Spot Guide › United Kingdom › Devon › North Devon winter-storm estuary foil area — forum map pin
Devon, United Kingdom · 51.0742, -4.2245
Best wind
Winging is documented, but no successful compass direction or speed is published
Season
Winter-storm escape option; regional small-swell baseline is about 1–2 ft at 8–10 s
Water
Highly tidal river-mouth water sheltered by an outer bar; settles around high tide
Experience
Advanced tidal-estuary foiler with local current and high-tide timing knowledge
Hazards
Roughly 8 m regional tide range, strong estuary current and rapidly changing water outside the settled high-tide window. The bar may reduce 10–20 ft at 15 s offshore swell but does not remove tidal, cold-water or rescue risk.
Parking & access
The forum shares the water pin but no named lot, bank entry or exit. Confirm legal shore access and a high-tide return before entering.
“A Progression Project forum North-Cornwall rider shares this exact map pin as a winter-storm escape area. The contributor says the river-mouth bar removes much of the energy from very large offshore swell and that the water settles only around high tide; the spot is also used for winging. The forum does not publish a launch name, so the database preserves the shared coordinate and labels it as a map pin.”
— via Progression Project forum — public topic and post research, last verified 2026-08-02
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