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A chance encounter at a surf camp in Mexico turned into love, and a shared dream of creating the new "Cold Hawaii" on Møn. But can Kecia and Patrick combine their passion for the free-spirited surfer life with parenthood and their relationship – and at the same time turn Møn into the new Danish surf paradise?
Surprise Award 2021
"Møn Surf is a fantastic example of the big world that has come to Vordingborg Municipality. Behind Møn Surf are American Patrick and Norwegian Kesia, who, with Klintholm Havn as their base, are well underway to making it a good business to teach tourists, and the rest of us, how to surf. Thank you for choosing Vordingborg Municipality for your business," said Bolette Christensen at the award ceremony.
From Mexico to Møn - Tv2 Øst
Although you might think it's nicer to surf when it's warm, the conditions for kitesurfing – surfing where you are pulled across the water by a kite – are really good on Møn.
– Here you have calm days, windy days, wildly stormy days and everything in between, says Patrick Nicolas Cohan.
That's why the couple has decided to start a surf school and plans to open a surf center in Klintholm Havn.
Surfing on Møn is good business
Interest proved to be high, already in the first year the surf school existed. In 2021, the couple expanded the business, so in addition to teaching surf techniques, they would also sell coffee, wetsuits, and other gear in a small shop in Klintholm harbor. And the business expansion has proven to be quite sensible.
"We quintupled our revenue from 2020 to 2021. So that's pretty wild," says the co-owner of Møn Surf.
Nominees for Community Hero of the Year 2021 - Sydkyst Danmark
Kesia and Patrick are standard-bearers for the unique entrepreneurial spirit and hipster culture found on Møn, and together they have injected new life into youth culture in Klintholm Havn with a surf school and an accompanying hangout coffeeshop, appealing particularly to young tourists.
In the coming years, we face a major shared task of bringing more life to the destination's harbours, and Kesia and Patrick are showing the way to success. Water sports tourism is booming, and SydkystDanmark is one of the Danish destinations with by far the longest coastline, so the potential to become a new hotspot for water sports on this side of the Great Belt is evident.
