After two wet nights camping the weather begins to break over the vast tented city built at Watergate Bay to accommodate the crowds staying on site. Tents cover square miles of farmland at the cliff-top site of the 2024 Boardmasters Music Festival. As dry weather moves in for the ultimate weekend, thousands of fans walk the three miles between the Fistral and Watergate double venue. After heavy rain on the first two nights. The damp conditions have sent many to the comparative warmth of Newquay town.
The best UK and International surfers go head-to-head in the country’s biggest surf competition with local boy Luke Skinner making headway into the quarter-finals, Lukes father Ben Skinner is a European longboard champion.
The event is the biggest yet with the numbers increased from 53,000 to 58,000 ticket buyers. The combined surf and music event will bring an estimated 175,000 extra people to Cornwall this year. Extra police, Transport staff, and security chaperone the crowds.