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Places to Paddle and Downwind
Capt. Jack Sparrow: “Not All Treasure Is Silver And Gold, Mate.”
Caribbean
Aruba, Barbados, Curaçao, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Saint-Martin/Sint Maarten, Trinidad & Tobago
Fr. Polynesia
Hawaii
Indonesia
Bali, Borneo, Java, New Guinea, Sulawesi, Sumatra
Macaronesia
USA
World's Best Downwind Runs?
- World Class Downwinders we're talking surfski and outrigger here, the criteria for “best” for others like kiters can be quite a bit different, though there clearly can be overlap.
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Other Downwind Location References
- Alphabetized List of Downwind Runs Worldwide from Downwind.Fun website
- Somewhat Seated Paddler Favorable?
- Downwindable downwinders around the world plus a good event calendar for races
- Downwind.Fun worldwide downwinding website
- More Oriented Towards Standing Up (you may get good beta about locales from these but certain types of wind boarders may favor flat water with wind over setups that have good downwind surfing runs)
- StandupZone Downwind Forum Board (SUP, kite, foil, etc.) oriented website, but this forum often discusses downwinding locations
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Global Wind
- Global Wind Atlas Interactive Wind Map (darkest color = 10 m/s or above which is approximately 22.4 mph and above or 36 km/h and above). When you zoom in and out with map, be patient and let it redraw the wind speed colors.
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Training Locations
Surfski Rental
Ship Traffic
- Port Ship Traffic Ship traffic in ports around the world - you can look up expected arrivals - potential ship wakes to surf (stay well out of the ship's way, right?)
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Videos
Videos from Around the World
Welcome to Surfski, Welcome to Adventure
Worldwide Paddling Video Samples (Mostly Downwinding)
(Almost all of the videos contained on these pages are shown in embedded frames. For some reason Microsoft Edge seems to have a problem with many embedded videos, but you can still view them in Edge if you click on the youtube links shown within the frames. We have not seen this problem in other popular browsers)
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