Paddleboarding spots in Cornwall
135 launch spots across Cornwall
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SeaPortscatho harbour slipway
Cornwall, EnglandThis slipway sits on the harbour beach at Portscatho, a fishing village on the Roseland Peninsula that opens onto Gerrans Bay. It lies within a tight cluster of separately mapped slipways around the same small cove.
SeaBodinnick Ferry slip, Fowey
Cornwall, EnglandThis concrete slipway sits on the west bank of the Fowey Estuary in the town of Fowey, next to Caffa Mill car park, and forms the Fowey side of the Bodinnick vehicle ferry crossing. The ferry runs to Bodinnick on the opposite bank roughly every 10 to 15 minutes. Fowey Harbour Commissioners require paddlers to register their SUP, kayak or canoe and pay an annual harbour due for use of the estuary.
SeaFalmouth put-in
Cornwall, EnglandThis slipway sits below Dunstanville Terrace in Falmouth town, launching onto Falmouth Harbour, the tidal anchorage administered by Falmouth Harbour Commissioners at the meeting point of the Penryn River and Carrick Roads.
SeaFalmouth put-in
Cornwall, EnglandThis slipway is off Tinners Walk in Falmouth, launching onto Falmouth Harbour, the tidal anchorage administered by Falmouth Harbour Commissioners near the harbour mouth.
SeaDownderry Beach slipway
Cornwall, EnglandDownderry is a village on Cornwall's south coast at the eastern end of Whitsand Bay, looking out toward Looe Island and Rame Head. A concrete slipway drops from Beach Hill onto the shingle beach, though the gate at the foot of it is usually locked to vehicles, leaving pedestrian access along the beach and coast path.
SeaCoombe Farm put-in (Fowey)
Cornwall, EnglandThis launch point sits on the open coast just west of Fowey's harbour mouth, on the stretch of St Austell Bay between St Catherine's Point and Gribbin Head. Fowey Harbour Commissioners ask paddlers using the harbour's waters to register their craft and to keep to a 6-knot speed limit.
SeaCoombe Farm put-in (Fowey)
Cornwall, EnglandThis slipway sits close to Readymoney Cove, just inside the mouth of Fowey Harbour on its western shore near St Catherine's Castle, a small fort built around 1540 to guard the harbour entrance. Fowey Harbour Commissioners require SUPs, kayaks and canoes to be registered and enforce a 6-knot speed limit on the estuary.
SeaPort Navas Creek slipway (Lower Calamansack)
Cornwall, EnglandThis slipway launches onto Port Navas Creek, a tidal arm of the Helford River that dries out at low water, close to the hamlet of Lower Calamansack. The creek and the wider Helford estuary lie within a Special Area of Conservation.
SeaPort Navas Creek slipway (Port Navas)
Cornwall, EnglandThis slipway sits on Port Navas Creek, a drying tidal branch of the Helford River between Mawnan Smith and Constantine, close to Port Navas village. The creek is home to a long-established oyster farm.
SeaConstantine Bay put-in
Cornwall, EnglandThis slipway sits at the Padstow all-weather lifeboat station on Trevose Head, within the Constantine Bay area of St Merryn parish on Cornwall's north Atlantic coast. The station moved here from Hawker's Cove in 1967 after Padstow's Doom Bar sandbank made the old harbour site increasingly hard to reach.
SeaBude Haven slipway (Breakwater Road ramp)
Cornwall, EnglandA service-road slipway off Breakwater Road in Bude, launching into Bude Haven at the mouth of the River Neet beside the town's breakwater and harbour.
SeaBude Canal sea lock slipway
Cornwall, EnglandThis slipway sits by the tidal channel that carries the River Neet past the Bude Canal sea lock into Bude Haven. The way it belongs to shares nodes with the Bude Canal and Summerleaze Beach, placing it right at the harbour mouth.
SeaBude breakwater slipway
Cornwall, EnglandA slipway on the coast at Bude, north of the harbour mouth, launching into Bude Haven close to the town's breakwater.
SeaBodinnick put-in
Cornwall, EnglandBodinnick is the hamlet on the eastern bank of the River Fowey estuary where a vehicle and foot ferry crosses to Fowey town. Fowey Harbour Commissioners require small craft such as SUPs and kayaks to be registered, and the nearby Penmarlam Boat Park offers launching arranged in advance through the Harbour Office.
SeaPorth Hellick put-in (Old Town)
Cornwall, EnglandPorth Hellick is a bay on the east coast of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, between Pelistry and Porth Hellick Point. The put-in is a concrete track and slipway reached from the lane network north of Old Town. The bay borders Higher Moors nature reserve, and Porthellick Cove at its southern end is where Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell's body reportedly came ashore in 1707.
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