Checking the wind…
Belgian coast
Now, onshore. Too little wind to ride.
Water 10 °C · 4/3 or 5/4 wetsuit
Best chance this week: Tuesday 9-12h, up to 23 kn.
Too little wind to ride.
Cross-current: it pushes you sideways.
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| AROME | 15 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 16 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| HARMONIE | 12 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 16 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| ICON | 10 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 24 | 22 | 19 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 17 | 20 | 20 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 17 | 21 | 23 | 19 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 14 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| GFS | 14 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 26 | 17 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 24 | 19 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 21 | 19 | 26 | 29 | 28 | 33 | 30 | 29 | 30 | 37 | 37 | 40 | 44 | 40 | 39 | 37 | 37 | 34 | 32 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 13 |
| Direction | NW | NW | NW | NW | WNW | NW | WNW | WNW | WNW | SW | SW | SW | SSW | SSW | SSW | SSW | SSW | SSW | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | SSE | SE | ESE | ESE | ESE | ESE | ESE | ESE | SE | SE | SE | SE | SE | SSE | S | S | S | S | S | SSW | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | SSW | S | SSW | SW | SW | SSW | SW | SW | SW | WSW | WSW | W | WNW | WNW | WNW | WNW | WNW | WNW | W | W | W | WSW | WSW | WSW | SW | SSW | SSW | S | SSE | SE | ESE | ESE | ESE | ESE | ESE | SE | S | SSW | SW | WSW | WSW | W | WNW | NNW | NNW | N | N | NNE | ESE | SSE | S | S | SSW | S | S | SSE | SSE | SE | ESE | E | ENE | ENE | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | WSW | SW | SSW | SSW | S | S | S | S | S | SSE | SSE | SE | SE | ESE | ESE | ESE | E | E | ENE | ENE | ENE | ENE | NE | NE | NE | NNE |
| Kite | 12m | 12m | 12m | – | – | – | 12m | 12m | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 9m | 9m | 12m | 9m | 9m | 9m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 9m | 12m | 9m | 9m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | – | 12m | 12m | 9m | 9m | 9m | 12m | 12m | 12m | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12m | 9m | 12m | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12m | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | – | – | – |
| Waves | 1.287s | 1.247s | 1.187s | 1.147s | 1.17s | 1.067s | 1.027s | 17s | 0.967s | 0.927s | 0.97s | 0.867s | 0.847s | 0.87s | 0.787s | 0.767s | 0.727s | 0.77s | 0.667s | 0.647s | 0.67s | 0.587s | 0.547s | 0.527s | 0.57s | 0.57s | 0.487s | 0.467s | 0.447s | 0.427s | 0.427s | 0.46s | 0.46s | 0.386s | 0.386s | 0.366s | 0.346s | 0.346s | 0.326s | 0.345s | 0.344s | 0.364s | 0.384s | 0.43s | 0.423s | 0.483s | 0.543s | 0.63s | 0.643s | 0.683s | 0.724s | 0.764s | 0.84s | 0.844s | 0.94s | 0.984s | 1.045s | 1.145s | 1.265s | 1.365s | 1.385s | 1.385s | 1.45s | 1.366s | 1.36s | 1.266s | 1.246s | 1.26s | 1.186s | 1.166s | 1.166s | 1.145s | 1.16s | 1.066s | 1.026s | 0.986s | 0.946s | 0.96s | 0.866s | 0.87s | 0.767s | 0.727s | 0.687s | 0.647s | 0.667s | 0.666s | 0.686s | 0.726s | 0.765s | 0.85s | 0.825s | 0.825s | 0.845s | 0.826s | 0.86s | 0.787s | 0.87s | 0.847s | 0.867s | 0.867s | 0.847s | 0.846s | 0.826s | 0.786s | 0.766s | 0.727s | 0.77s | 0.667s | 0.647s | 0.627s | 0.67s | 0.587s | 0.587s | 0.567s | 0.567s | 0.567s | 0.567s | 0.567s | 0.587s | 0.587s | 0.66s | 0.66s | 0.626s | 0.66s | 0.66s | 0.586s | 0.566s | 0.566s | 0.546s | 0.546s | 0.526s | 0.526s | 0.527s | 0.527s | 0.527s | 0.527s | 0.57s | 0.57s | 0.57s | 0.487s | 0.487s | 0.487s | 0.487s | 0.487s | 0.487s | 0.467s | 0.467s | 0.467s | 0.467s | 0.467s | 0.467s | 0.467s | 0.467s | 0.467s |
| Current | 1.5 | 1.6 | 0.8 | slack | 0.6 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.7 | slack | 0.5 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 0.4 | slack | 0.7 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.5 | slack | 0.5 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 0.5 | slack | 0.6 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.5 | slack | 0.8 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 0.9 | slack | slack | 0.6 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | slack | 0.9 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 0.6 | slack | slack | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.5 | slack | 0.5 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 0.6 | slack | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.3 | slack | 0.7 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.3 | slack | slack | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.6 | slack | 0.4 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.3 | slack | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.5 | slack | 0.7 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.3 | slack | slack | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.3 | slack | 0.6 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.3 | slack | 0.4 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | slack | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.4 | slack | slack | 0.5 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 0.6 | slack | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | slack | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.4 | slack | 0.6 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.3 | slack |
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Log your sessions; that is how Windulu gets to know you.
The advice is a tool. You remain responsible for your own safety.
In Knokke the launch zone lies some way east of the Albertplein, on the sea wall level with the Westhinderstraat and the Oosthinderstraat. At 220 metres it is smaller than the zones in Heist and Duinbergen, and here too you share the space with windsurfers and catamarans. The beach faces north-north-west, which gives you onshore or side-on wind from west-north-west to north-east and cross-shore wind on a westerly or an easterly, while south-west already blows side-offshore and south-east to south is offshore. On a westerly, if something goes wrong you drift east, where the zone borders directly on a corridor for motorboats, so leave yourself room on that side.
Kitesurfing only in the 220 m launch zone at Riverwood Beach Club. Wing zone not designated, check with the club. Source: MDK launch-zone plan.
The open water at Knokke faces NNW (342°). The safest wind directions to get on the water here are north, northeast and northwest (onshore or cross-onshore). With the wind from the east, southwest and west, it runs cross to cross-offshore: doable, but mind your position and don't go alone. With the wind from the southeast and south, it blows offshore and is dangerous: you'll be pushed off the beach onto open water (no-go).