Surfing

A selection of Rip Curl: The Search ads from the 1990splaceholder image

Scotland hosts latest chapter of Rip Curl's epic surf search

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I tried breakfast at Edinburgh's most awesome waterside restaurant

Callie Cruickshank of Team Scotland competing at EuroSurf Junior 2026 in Bundoran, Ireland placeholder image

Scotland’s junior wave riders score best ever EuroSurf result

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I spent 24 hours at this reviving Edinburgh waterside resort

The Wave Project at Lost Shore Surf Resortplaceholder image

Lost Shore wins global Community Impact Award at Surf Park Summit

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Divine Surf by Jeff Divine: 'a sun-kissed trip through surf history'

Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, where the sport of surfing was first filmed in 1906placeholder image

Watch the first-ever surf films from Hawaii – and Scotland

The surf-inspired logo of the Dook Cafe, West Sands, St Andrewsplaceholder image

Welcome to St Andrews, Fife’s answer to Bondi Beach

US skier Ross Tester competes in the Verbier Xtreme Freeride World Tour event in March 2021placeholder image

Looking good: How aesthetics are taking over at the Olympics

Ben Larg surfing at the Lost Shore wave pool near Edinburghplaceholder image

Red Bull event offers chance to surf with the pros at Lost Shore

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Sceptical about surf therapy? These numbers say you shouldn’t be

Pat Kieran building a surfboard at Farmhouse Cottage, Thurso, late 1970splaceholder image

How board builder Pat Kieran helped shape Thurso's surfing community

More than £60 million has been invested in creating Lost Shore Surf Resortplaceholder image

Surfing in Scotland is on the crest of a growth wave

Pat Kieran at Farr Bay, Sutherland, in the late 1970s. “On the left is a board I built for Joyce Huxley, the first Scottish ladies surf champ. The other one is a Danny Garland board I got from Malcolm Findlay. And I’m wearing a very early Dry-Robe – actually the lining of a Canadian Army greatcoat I got from the Army & Navy Stores in Liverpool that I used as motorbike apparel.”placeholder image

Remembering a moment of Scottish surfing serendipity 50 years on

Print surf publications fit for the 21st century, from left: The Surfer’s Journal, Patience and Crushplaceholder image

The internet didn’t kill surf mags – it just made them better

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Do Blue by Nick Hounsfield & Abby Richardson: 'a blue health primer'

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I tried surfing at world's best surf park - 30 minutes from Edinburgh

Pages from The Stylish Life: Surfingplaceholder image

Surf style book gives chillier locations the cold shoulder

Knocking the craic out of a frozen wave, somewhere in Scandinaviaplaceholder image

Why battling the mid-life 'joy drain' might be easier than you think

Three-time Scottish National Champion Mark Boyd pictured at Lost Shore placeholder image

Edinburgh's Lost Shore resort to offer 'sci-fi' surf coaching

Kirsty Muir competing in the women's Freeski Big Air final during the day three of FIS Freeski & Snowboard World Cup at the Big Air Shougang in Beijing on 6 December 2025placeholder image

Here’s to the outdoors folk whose stories made 2025 fly by

Callie Cruikshank of Broch Surf Club, on her way to winning the U18 Girls title at the 2025 Gathering of the Clans at Lost Shore. She also won the Open Women's event.placeholder image

Lost Shore showdown for Scotland's surfing superpowers

Kai Cruikshank of Broch Surf Club pictured at Lost Shoreplaceholder image

Scottish Surfing to mark its 50th by looking to past and future

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Why swimming in our own Cornish fishing cove beat travelling abroad

Tim Christopherson rides a wave at Belhaven Bay near Dunbarplaceholder image

Want to avoid swimming in sewage? There’s an app for that

Wooden surfboard maker Frazer Reid in his workshop just outside Crailplaceholder image

The Fife craftsman making surfing greener one wooden board at a time

Could boat-wake surfing open up new Scottish surf zones? placeholder image

Could Scotland's future surf explorers carry their waves with them?

Lost Shore Surf Resort launches Kids October Surf Camp for Autumn 2025placeholder image

Lost Shore Surf Resort launches Kids October Surf Camp for Autumn 2025

Phoebe Strachan competing for Scotland in the women's longboard division at Eurosurf 2025, Santa Cruz, Portugalplaceholder image

How Phoebe Strachan led Scotland to their best ever result at Eurosurf

Zach Marritt at Thurso Eastplaceholder image

Top Scots surf photographers tell the stories behind their best shots

Stephen Spencer taking part in a Wave Project session at Towan Beach in Newquay during his 1,000-mile bike rideplaceholder image

Stephen Spencer on biking 1,000 miles for The Wave Project

Lauren Sandland, on her way to winning the Hi-Land Fling at Lost Shoreplaceholder image

Dreaming big pays off at Lost Shore’s first pro surf contest

Finn MacDonald, somewhere in northern Scotland, February 2025placeholder image

Leith exhibition to celebrate Scottish surfing and surf photography

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Ain't No Surf in Portobello (except once in a blue moon)

The View From the Shoulder at Thurso East, as captured by photographer Janeanne Gilchristplaceholder image

The View From the Shoulder: New book tells story of Scottish surfing

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Lost Shore Surf Resort launches Kids Surf Camp for Summer 2025

Ben Larg in Lanzarote, January 2024placeholder image

Film to chart Scots surfer Ben Larg's first steps into big wave arena

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Film reviews: The Surfer | Ocean with David Attenborough

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I know why Pharrell Williams is 'Happy' after a trip to Virginia Beach

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Surfing is the best way to see the French Pays Basque coast

Craig "Suds" Sutherland competes at the Scottish National Surfing Championships in 2024placeholder image

How Scottish Surfing survived a near-death experience to hit 50

Andy Hadden, Founder of Lost Shore, and Richard Lochhead, Business Ministerplaceholder image

Tourism minister hails adventure and wellbeing tourism after visiting Lost Shore...

Tourism minister, Richard Lochhead, has hailed the success of adventure and wellbeing tourism in Scotland after he visited Lost Shore Surf Resort, Europe’s larg...

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I had dinner at Edinburgh's £60m Lost Shore Surf Resort Gaby Soutar

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I had the best afternoon at Scotland's £60m Lost Shore Surf Resort

Scottish Surfing has worked in partnership with Inclusive Surfing Scotland, SurfABLE and The Wave Project to deliver adaptive and para come and try surf sessions.placeholder image

Scottish Surfing: New Logo, new strategy, new era

Scottish surfer Ben Larg, throwing himself into a characteristically high-risk manoeuvre at the Nazaré Big Wave Challenge on 18 Februaryplaceholder image

How Ben Larg took Scottish surfing to bold new heights at Nazaré

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'Flying Scotsman' Ben Larg lights up the Nazaré Big Wave Challenge

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Tiree surfer Ben Larg set to compete in Nazaré Big Wave Challenge

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The £1m investment made by Sir Sean Connery's son

A surfer catches a wave at the Lost Shore Surf Resort (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)placeholder image

Why Edinburgh's Lost Shore Surf Resort is so special for Scotland Alex Cole-Hamilton

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Scotland's new sewage pollution map is a step in the right direction

Some of the outdoors folk to visit the notional Four Seasons sofa in 2024, clockwise from bottom left: Brendan Paddy; Sam Christopherson; Hannah Bailey (right, with Lesley McKenna); Caitlin Connor; Andy Hadden; a scene from Bailey's film Thrawn; Andy Meldrum; Ben Larg (in blue); Philip Hughesplaceholder image

The outdoors people who made a mark in 2024

Phoebe Strachan (surfing) and Nienke Duinmeijer in a Protect Our Ocean campaign image for Patagonia placeholder image

Scottish surfing champion Phoebe Strachan joins fight to save seabed

Mark Boyd of the Scottish Surfing Federation, carrying out some pre-contest research at Lost Shore placeholder image

Lost Shore to host Scotland’s first wave pool surf contest

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Why you should never surf with seals, young kids and French tourists

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WATCH: Edinburgh's Lost Shore surf resort opens to the public

The Scotsman Top Stories

Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wireplaceholder image

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Imagesplaceholder image

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

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SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries

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