Dorset Flood
Chesil Cove and the Portland Bill race
Portland Bill is the classic British tidal race.
- Distance
- 9.0 nm
- Wind limit
- 8 kt
- Grade
- Exposed
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Chalk cliffs, shingle banks and the highest number of paddling days in the year, with a swell that arrives from the Atlantic with nothing to stop it.
- segments
- 5
- Mean wind limit
- 11.2 kt
- Lowest limit
- 8 kt
- Exposed
- 2
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Hampshire Flood
Keyhaven and the Hurst Narrows
Hurst Narrows is the gap between the mainland and the western tip of the Isle of Wight, and roughly half the water that moves in and out of the Solent twice a day passes through it.
- Distance
- 5.8 nm
- Wind limit
- 14 kt
- Grade
- Sheltered
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Read the guide →Devon Ebb
Start Point and Hallsands
Start Point is the southernmost tip of Devon and one of the most exposed headlands on the English south coast.
- Distance
- 10.4 nm
- Wind limit
- 10 kt
- Grade
- Exposed
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Read the guide →South Cornwall Ebb
Fowey to Polperro
South Cornwall's coast here is a series of deep, wooded river valleys that flood at high water and become mud at low, joined by high cliffs of dark slate.
- Distance
- 7.6 nm
- Wind limit
- 12 kt
- Grade
- Intermediate
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Read the guide →Isles of Scilly Flood
St Mary's to Tresco, Isles of Scilly
The Isles of Scilly are 28 miles off Land's End and the water between them is shallower, clearer and more turbulent than anything on the mainland coast.
- Distance
- 6.4 nm
- Wind limit
- 12 kt
- Grade
- Intermediate
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