About the Fishguard Bay Ocean Race 2020

Racing for the FBOR Line Honours and Class Trophies

Fishguard Bay Ocean Race 2020 (FBOR’20) is a major downwind Ocean and ILS Ski, and SUP 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.

You’ll paddle 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. And this year we’re keeping fingers crossed for epic downwind conditions!

The Fishguard Bay Ocean Race 2020 is the 5th year of this annual tussle in which paddlers from all over the UK and beyond will be vying to show their extreme fitness, boat-handling and seamanship skills, to win this “black-belt,” no-holds-barred ocean race.

The blue riband prize is the perennial FBOR Trophy, awarded to the line-honours winner – the first craft of any class to cross the finish line.

Previous winners have all been doubles but in 2020 it’s SINGLE SKIS and SUPs ONLY.

Classes – all with trophies!

SINGLE SKI:  Open (to 39),  Masters (40 – 55),  Veterans (over 55) and  Ladies. PLUS NEW for FBOR’20 – ILS Ski Open Class

Open SUP (Stand Up Paddleboards),  and Ladies SUP

The Fishguard Bay Ocean Race Trophy is the Line Honours prize for the first craft OF ANY CLASS  to cross the line.

BELOW: 2018 Winners, Willem Prinsloo and Richard England (Double Ski) holding the FBOR Trophy