It was always going to be the surfing con of the century - the Bournemouth Artificial Reef - on the basis that you cannot create quality lined up surfable waves from wind chop. Which is what Bournemouth predominantly gets! The real story is that Bournemouth wanted to call their town the 'surf capital of the UK'. Well all reports indicate that it's been a complete disaster.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7374343/Bournemouth-artificial-reef-near-impossible-to-surf.html
It's a shame because it's nice to see these things succeed, but it really didn't take a genius to work out that this plan was flawed from the start.
Newquay is having a very, very tough time. They shelved plans for an artificial reef a while back - perhaps now is the time to revive the plans. Because there, everyone agrees, it would be awesome.
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