Brewery's boost for tow-surfing exponents

November 21, 2007: Cornwall-based Skinner's Brewery has concluded a three-year sponsorship deal for two of UK surfing’s biggest names in a boost for the growing sport of tow surfing.

This is a hybrid sport emerging from traditional surfing, but with the additional use of a driver on a jetski or personal watercraft to slingshot the surfer into peaking waves, often too big to be caught by paddling power alone.

Newquay-based Ben Skinner, current professional European longboard champion, and Ben Granata, co-founder of the British Tow Surf Association, are now the proud possessors of a new top-of-the-range Yamaha VX high output 1100 cc jetski supplied by Skinner's.

Brewery owners Steve and Sarah Skinner have supported their son’s passion for surfing since his childhood. The new jetski will help him and Ben Granata to catch the really big waves at various locations in the UK and Europe.