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Beach Clean Sunday 8th May 2011
SAS are once again organising a beach clean at Viking Bay to help the fight for cleaner beaches and oceans. Beach clean 8th May with free surf lessons and water sports sessions offered for helpers. Refreshments also provided. more info to follow

Spring 2011, Lessons fully under way with every group having fun waves to play on, waters warming up nicely

Winter 2010/2011 Surfs been pretty average for the time of year its been a time of travel to find good waves

Skindog Surfboards, Ben Skinner visited Viking Bay and Revolution to deliver the Kent model surfboard a fuller thicker short board designed for the Kent coast. The board is a Quad fin however future boards will have the "Transformer" fin system which will give the user the best of all fin set ups. Dan has been using the test model and loving it. Boards available summer 2011 through Revolution Skate/Surf Shop

Summer 2010

A great summer in our new location, lots of new and exciting equipment, including double/single kayaks. Lots of people enjoyed great lessons with good surf conditions and all water sports sessions went down a storm.

SAS UK Beach Clean Tour - come join us in August!

After the massive success of the Barefoot Beach Clean Tour we'd like to say a big THANK YOU to all those who participated in the 5 cleans that took place. Hundreds of volunteers participated and removed hundreds of kilos of marine litter from each beautiful location. We are now gearing up for SAS's biggest beach clean tour ever. Motivocean will take place over the last ten days of August and we'd love you to join us - please email chris@sas.org.uk with the venue you'd like to join us at, making sure you include your full name, contact number and age on the email and we'll send you more specific details. All events start at 1pm unless otherwise stated.

Thursday, 19th August Porthmeor, St Ives, in front of surf school
Saturday, 21st August Sennen, in front of beach restaurant
Saturday 21st August Tynemouth, Longsands, next to Tynemouth Surf School
Saturday 21st August Cromer, Norfolk, by the pier
Sunday 22nd August Praa Sands, in front of Lifeguard Hut
Sunday 22nd August Croyde, North End of the Beach
Monday 23rd August Porthtowan, Blue Bar end of the beach
Tuesday 24th August South Fistral, near the lifeguard station
Wednesday 25th August Bude, Crooklets
Wednesday 25th August Gwithian, Godrivey End, Nr wooden bridge, Red River
Wednesday 25th August Newgale, near Newgale House carpark
Thursday 26th August Bigbury On Sea, nr Car Park, Venus Cafe
Thursday 26th August Ainsdale, in front of Lifeguard hut
Friday 27th August Boscombe Surf Reef, by Sorted Surf Shop
Friday 27th August Belhaven, Edinburgh, Scotland
Friday 27th August Scarborough, South Bay
Saturday 28th August Isle of Wight, Freshwater West
Saturday 28th August Machrihanish, West Scotland
Saturday 28th August Saltburn, by the pier
Saturday 28th August Brighton, east of the pier nr Yellow Wave
Sunday 29th August London, Battersea, foreshore south side of Battersea Bridge (from 11.30am)
Sunday 29th August East Witterings, Bracklesham Bay
Monday 30th August Broadstairs, Viking Bay, Kent

Skindog is designing a Kent Surfboard to be called THE VIKING, watch this space.

Kent Surf School moves to new location on Viking Bay (summer 2010), we are now located in between the two main steps in the centre of the beach.

Winter 09/10 had some great surf sessions but was one of the coldest winters for years, even sneaked in a snowboard tow session in too.

K.S.S closed June 09, due to all staff lifeguarding on the film set of Robin Hood.

Beach Clean has been arranged for 29th March 09 from after 9am, a great chance to do your bit to help keep our beaches clean.

Surf Video nights have been organized in the Barnaby Rudge Public house, the next one will be Tuesday 17th March 09 showing Mr B's Substance. 7.30 onward.

Winter 08/09 was a cold one but still not as much surf as we would have hoped for however the days that did work were good and not busy so that's always a treat.  1000's of tons of timber was washed up on our shores after falling from a cargo ship in the channel, it didn't hang about too long though as the helpful people of Thanet soon cleared it away!

SUMMER 2008 was a terrible season, mainly for sunshine but the surf wasn't that great either. Too many SW breezes chopping up the ocean and not that many swells pushing through. We did have loads of fun on the swell boards all season though and are fingers are crossed for a better 2009.

SAD NEWS, On February 10th 2008, Marilyn Beugg passed away peacefully after a year long fight with cancer. Marilyn was a beach favourite to many generations. She ran the trampolines and the rest of Kiddies Corner on Viking bay for 30 years and helped to guide many youngsters who knew her as a mother figure.
Her funeral took place on 22nd Feb. Our thoughts go out to Rick, Alex and Vicky. She will be sorely missed.