Windsurfing in Aruba

Aruba has a perfect combination of temperature, wind strength and water conditions for beginning and expert windsurfer. It is therefore no surprise that Aruba has a lot of tournaments and is known as one of the best places on earth to practice windsurfing.

Surfing in some of the best beach resorts

On the southern side of the North Coast is Boca Grandi. Boca Grandi is a bay that has onshore winds and perfect waves. The wind picks up late in the afternoon, after three. In the mornings you can fly at the Huts, have lunch and then try out your wave sailing at Boca Grandi.
Other sailing spots which deserve a visit by more experienced sailors are Westpunt, where you'll find the most challenging wave conditions, and Balashi, where you can sail to a small reef island. Attention! These resorts are for advanced surfers only.
Whether you're a beginner or an expert surfer, in Aruba you can find a suitable location for windsurfing. The constant 15-knot trade winds, along with the variety of flat-water locations and challenging wave conditions, have made Aruba one of the most popular locations in the world for windsurfing and kite-surfing.
Aruba is an ideal spot to learn windsurfing and for advanced surfers to exercise their skills over the water. Surfing here is safe, because the water is deep and perfectly flat. If you'll try to learn windsurfing in Aruba you'll be amazed how funny is!
Though a small island, Aruba offers to many beautiful spots. By far, the most famous place for windsurfing is located at Fisherman's Huts. There you'll find a beautiful white sand beach, with shallow water and lots of wind. The direction of the wind is offshore, thus creating almost perfectly flat water.

Many tournaments

Aruba offers to novice windsurfer and kite-surfers gentle winds, plenty of tournaments, abundance of rental equipment and professional instructors.
Due to the excellent conditions, Aruba hosts every year many tournaments, from which the most renowned is held in June: the Hi-Winds Amateur World Challenge windsurfing tournament. This ten-day competition attracts the most competitive professional windsurfers and hundreds of amateurs to this Caribbean island.