Surf and wingfoil in one week: how to split your days
Cabarete lets you do both. Here is a sensible way to balance the two.
Why you can do both here
Cabarete is one of the few places where surf mornings and wind afternoons line up naturally, thanks to the daily trade-wind pattern.
A balanced week
Surf in the calmer mornings, wingfoil when the wind fills in after midday. It is the same rhythm the town itself runs on.
Jeroen Mutsaars is the co-founder of Swell Active, the adult surf and wingfoil retreat he and Clare Mutsaars built from scratch in 2009 on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. They opened it after searching the globe for the ideal place for adults to learn a watersport safely and quickly. Jeroen is the watersports side of the partnership. His background runs across windsurfing, surfing, kitesurfing and sailing, and more recently the foil sports — wing foiling and foil surfing — that Swell now teaches. That hands-on grounding shapes how the retreat coaches beginners: the right kit for the conditions, a safe progression, and reliable wind and flat water doing half the teaching. He writes about the watersport side of a Swell trip — how to learn, what the conditions are like on the north coast, and how to choose the gear and timing that make a week work.
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