Cape Town Wave Pool

In an article in Australian Surfing Life about the announcement of a wave pool in Queesland set to open in September 2015, Aussie board shaper and wave pool designer Greg Webber of Webber Wave Pools said:

"If this is successful, the next two pools will be in South Africa, near Cape Town, and in Florida. Both of those are pretty far along, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you start seeing announcements coming out soon."

For the Australian project, it has been reported that Webber signed a memorandum of understanding with surfing entrepeneur David Baird for the company’s first installation at a site in Southeast Queensland on a property owned by Baird.

While one wonders at how popular a wave pool will be in Cape Town, which is not known as the Cape of Storms for nothing, there is the water park / fairground element that will open surfing to a whole new demographic of candy floss-touting, baseball cap wearing pundits.

While one wonders at how popular a wave pool will be in Cape Town, which is not known as the Cape of Storms for nothing, there is the water park / fairground element that will open surfing to a whole new demographic of candy floss-touting, baseball cap wearing pundits.

The Webber wave design depicts a circular 'moat' that features endless breaking waves, or a rectangular shape also with continuous waves, but it's unclear what type of design has been mooted for Cape Town, and there has been no confirmation from our side about whether it's going ahead.

The latest rectangular design (see Vimeo link below) features four waves every 20 seconds, or 720 waves per hour. Watch this space.

This video shows a presentation at a surf park summit a few months ago outlining how the wave parks work.

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