Weather conditions are being blamed for the continuing delay to the official opening of Bournemouth’s new artificial surf reef.

A tourism spokesman has told the Bournemouth Daily Echo:

The surfing conditions are still not right for the launch, we can only get a prediction for the next few days and it now looks like the reef won’t be opened this week.

It’s all down to waiting for a South Westerly ground swell; only time will tell if the conditions are more challenging next week for RNLI training prior to the reef launch.