Fickle Weather Forecast

Going into the weekend we felt we had to send an advisory to our Junior Surf Club and it’s parents in view of a forecast of strong onshore winds and ...

Moving On!

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Week two brought an increase in numbers of surfers with no lessening of enthusiasm. The waves for our Dolphins and Sharks session were more testing than the previous week and ...

And We’re Off!

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An idyllic Saturday in late-Spring/early Summer provided the perfect introduction to our Junior Surf Club for 2025. I’m sure those new faces will be itching to get back to Porthmeor ...

Finale

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A day which began in the Autumnal chill of a dawn morning blossomed into a beautiful Porthmeor Saturday afternoon beach day to crown our season with a final session of ...

A Similar Story

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Our previous session was ideal for our Nemos and Dorys, and they lucked-in again this week with another morning of perfect little runners to score some ace waves. There were ...

September Smiles

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Conditions for our 9 o’clock group were the best we have seen all season and the delight on the faces of most of our surfers confirmed that assessment of the ...

Autumn Hints

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The banner picture shows the nine o’clock group ready to smash out another session on a day that hinted at Autumn. There were waves to suit all abilities, and Harris’ ...

Sweet Session

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There was plenty to like about this week’s surf session. Porthmeor served up some sweet waves – little runners on the inside while the outside held challenging green waves that ...

Surf and Rain

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Our damp summer continued this weekend with a rain-sodden surf session for our junior surfers last Saturday morning. The waves, at least, were plentiful and encouraged some good surfing from ...

Still Waiting

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Well, we are still waiting for summer to commence this year, and we issued an advisory prior to Saturday’s surf club that conditions were forecast to be quite lumpy with ...

Three Aces

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Ace waves, ace weather and an ace turnout of young surfers gave us a very enjoyable Saturday morning last weekend. Everyone was bright and early and we were soon in ...

Take It As You Find It

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Our second outing of the new season was served some very indifferent waves at Porthmeor on Saturday but found these young chargers determined to make the best of the conditions ...

A New Season Begins

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It’s an early start to the 2024 season for Surf Club, but our junior rippers were undeterred. The day was overcast, always threatening to become misty, and the waves were ...

Summer Season 2024

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Hello everyone! Saints Boardriders offer a belated ‘Happy New Year’ to our junior members and their families! Our thoughts have now turned to summer 2024 and the Kids Club season. ...

Summer Sign-Off

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A Sunday afternoon surf is one of life’s enduring pleasures and our young chargers had the chance to experience it for themselves at our final Kids Club session of the ...

The Porthmeor Cup

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It has been five years since we enjoyed the St. Ives Cup, an Autumn handicap competition between local surfers that was so well-received by the community. Towards the end of ...

Saturday Farewell!

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Our last Saturday session of the season was an Autumnal sort of affair. Back at school and with days becoming shorter, we find ourselves measuring what we have achieved in ...

Most Satisfactory!

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September’s bounty continued to deliver as we experienced another perfect Saturday morning for Kids Club, albeit that the waves were a tad smaller than last week! A well-attended session enjoyed ...

‘September’

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Back in 1978 Earth, Wind and Fire topped the music charts with ‘ September’. If we can enjoy Saturday’s conditions for our final three surf club sessions of the season ...

Taking Advantage

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Last Saturday’s session offered the best conditions we have had all summer and our young chargers pulled out their best surfing to take advantage of the bounty. Our assisted nippers ...

Best Foot Forward

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The car park was full by first light as Mother Meor turned on and local surfers got a welcome weekend chance to tackle some decent waves. And while our Dolphins ...

Moving On

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As we hit our mid-season stride we are seeing encouraging signs of improvement in our young surfers. Saturday saw plenty of water moving in the middle of the beach, but ...

Win Some, Lose Some

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Strong winds and a deluge during check-in hinted that things might not be so cosy this morning. However, once in the water our various groups found conditions to be very ...

A Challenge

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Our third session of the season presented us with a very different scenario to the first two. With a forecast of strong onshore winds and a lively swell, we had ...

Second Sight

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We got a second look at our new season’s chargers last Saturday. There was a friendly wave which could suit all abilities and an early summer warmth to the morning ...

And We’re Off!

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Sunny skies and a friendly waist-high wave greeted us at Porthmeor for the first Kids Club session of 2023. Surf coaches and helpers were keen to get their chargers into ...

Upcoming AGM

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Agenda for the AGM to be held at 6.00pm on 8th June 2023 at the clubhouse 1) Apologies for absence.2) Minutes of the previous AGM.3) Matters arising from the minutes ...

Food Fest Foray

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The Saints Boardriders Sausage Sizzle scaled new heights of culinary excellence last weekend when Mr. Sizzle took the show on tour to the St. Ives Food Festival. Mick Smith of ...

Kids Club dates for 2023 season

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Saints Boardriders Kids Club dates for 2023 season ( All subject to weather and sea conditions on the day ) June 3rd 9.00am June 17th 8.30am July 1st 9.00am July ...

First BLUd of 2023

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Porthmeor saw our first coloured rash vests of the season as Minnow Green brought the Porthmeor Longboard Classic contest to the beach to start the British Longboard Union competitive season ...

Christmas Day 2022

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Our traditional Christmas Day morning bash is increasingly well supported with each passing year. In their eagerness to get into the chest-high waves, many of the participants dropped down the ...

A Fine Send-Off

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We held the postponed end-of-season finale last Saturday in pumping waves under a clear blue sky. We could not ask for better conditions, and a large turn-out was guaranteed to ...

RNLI Initiative

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The RNLI are holding a seminar on 22nd October in the clubhouse to demonstrate some of the skills and techniques which will help keep our members safe in the water ...

Slipping into September

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Well, our luck continues to hold and a large turnout of surfers enjoyed fabulous conditions for our first September session of this season. Under warm blue skies we had a ...

Farewell, August

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As we bid farewell to the month, we can reflect on the generous supply of waves Porthmeor has given us in August. Our final session of the school holidays was ...

Mother Meor Delivers

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Proper surf and wave sizes to suit all abilities last Saturday. The Nemos and Dorys were in particularly good form and keen to impress. Out back the Dolphins were smashing ...

Hot Dog!

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Boy it was a hot one! A fierce August sun blazed in a blue blue sky on Sunday afternoon as the club set out it’s stall on the putting green ...

Summer Sizzle

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Here’s a date for the diary! We are holding a BBQ at the clubhouse for all members and their families on Sunday 14th of August from 3.00pm, courtesy of the ...

Low and Slow

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Another 8.30 start on Saturday and the gentlest of waves to welcome us to Porthmeor. I’d characterise conditions as ‘low and slow’ and eminently suited to our youngest surfers. There ...

School’s Out!

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With the school books tucked away in the cupboard for the summer our young chargers came together on Saturday morning for an 8.30 start to their continuing surf education. The ...

A Sweet Summer Saturday

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Our first session of July and a hot cloudless day brought just the gentlest of waves for our Saturday morning. The keenness of our chargers was palpable as we hit ...

Coming on

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Second session and we are finding our groove. A hassle-free check-in and off down the beach in good time for an hour-long surf. It’s pretty much low tide, gusty wind ...

Here we go – here we go – here we go!

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First session of a new season. Heavy surf, lots of rippy water moving and a cross-shore wind. Coach Navin posted an advisory that tiny tots and nervous types might want ...

Kids Club Calendar 2022

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The early season fine weather has turned our thoughts to the Saturday morning surf club for our junior members. With only one week to go to our first session, here ...

Christmas Day 2021

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With Covid’s most recent variant, Omicron, hanging over every planned social activity like the sword of Damocles, it was surprising and pleasing in equal measure to see a good number ...

First Aid

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The picture shows a welcome installation on the side of our building, courtesy of Paul Haase of The Yellow Canary. He has sourced and donated this defibrillator machine which is ...

Logged and Loaded

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On the last weekend of September, under balmy Autumn skies, we welcomed Minnow Green and his fellow longboarders to Tregenna Surf House. The club was honoured to host the Porthmeor ...

That’s All Folks …

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That’s All Folks … was the farewell line as the cartoons finished on TV back in the day, and today’s blog signals the end of the Saturday Kids Club for ...

Saturday Team Photo 2021

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As we reached the penultimate session for the season, it was felt that we should get a team photo as we were ready early for the surf. Of course, there ...

Autumnal

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Heavy rain and a strong North wind greeted our coaches and helpers as we set up on Saturday morning for an 8.30 start. That wind was creating short choppy conditions ...

Forging Ahead

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School holidays have arrived and we are forging ahead with our Kids Club season. Conditions for our seventh session were friendly and there was a large turnout of young surfers, ...

Sweet!

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Our sequence of favourable Saturday morning sea conditions continues as we enjoyed pretty perfect surfing conditions for the sixth Kids Club of the season. A gently dropping tide on a ...

Small Can Be Beautiful

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The fifth week of Kids Club met with waves sized ‘nothing to not very much’. Disappointing for the Sharks, Dolphins and our hardboard riders but a chance to shine for ...

Meeting The Challenge

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Arriving for our fourth session of the season we were confronted with a tricky challenge. The water was barely back off the high tide bank after a spring tide and ...

Just Right!

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The third session of the season saw the largest turnout to date and enjoyed pretty perfect Kids Club conditions at Porthmeor. The waves were friendly enough for the Nemos and ...

Kids Club v Covid v G7

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Week two and we are blessed with fine surfing conditions again. Attendance was a little down due to a couple of Covid related scares in some school classes plus the ...

Kids Club Redux

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Twenty months or so after our last Saturday morning gathering we were finally able to get together, reconnect with our junior surfers and get Kids Club 2021 on the road. ...

Kids Club 2021

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Kids Club membership is fully subscribed for this summer and I list the proposed dates and times below. There will be only a single session of one hour each day ...

Agenda for AGM on 6th May 2021

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Agenda for 2021 AGM on 6th May at 6pm at Clubhouse 1) Apologies for absence.2) Minutes of the previous AGM.3) Matters arising from the minutes of the previous AGM. 4) ...

Seal Strandings

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Here is a sight you may have encountered when walking a local beach. This seal is alive but well up the beach beyond the tideline. On finding a ‘stranded’ seal ...

Christmas Day 2020

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Well, at the conclusion of the season which simply didn’t happen due to Covid-19, we gathered on Christmas Day morning to remind ourselves that we are a club and that ...

Local Initiative

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We are living in strange times. The covid-19 pandemic has taken thousands of lives in Britain and brought dislocation to our economy and a lockdown of the conduct of our ...

2020 – Welcome!

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Here’s St. Ives Surf School’s salute to the new year which I’d like to share with the members and supporters of saints boardriders. Harris and his coaching team are a ...

Christmas Day 2019

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A pleasant Christmas Day morning greeted our 2019 cohort of celebration surfers and supporters. It was a well-attended affair, though my pictures may not do it justice as the attendance ...

Surfers Ball 2019

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Friday, October half term and the wettest day since Noah launched the ark was the date of this year’s Surfers Ball. The venue Main Ballroom, Tregenna Castle. We came together ...

Down To The Sea Again

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We came together for the final kids Club of the season last Saturday to celebrate another successful campaign, gauge our progress and give the Dolphins a chance to show off ...

Dolphins Haloo!

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Once again we were welcomed to a sweet September morning, as captioned to our blog last week! Seventy plus kids turned up to enjoy the fruits of this late-season swell. ...

Sweet September

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So we move into the final month of the Kids Club season and September brings a very surfable wave on a blustery Saturday morning. As so often this summer, conditions ...

Autumnal Swells

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It’s the last day of August, the last Kids Club before the school year begins and there is a distinct chill in the early morning air. An Autumn swell is ...

It’s pumpin’

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Well, we are suddenly blessed with some swell, and while it brings a few problems of rips and washes for the most junior surfers on the inside, the guys out ...

Yippee!

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The first weekend of the school summer holiday! We can’t remember if it’s ever rained here, we have a welcoming wave at Porthmeor, all is truly sitting right in this ...

Kids Club 13.07.19.

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Coach John posted an advisory on our Facebook page on Friday evening that conditions for Saturday club could be tricky with a forecast of strong onshore winds bringing choppy steep ...

One Of Those Days!

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It has been an on – off start to the summer season for the Kids Club as the tides have caused a few blank Saturdays in the calendar so far. ...

Settling In

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Week two and coaches and the surfers are getting to know one another better. The surf again offered all abilities something to work with – and became quite challenging for ...

Here Comes Summer!

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It was a great thrill to have the Kids Club sign-up in the new clubhouse a couple of weeks ago, and our first session of the 2019 season kicked off ...

Where we’re at!

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The story of our clubhouse, which was last featured here in May 2018, now continues. Construction was placed on hold for summer 2018 and only resumed once the tourist season ...

Christmas Day Bash 2018

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As the club grows stronger, so does the Christmas Day novelty surf gathering also grow more popular. We met at 10.30 to find friendly conditions and a willing crew, so ...

Surfers Ball 2018

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We’re always keen to dig in the wardrobe and get the gear out in saints boardriders, just give us a reason – the Swellboard Shootout, the Surf Instructors staff day ...

St. Ives Cup – Inaugural Edition!

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Friday 19th October saw a new addition to the local surfing calendar, courtesy of St. Ives Surf School. An open competition for St. Ives surfers was held at Porthmeor Beach ...

2018 Final Competition and Prize-giving

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Whew! So another summer season draws to a close. It’s the last Saturday of September and time to assess what we have achieved in Kids Club this year. For the ...

Splash!

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Our penultimate session of Kids Club for 2018 was a rain-drenched affair. Whether in or out of the water, we all had a good soaking! I may have said the ...

Measuring Progress

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As we move into September and the Kids Club season edges toward the grand finale, it’s time to gauge how we are progressing. Our Nemos and Dorys, under-8’s and needing ...

All the Elements

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There was an Autumnal feel to the air for Kids Club this week. A chilly Westerly and some chunkier waves out back brought a challenge to our more advanced surfers, ...

Wet Wet Wet

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At Kids Club last Saturday it mattered not whether you were surfing, coaching or just taking the pictures – you got a soaking! With that horizontal mizzle that is peculiar ...