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Sacramento → Virgin Bay downwind route

Eastern Cape, South Africa · -34.0100, 25.6100

SUP Foiling Community route — verify access and haza
Source
Bedford with crane (9673157921).jpg
Photo taken near this spot by Bob Adams from George, South Africa · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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guides & forecasts

conditions & access

Downwind run · ~12 km

Launch: Sacramento

Landing: Virgin Bay

Route drawn from the run name — approximate, not a GPS track.

Water

Indian Ocean coast downwind / swell

Experience

Community route — verify access and hazards

Hazards

Indian Ocean swell route with unresolved shoreline access. Confirm both entries, shorebreak, current, other water users, landing and rescue rather than relying on the midpoint.

“Public leaderboard records nine uploaded runs on this named Eastern Cape route. Pin is approximate route midpoint; exact shoreline access and local hazards require confirmation. Requested-field batch 04 verified 2026-08-01: guide/resource labels and hazards use cited row evidence; exact, nearby and route-endpoint relationships are explicit; unresolved fields remain Unknown.”

— via Downwind leaderboard — uploaded SUP-foil route; Requested-field research, last verified 2026-08-01

Live wind

wx.ikitesurf.com 16443 — WX Nearest live iKiteSurf station (nearby, not confirmed at launch): Port Elizabeth (1.33 mi) — https://wx.ikitesurf.com/spot/16443 wx.ikitesurf.com

Surf forecasts

surfline.com %40 34.01000%2C25.61000%2C12Z — Surfline Nearby coordinate-centered Surfline map (not an exact spot report): https://www.surfline.com/surf-reports-forecasts-cams-map/%40-34.01000%2C25.61000%2 surfline.com

Local guides

race.downwind.app Sacramento To Virgin Bay — Race Exact public Sacramento–Virgin Bay SUP-foil course record; nine uploads and shoreline access remains unresolved — https://race.downwind.app/run/sacram race.downwind.app

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