of the surf reef

This printable leaflet answers all your questions about the surf reef. On this website you can watch videos on how the reef was constructed and learn about how to surf safely. You can learn about the marine life also enjoying the Surf Reef.

Remember, Boscombe beach also hosts the famous HemingwayDesign Beach pods which you can rent throughout the year or buy to enjoy exclusively!

See for yourself as the official website of the Boscombe surf reef saw Aussie surf hack Ben Mondy, an ex-editor of Tracks magazine and contributor to Surfer, Carve and Surf Europe, be one of the first to surf the new reef at Bournemouth. Here he gives his take on it ... 

To see some incredible photographs of the reef in action, just click the following links:

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Surfing the reef

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