Fishguard Bay Ocean Race

The Fishguard Bay Ocean Race is a major downwind race along Pembrokeshire’s wild, award winning north coast – starting at Goodwick Beach and crossing 17km of open sea to finish on the wide sandy beach at Newport.

Paddlers traverse deep clear water, past towering cliffs, a couple of fun tide-races, a skid turn around a wave-tossed rock and a final sprint up the beach at Newport Surf Lifesaving Club. 

The Fishguard Bay Ocean Race was awarded Welsh Ocean Ski National Championship status in 2021 by Canoe Wales.  In 2023 new events were added for Mixed Double Skis, OC6, OC2 and OC1, making it a full weekend's worth of action.

Paddlers from all over the UK and beyond compete to show their extreme fitness, navigation, boat-handling and seamanship skills, to win this “black-belt,” no-holds-barred ocean race.