Bournemouth Reef - Off again!

[drowningbitbybit]

After years of faffing about.... they decided to build it... now they've decided to faff about some more Reef Faffing

[Phil]

The council hopes the construction of the reef, which would create 4ft waves, would attract 10,000 surfers a year.

this bit made me laugh

[Surfing-Innovation]

Will be nice if it works, but I honestly didn't think the area gets enough consistant swell to warrant the reef in the first place.......... Might be wrong though............

Would have thought a SW facing area would have been the ideal spot

[Stone Fox]

I would like to think they've looked into this, oceanographers, people like that. Especially given the money they're spending.

I'm remaining optimistically hopeful. Especially as Bournmouth ain't all that far from me.

[Sar]

The council hopes the construction of the reef, which would create 4ft waves, would attract 10,000 surfers a year.

this bit made me laugh

You should hear what the coucil say on the radio...."it will mean we will have year round surfing! surfing will no longer be weather dependant..."

muppets, they seem to think its some kind of wave machine.

Ah well, they were sposed to start building in May, then it got moved to sept and now looks like it will be moved back again. I cant see that Defra can have any real objections its just red tape.

[northswell]

Pointless, you got reefs anyway.

And i wtched a cam, was it sorted, about 100 ppl on a foot wave nr the pier about a month back So the extra predicted numbers will surf where.

It aint gonna happen.

[surferdude_scarborough]

i say build it. should keep the kooks off the piers right?

[Broosta]

The council hopes the construction of the reef, which would create 4ft waves, would attract 10,000 surfers a year.

this bit made me laugh

Its a mistake made by bbc. Should say '10,000 surf visits a year', which means same surfers going more than once which is a hell of a lot more realistic. A study shows current state of play is 5,000 surf visits per year and there are 77 'good' days of surf per year with people getting in on 153 days per year.
I think its fair to assume the numbers will double.

http://www.bournemouth.gov.uk/Visitors/Seafront/What_to_do/Boscombe_Surf_Reef.asp

[easty]

reefs only work if you have a swell , dont those dumb council people know that ?. I had a look at the map and bournmouth isnt exactly a swell magnet !

[Stone Fox]

Oh well, we can but wait with baited breath.

[CheeZee]

..i heard that the reef has nothing to do with surfing ..

its to stop the french from fishing any closer to our shores

[bluesnowcone]

i surf bournemouth all the time and i cant see the point of them building the reef here, iv got no objections, i think itl be great cept from off the kooks and everyone, the waters going to be rammed, but i think they should build it somewhere with more swell like s.devon or somewhere further along the coast, but im not complaining

[Broosta]

Yeah I can see where you're coming from, but its not a case of 'The UK' deciding where the best spot for the country's only surf reef should be to maximise its full potential, its just a local council deciding to improve the quality of its surfing waves - which it will do when its done.
It won't turn it into Pipeline but it will improve the wave and mean its surfable more often due to maximising the swell it receives (i.e. by turning an unsurfable 1ft wave into a surfable 2ft wave).
Its a very bold move on their part, and the entire surf world will watch the outcome with great interest, and I suspect if it works as predicted more will follow.

[MrJoe]

Dammit, all this talk of artificial reefs being made; why can't they just make the sea outside my house

[Bewilderbeast]

Dammit, all this talk of artificial reefs being made; why can't they just make the sea outside my house

Give global warming a few more years and you never know.........

[MrJoe]

Dammit, all this talk of artificial reefs being made; why can't they just make the sea outside my house

Give global warming a few more years and you never know.........

But I can't wait that long! ...I'm off to drive my car around the block a few times.

[sufferingfromstoke]

reefs only work if you have a swell , dont those dumb council people know that ?. I had a look at the map and bournmouth isnt exactly a swell magnet !

Its not going to be in bournemouth its going to be in boscombe, and to make things worst they have just put loads of pebbles on boscombe beach!! why!!!!!!!!

[bluesnowcone]

pebbels?? allthey'v dun is stuck loads of sand on the beach which has boloked up the banks so now at low tide the waves breack slightly stop then its a shoredump.

[Milo]

Boscombe, after the pier has gone, one good winter storm will flatten all the banks out. Result , no waves?.
As for a reef, please build it. Keep the tourists away from the real reefs

[bluesnowcone]

im hopeing that they atleast start building the peir befor winter so the banks dont get even more fleshed up. and as for the reef, im not to botherd, iv surfed here for about 4-5 years now and iv had great sessions with an artificial reef.