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Test Course · Measured line · Baby Beach, Dana Point Harbor, Dana Point

Green Buoy Battle Course, Dana Point

The Green Buoy Battle course, paddled once in the Single Run and twice in the Double Run: from Baby Beach in Dana Point Harbor down the channel along the breakwater, out around its end to the Green Buoy in open ocean, and back the same way to Baby Beach.

Measured line · Times: not yet

Measured line: paddled by a Supconnect Host on Nov 7, 2026, 3.1 mi (5 km). One paddler's practice trace, not a surveyed course. The start and finish lines are drawn off Baby Beach where she started and finished, and the Green Buoy gate sits where her trace turns, not at a charted position. Open ocean outside the breakwater, so swell and wind change a time more than on flat water. The 2025 announcement gave the Single Run as 3.5 mi and the 2026 listing as 3.25 mi, the organizer's nominal figure; both editions are taken as raced on this line.

Course Map

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Distance
3.1 mi (4.9 km); the organizer states 3.2 mi
Laps
1
Water
Sea
Board classes
14', 12'6", Unlimited, Inflatable
Mirrors
Single Run (3.25 mi by the organizer), also each run of the Double Run

Gates

  1. Start · Start line off Baby Beach (cross the line)
  2. Gate · Harbor entrance, heading out (cross the line)
  3. Gate · The Green Buoy (pass within 246 ft (75 m))
  4. Gate · Harbor entrance, heading in (cross the line)
  5. Finish · Finish line off Baby Beach, the start line (cross the line)

A run stays within 984 ft (300 m) of the line.

The Race It Mirrors

This course follows the Single Run (3.25 mi by the organizer), also each run of the Double Run of Green Buoy Battle 2026, Baby Beach, Dana Point Harbor.

Course Record

No course record yet. It appears here once the race's results are in our results, from the published results only.

Reference Times

Reference times appear once the race this course mirrors is in a Power Score list.

Course Board

No course times on the board yet. Run this course with the Supconnect app and put your time on the board.

One time per paddler per board: their fastest, recorded live in the app and checked against the course. Only adults are shown.

Paddlers On This Course

How Course Times Work

A course time is your time on this course, paddled on your own on a day you choose: from the start gate to the finish gate, through every gate in order. It is not a race result. There is no field to beat, and wind, current and water change from day to day, so a time always shows with its date, board class and the wind at the start.

The Virtual Power Score is a translation of a course time to the Power Score scale, with a band, worked out from the times and ratings of the race this course mirrors. It is labelled as virtual everywhere it appears. It is never in the Power Score: not in any rankings table, the Overall, Compare, the nations, a Top 10 or search, and it never moves anyone's rating.

Course times are private unless you put one on the board. Only adults appear on a board, and a junior is never named. More on course times →

The organizer's course: an on-water start just off Baby Beach, then down the large channel along the breakwater and right around its end, out into open ocean to the Green Buoy. The turn at the Green Buoy is to the left unless the conditions on the day call for another. After the buoy, reverse the course: back toward the harbor, left around the buoy off the end of the breakwater, and finish at Baby Beach.

The Single Run is one trip out and back. The Double Run is two runs of this course, in two separate starts, with the two times added together.

On your own there are no race buoys, so the gates are lines across the water: the start line across the cove about 330 ft (100 m) off the sand at Baby Beach, the harbor entrance between the breakwater ends on the way out and again on the way back, and a circle of about 250 ft (75 m) around the Green Buoy. The line on the map is the organizer's own practice paddle, not a surveyed course.

For locals, the Green Buoy is the first milestone beyond the harbor and into open ocean. Outside the breakwater you meet swell and wind, so pick your day and know the conditions before you head out.

Sources

Course line (version 1): The organizer's own GPS trace of a practice paddle on the course (November 7, 2026, one run, a GPS watch), simplified to within 10 m and trimmed to the start and finish lines. It measures 4,930 m (3.06 mi) against the organizer's 3.25 mi. The start and finish lines and the harbor entrance are drawn from OpenStreetMap: across the Baby Beach cove where she started and finished, and between the ends of the outer breakwater and the east jetty. The Green Buoy gate is a 75 m circle inside the trace's turn.

Measured on the water on Nov 7, 2026: paddled by a Supconnect Host, recorded on a GPS watch, 3.1 mi (5 km) from the start gate to the finish gate.

  • Gate 1: OSM: shore to shore across the Baby Beach cove, about 100 m off the sand (coastline way 41645368, nodes 511151141 and 511151341); the organizer: an on-water start just off Baby Beach
  • Gate 2: OSM: across the harbor entrance, from the end of the outer breakwater (coastline way 41645368, node 571303700) to the end of the east jetty (way 428947968, node 511151897)
  • Gate 3: The turn of the organizer's GPS trace of 2026-11-07, inside its left-hand rounding; the buoy's charted position is to be confirmed with the organizer
  • Gate 4: OSM: the gate 2 line, crossed on the way back in
  • Gate 5: OSM: the start line (the organizer starts and finishes off Baby Beach)
  • Single Run 3.25 mi, Double Run 6.5 mi in two separate starts with the times combined; the course from Baby Beach around the Green Buoy and back; SUP, prone, OC1, V1 and surfski; November 14, 2026: paddleguru.com
  • Single Run 3.25 mi and Double Run 6.5 mi; launch from Baby Beach and finish inside Dana Point Harbor (the organizer's 2026 sponsor deck): Ocean Academy, Green Buoy Battle 2026 sponsor deck (sent to Supconnect, not published)
  • The 2025 edition: Single Run 3.5 mi and Double Run 7 mi, from Dana Point Harbor around the Green Buoy: Supconnect story
  • The 2026 race on our calendar: Supconnect event listing
  • The 2025 race on our calendar, with the organizer's results: Supconnect event listing
  • The map pin: Baby Beach, Dana Point Harbor: Supconnect event listing
  • The course line and the Green Buoy gate: the organizer's GPS trace of 2026-11-07, simplified: The organizer's GPS trace, sent to Supconnect (not published)
  • The gates: OpenStreetMap, Dana Point Harbor (the Baby Beach cove, the ends of the outer breakwater and the east jetty): openstreetmap.org

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