Dunbar Paddle Boarding Tour
Join us on our beautiful scenic paddleboard tours around Dunbar.
The Dunbar coastline is very varied with sandy beaches, islands and natural rock channels and a historic castle and harbour. We also are very lucky to have large colonies of coastal birds and marine sealife.
The tour includes:
- An insight into planning a tour, weather and forecasting.
- Self rescue safety and communication
- How to respect wildlife and keep safe distances.
- Developing your paddling and board control and show skills to adapt to conditions
- Top of the range Red paddle equipment
- 12+yr for all tours
- Experienced Coast to Coast Instructor/guide
Requirements
Minimum age is 12yrs old for day tours. All participants must be able to swim 50 meters unaided. Beginners welcome but we recommend at least one beginner lesson first to ensure capability. For evening tours these are adult only 18yrs +
Duration
Tours last two hours. But may go longer with travel pre or post tours
Location
We are based at Belhaven Surf Centre, next to the south side of Belhaven Beach. There’re available hot community showers – £1 coin for one minute.
Equipment
We provide wetsuits, boards and accessories. All included in the lesson price.
Group Size
Maximum 6 to 1 instructor.
Conditions
In the event of extreme weather we offer alternative sport, rescheduling, voucher or a refund.
FAQs
Standard lessons last for two hours. This is from the lesson start time to finish time in the water. Please allow roughly 15-30mins extra for the walk back and changing.
Most classes are groups, with ratios of one instructor to 6 pupils. More advanced surf and paddleboard tours can be smaller number. For classes with younger participants we normally provide assistants to compliment the instructors. We can offer weekday private classes but contact for availability?
Please bring a towel, swim costume and sun protection. It can also be useful also to bring £1 coins for the surf centre hot showers and the beach car park. There are local places to eat within 5-15 minutes walk and there is also a food van that sells coffee, cakes and toasties at certain times of the year in the beach car park.
We provide excellent wetsuits and accessories appropriate to conditions so you are warm and comfortable throughout the year. All surfboards, skateboards, paddleboards and bodyboards are also included in the cost of lesson. And safety equipment is provided for coasteering, sup and skateboarding classes.
You can find level guides for SUP and Surf under the corresponding tabs on our website.
We recommend checking surf and weather forecast www.surfline.com. You can also check out our surf forecast here.
For all lessons and hires we require all participants to be able to swim a minimum of 50 metres unaided.
We have a team of experienced instructors who have current surf lifesaving qualifications and surf and play in our waters regularly. All of our activities are regularly risk assessed to ensure customer safety. We also are assessed by AALA every two years.
We advise you not to take part if pregnant. We understand many pregnant women have taken part in sport successfully but due to the potential to fall or for a board to hit the body in our main three sports, we prefer to be cautious and will welcome you back with open arms when you have brought your new arrival into the world!
All classes on the east coast meet at the
Belhaven Surf Centre
36 Back Road (on Shore Road)
Belhaven, Dunbar
East Lothian
EH42 1NX
