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Minard → Inch downwind route

County Kerry, Ireland · 52.1247, -10.0420

SUP Foiling Community route — cold water, tide and l
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The shoreline of Dingle Bay - geograph.org.uk - 4940298.jpg
Photo taken near this spot by David Purchase · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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guides & forecasts

conditions & access

Downwind run · ~43 km

Launch: Minard

Landing: Inch

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

Water

Atlantic coast downwind / beach swell

Experience

Community route — cold water, tide and launch verification

Hazards

Exposed Atlantic 7.8 km route with cold water, swell and unresolved exact entries. Inch permits driving on sand but vehicles can bog in soft/wet areas; check tide, access, shuttle and recovery.

Parking & access

Inch landing: official tourism source says free car parking/free visit; county source says a small main car park, seasonal larger lot, and tide-dependent beach parking with soft/wet-sand bogging risk. Start parking remains unverified: https://www.discoverireland.ie/kerry/inch ; https://www.screenkerry.ie/locations/beaches-and-piers/inch-beach

“The Ireland leaderboard records four SUP-foil uploads on this named 7.8 km course. Pin is the midpoint of its published start/finish gates; exact beaches, tide and Atlantic safety require local planning. Requested-field batch 03 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 148709 — WX Nearest live iKiteSurf station (nearby, not confirmed at launch): Castlemaine (6.52 mi) — https://wx.ikitesurf.com/spot/148709 wx.ikitesurf.com

All 1 webcam in County Kerry

Surf forecasts

surfline.com 584204204E65Fad6A770912F — Surfline Exact Surfline Inch Strand report for the route's landing only; not a report for the full downwind course: https://www.surfline.com/surf-report/inch-s surfline.com

Local guides

race.downwind.app Minard Inch — Race Exact public Minard–Inch SUP-foil course record plus official access sources for both named endpoints — https://race.downwind.app/run/minard_inch race.downwind.app

Links are community-sourced and open directly on the provider's site. Verify conditions locally before riding.

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