I don’t know about you, but when I go on holiday, particularly to a hot coastal resort, one of the things I always look forward to doing is hiring a Jet Ski and having half an hour of fun out at sea.

It’s a great liberating experience.  So, you might be mistaken in thinking that well, Eastbourne’s next to the sea.  I’ll go and hire a Jet Ski.

Well, unfortunately you might be a little bit disappointed.

Over the last few years, I’ve known or heard of a few budding entrepreneurs that have looked into setting up a Jet Ski rental business and, whilst I’m not sure about the business sense of that necessarily because, although Eastbourne is very sunny, quite often there’s days when it probably wouldn’t be safe to use a Jet Ski out there, so you have a limited number of days a year to actually rent your Jet Skis.

But, they always seem to be prevented on grounds of health and safety!

Personally I think that health and safety is important and controls need to be in place to prevent accidents from happening. But as long as you apply a little common sense and ensure users of small power craft are kept away from swimmers and other sea users, then there’s no reason why it shouldn’t be a safe and fun experience for everyone.

You may still see the odd Jet Ski whizzing across the sea and essentially there are two places I know of that go off the beach.

The first is actually in Pevensey Bay there, the Aqua Club.  Quite a few turn up and launch Jet Skis on trailers and use a winch to tow them into the sea so they can enjoy Pevensey Bay where there’s a marked off area where you can actually launch your Jet Skis or other water craft to get past the swimming zones.

The other place is close to the Sovereign Centre Swimming Pool, just off of Prince William Drive, and on the beach behind there, where all the fishing boats used to be in the years before the marina was built, and in one of the large garage type sheds  is the Eastbourne Jet Ski Club which like Pevensey uses winches to launch from the beach.